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В многочисленной армии первооткрывателей есть имена всемирно известные, а есть и совсем скромные. Так сказать, пионер пионеру рознь. О том, что открыли британцы Killing Joke, сегодня мало кто помнит. Главная заслуга этой команды - легитимация индастриал-рока. Им удалось провести бескровную музыкальную реформу, наводя мосты между панком и диско, между жесткими квазиметаллическими риффами и танцевальным стилем.//
Since 1980, there have been a hundred bands who sound like this; but before Steve Albini and Al Jourgensen made it hip, the cold metallic throb of Killing Joke was exciting and fresh. The harshly sung vocals riding over the pulsating synth lines of the opener "Requiem" have a vigor and passion that few imitators have managed to match. The precise riffs and tight rhythms found in songs like "Wardance" would influence a generation of hardcore musicians; yet "The Wait," with its thrashing guitars and angry vocals, would find itself covered on a Metallica album only six years later. That such a bleak and furious album could have such a widespread influence is a testament to its importance. Certain parts of the album have not dated well; the vocals and drums are mixed in such a way that they lose some of their effectiveness, and the fact that so many other bands have used this same formula does take some of the visceral feeling away. But this is an underground classic and deserves better than its relative unknown status. Fans of most kinds of heavy music will probably find something they like about this band, and this is a good a place as any to start the collection.
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Killing Joke - what's THIS for...!
[2005 Expanded Remaster] Год:1981
Tracklist 1. The Fall Of Because (5:12) 2. Tension (4:34) 3. Unspeakable (5:19) 4. Butcher (6:14) 5. Follow The Leaders (5:38) 6. Madness (7:44) 7. Who Told You How? (3:37) 8. Exit (3:44) 9. Follow The Leaders (Dub) (4:07) 10. Madness (Dub) (7:28)
If not quite as remarkable as the band's gripping self-titled debut, What's THIS For...! showed that Killing Joke could maintain their frenetic, doom-wracked intensity while experimenting with their already strongly established style. Jaz Coleman's vocals go through even more treatments and tweaks than before, chorus shout-alongs swathed in deep echoes, hidden behind Geordie Walker's punishing riffs and the steroid-driven rhythm section. Big Paul Ferguson in particular lays down some absolutely skull-crushing drum slams and Youth is no less intense at most parts, and often they rather than Coleman or Geordie dictate the song, as the lengthy death-groove of "Madness" makes perfectly clear. Elsewhere Geordie shows a calmer (comparatively) side, soloing on songs like "Butcher" making common cause with the guitar work of Bernard Sumner in Joy Division days — indeed, the song as a whole could almost be a tribute to that band, and one of the better ones at that. The playing around with supposed genre boundaries doesn't hurt either — the beatbox/synth loop pulse of "Follow the Leaders," crossed with the more brusque blasts from the core band, suggests its eventual path in later years, while "Tension" lets the slithering funk heart of the band burst forth even more strongly. (The drums and opening riffs themselves almost sound like a parody of the Knack's "My Sharona.") "Unspeakable" is arguably the hidden highlight of the album, Coleman's heavily flanged, distorted singing sliding down a slowly descending chord pattern that suggests an early glam band gone martial and paranoid, Ferguson all over his set like four people at once. The debts of later bands toward Killing Joke are even clearer than ever, whether it's the fact a group named themselves after the opening track, "The Fall of Because," or that late-'80s Ministry so effectively cloned the whole style on songs like "Burning Inside."
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Killing Joke - Revelations
(Remaster 2005) Год:1982
Tracklist: 01. The Hum 02. Empire Song 03. We Have Joy 04. Chop-Chop 05. The Pandys Are Coming 06. Chapter III 07. Have A Nice Day 08. Land Of Milk And Honey 09. Good Samaritan 10. Dregs 11. We Have Joy [Alternate Mix] Продолжительность: 00:41:54
Revelations is the epitome of the "difficult third album syndrome." Using an outside producer (Konrad Plank) for the first time seems only to have resulted in headaches and confusion. Recorded in Berlin, the location must have rubbed off on the band -- witness the Teutonic undertones of "We Have Joy." The truth was that the original Killing Joke lineup was dissolving fast, and Revelations manifests itself in the lack of cohesion and direction on the album.
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Killing Joke - Fire Dances
[2007 Expanded Remaster] Год:1983
Tracklist 1. "The Gathering" - 3:11 2. "Fun and Games" - 4:05 3. "Rejuvenation" 4:00 4. "Frenzy" - 3:46 5. "Harlequin" - 3:57 6. "Feast of Blaze" - 3:35 7. "Song and Dance" - 5:13 8. "Dominator" - 4:28 9. "Let's All Go" - 3:19 10. "Lust Almighty" - 3:50
"Fire Dances is Killing Joke's fourth studio album released fifteen months after their previous album 'Revelations'. No one was sure there would even be a fourth album as the band had actually split for a short period after 'Revelations'. The downward spiral started rolling after Jaz supposedly 'freaked out' on stage in Brighton and then subsequently went missing. This was in February 1982. Jaz eventually ended up in Iceland. He had apparently gone there to 'survive the apocalypse' (or that's what the press was lead to believe anyway!). So with Jaz missing, the remaining members of the band were forced to take action, and they did by taking out an ad in music paper NME looking for a new lead singer. 'Can you further the Killing Joke? Chortle Chortle." Rumour has it that Iggy Pop even called up for the job!"
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Night Time is the fifth studio album by Killing Joke, released in 1985. It was an international hit, featuring some of their best-known tracks like "Night Time", "Eighties", the riff of which is believed to have been lifted for the Nirvana song "Come as You Are" (Dave Grohl paid a sort of restitution by drumming on the 2003 album Killing Joke), "Love Like Blood", and "Kings and Queens".
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Killing Joke - Brighter Than A Thousand Suns
Год:1986
Tracklist 01 Adorations 4:43 02 Sanity 4:44 03 Chessboards 5:54 04 Twilight of the Mortal 4:15 05 Love of the Masses 06 The Southern Sky 4:39 07 Victory 7:11 08 Wintergardens 5:24 09 Rubicon 7:03 10 Goodbye to the Village 5:27 11 Exile 6:38
The end of the '80s wreaked havoc on all too many bands that started off strongly and, while Killing Joke hadn't quite reached its nadir (that would happen with the appalling Outside the Gate), Brighter Than a Thousand Suns was a definite transformation from the days of "The Wait" and "Complications." The unexpected success of Night Time and new commercial pressures clearly came to bear -- Chris Kimsey's production, effective on that earlier album, here combined with Julian Mendelsohn's mixing to result in too often blanded-out album rock throwaways, perfect for blasting on highways and little else. Still, the band hadn't changed any from Night Time, and even that lineup was three-quarters of the original incarnation of the group. The emphasis still focused clearly on volume and strong, full-bodied playing -- Geordie Walker, Paul Ferguson, and Paul Raven don't sound like they're holding back at all even if their individual performances are less on the edge. Jaz Coleman's newfound way around inspiring singing, meanwhile, pays off in dividends; though it's impossible to square the results here with his earlier hectoring and cutting rage, the warm, sweet passion that he brings to bear often transforms an OK track into a great one. "Adorations," the killer opening track and easily the album standout, is a perfect example of how this era of the group could make it all connect, Coleman's beautiful performance on the chorus and the overall ensemble effort making it the best anthem neither U2 nor Simple Minds ever wrote. But the stiff, mechanical beats on the immediately following "Sanity" -- a ridiculous substitution of Ferguson's undisputed abilities -- sets the tone for the remainder of Brighter Than a Thousand Suns, an effort ultimately dialed in rather than performed. The sound-alike quality of nearly all the songs -- especially ironic considering the accomplished genre-hopping on the earliest records -- renders Killing Joke its own unfortunate parody in the end.
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Killing Joke - Outside The Gate
[2007 Expanded Remaster] Год:1988
Tracklist 01 America (03:48) 02 My Love of This Land (04:12) 03 Stay One Jump Ahead (03:11) 04 Unto the Ends of the Earth (06:08) 05 The Calling (04:45) 06 Obsession (03:36) 07 Tiahuanaco (03:27) 08 Outside the Gate (08:57)
2007 Bonus Tracks:
09 May Day (03:53) 10 My Love of This Land (Early Version) (04:17) 11 Obsession (Early Version) (03:51) 12 Unto the Ends of the Earth (Instrumental) (06:09) 13 Jihad (Single B-side) (06:04) 14 America (Extended Mix) (06:48) 15 Stay One Jump Ahead (Dub) (03:33)
The resulting album, Outside the Gate (1988), is Killing Joke's most controversial album, with opinion ranging from admiration to total disgust, owing to its synth-led sonics (experimentally, and disagreement over the quality of the material. It is not signature-sound Killing Joke, being built around Coleman's orchestral keyboards instead of Geordie's distinctive guitar riffs. Had the album been released as "Coleman/Walker" (as the cover graphic implies) it might have been better received. Released as "Killing Joke" however, it was panned by confused critics and fans alike. Two singles, "America" and "My Love of This Land", were released from the album but did little to improve its fortunes. The video for the former features Coleman and Geordie with drummer Jimmy Copley and session bassist Jerome Rimson, who never actually recorded with the band. No live dates were played to support the album and the band spent much of 1988 in a legal battle as they tried to split from their management and record company, E.G. This struggle resulted in Coleman suffering a nervous breakdown.
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Killing Joke - Extremities, Dirt & Various Repressed Emotions
[2007 + Bonus Disc] Год:1990
Tracklist 1.1 Money Is Not Our God 5:15 1.2 Age Of Greed 7:22 1.3 The Beautiful Dead 5:56 1.4 Extremities 5:20 1.5 Intravenous 7:02 1.6 Inside The Termite Mound 7:50 1.7 Solitude 4:58 1.8 North Of The Border 5:52 1.9 Slipstream 7:07 1.10 Kaliyuga 2:09 1.11 Struggle 6:14 2.1 The Party (Demo) 5:10 2.2 The Fanatic (Demo) 4:22 2.3 Solitude (Demo) 5:10 2.4 Jubilation (The Beautiful Dead - Demo) 4:37 2.5 Age Of Greed (Live) 12:05 2.Video Money Is Not Our God (CD-ROM Video) 4:07 - отсутствует
The gaggingly awful monstrosity of Outside the Gate behind them, Jaz Coleman and Geordie came to their senses, brought in ex-Public Image Ltd drum fiend Martin Atkins as a new partner for Paul Raven, and fired up a new version of Killing Joke that finally recaptured the sprawling spirit of the earliest days. Wisely, Extremities, Dirt & Various Repressed Emotions didn't simply try and replicate the debut or Revelations -- the group collectively allows for the later abilities of the members and incorporates that into the performances. Consider Coleman's singing on the opening rampage "Money Is Not Our God" -- while the song itself rips along with the sheer fire of 1980 intact, Geordie in particular just going off, Coleman saves his now-recovered shout for the title phrase and the occasional verse. His later, smoother style, meanwhile, takes the fore elsewhere, a surprising but effective balance of control and chaos. Geordie, meanwhile, if anything sounds better than ever, his ear for brutally effective, memorable and tightly wound guitar riffs combined with just enough technical flash to define what a guitar hero should really sound like. Songs like "Inside the Termite Mound" and "North of the Border" keep the slightly more accessible, calmer side of late-'80s Killing Joke at least partially present, but never succumb to total polish. If there's a definite flaw to Extremities, it's that too much of the album sounds like a response to the band's descendents -- most clearly Ministry, with whom Atkins had already worked -- than its own effort. At other parts, as on "Struggle" and sections of "The Beautiful Dead," the group creates generic speed/thrash instead of its own stronger variations. It's not the worst of sins, though -- certainly not in comparison with Killing Joke's immediate past -- and the end result confirms the core Coleman/Geordie partnership as the strong beast it is.
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Killing Joke - Pandemonium
Год:1994
Tracklist 01 - Pandemonium 02 - Exorcism 03 - Millennium 04 - Communion 05 - Black Moon 06 - Labyrinth 07 - Jana 08 - Whiteout 09 - Pleasures Of The Flesh 10 - Mathematics Of Chaos
After the band's lengthiest hiatus since it was founded, Killing Joke returned in 1994 with a new/old lineup and an interesting enough new album. Raven, the group's bassist since the Night Time days, was replaced by original bassist Youth, who produced the album and released it on his label. Compared to the newfound intensity of Extremities, Pandemonium partially steps away from the neo-industrial/thrash of that effort for a more varied, often quite surprising experience. With no one drummer replacing Atkins, the threesome works with a number of performers, Coleman in particular bringing in some of the Egyptian musicians whom he has worked with on a variety of projects, including his collaborative work with Anne Dudley. Noted percussionist Hossam Ramzy takes a key role, replacing the frenetic fire of Ferguson's work with a subtler, more textured approach, while Aboud Abdel's violin further gives Pandemonium a haunting edge, aiming to some extent at recreating the epic, mysterious stomp of Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir" for a newer day. Elsewhere, the straight-ahead rampage of "Exorcism" and "Whiteout" show that Killing Joke hasn't forgotten the power of sheer intensity, and if Ferguson's sheer power and inventiveness is missed the most here, the results are still a thrilling, fierce listen. The core Coleman/Geordie partnership remains strong, the latter at points holding back on his more scalpel-sharp approach for a thicker, overdubbed flow, sometimes — as on "Jana" — finding a friendly, open style that revisits the radio-friendly AOR days of the band without actually sucking. In turn, Coleman slides between his declamatory persona and the closer, more controlled style of later efforts; the combination — as on the striking, massive wallop of "Communion" — can be incredible, the contrast between the verses and searing choruses proving captivating.
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Killing Joke - Democracy
Год:1996
Tracklist 01 - Savage Freedom 02 - Democracy 03 - Prozac People 04 - Lanterns 05 - Aeon 06 - Pilgrimage 07 - Intellect 08 - Medicine Wheel 09 - Absent Friends 10 - Another Bloody Election
Killing Joke's best album in 11 years is a major surprise. While the other two LPs since their comeback (after a brief breakup in 1988) refocused the group on heavy guitars and contained several great songs, this time they put it all together. For good measure, they throw out the minor, pesky metal-isms that lurked throughout 1994's Pandemonium. Instead, Democracy returns them to the assault and battery of their seminal, self-titled 1980 debut (and, like that classic, Killing Joke effectively play with tribal rhythms here, on the incessant "Intellect" and the hypnotic "Aeon"), only filtered through the bigger, larger, exalted guitar reverberation of their last truly incredible LP, 1985's Nighttime. Credit returned original bassist Youth (now a noted producer) for the dark, immense, bonfire sound of this monster. The choruses of "Democracy" and "Prozac People" storm, led by Jaz Coleman's maniacal, red-throated doomsday voice, and Geordie's apocalyptic chords. "Pilgrimage" duck-steps brilliantly with real swing. And best of all, the closing "Another Bloody Election" is a brutal, barbarous, bloodthirsty shellacking, the hardest, most vicious, ghastly onslaught they've ever perpetrated (and that's saying plenty), as Coleman fumes over the futility of the pathetic political process with an acute mixture of unchecked, furious ire and helplessness. It's just the final hammer blow of primal urgency from an 18-year-old band that has completely refound their singular thunder (the kind Nirvana filched for "Come as You Are," as per the settled lawsuit) on this, their tenth album.
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Killing Joke - Killing Joke
Год:2003
Tracklist 01 The Death & Resurrection Show 6:56 02 Total Invasion 5:28 03 Asteroid 3:24 04 Implant 5:18 05 Blood On Your Hands 6:00 06 Loose Cannon 4:12 07 You'll Never Get To Me 6:19 08 Seeing Red 5:27 09 Dark Forces 6:26 10 The House That Pain Built 6:13
It's best to takes notes as lead singer Jaz Coleman calmly reads a list of provisions ("Put on your masks/And animal skins") because Killing Joke's second self-titled album is about to take over. Moments after Coleman's stoic opening, Geordie Walker's guitar chugs into action and awakens Killing Joke's most threatening juggernaut of an album in years. Bass players Youth and Paul Raven are both back (although Youth's stint in the group looks to be temporary) and Dave Grohl guests on drums, perhaps paying the Joke back for adapting the killer riff of "Eighties" for Nirvana's "Come as You Are." Grohl's drumming is suitably intense and tribal when need be, while Andy Gill's production miraculously makes sense of the band's thunderous sludge. Still the Coleman/Walker partnership is the star of the show as they play off and push each other like a doom-and-gloom Jagger/Richards. It sounds like Coleman is sitting in the dentist chair with one of those little vacuums sucking out the words on "Total Invasion," while Walker patiently waits his turn to blast out his own brand of stately mayhem. "Asteroid," "Blood on Your Hands," and "Loose Cannon" are all highlights with the band sounding as inspired as when they started, adding the advantage of years of interaction, and "You'll Never Get to Me" presents a brand new shimmering and yearning angle to the group. While Killing Joke's discography has more than its fair share of awkward and overly ambitious albums, they've once again returned to the fury and focus of their classics.
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Killing Joke - Hosannas From The Basements Of Hell
Год:2006
Tracklist 1. "This Tribal Antidote" – 4:15 2. "Hosannas From The Basements Of Hell" – 5:52 3. "Invocation" – 7:54 4. "Implosion" – 6:41 5. "Majestic" – 5:40 6. "Walking With Gods" – 8:36 7. "The Lightbringer" – 9:38 8. "Judas Goat" – 6:21 9. "Gratitude" – 7:04
Personnel * Jaz Coleman - vocals, synthesizer * Kevin "Geordie" Walker - guitar * Paul Raven - bass guitar * Ben Calvert - drums
Recorded Faust Studio, Prague, Czech Republic Genre Industrial metal Label Cooking Vinyl Producer Killing Joke
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Hosannas from the Basements of Hell is an album released on 3 April 2006 by Killing Joke on Cooking Vinyl Records. The track Hosannas From The Basements Of Hell was released as a single, and made it to #72 in the UK.
The cover artwork is taken from a painting by Russian artist Victor Safonkin entitled "Inhuman rearing". The artwork featured in the inside booklet is taken from "Society of good inventions and hidden aims", by the same painter.
The album title refers to the location of the album recording. The band recorded the album in a dark basement studio in the Czech Republic. They also used recording equipment from the late 1970s to achieve the dark, brooding atmosphere of the album.
This was Killing Joke's last studio album to feature bassist Paul Raven. He passed away in October of 2007.
All tracks written by Coleman/Walker/Raven
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Killing Joke - Absolute Dissent
(ltd 2-disc edition) Год: 2010
CD1 - Absolute Dissent 01. Absolute Dissent 02. The Great Cull 03. Fresh Fever From The Skies 04. In Excelsis 05. European Super State 06. This World Hell 07. Endgame 08. The Raven King 09. Honour The Fire 10. Depthcharge 11. Here Comes The Singularity 12. Ghosts Of Ladbroke Grove
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Jaz Coleman - vocals Kevin "Geordie" Walker - guitar Martin "Youth" Glover - bass Paul Ferguson - drums
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Killing Joke is one of the most influential outfits in rock, (post) punk and metal today. Jaz Coleman and Co have been a source of influence for luminaries, like Metallica, Prong, Fear Factory, Ministry, Tool, Nine Inch Nails, Porcupine Tree and Napalm Death. The origins of the band can be traced back to the late seventies. Despite numerous lineup changes Killing Joke is still going strong after all these years. MMXII is the second album since the reunion from Killing Joke’s original line-up & it pretty much continues where the first (Absolute Dissent, 2010) left off. It offers industrial metal flourishes, but also enough nods to the band’s post punk days back in the early eighties. All these different elements are packaged in surprisingly accessible compositions with very memorable hooks and choruses. This gives “Fema Camp”, “Rapture” and “In Cythera” almost an anthem-like quality. As with many with the previous Killing Joke albums it takes some time before MMXII really starts to sink in. On the first casual listens there doesn’t seems to be a lot going on tracks like “Pole Shift”, “Corporate Elect”, “Glitch” and “Trance”, but looks can be deceiving. With each successive listen the album gives more of its intricate details and rich textures away. It’s this apparent duality that makes MMXII such an intensely satisfying and captivating listening experience. By the time the mighty roars and wails by Jaz Coleman kick in you instantly know that you’re listening to one of the finest albums of this year. In short, MMXII by Killing Joke is one mighty fine follow-up record to its illustrious predecessor. This album, with its boundless energy and all its apocalyptic themes, has all the hallmarks of a truly great record.
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