Killing Joke. I'll automatically assume you've never heard of them before, because honest to the roof, Killing Joke is really very underrated band. I'm not a pro at them, and in fact Im not a die hard fan either. But I'll do my best to share what KJ really is - at least to me.
I've came upon one of their songs by a complete random, and to be honest, I'm still quite shy about it. I wa slistening to a PC game soundtrack (Need for speed something) and noticed this song, that was absolutely unlike anything I've heard before. The Death & Resurrection Show. Free to download below, by the way.
I was awestruck by the hypnotic drums, rough voice and all in all, interesting style of music. So I did what a young man grown and bred on the internet does - I googled it. It turned out this song is made by Killing Joke, a band that on last.fm is tagged both by post-punk and industry. Curious about how the result in their other songs might sound like, I got my hands on their old album that dates back to the eighties "Laugh? I nearly bought one!". Interesting as it was, except for their single Eighties, it had absolutely no appeal to me.
I didn't give up, though, and searched for their newer albums. What I discovered is hard to explain, really. Imagine Doom 1 the PC game, imagine the third episode, the one with hell and stuff, and then imagine the perfect soundtrack for it. For me, that's the new Killing Joke. Repeated deadly-awesome riffs, Jaz Coleman's growling voice and brutaly true and truly brutal lyrics. For me as an industry fan, the new Killing Joke is... as if someone was hugging my very soul. It is so good.
Jaz Coleman, the singer, is also an interesting personality. He believes in apocalypse (and moved to Scandinavia for a while to hide before the apocalypse comes), he's apparently very intelligent and thinks a lot about what's going on in this worls. So ten thousand points for him for that. Another interesting thing he does is the warpaint - imagine mix of the Kiss and Rambo military paint, and you'll get the approximat picture of how Coleman looks on concerts. And he does it even now, regardless that he's getting a little old for that.
I might update this post in the future, because Killing Joke deserves attention. And until then? Torture your ears with Pandemonium. Happy listening! :)
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