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In the News (Mon 28 Dec 09)

  
  .:KILLING JOKE:.
Jaz Colman’s Killing Joke have been more a force of nature than a straight forward new wave punk band since their eponymous debut album in 1980.
Killing Joke have been incredibly influential on many of the biggest rock bands on the planet including Metallica, Nine Inch Nails and the Foo Fighters.
Killing Joke and Management didn't find out till the night before the tour was to begin, that the promotions teams in Germany still was promoting the show as being on.
www.killing-joke.com   (857 words)

  
  Killing Joke - Biography - AOL Music
Heavy and slow, Killing Joke (at least early in their career) was a quasi-metal band dancing to a tune of doom and gloom.
Killing Joke moved to Notting Hill Gate and recorded their debut EP, Almost Red, with money borrowed from Coleman's girlfriend of the time.
In 1994, Killing Joke re-formed as a trio with Coleman, Geordie, and Youth and the group released Pandemonium, a harder-edged, heavier album than their previous records.
music.aol.com /artist/killing-joke/4677/biography   (735 words)

  
 Killing Joke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Killing Joke's third album, Revelations, produced by Conny Plank, was issued in 1982, and supported by a pair of performances on The John Peel Show and by the singles "Chop-Chop" and "Empire Song".
Killing Joke's fourth album, Fire Dances (1983), contained music that, like that heard on the "Birds Of A Feather" single, was artier and relatively calmer than the music Killing Joke had made previously, which, in hindsight, began a new direction.
Killing Joke also sued Nirvana during this phase, alleging that the riff for the latter's song "Come As You Are" was copied from the riff for their song "Eighties".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Killing_Joke   (3437 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Killing Joke: Music: Killing Joke   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
It's been a long hard road for Killing Joke, and their story is one that's rife with all the melodrama and tragedy that makes for an epic tale worth telling.
Killing Joke....a superlative defying album perhaps, but the defining industrial rock album of a generation in truth, and the pretenders can safely lay down their tools at the feet of the old gods.
Over the years Killing Joke have sat on the periphery of the pop/punk/electronica scene with their abrasive style often failing to meet the mainstream audience that they deserve.
www.amazon.co.uk /Killing-Joke/dp/B00009V3R2   (1733 words)

  
 KILLING JOKE | Interviews | Rockdetector   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
KILLING JOKE’s frontman vocalist Jaz Coleman is one highly educated being.
KILLING JOKE got it, which is not bad at the old age of 45.
The truth is that in KILLING JOKE in 1982 we found all these references to an island at the end of the earth that would survive the great upheaval and lead the world to a better way of life.
www.rockdetector.com /interviews/artist,4922.sm?id=99   (5728 words)

  
 Killing Joke t-shirts and hoodies|Killing Joke merchandise at Rerock4ever
We have a great selection of Killing Joke t-shirts and babydolls for guys and girls who loves Killing Joke.
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We have dozens of original Killing Joke t-shirts, and the only place you can find them is right here.
www.rerock4ever.com /tshirts-killingjoke.html   (228 words)

  
 Killing Joke: Pandemonium / Democracy - PopMatters Music Review
The first five Killing Joke albums have always garnered the most attention (justifiably so) and their lauded 2003 comeback album generated a lot of interest, but it seems their '90s output has been largely ignored as of late.
The ominously catchy "Millenium" was the one song that generated modest airplay in the United States (a rarity for Killing Joke), while the epic "Communion" is laden with Egyptian accents that mesh beautifully with the band's trademark style, from Walker's mellifluous chords, to spellbinding percussion, violin, and kowala.
Most noticeably, the acoustic guitar-driven title track sounds limp, the Joke a shadow of their former selves, and much of the rest of the album tends to sleepwalk in the same way.
www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/k/killingjoke-pandaemonium.shtml   (842 words)

  
 Killing Joke – Music at Last.fm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Killing Joke have been recording sporadically since their formation in 1978.
Killing Joke might not be making music anymore, but if they are, you can help keep other users informed by adding new events when they're announced.
Killing joke are fucking awesome, the best live band i have seen, more so than the bands who are my favourites, who I have also seen live.
www.last.fm /music/Killing+Joke   (379 words)

  
 Killing Joke - Wal-Mart
Killing Joke's 1980 debut showed much promise from a band that would continue making cutting-edge political anti-rock for two decades.
Punk was still the name of the game at this stage of Killing Joke's development, however, and "The Wait" and "Complications" provide punk fans with ample doses of aggressive rhythms and minimalist metal, while "Change" evokes a smoldering wasteland, or a steaming and stagnating social mire.
KILLING JOKE is an excellent sample of the band's repertoire, while only hinting at its talents.
www.walmart.com /catalog/product.gsp?product_id=1219280   (618 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Pandemonium: Music: Killing Joke   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Killing Joke's hard-edged 1994 release is difficult to classify.
The Joke had been away fore away and came back with this most incredible album that is a mix of hard rock and their older style.
The simple truth is that Killing Joke were a wholy unregonised band of there era.
www.amazon.com /Pandemonium-Killing-Joke/dp/B00000099V   (1121 words)

  
 Jamming! Magazine: Killing Joke interviewed in 1981
But there was something truly fascinating about Killing Joke's apocalyptic vision, and their arrival on the London scene upon the dawn of the eighties was impossible to ignore: the songs 'Wardance,' 'Requiem' and 'Change', all from their debut 1981 album, resonated with the frightening mood of the time.
Killing Joke lived in Ladbroke Grove, itself the other main West Indian community in London, and the scene of many a violent face-off with the police at the annual Notting Hill carnival.
I would not have imagined interacting with Killing Joke much over subsequent years: for all that I hung out at Rough Trade and Better Badges off the Portobello Road, I never much considered myself part of the Notting Hill set, where there was too much dope smoking and other dubious dealings for my liking.
www.ijamming.net /Jammingmagazine/KillingJoke1981.html   (986 words)

  
 Killing Joke
Killing Joke wrote all of the songs for their next album, "what's THIS for....!," while in the studio.
Killing Joke then signed with marketers Polydor and seemed to make an contrived attempt to appeal to more record buyers, a move Jaz had blasted Youth for.
At this point, Killing Joke tried a grass roots approach to popularity by forming the Organization of the Distant Island Charter, a fan group which was based out of Atkins' hometown of Chicago that sold KJ shirts, buttons, bumper stickers.
killing-joke.com /history.html   (2616 words)

  
 killing joke   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
They eventually became less heavy and more arty (the latter seems almost impossible) -- more danceable even -- but early on they made some urgent slabs of molten dynamite that oozed with the power of thick guitars, thudding drums and over-the-top singing.
The origins of Killing Joke lay in the Matt Stagger Band.
Killing Joke moved to Notting Hill Gate and recorded their debut EP, Turn to Red, with money borrowed from Coleman's girlfriend of the time.
www.invisiblerecords.com /bands/killingjoke   (625 words)

  
 Killing Joke: album reviews and ratings
From the release of their debut self titled album in 1980, Killing Joke has been a vehicle for vocalist Jaz Coleman's dark obsession of the occult and impending fear of the apocalypse (so much so that he once moved to Iceland).
Since then, the only output witnessed in the last seven years from Killing Joke (apart from side projects and Coleman's symphonic tributes) was the cryptically titled Our Last Goodbye on the benefit album 'Free The West Memphis 3' in 2000.
Killing Joke have made the most vital, raw brutal album so far this year...
www.musicfolio.com /modernrock/killingjoke.html   (1321 words)

  
 TrouserPress.com :: Killing Joke
The Killing Joke name was retired again, as Walker, Raven, Atkins and Ferguson went on to work as Murder Inc., with John Bechdel on keyboards and a laconic-sounding Chris Connelly taking Jaz's spot on vocals.
Recorded by Joke fan Steve Albini and released on Atkins' label, the sextet's viscous drones on Murder Inc. — "Last of the Urgents," "Hole in the Wall" — are at least comparable to Killing Joke (particularly Walker's pernicious guitar), if nowhere near as memorable.
Amazingly, Killing Joke — Jaz and Geordie —; reformed yet again in 1994, this time reclaiming the group's rhythmic roots through the return of original bassist Youth.
www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=killing_joke   (1089 words)

  
 BBC Manchester - Music - Killing Joke - Killing Joke
It seems every 80s act is on the comeback trail and Killing Joke are the latest to jump on the bandwagon of bands who were big during the decade from hell.
The shock is that Killing Joke is by far and away the best metal album I've heard this year.
Killing Joke is an album where the pace and invective never really let up.
www.bbc.co.uk /manchester/music/2003/07/28/killing_joke.shtml   (601 words)

  
 Killing Joke: For Beginners - PopMatters Music Review
Emerging from the same post punk era that yielded such crucial bands as Wire, Bauhaus, and The Cure, Killing Joke didn't possess the razor-sharp wit of Colin Newman, the theatrics of Peter Murphy, or the melancholy of Robert Smith; instead, the quartet's music was vicious, feral almost.
Still, to this day, Killing Joke remain rather underrated, loved dearly by fans and fellow musicians, but still unknown to many casual listeners.
After all, there are so many good Killing Joke songs, that it'd be difficult to put together a mix that would warrant the adjective "terrible".
www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/k/killingjoke-forbeginners.shtml   (929 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Democracy: Music: Killing Joke   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
When Killing Joke released their self-titled debut in 1980, it was a milestone in the post-punk era.
Killing Joke have never thought twice about tweaking their sound.
In the wake of the success of "Pandemonium", Killing Joke (still vocalist Jaz Coleman, guitarist Geordie, and bassist Youth) created something wholly different-- after the Middle Eastern-tinged industrial metal of their last album, the band produced an album in a unique style-- texture-oriented guitars (even acoustic guitars!), crisp bass, and varied vocals.
www.amazon.com /Democracy-Killing-Joke/dp/B0000009AX   (1712 words)

  
 Batman: The Killing Joke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Batman: The Killing Joke is a one-shot superhero comic book written by Alan Moore and drawn by Brian Bolland, published by DC Comics in 1988.
The joke told by the Joker is a common one, in which two inmates are trying to escape a mental institution.
The Killing Joke could be considered a meditation on the relationship between comedy and madness.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Batman:_The_Killing_Joke   (1993 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Killing Joke: Music: Killing Joke   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Of all the bands in the world, Killing Joke is the only one of which I consider myself a true fan.
Since their debut album (also self titled) Killing Joke have been raging, with some considerable paranoia about the threats of the so called new world order/corrupt governments/occult/conspiracy theories.
When I heard that the Joke were back in 2003 with a new album, I had about as much anticipation for this album as I did for the new Biohazard album (nearly none at all).
www.amazon.com /Killing-Joke/dp/B0000AGWK8   (1915 words)

  
 Perfect Sound Forever: Killing Joke retrospective
Like Gang of Four, who began in the same fertile post-punk period which has recently spawned a slew of watered down imitators bereft of insight or vision, Killing Joke raised difficult questions and contradictions with their apocalyptic onslaughts of rock reinvention.
The Killing Joke became as much a philosophy as a noise.
Death is never far away from The Joke, and the "Requiem" that leads off builds a bonfire to roast all those who were just unwitting cattle for slaughter in the endless war machine of so called civilisation.
www.furious.com /perfect/killingjoke.html   (2860 words)

  
 Killing Joke >> Aversion.com
Britain's Killing Joke emerged from the post-punk landscape to craft a brutal and fiery mix of metal and post-punk that would predate the industrial bands of the mid- and late 80s.
Able to create vicious metal as well as dance-ready club anthems, Killing Joke's music was only overshadowed by its penchant for stirring up controversy through brutal lyrical imagery, cover art and flier pictures.
Partially shackled by the erratic behavior of front man Jaz Coleman (he once fled Europe to Iceland to avoid the apocalypse), and partially hemmed in by attempts to clean up the band's songs for mainstream audiences, Killing Joke broke up and reformed several times in the late '80s and '90s.
www.aversion.com /bands/killingjoke   (210 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/killingjokeofficial
There's thick-sounding, rigorous guitars, shadowed by distortion and arduous drums that really capture the essence of the dark industrial heaviness that is Killing Joke.
Most of the album was recorded in a basement studio in Prague, mixed by Mark Lusardi who some twenty-six years earlier, actually mixed Killing Jokes first recording.
Killing Joke helped me all along the way by giving me some kind of spiritual strenght, the will to carry on against all and of course by making me dance and scream!
www.myspace.com /killingjokeofficial   (594 words)

  
 The History of Rock Music. Killing Joke: biography, discography, reviews, links
Killing Joke were less mental and more physical than other dar-punk bands: the dissonant, tribal, apocalyptic spasms of their early singles, such as Requiem (1979) and Wardance (1979), and of their first album, Killing Joke (1980), were as powerful as Pere Ubu's "modern dance".
Killing Joke (EG, 1980) non fece che mettere per esteso quelle idee programmatiche ed applicarle a diverse forme sonore.
Killing Joke (Zuma, 2003), with Dave Grohl on drums, is the typical album that is hailed as "a return to form"...
www.scaruffi.com /vol4/killingj.html   (1565 words)

  
 KILLING JOKE - Loose Cannon - Video
Cited as one of the most influential bands of the last twenty years KILLING JOKE return with a brand new single 'Loose Cannon', released on Monday July 14th on Zuma Recordings.
Across ten searing tracks this album shows why KILLING JOKE are still as influential and relevant as the day they started.
KILLING JOKE will be playing a secret London gig early this summer as well as the V003 festival.
www.contactmusic.com /new/home.nsf/webpages/killingjokex26x06x03   (402 words)

  
 Batman: The Killing Joke
His partners are killed and the faux Red Hood takes the only escape open to him, through the bubbling chemicals and into the river outside.
But the commissioner is made of sterner stuff than the Joker believed, and the Batman isn't in the mood for jokes.
The complex relationship between hero and villain, and the inevitable path it must follow, has never been explored as well as Moore has done here, and his (the Joker's) discourse on the human condition is thought-provoking, to say the least.
www.rambles.net /killing_joke.html   (860 words)

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