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...
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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...
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The gaggingly awful monstrosity of Outside the Gate behind them, Coleman and Geordie came to their senses, brought in ex-Public Image Ltd. drum fiend Martin Atkins as a new...
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After the difficult sessions leading up to Revelations, Fire Dances was Killing Joke's first album with new bass player Paul Raven. It saw them return, in part, to the...
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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...
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Not the best compilation that could be assembled -- anything missing "The Wait," for one thing, can't be seen as truly definitive -- Laugh? is, however imperfect, still a...
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The chief criticism many Killing Joke fans level at Revelations is that it is underproduced. When compared with later albums such as Extremities, Dirt & Various Repressed...
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Marking the full return from the band's out-of-nowhere hiatus in 1982, Night Time, following after a couple of test-the-waters EPs, finds the reconstituted Killing Joke,...
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If not quite as remarkable as the band's gripping self-titled debut, What's THIS For... showed that Killing Joke could maintain its frenetic, doom-wracked intensity while...
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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...
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Though barely recorded four years after their first live release, Ha, BBC in Concert was not released until 1994, as a tie-in with the reunion album Pandemonium....
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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...
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Though barely 6 songs and 26 minutes long, "Ha" packs more ferocity and impact than most live recordings twice as long. Killing Joke was still in its punk-derived infancy...
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Apocalyptic alterno-rockers Killing Joke could stand an introductory compilation with a novice-friendly name since the title Laugh? I Nearly Bought One! doesn't cry out "a...
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