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This KILLING JOKE album, nine years since the last, will appeal to classic 'Joke' fans, but will also tap into the zeitgeist of an under nourished youth looking for a musical and lyrical Intensity that can only be ofrered by a classic post punk band like KILLING JOKE. 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. Skiddles very own Chay meets up with Jaz Coleman to find out what's happening and why. Chay: Your fact two albums (Pandemonium & Democracy) were produced by Youth (KJ bassist), but you went with Andy Gill from Gang Of Four on this one. Jaz Coleman: We were so unhappy with Democracy at the end of the day, with the production. Geordie and myself weren't there for it and people asked what we'd been doing during that time. It took us quite a few years to all get talking again. We wanted to cut Youth's throat because he took 30 Grand as well. We brought Andy in because the other problem is that with Youth, Geordie, and myself, we're all producers so we're gonna bicker anyway. We knew him from years back from Gang of Four and he's a mate. At least we're all musicians and he knew where we were coming from. Most producers these days don't play an Instrument so they cant be producers in my opinion. Taken from skiddle.com Reuters Grohl Gets Behind Killing Joke's 'Axis' Mon Apill 7, 2003 06:18 PM ET LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Foo Fighters frontman/rock drummer extraordinaire Dave Grohl is showing up on the new Killing Joke album, Billboard reports in the April 12 issue. The project, which will be out In June on Sony worldwide, is tentatively titled Axis of Evil. Produced by Gang Of Four's Andy Gill, the album is the veteran U.K. rock acts first since 1996's "Democracy." dotmusic.com 'I couldn't wait to get my hands on it', says the former Nirvana stickman about the KJ songs. 'I dropped out of high school but I always wanted to be in a marching band. I never learnt to read music, I can't read music, so this is fulfilling my marching band fantasies.' He continues: 'This is the first record I've ever done where the drums come last. Usually they're first. But it's nice, cos when you put the drums on and all the percussion is down then It's done. All the programming and rhythms Andy came up with are great, they're not conventional rock drumming. It's challenging. Classic Rock It's a mark of this album's greatness that the presence of superstar drummer Dave Grohl is almost incidental to the whole package. Certainly he will bring KJ some attention that they may not otherwise have received, but Grohl plays here like a Killing joke drummer rather than fitting the band around his own muscular style. The sound is stripped bare - fittingly, production is by Andy Gill, from feedback-soaked agit-punks the Gang Of Four - in comparison with the band's unsatisfactory 'Democracy', from 1996, and sounds irrefutably modernist rather than like a half-baked attempt to cash in on any real or imagined 80s nostalgia. 'The House That Pain Built', the epic, anthemic finale, is among the best songs that Killing joke have ever recorded. And in a catalogue that includes 'Wardance', 'Requiem' and 'Change' there's no higher praise. In fact there isn't a single duff track on 'Killing Joke'; every song here is a gem of gut-wrenching paranoia, hate and fear. it all sounds like a work of prophecy - one that has already come to pass: 'Total Invasion', 'Blood On Your Hands', 'Dark Forces'... Face it: in 2003 the world needs Killing Joke more than ever. Classic rock / TOMMY UDO * * * * * IN A NUTSHELL : A titanic soundtrack to Armageddon, from the enduring, genre-defying prophets of rage. Rocksound Equal parts shaman, polernist and visionary, mainman Jaz Coleman sounds as driven and demented as ever, while producer Andy Gill (the Gang Of Four guitarist who also worked with the Chilli Peppers) marshals the heaviest sound this side of 'St Anger'. Indeed, the US army could torture prisoners with this album when they've exhausted the Metallica catalogue. Mind you, subversive tracks like 'Blood On Your Hands' might give the troops too much food for thought... PIERRE PERRONE / rocksound The Village Voice Babies on Fire by Sasha Frere-Jones September 12th, 2003 5:00 PM Killing Joke Is MY NEW SHIT Zuma / Epic ...they have a new CD. Guess who the drummer is? The Grohlster. WTF? The first song is about their career and it's called "The Death and Resurrection Show" : "Mark out the points, build the pyre, assemble different drummers, light up the fire, put on your masks and animal skins." They're making fun of themselves but then it kicks in and it's NOT FUNNY. It's produced by Andy Gill from the Gang of Four, who sound just like the Liars. The CD is big like a CORN SILO big, big like a CHURCH big...

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This KILLING JOKE album, nine years since the last, will appeal to classic 'Joke' fans, but will also tap into the zeitgeist of an under nourished youth looking for a musical and lyrical Intensity that can only be ofrered by a classic post punk band like KILLING JOKE.

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.

Skiddles very own Chay meets up with Jaz Coleman to find out what's happening and why.

Chay: Your fact two albums (Pandemonium & Democracy) were produced by Youth (KJ bassist), but you went with Andy Gill from Gang Of Four on this one.

Jaz Coleman: We were so unhappy with Democracy at the end of the day, with the production. Geordie and myself weren't there for it and people asked what we'd been doing during that time. It took us quite a few years to all get talking again.

We wanted to cut Youth's throat because he took 30 Grand as well. We brought Andy in because the other problem is that with Youth, Geordie, and myself, we're all producers so we're gonna bicker anyway. We knew him from years back from Gang of Four and he's a mate. At least we're all musicians and he knew where we were coming from. Most producers these days don't play an Instrument so they cant be producers in my opinion.

Taken from skiddle.com

Reuters

Grohl Gets Behind Killing Joke's 'Axis'

Mon Apill 7, 2003 06:18 PM ET

LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Foo Fighters frontman/rock drummer extraordinaire Dave Grohl is showing up on the new Killing Joke album, Billboard reports in the April 12 issue. The project, which will be out In June on Sony worldwide, is tentatively titled Axis of Evil. Produced by Gang Of Four's Andy Gill, the album is the veteran U.K. rock acts first since 1996's "Democracy."

dotmusic.com

'I couldn't wait to get my hands on it', says the former Nirvana stickman about the KJ songs. 'I dropped out of high school but I always wanted to be in a marching band. I never learnt to read music, I can't read music, so this is fulfilling my marching band fantasies.'

He continues: 'This is the first record I've ever done where the drums come last. Usually they're first. But it's nice, cos when you put the drums on and all the percussion is down then It's done.

All the programming and rhythms Andy came up with are great, they're not conventional rock drumming. It's challenging.

Classic Rock

It's a mark of this album's greatness that the presence of superstar drummer Dave Grohl is almost incidental to the whole package. Certainly he will bring KJ some attention that they may not otherwise have received, but Grohl plays here like a Killing joke drummer rather than fitting the band around his own muscular style. The sound is stripped bare - fittingly, production is by Andy Gill, from feedback-soaked agit-punks the Gang Of Four - in comparison with the band's unsatisfactory 'Democracy', from 1996, and sounds irrefutably modernist rather than like a half-baked attempt to cash in on any real or imagined 80s nostalgia. 'The House That Pain Built', the epic, anthemic finale, is among the best songs that Killing joke have ever recorded. And in a catalogue that includes 'Wardance', 'Requiem' and 'Change' there's no higher praise.

In fact there isn't a single duff track on 'Killing Joke'; every song here is a gem of gut-wrenching paranoia, hate and fear. it all sounds like a work of prophecy - one that has already come to pass: 'Total Invasion', 'Blood On Your Hands', 'Dark Forces'...

Face it: in 2003 the world needs Killing Joke more than ever.

Classic rock / TOMMY UDO * * * * *

IN A NUTSHELL : A titanic soundtrack to Armageddon, from the enduring, genre-defying prophets of rage.

Rocksound

Equal parts shaman, polernist and visionary, mainman Jaz Coleman sounds as driven and demented as ever, while producer Andy Gill (the Gang Of Four guitarist who also worked with the Chilli Peppers) marshals the heaviest sound this side of 'St Anger'. Indeed, the US army could torture prisoners with this album when they've exhausted the Metallica catalogue. Mind you, subversive tracks like 'Blood On Your Hands' might give the troops too much food for thought...

PIERRE PERRONE / rocksound

The Village Voice

Babies on Fire by Sasha Frere-Jones

September 12th, 2003 5:00 PM

Killing Joke Is MY NEW SHIT

Zuma / Epic

...they have a new CD. Guess who the drummer is? The Grohlster. WTF? The first song is about their career and it's called "The Death and Resurrection Show" : "Mark out the points, build the pyre, assemble different drummers, light up the fire, put on your masks and animal skins." They're making fun of themselves but then it kicks in and it's NOT FUNNY. It's produced by Andy Gill from the Gang of Four, who sound just like the Liars. The CD is big like a CORN SILO big, big like a CHURCH big...