Killing Joke - Pylon (2015) 320ak
KILLING JOKE are on a mission to take their music of resistance to a whole new level with their sixteenth studio album, "Pylon", due on October 23 via Spinefarm Records.
"Pylon" was produced in the U.K. and Prague by the band and Tom Dalgety, whose credits include the hugely successful "Royal Blood" album.
The album isn't designed to accompany a quiet night at home in front of the fire; "Pylon" is very much music-as-ritual. It's raw, uncompromising and precisely targeted lyrically, with the artwork put together by regular band associate Mike Coles, the designer behind the very first KILLING JOKE album.
Their first album Killing Joke was released in 1980. After the release of Revelations in 1982, bassist Youth was replaced by Paul Raven. The band achieved mainstream success in 1985 with both the album Night Time and the single "Love Like Blood".
A key influence on industrial rock, their early music was described by critics Stephen Thomas Erlewine and John Dougan as "quasi-metal [...] dancing to a tune of doom and gloom", which gradually evolved over the years, incorporating elements of electronic music, synthpop and gothic rock,though always emphasising Coleman's "savagely strident vocals". Killing Joke have influenced many later bands and artists, such as Metallica, Nine Inch Nails and Soundgarden. Coleman and Geordie have been the only constant members of the band.
01. Autonomous Zone
02. Dawn Of The Hive
03. New Cold War
04. Euphoria
05. New Jerusalem
06. War On Freedom
07. Big Buzz
08. Delete
09. I Am The Virus
10. Into The Unknown
Members
Current members
Jaz Coleman – lead vocals, keyboards (1978–1996, 2002–present)
Kevin "Geordie" Walker – guitars (1978–1996, 2002–present)
Martin "Youth" Glover – bass guitar (1978–1982, 1994–1996, 2002–2003, 2008–present)
Paul Ferguson – drums, vocals (1978–1987, 2008–present)
Reza Uhdin – keyboards (2005–present)
Former members
Paul Raven – bass guitar (1982–1987, 1990–1991, 2003–2007; died 2007)
Martin Atkins – drums (1988–1991)
Dave 'Taif' Ball – bass guitar (1988–1990)
Geoff Dugmore – drums (1994–1996)
Ben Calvert – drums (2005–2008)
Additional musicians
Dave Kovacevic – keyboards (1984–1990)
Jimmy Copley – drums (1987–88)
John Bechdel – keyboards, programming (1990–1991)
Nick Holywell-Walker – keyboards, programming (1994–1996, 2002–2005)
Troy Gregory – bass guitar (1996)
Dave Grohl – drums (2002–2003)
Ted Parsons – drums (2003–2004)
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