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The album was produced by Gang of Four guitarist Andy Gill and features Nirvana drummer and Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl, a long-time Killing Joke fan, on drums. It peaked at number 43 in the UK Albums Chart.
- Industrial Metal Post-Punk
- Killing Joke (1980) Not just Killing Joke’s best album, one of the best debut albums ever made, and one of the most definitively British records of all time.
- Absolute Dissent (2010) The band's first album with the original line up for 28 years is an incredible return to form. Killing Joke had been on decent form before the return of Youth, but the bassist's return seemed to revitalise everyone involved in the band, leading to this superb record.
- Night Time (1985) The one featuring the biggest hit of their career, the fantastically swooping Love Like Blood, but there is plenty more thrills to discover on Night Time.
- Pandemonium (1994) At a time where Ministry, Fear Factory and Nine Inch Nails were considered the cutting edge of heavy music, Killing Joke proved that they were more than capable of keeping up with the industrial metal heavyweights.
May 19, 2008 · Dave Grohl plays drums on the Killing joke self-titled album from 2003... I was lucky enough to be there with my friend Jesse Warn shooting the man himself. Shot/Edited by Andrew Morton...
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Jan 1, 2013 · Part of the album's directness, though, has to do with the drummer who played on it: Dave Grohl. Having been in the lurch with drummers, the band decided to lean on some of their famous fans for 2003's Killing Joke .
- The Initial Explosion
- The Early 80s
- The Mid-’80S
- The 90s
- The Comeback
Killing Joke’s debut track, “Turn To Red,” was very different from what came after. It began with a throbbing, trance-like bassline and skittering cymbals, the guitar thin and piercing at the margins, Coleman’s lyrics chopped off and swallowed up by echo. It was ominous and stark – a warning you could dance to. “Wardance,” the first single from the...
When you come out of the gate as strongly as Killing Joke did, the follow-up album has to be something fierce. “The Fall of Because,” which opened 1981’s What’s This For…!, featured Ferguson’s tribal drumming and Walker’s scraped-nerve guitar, but Coleman’s vocals were more incantatory than hectoring. The single “Follow the Leaders” was a foot-stom...
Killing Joke returned in 1985 with Night Time. You don’t have to listen all too closely to “Eighties,” the first single, to hear Nirvana’s inspiration for “Come As You Are.” (N.B.: A Damned song from 1982, “Life Goes On,” has basically the same melody.) “Eighties” abandons Killing Joke’s then-standard tribal rhythms for a pounding hardcore beat, as...
The 80s ended badly for Killing Joke. The Pauls, Raven, and Ferguson, quit the band during the making of what became Outside the Gate. Coleman and Walker hired drummer Martin Atkins, formerly of Public Image Ltd. After working with bassist Dave “Taif” Ball for a tour, they brought Paul Raven back in. The result was Extremities, Dirt and Various Rep...
When Killing Joke returned again in 2003, they had a secret weapon. They’d planned to use three different drummers for their second self-titled album. But when they heard Dave Grohl’s contributions, he got the whole thing to himself. His thunderous beat underpins their best, most aggressive work since at least 1990. “The Death and Resurrection Show...
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Aug 5, 2003 · 8.6. Universal acclaim based on 36 Ratings. Summary: The first album in seven years for the UK punk outfit founded in 1978 features newly reunited members Jaz Coleman, Youth and Paul Raven, with Dave Grohl filling in on drums. Record Label: Red Ink. Genre (s): Rock, Alternative.
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Jul 28, 2003 · This self-titled album put that line tirelessly. Singer and keyboardist Jaz Coleman has all his frustration and anger over the past few years in ten songs to know gags and the whole also by Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl and Nirvana drummer drums. The result? An explosive metal/industrial-album to the best work of Killing Joke.
