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Killing Joke

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Two decades after they lobbed their first Molotov cocktail, Killing Joke returned with an equally incendiary mix informed by the total lack of progress since then — some might even say regression. Not yet fully consumed by the conspiracy theories that would define his later work, Jaz Coleman (reunited with classic members Geordie Walker and Youth and assisted on drums by Dave Grohl) spits out diatribes against religion and the Bush government and for anthropocene extinction. “The Death and Resurrection Show” and “Asteroid” stand next to classics like “The Wait” and “Primitive” from their previous self-titled record. It’s industrial in the “crushed by the gears of society” sense.

Jeff Treppel

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