Killing Joke

[Eoin McLove]

The self titled from 03 is shaping up to be on non- stop rotation in my car. It's so good. Grohl's drumming is ferocious and the song writing is so good. I think my favourite at the minute are the last few songs. It is great the whole way through but it ends on such a powerful note. Beauty.

[Carnage]

Blood On Your Hands for me, just so vicious in the chorus. The album as a whole is fantastic though, and further proof that Grohl belongs behind a kit instead of out front peddling pap.

[Pentagrimes]

For those who might not know about it, I'd recommend the Murder Inc. album that came out in the early 90s - a band made up of Geordie, Paul Ferguson and Raven, the great Chris Connolly on vocals, and Martin Atkins from PIL/Pigface on second drums. It's a Killing Joke album in all but name.

Surprised it hasn't been reissued. 2 of my favourite tunes here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZLcObpk34U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OywqJ9dk9U

[Carnage]

Excellent album. The rapping's aged badly but somehow still works.

It was reissued along with the Corpuscle EP and a few live tracks as The Complete Murder Inc., but that was a good while ago now. It got a vinyl release in February:

https://www.discogs.com/release/33226482-Murder-Inc-Murder-Inc

[Eoin McLove]

For those who might not know about it, I'd recommend the Murder Inc. album that came out in the early 90s - a band made up of Geordie, Paul Ferguson and Raven, the great Chris Connolly on vocals, and Martin Atkins from PIL/Pigface on second drums. It's a Killing Joke album in all but name.

Surprised it hasn't been reissued. 2 of my favourite tunes here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZLcObpk34U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OywqJ9dk9U

Nice. I'll give these a spin tonight.

[Eoin McLove]

Blood On Your Hands for me, just so vicious in the chorus. The album as a whole is fantastic though, and further proof that Grohl belongs behind a kit instead of out front peddling pap.

Yeah that's a great song.

[Pentagrimes]

Excellent album. The rapping's aged badly but somehow still works.

It was reissued along with the Corpuscle EP and a few live tracks as The Complete Murder Inc., but that was a good while ago now. It got a vinyl release in February:

https://www.discogs.com/release/33226482-Murder-Inc-Murder-Inc

Oh cool!I had no idea.

[Maggot Colony]

The self titled from 03 is shaping up to be on non- stop rotation in my car. It's so good. Grohl's drumming is ferocious and the song writing is so good. I think my favourite at the minute are the last few songs. It is great the whole way through but it ends on such a powerful note. Beauty.

I'm in the minority here, but I think the follow-up album, Hosannas from the Basements of Hell, tops the 2003 s/t. The production is rawer which suits the band perfectly, and makes them sound even more fucking ferocious. The songs are slightly better too. It might be my favourite KJ album.

[Eoin McLove]

I'll grab it if it becomes available 

[Eoin McLove]

Murder Inc sounds interesting. I'd grab a reasonably priced CD of it ever emerged.

[OpenSores]

Have the Murder Inc on vinyl from way back, would love to grab a cd copy with the ep.

Re. KJ, Hosannas is up there in the top three for me, can't fault it.

[Circlepit]

I only recently started listening KJ, Pylon, Mmxii and Pandemonium are the highlights for me so far.
I love the way he phrases stuff.
It feels like quite a lot of bands owe a debt to them.

[ochoill]

It comes up any time KJ appear in a thread here but yeah they are a massive influence on so much stuff.  Love them.  Still stand over "Extremities..." as my favourite but there's so much stuff and such variety across the catalog that it is nearly unfair to pick one album.

Anyway here is Godflesh covering Requiem https://youtu.be/31yhz6OT-z4?si=NzQ9Hpe9f7xHGudn

[Carnage]

I thought Hosannas was a huge step down after the '03 s/t TBH. I haven't heard it since it came out so I must give it another chance. Their output was so varied that it was inevitably going to be hit & miss I suppose, but the high points are very high indeed.

[Maggot Colony]

I was disappointed with Hosannas when it came out, as I was hoping for KJ2003 Part II. I was wrong. The production suits the band. There's a joyous quality to the songs which makes it feel like a celebration. Invocation is basically KJ doing a bastardised version of Led Zeppelin's Kashmir, and it sounds glorious.