Biography

Born out of the fires of England's first wave of post-punk, proto-industrial Killing Joke was always somehow apart from their contemporaries. Their music was harsher, their lyrics were angrier, and they had a penchant for heavy metal's guitar thunder. Those things never changed, and their sound never softened. Over the years, however, Killing Joke has incorporated dance and techno tropes, allowing them to vent at new and varied audiences. In 2003, the band's original lineup of Jaz Coleman, Geordie, and Youth reunited, backed by Raven and former Nirvana drummer/Foo Fighters leader Dave Grohl.

Top Tracks

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• Adorations

• America

• Are You Receiving

• Are You Receiving?

• Asteroid

• Change

• Chop-chop

• Complication

• Complications

• Eighties

• Empire Song

• Fall Of Because

• Follow The Leader

• Follow The Leaders

• Fun & Games

• Hosannas From The Basements Of Hell

• Hum

• Implant

• Implosion

• Intravenous, Pt 2

• Kings And Queens

• Let's All Go

• Loose Cannon

• Love Like Blood

• Love Of The Masses

• Majestic

• Malicious Boogie

• Money Is Not Our God

• Nervous System

• Night Time

• Pandemonium

• Pssyche

• Psyche

• Rejuvenation

• Requiem

• Song & Dance

• Tension

• The Calling

• The Fall Of Because

• The House That Pain Built

• The Hum

• The Pandy's Are Coming

• The Wait

• This Tribal Antidote

• Time Wave

• Unspeakable

• Wardance

• We Have Joy

• Wintergardens

• You'll Never Get To Me

Discography

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• Absolute Dissent

  Spinefarm Records

  2010

• XXV Gathering!

  Cooking Vinyl Records

  2005

• Killing Joke [2003]

  Zuma

  2003

• BBC in Concert

  Windsong

  1996

• Extremities, Dirt & Various Repressed Emotions

  Sanctuary

  1990

• The Courtald Talks

  Invisible Records / Invisible

  1989

• Outside the Gate

  Caroline Distribution

  1988

• Brighter Than a Thousand Suns

  EG Records

  1986

• Night Time

  EG Records

  1985

• Fire Dances

  EG Records

  1983