Killing Joke: Acrid Truths for a Resilient Humanity

Greetings to all, for my first post I thought I'd make it a positive one and run up a profile of a favourite band of mine, Killing Joke. For those who know of them, their legacy and impact goes unsaid, however if you have not experienced their sound and fury, you have been truly missing out. They are amongst the very few musical artists who have remained absolutely true to mission after many years. Through their 31 year history and diverse musical changes, they have endured and reflected contemporary, apocalyptic life. Their goal has always been to deliver the message first, and it is that level of integrity that exudes from the music and sets them well apart from the rest. Killing Joke, has a powerfully original, distinct sound and presence. Their music charged with a decidedly essential, progressive English character and comradeship, yet universal in scope and range.

They first began as a punk band, then moved quickly in to a diverse, tribal rhythm that goes from definitively heavy and primal, to insightful and profound. Their sound is driven, with lyrics infused with wit, insight and incisive social commentary. Their guitarist Kevin 'Geordie' Walker is phenomenal, and the dynamo of the ensemble, producing a scintillatingly electric signature sound large as life. Then you have the driving, thunderous intensity of Martin 'Youth' Glover whose cunning bass lines stoke the fire of the ensemble. 'Big Paul' Ferguson unleashes fiercely heavy, reverberative percussions. As for Killing Joke's heart? There can be none other except the brilliant frontman Jeremy 'Jaz' Coleman. Of whom there is neither equal nor comparison, in terms of lyrical sincerity, theatrical deliverance and acuity of vision. His proficient vocal stylings run the gamut from emotive poignancy, to utter feral ferocity, with spot on characterisations that manifest their songs to life. In totality, Killing Joke is an organic force, who use their music as an inspirational weapon, a fierce war-cry and clarion call to all who heed. 

So what's their view on current state of the world? From an 2003 interview featured in Blistering magazine, Jaz stated: "We should be free to do what we the hell we want to do. I don’t like this corporate world we live in. We’re out of line with it in Killing Joke. We are really out of line with this. I don’t like the fact that corporate giants such as Lockheed-Martin and Boeing are determining American farm policies. The corporate world is mentioned in one of the lines on the new album; ‘Five corporations earn more than forty-six nations’ (From ‘Blood On Your Hands’). I find it offensive. I’m very curious to see what will happen in the world now. Will we continually be giving the public servants and the greedy people the Vaseline and allow them to ream us up the ass? Are we just going to accept it? I don’t know. It’s a really depressing state of affairs. I feel angry about the situation. I think politically in the world, we’ve been had. I think we’ve been turned into economic slaves.”

If any band were to be known as one who unflinchingly reveals harsh realities, in the tradition of the Truth movement, it is them. In their latest CD endeavour entitled Absolute Dissent, the epic title track shouts out sheer defiance to the fascist encroachment:

Absolute Dissent

Absolute Dissent

I won't relent

I oppose poison water

I reject poison air

I expose poison bodies

I refuse complicity

I reject this prison planet

I reject and resent

Absolute Dissent

I won't relent

I abhor space weaponisation - Genocidal plans

From Jekyll Island to Chemtrails

Unelected control

I reject this poison planet

I reject and resent

Absolute Dissent

I won't relent

Brainwashed masses fit for fodder

Useless eaters - Condemn

Eradicate the worthless breeders

I oppose, resist, foment

I reject this poison planet

I reject and resent

Absolute Dissent

I won't relent

Their following song 'The Great Cull' exposes Eugenic depopulation and a world engineered into hellish Malthusian conditions by the likes of Monsanto (Monsanto feed, Monsanto seed… All the bees are dying). Check it below:

The Great Cull

Thomas Malthus, Eugenics

Are alive and kicking

Nutrients and vitamins

Extract from edible goods

Legislate, sick populations 

A higher rate of mortality

Food code (as it's known) 

Codex Alimentarius

Thin the herd, thin the herd, 

The great cull is coming down...

Develop virus market cure 

Exploit the panic

Contaminate by guile and stealth 

A quick strum of the harp

Depopulate initiate 

Pharmaceutical companies

All fall down, all fall down

Codex Alimentarius

Thin the herd, thin the herd

The great cull is coming down...

Most of us must die...

Instigate wars in population density centres

Maintain population below 500 million

Immunise, irradiate

Deregulate all toxins

Monsanto feed, Monsanto seed 

All the bees are dying

Depopulation in every nation

Follow the food code

All fall down, all fall down

Codex Alimentarius

Thin the herd, thin the herd

The great cull is coming down...

During their live performances Jaz has spoken out passionately on the murders of David Kelly and Princess Diana, Israel's war criminality and the criminal conspiracy of international bankers. In the song 'Dark Forces' from their self-titled 'Killing Joke' (2003), Jaz hisses the demonaic personage of an "elite" sociopath with:

Dark Forces

You'll need a bit of holy water and a little bit of knowledge Invocation to your Holy Guardian Angel the Great Evil Around God gave man dominion over fowls of the air and the fish of the sea justification  of desecration Who wrote this MADNESS? Get up! Wake up! Some-one´s taking you for a ride! Get up! Wake up! Dark Forces! They're printing up money that doesn't exist Then watch the wealthy as they cash their chips Economy's failed start a war machine devoid of moral cause as we witness the end of international laws Get up! Wake up! Some-one´s taking you for a ride! Get up! Wake up! Dark Forces! I'm an inside man of the serpent clan 33 degrees I'll do as I please power for powers sake a personal treasure trove and 2 weeks off in bohemian grove... You wanna come? All the banking houses that buy and sell they'd sell their own mother just eat shit die like everyone else Get up! Wake up! Some-one´s taking you for a ride! Get up! Wake up! Dark Forces! Get up! Wake up! Some-one´s taking you for a ride! Get up! Wake up! Dark Forces!

Killing Joke is above all is a thinking and feeling people's band who provide a soundtrack to life that resonates with an utter conviction and vibrant purpose that stirs the noble warrior in us all. Their song titles alone provide insight into exactly where they stand and the subjects they explore. Here's but a small sampling:

Another Bloody Election

Absolute Dissent

The Great Cull

Money is Not Our God

Fresh Fever from the Skies

Dark Forces

Implant

You'll Never Get to Me

Total Invasion

The Death & Resurrection Show

Another Cult Goes Down

Follow the Leaders

Pssyche

Empire Song

Age of Greed

You're Being Followed

Jaz Coleman of Killing Joke

Do yourself a favour, drop whatever you're doing and introduce their vibrant soundtrack into your life. They are the finest band of spirit, fire, integrity and intelligence you're not listening to. Look for their new album tentatively entitled '2012', unleashed this April 2, 2012. The lads are solidly committed and put forth sterling effort to bring this one about, so be sure to give a listen, read and heed their words, and purchase a copy to support their mission. Their new album promises to be bang-on top shelf, and the upcoming song titles are as follows:  

1.Pole Shift
2.Fema Camp
3.Rapture
4.Colony Collapse
5.Corporate Elect
6.In Cythera
7.Primobile
8.Glitch
9.Trance
10. On All Hallow’s Eve

If you are lucky enough to live near where they are playing whilst on tour this year, by all means make due effort to go. Their sincerity and power will change you and reignite the fire of life within you. This is not just a band, it is a force of power, a living entity they harness and unleash to breathe life and light in a landscape of drudge, despair, subjugation, horror and death.

        * UPDATE 4 APRIL, 2012!! *            

Please see my latest post here for some new and shocking revelations about Killing Joke http://undeletedevidence.blogspot.com/2012/04/who-knows-what-evil-lurks-in-hearts-of.html 

It appears that I as well as many fans of their music, were duped by these lads who fancy at playing both sides. Throwing their lot in with worshipping the same demonic forces the self-dubbed "elite" do. I do believe that their actions behind the scenes qualify as those of a quintessential double-agent.