Hit the Accelerator! Das Jahr von KMFDM

Artwork by Brute, image credit to Policezombie at Deviantart

Music moves, it lives, it breathes and when it's at its best, it catalyses. It ignites the embers of people's souls slowly atrophied by servitude and dissipating dreams. It's the high octane fuel that inspires us all to transcend ourselves from the mundane and the trivialities of the material world. Music has the power to incite, the power to drive us to something larger than ourselves. Tapping into its modulating cross-frequencies, integrating the extra aural electro-stimuli with the intra synoptic impulses inherent inside ourselves. Stoking imagination and aspirations from thought, to feeling, to movement; and it is for this very reason that the most powerful and progressively influential of it is suppressed, marginalised, censored and co-opted. What remains is exsanguinated, commercially-engineered, life-dulling, corporate and intelligence approved rubbish. Horrid, cookie-cutter slop dumped into the mass consumption trough, for trained livestock. Soul-deadening products slathered with a sugary-sweet and glittering veneer, of the best that marketing dollars can buy. They have to, to cover that flavourless, generic taste, and effluence that can gag the heartiest of maggots. Music must have an organic, vital heart at its centre coupled with sincerity of feeling, and must tell a tale either lyrically or through its music, or it is simply D.O.A. and bin filler. It needs to be fluid like water and whether it's soft and tranquil, or thunderous and feral, it must move! To excite and inspire with its ever-changing flow.

Great, organic music is a good friend that is always there for you from the highest to the lowest times of your life. It never betrays, never pesters and is always there to bring to mind memories and personal milestones. Music is life, and it is also a sonic weapon of influence and potency, oft-times it is anthemic. As an example of what I mean, I'd like to share the song below with you. For I believe it is the perfect soundtrack of rage that defines the times that we the struggling masses are currently striving to survive and surmount in victory.

I listen to a diverse musical catalogue but somehow the times we live in, matched with my reaction to it does not scream symphony or contemplative piano concertos. There's a place for that, but I'm not in that place right now. I'm sorely pissed off, enraged at the affronts to my freedom and the gross threats to life and future by preening, sanctimonious demons fancying themselves as our overlords. I'm caught up in a war I didn't start, I didn't want, and have to fight it defensively every single day. The azure blue heavens are now choked with Chemtrails coke-lining the sky with ominous darkness looming on the horizon. The days may appear sunny and bright, but there's always that underlying faint whiff of oppression lingering in the atmosphere. This is what life is under occupation with fish tank freedom is, with existence managed by slavering predators afflicted with god-complexes. There is no beauty in this, it's ugliness to its very core that despises every virtue, and every fine and innocent thing.

So the landscape of war needs suitable musical accompaniment, in the form of primal rhythms that electrifies the consciousness, awakens the warrior within, and galvanises energy to action. Everyone is different, but I think that deep down in all of us that have not had it extinguished, lies this common, tribal war dance instilled in us from ancient genetic blueprints. It is a call not relegated to a specific gender by any means, as history has eternally documented ferocious women warriors determined in every aspect to defend home, neighbour and country. This is the universal fire within that we have been taught to sublimate, dismiss or unleash only in the service of false nationalism and corporate interest. Listen to KMFDM's thunder-queen valkyrie, singer Lucia Cifarelli and tell me if you think that she's doesn't exude the very words she detonates. Now that's a powerful, bona-fide warrior woman without question.

Free Your Hate (lyrics)

Silence is golden
Ignorance bliss
Better off not asking
What you'd rather forget

And as the vice grip choke holds
All of our freedoms are meeting their end
And for the wars they wage
Numberless troops lie wounded or dead

The beatings will continue
Until morale improves

Free your hate
Crusade in the days of rage
Perilous folly
Rise up against your fate
Free your hate
Crusade in the days of rage
Tireless cunning
Stampede and break your chains

Terror at gunpoint
Torture at large
Enemy combatant
Labelled a threat
Without trial or charge

Repetition of history
Messenger, prophet, martyr for god
All for once and for all
Reclaim your power
The tyrant must fall

The beatings will continue
Until morale improves

Free your hate
Crusade in the days of rage
Perilous folly
Rise up against your fate
Free your hate
Crusade in the days of rage
Tireless cunning
Stampede and break your chains

(Nixon speech sample)
I am... a revolutionary!
Violence in America today, it's not caused by the war, it's not caused by repression, there is no romantic ideal involved. Let's recognise these people for what they are… They're the same thugs and hoodlums that have always plagued the good people.

Free your hate
In the days of rage
Free your hate
In the days of rage

In the days of rage
In the days of rage

Free your hate
In the days of rage

Free your hate
Free your hate
Free your hate

In the days of rage
In the days of rage
In the days of rage
In the days of rage

The music I'm featuring in this post is from the German band KMFDM whose abbreviated band name is, Kein Mehrheit Für Die Mitleid or, No Majority For The Pity, a rather clever rearrangement of "Kein Mitleid für die Mehrheit" or "No Pity For The Masses". If you've never heard of them, give a listen and read along with the provided lyrics which are just as bang-on as the beat ballistically propelling them. Counter to the media propaganda and lies, KMFDM's stance is anti-fascist and progressive revolutionary, and they've been around for many years with a massive inventory of songs recorded. Through their different incarnations KMFDM's core has remained uncannily solid, and they have always been stridently consistent in their driving, clever, truth-provocative anthems. In their latest re-work of their song "A Drug Against War", they have remodelled it into version called "A Drug Against Wall Street" and dedicated it on 15, October 2011 to the Occupy movement. For more information on them and their work go to their official site at http://www.kmfdm.net.

WWIII (lyrics)

I declare war on the world
War in outer space
I declare war in a nutshell
War all over the place

I declare war on every government
War against all odds
I declare war on your inner sanctum
On your blood thirsty gods

World War Three
Be all that you can be
World War Three

I declare war on the axis of morons
All out war on complacent consent
I declare war on the war against drugs
Rape and slaughter of the innocent

War on big brother
Warmongers and profiteers
War on your dogma Dubya
Armageddon's engineers

World War Three
Be all that you can be
World War Three

War in a heartbeat
I declare war on so-called civilisation
World trade globalisation
Organised disinformation

War on ambassadors of pretence
War on MTV and CNN
McDonald's, Walt Disney and Bethlehem
On Christina, Britney and Eminem

I declare war on the world of anti-choice
On violence unilaterally
On the amassment of murderous high-tech toys
And all crimes against humanity

War on the moral majority
On corporate dot-com imperialism
On mindlessly bumbling stupidity
And police-state terrorism

World War Three
World War Three - Be all that you can be
World War Three - Be all that you can be
World War Three

Hope you enjoy it and find it as inspirationally and explosively energising as I do. Hit the accelerator and play it loud!!

Cheers all.

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.