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\nKILLING JOKE are on a mission to take their music of resistance to a whole new level with latest and 16th studio album, Pylon, to be released October 23rd via Spinefarm Records. With the original lineup of Jaz Coleman, Geordie, Youth and Big Paul continuing to hold firm, the band will be headlining shows around the world, starting with a UK run in October.<\/p>\n
Pylon was produced in the UK and Prague by the band and Tom Dalgety, whose credits include the hugely successful Royal Blood album, and isn\u2019t designed to accompany a quiet night at home in front of the fire; Pylon is very much music as ritual \u2013 raw, uncompromising and precisely-targeted lyrically, with the artwork put together by regular band associate Mike Coles, the designer behind the very first Killing Joke album.
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\nAs for the album\u2019s title, says Youth, \u201cIt\u2019s simple\u2026 Stark brutal industrial suicide\u2026 This is the third in a triptych of albums, Absolute Dissent, MMXII and now Pylon\u2026 heavy and uncompromising, bleak dystopian lyrics, as well as some visionary celebration\u2026 lots of black pain emotion. To be honest, we remain genre blind so our music will always cover a vast spectrum of influences, from disco right through to heavy metal and beyond\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
While other bands of a certain vintage may struggle to hold their edge, Killing Joke are delivering the best and most relevant material of their career, with no mellowing or softening of the edges getting in the way \u2013 a line in the sand against mainstream music and corporate existence, with \u201cI Am The Virus\u201d (\u201can intense, angry, uncompromising shout into the abyss\u201d, according to Youth, and lead track from Pylon) providing a typically bitter taste of the \u2018delights\u2019 to come\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cI believe we delivered 15 tracks for the new album,\u201d ponders Youth, who actually raised that number to 16 with a last minute dub remix, \u201cand it could have been a lot more\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis record really showcases the power of Killing Joke,\u201d continues Jaz. \u201cI remember we once jammed with German outfit Can, and I don\u2019t remember hearing Can\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
Difficult, perverse and wilfully unpredictable, Killing Joke continue to be a group that actually stands for something; Youth will tell you it\u2019s \u201chonesty, commitment and illumination\u201d, and the others will doubtless have ideas of their own, but one thing\u2019s for certain: what once seemed paranoid now seems downright prophetic, and for all of their adherence to darker hues, the future for Killing Joke seems bright\u2026 whether they like it or not.<\/p>\n
A lyric video for the song can be seen HERE<\/a>. KILLING JOKE are on a mission to take their music of resistance to a whole…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nThe new album will be released in variety of formats, including Deluxe Double CD and a strictly limited Double Coloured Vinyl, with both versions featuring additional tracks.
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\nSource: BW&BK
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