Killing Joke - The Pandemonium Demos

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Originally posted January 19, 2015

Killing Joke - The Pandemonium Demos

Studio recordings @192

For one brief moment, Killing Joke enjoyed their fifteen minutes of above-ground fame not for a having one of their early songs covered by the band whose name begins with M, but for their own accomplishments. The band had essentially reformed with the original 1980 lineup (minus the drummer) and the result was a fresh and interesting record, which garnered a lot of attention with "Millenium". Overall, Pandemonium features a bit of an exotic overtone to it over a somewhat repetitive, looping heavy metal-industrial hybrid. The result is a consistent and strong record which deserved much of the fleeting attention the MTV generation gave it while "Millenium" received airplay. But that track is only one of ten strong songs here. Nearly every song has a lot to offer the listener and is quite enjoyable in one way or another. Even when the band lightens up their thick sound as they do on "Jana", it's still successful. This is the sort of album that is best played on roadtrips or any time you need heavy, energetic and kinetic music. And the other benefit of Killing Joke's short moment of mainstream notice is that now you can find this album easily in used CD discount bins everywhere, though that is a sad testament to the wishy-washy nature of the mainstream buying public.
~John Chedsey

Tracks:
01. Exorcism
02. Pandemonium
03. Mathematics Of Chaos
04. Black Moon
05. Millenium
06. Communion
07. Labyrinth
08. Jana
09. Four Stations Of The Sun
10. The Last Laugh

Thanks to the now stagnant site thissavagefreedom.blogspot.com

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