For better or worse, there are a few artists that were seemingly incessantly assaulting my earholes as a young burgeoning record store retail warrior during the early aughts in Boston. If you were a regular customer around that time in the Back Bay area, chances are you’d be hearing breakthrough albums from Turbonegro, CKY, Andrew W.K., Cave In, At The Drive-In, and HIM among others whenever you’d venture into those hallowed aisles and, if you worked there, you heard them ALL THE TIME. Some latched onto my soul and continue to be faves while others, like John Hammond’s amber encased fossil mounted on his cane, will forever remain frozen in time as a reminder of what once was.
[Read more…]Killing Joke Is Cathartically Chaotic On New EP Lord Of Chaos
In a perfect world we’d be writing about the triumphant 16th studio album from the legendary Killing Joke instead of a new EP 7 years out from their last release of all new material, 2015’s Pylon. But it’s not a perfect world so what we get is two brand new Killing Joke songs along with two remixes to tide fans and the world over while that 16th full-length is being completed. And in a perfect world there’d be no need for Killing Joke’s apocalyptic aural symphonies anyhow so celebrate what we have and buckle up for Lord Of Chaos!
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