Pandemonium by Killing Joke

Pandemonium, Killing Joke's ninth studio album, came out on Butterfly on 25 July 1994 and ended a four-year silence, the longest break the band had taken since forming in Notting Hill in 1979. It also brought back founding bassist Youth, who replaced Paul Raven, putting him back beside singer Jaz Coleman and guitarist Geordie Walker.

The reunion sounds like a detonation. The band that had pushed post-punk toward something heavier now leans hard into industrial metal: Walker's guitar grinds like heavy machinery, the rhythms pound with tribal force, and Coleman roars like a prophet on a street corner at the end of the world. "Millennium" is the calling card, a crushing, apocalyptic anthem. For a band whose shadow falls across Nine Inch Nails, Soundgarden and Metallica, this was a thunderous way to reclaim the ground.

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