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KILLING JOKE
Hosannas From The Basement Of Hell
"As a teenager when I started this group, we sat around and we said:
'What do we want to achieve out of all this?'" Jaz Coleman, the war-
rior-king singer of Killing Joke, takes a long pull on a glass of rum and
coke followed by a thoughtful toke on a rapidly-disintegrating cigar.
"The answer to the question was that we wanted to inspire other peo-
ple," he says. "We had this idea that Killing Joke is a mirror, and what you see in us, you can do too; that
the stage is the audience and the audience is the stage."
If the growing army of acts who have taken inspiration from Killing Joke is anything to go by, then
Coleman has achieved his goal. The British band's influence on groups such as Nirvana, Metallica, Nine
Inch Nails and Ministry has been well documented. A generation of death metal bands - such as Fear
Factory who have just recorded a new version of Millennium - have paid homage to Killing Joke. But so
too has Kate Bush, who has long been a fan of the group and whose most famous single, Hounds of
Love, featured Killing Joke's original bass player, Youth.
2005 saw Killing Joke pick up the “Lifetime Achievement” award at the Kerrang! Awards, firmly cement-
ing their place in rock history. They were presented this award by Dave Grohl who himself is a huge fan
of the band and even played drums on their last album.
Coleman describes Hosannas From The Basement Of Hell, as being "brutal" and "more tribal" than the
last album. "The unthinkable and the unimaginable... I think there's an eco-meltdown on the cards.
That's certainly in there. I believe that the activities of homo sapiens are being molded by forces beyond
the normal person's comprehension. I believe the whole fabric of everything we ever believe is a lie. So
it's these things. But it's also a celebration of ceremonies......”
Killing Joke continues to span the generations, with old and new fans alike, as witnessed by the “favorite
bands” listings by members of myspace.com.
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