Industrial band Killing Joke posted a new track showing them continuing in the IDM/industrial + gothic synthpop + punk/metal hybrid they have developing since 1981. In fact, this track features the lengthy calling-out style choruses which marked their first release.
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Better than “Euphoria” and “I Am The Virus”, though not nearly as fascinating as most of their other stuff. The interplay between verse and chorus seems forced, almost as if they don’t belong together. Maybe the song is a leftover of the last album. Killing Joke rarely disappoint (their low point being the album they did with Dave Grohl), but the other songs have to be of higher quality. Otherwise “Pylon” can be skipped.
I was wrong: “Euphoria” wasn’t one of the songs that were released online prior to the album release, it was “Autonomous Zone”!
Ahem. At first I confused the songtitles, but now I realized that “Euphoria” was ALSO released before “Pylon” came out! Grrr.
The album version of “Autonomous Zone” is much better than the live version which was released a few months ago, and “New Cold War” works pretty well in the album context. Having listened to “Pylon” three times now, I would say it is a good Killing Joke record. It’s not as bleak as their early stuff, yet a little darker than “MMXII”, maybe because it harks back to “Hosannas…” from time to time.