KILLING JOKE Inside Extremities Mixes, Rehearsals And Live 2CD (2007)

Killing Joke don't have a back catalogue so much as a living document of post-punk, industrial, and doom that every relevant band since 1980 has been quietly studying. Inside Extremities is the kind of release made for people who already know why that matters.

A 2007 double CD collecting mixes, rehearsals, and live material, this is deep archive territory: the skeletal versions, the rooms where the ideas were worked out before they became the records that influenced Nine Inch Nails, Metallica, Soundgarden, and half the post-punk revival. Jaz Coleman and Geordie Walker built a sound so dense and ritualistic it essentially invented its own genre, and hearing that process in rehearsal and live form gives it a weight that studio polish could never replicate. Essential for anyone who cares about where dark alternative music actually came from.

Format: 2CD, mixes, rehearsals and live recordings. Genre: Post-Punk/Industrial Metal. Origin: UK, 2007.

Fans of: Ministry, Bauhaus, Nine Inch Nails, The Cult