KILLING JOKE — Pandemonium (review)

KILLING JOKE — Pandemonium album cover Album · 1994 · Industrial Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
Warthur
Industrial rock was by no means as shocking and unprecedented in 1994 to nearly the same extent it had been in previous years, but Killing Joke play the dignified elder statesmen of the genre to great effect on Pandemonium. Unlike some of their prior albums, it's by no means an all-anger-all-the-time affair, and indeed the band go so far as to incorporate some of the tastier aspects of the poppier side of the genre into their sound, but taken as a cohesive whole it's clear that they're not so much selling out as growing up: they have nothing they need to prove to you, but the album ends up making a convincing case for their continued relevance over a decade after their debut anyway. The flipside of this is that whilst the product isn't entirely irrelevant, it isn't entirely essential either, and it feels like the Joke's days of breaking new ground are behind them at this point.
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