[kj] Metal

[Brendan Quinn]

Yes, it’s awfully loud isn’t it? This might be more your cup of tea (kicks off at 1:00)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi8beYR1iBQ

 

 

From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On Behalf Of sade1
Sent: Saturday, 21 July 2012 11:08 a.m.
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: Re: [kj] Metal

 

Here's what I keep thinking metal sounds (& should sound) like.  

(gratuitous YT clips follow):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yHJBDeshPA#t=2m37s 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUDWLp1yIWw#t=0m37s 

 

BUT I might be wrong. I'm not well-versed in all the different genres, subgenres of metal

 

  _____  

From: Brendan Quinn <bq at soundgardener.co.nz>
To: 'A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)' <gathering at misera.net> 
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2012 1:11 AM
Subject: Re: [kj] Metal

 

Weird, KJ get hassled for being “chugga chugga metal by numbers” e.g. on 2003, then some claim they’re “not metal”

 

THIS is metal:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9eyDT5-tEo

 

Bo would have laughed and called it Hard Rock… between mouthfuls of cheese and beer =)

 

From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On Behalf Of Alex Smith
Sent: Friday, 20 July 2012 10:48 a.m.
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!); A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: Re: [kj] Metal

 

 

To say there' s no "metal" in Killing Joke is, sorry, an oversight. For a start, the band would entirely cop to being influenced by it. Droves of metal bands have cited them as an influence. Seriously -- you can't hear the metal heaviosity in, "Pandemonium" or  "The Wait"?

Obviously, the Joke are not SIMPLY a metal band, but they're not SIMPLY a punk band or SIMPLY a post-punk band (cue debate over that definition) or SIMPLY an industrial band (although, personally speaking, I've never understood how they got lumped in with industrial). They defy categorization, and proudly so.

Killing Joke -- unpigeonholeable, just how it should be.

 

Alex in NYC

 

-----Original Message----- 
From: "B. Oliver Sheppard" 
Sent: Jul 19, 2012 6:08 PM 
To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" 
Subject: Re: [kj] Metal 

There's a lot of KJ that has metal overtones, and there's nothing wrong
with that. "The Wait," "SO36," the music in "Tabazan." I always liked that
Killing Joke would incorporate some aspects of this in their sound, and try
to bend influences from that genre, to their will, as it were.

-0liver


On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 3:47 PM, wrote:


> kj never ever metal

> more textured sound would benefit btats and otg....................MORE

> GEORDIE

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