Pandemonium

Pandemonium is the tenth studio album by Killing Joke released in June, 1994, under the Zoo label. This album marked Killing Joke's return after a four year long hiatus, the longest the band has taken since it was initially founded. This album also featured the return of a founding member, as Youth replaced Paul Raven on bass guitar. The screaming descending guitars of the title track, as well as the brooding "Communion" and the hyper-charged "Wh... more

Pandemonium is the tenth studio album by Killing Joke released in June, 1994, under the Zoo label. This album marked Killing Joke's return after a four year long hiatus, the longest the band has taken since it was initially founded. This album also featured the return of a founding member, as Youth replaced Paul Raven on bass guitar. The screaming descending guitars of the title track, as well as the brooding "Communion" and the hyper-charged "Whiteout," would become live staples. A remastered CD with "Another Cult Goes Down" and an experimental dub remix of "Pandemonium" was released in 2005 by Cooking Vinyl. The album was described in its five-K Kerrang! review as "a jagged black cathedral of sound". Ned Raggett of Allmusic felt that original drummer Paul Ferguson's "sheer power and inventiveness is missed", but praised the album overall as a "thrilling, fierce listen" and a "varied, often quite surprising experience." Mark Prindle called Pandemonium "a damn fine record", remarking... less