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Killing Joke impressively reassert their canon
Design by Mike Coles, who has created many of Killing Joke's iconic sleeve designs
SIMON DUFF relishes the cross contamination of Damien Hirst’s greatest hits by street artists from France and the US
In view of the grooming gangs inquiry, SIMON PARSONS feels the relevance of this powerful examination of trauma suffered at Medomsley Youth Detention Centre
JOHN GREEN doubts the motivations of a US war photographer who never questions why, or for whom, she is producing images of imperialist conflict
MARIA DUARTE reviews Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, Hedda, The Mastermind, and Regretting You
TONY CONWAY welcomes a thrilling and concise history of Hope not Hate, that is also a manual full of tactical advice
PAUL DONOVAN welcomes an inspiring account of living with deafness that has important lessons for the treatment of deaf people in today’s UK
Killing Joke
Lord of Chaos EP
(Spinefarm)
THE artwork and video for the new Killing Joke release is based around a childlike cowboy figure, his face a cross between the Milky Bar Kid, theatre puppet and world leader. Complete with Stetson hat, missile in hand plus bullet belt, staring straight at the viewer, smiling.
Surrounded by classical images, suggesting the four horsemen of the apocalypse, fires in hell and a celebration of renaissance painting. All blended elements filtered through a heightened technicolour prism.
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