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On the 17th of April, the Music Hall concert venue in Barcelona will stage the live gig of the British post-punk band Killing Joke, who will be playing techno rock. The support bands will be The Crying Spell and The Icarus Line, who Killing Joke are touring with as the original members of the band will be playing, in Barcelona, the only concert in Spain.
Killing Joke were formed in 1978 in Notting Hill, London, by the guitarist Kevin ´Geordie´ Walter, the keyboardist and singer Jaz Coleman and then they added Martin ´Youth´ Glover and the drummer Paul Ferguson.
This band began trying to smash the scene as a reply to the materialist, conservative and tremendously unfair world, using music as their method. Their vision and their capacity to evolve inspired Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Nine Inch Nails, Godflesh, Soundgarden and various other bands.
Their reputation for being an innovative and influential band in the world of music is due to their huge experience that has set a trend for many bands of today who consider them a reference in the industrial music scene, mainly for the sounds of their first two albums.
Their tracks have the hypnotic and metal-harmonic sound thanks to the guitars. On a rhythmic level, their tone registers are heavy, as is the background sound, which has a gothic twist to it given by the keyboards. To that, they add the warm voice of Coleman, who manages solos of brutal intensity.
In their musical beginnings, they started mixing post-punk and dub-reggae. Then, in the 80s, they moved to a tribal phase with post-punk metal and proto-industrial which they had with them until the mid-80s. Progressively, they came closer to the new wave sound mixed with progressive rock and they distanced themselves from the industrial sounds. In the 90s, the band experienced a new turn, mixing sounds, distorting them and transforming them into an energetic hurricane of techno-industrial sounds. Today, their tracks are an eclectic mix of strong sounds with a strong metal-punk influence.
Since 2010, Killing Joke has been developing music with a lot of success. The album ´Absolute Dissent´ was given the ´Album of the Year´ award at the Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards and the band were given the trophy for Innovator at the 2010 Classic Rock Awards.
Together with those awards, 2011 saw them at the Sonisphere Festival at the Royal Festival Hall at the Hammersmith Apollo and they also toured the United States. The 2012 tour brings the classic tracks of the band back, just like in their album ´Down by the River´, where we can find unreleased songs as well as their greatest hits from 30 years on stage.
Inspired in the Mayan predictions on the Apocalypse, they will release their new album ´MMXII´. This is their 15th album and it was recorded at Records Universal. It´s available on vinyl, CD and digital formats. Jaz Coleman has already said that they produced this album because the date is very significant to them and they´ll be playing during the days that the planetary alignment takes place.
For more information: http://www.musichall.es/killing-joke/
If you believe in the Mayan prediction that the world is going to end this year, make sure you make the most of 2012 and have a great time by renting apartments in Barcelona and attending the Killing Joke concert.
