[kj] Metal

[adrianwason at btinternet.com]

Brendan,
that is a spot on unfortunate assessment of some  of the stuff


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From: Brendan Quinn <bq at soundgardener.co.nz>
To: 'A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)' <gathering at misera.net> 
Sent: Friday, 20 July 2012, 9:11
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 

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>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

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

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>> kj never ever metal

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

>> GEORDIE

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