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Killing Joke
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Out of 25 votes - Similar Artists: Suicide, Ministry, Nine Inch Nails, Cabaret Voltaire
Out of 25 votes
- Genre: Alternative/Punk » Alternative Metal
Editor's review
With a career spanning four decades, Killing Joke is hugely influential on music's new guard of goth, industrial, and metal bands, and still makes some of its most inspired music yet. Known for pummelling tribal-dance rhythms, caustic singing, and its loud, menacing aesthetic, Killing Joke paved the way for bands like Nine Inch Nails and Tool to gain superstardom.
Biography
Killing Joke has been cited as an influence by the likes of Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Slipknot and Tool. They are currently recording a new album, which is due for release in August 2005.
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