ABOUT

2005 passed with a celebrated tour, a live album that marked the 25th anniversary of the band's, in all ways colourful career, and also saw them winning an honorable lifetime achievement award at the Kerrang! Awards ..

... and just when you thought they could not reach any higher, go even further or get any heavier, KILLING JOKE is about to unleash their best work to date, in the shape of 'Hosannas From The Basements of Hell'.

The nine tracks have velocity, emotion and rawness like never before and comes at us with the much expected, legendary, Killing Joke force!

There's thick-sounding, rigorous guitars, shadowed by distortion and arduous drums that really capture the essence of the dark industrial heaviness that is Killing Joke. Most of the album was recorded in a basement studio in Prague, mixed by Mark Lusardi who some twenty-six years earlier, actually mixed Killing Jokes first recording. Old tape echo machines of the era (1979) were brought in and it was finally mixed on radio speakers, which created this very unique, dark sound.

Being known as having inspired other bands and musicians such as Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Slipknot and Tool - Killing Joke will continue to inspire, scare, thrill and make an impact on the world of music and people with 'Hosannas From The Basements of Hell'.