Killing Joke - what's THIS for...! (LP, vinyl rip).1981.

   This is Killing Joke's second LP.  If not quite as remarkable as the band's gripping self-titled debut, "What's THIS For...!" showed that Killing Joke could maintain their frenetic, doom-wracked intensity while experimenting with their already strongly established style. 

   Jaz Coleman's vocals go through even more treatments and tweaks than before, chorus shout-alongs swathed in deep echoes, hidden behind Geordie Walker's punishing riffs and the steroid-driven rhythm section.    Big Paul Ferguson in particular lays down some absolutely skull-crushing drum slams and Youth is no less intense at most parts, and often they rather than Coleman or Geordie dictate the song, as the lengthy death-groove of "Madness" makes perfectly clear (from Allmusic).

Aggresive, chaotic and dark, this is a sonic dystopia, one of the best LPs Killing Joke ever created.

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