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THE BEAT GOES ON

NEW YORK—During the summer of ’81, I wrote a review of London band Killing Joke’s second album What’s This For...! for the Village Voice; in it I described the killing joke ideology as exploitative nonsense, and Killing Joke’s music as an ugly, overwhelming, heavy metal-disco fusion that might be the first real advance in HM since the Stooges.

March 1, 1983
Iman Lababedi

THE BEAT GOES ON

The Killing Joke Goes On (Forever)

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