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<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nAfter witnessing Killing Joke in all their live magnificence just a few hours earlier I couldn\u2019t wait to pick up \u2018Lord Of Chaos\u2019, the track that makes up the centrepiece of the band\u2019s current live set, and heralds the arrival of the band\u2019s first new material since 2015\u2019s provocative yet still excellent \u2018Pylon\u2019 album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2018Lord Of Chaos\u2019 is the first of four songs contained on this EP and it is a masterclass in melancholic heaviness. As brutal in the studio as it was live, largely thanks to a razor-sharp mix from Tom Dalgety (Opeth, Ghost and Pixies), \u2018Lord Of Chaos\u2019 is perhaps the perfect soundtrack for our troubled times, soaring on a trademark Jaz Coleman vocal line that hooks you in and then spits you out bloodied and bruised in a little under four minutes. This is the sound of classic Killing Joke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As is \u2018Total\u2019, which is actually my favourite of the two new tracks showcased here, largely because whilst thundering along like some gothic destroyer it also hints at the slightly more melodic undertones of the band\u2019s \u2018Night Time\u2019. If this is something that the band have also continued into their yet-to-be-released sixteenth studio album, then it\u2019s going to make for some very interesting listening indeed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The two tracks that make up the rest of this EP are reworkings of tracks from the aforementioned \u2018Pylon\u2019 album with \u2018Big Buzz\u2019 getting a dancefloor remix from Dalgety and Nick Evans whilst Killing Joke\u2019s very own in-house production king Youth gets to dub-deconstruct \u2018Delete\u2019 as only he can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n