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Killing Joke:  Euphoria  (2015)   Screenshot from the official video And then the clouds break / A ray of sunlight, gloria!   As if a promis...

Fig. 1 Killing Joke:  Turn to Red   (Malicious Damage, 1979) [1]  Cover design by Mike Coles [2]      It's amazing how certain songs and...

Sitting in the back garden in 1967 and 2025     I.   The debate as to whether we inhabit time, move through time, or if, indeed, time moves ...

Festina lente - a design by the famous Renaissance period  printer and publisher Aldus Manutius, featuring a dolphin  curled round an anchor...

A young Nietzsche looking joyful in 1869 Image via The Mindless Philosopher     "The lowest animal can imagine the pain of others.  But...

Geordie Walker (1958-2023) and Keith Levene (1957-2022) [1]   November, it appears, is a mortally dangerous time of year for post-punk guita...

Killing Joke in their mid-80s splendour (L-R: Geordie Walker / Paul Raven / Jaz Coleman / Paul Ferguson)    A correspondent writes:  I got t...

(E. G. Records, 1983)     It's amazing just how strongly certain songs from forty years ago still continue to resonate. For example, the...

Clockwise from top left:  Haywire Mac / Napoleon XIV / Jaz Coleman / Siouxsie Sioux     There are almost as many songs about being mad or go...

Image credit: UCLA / Horvath Lab   Somewhat paradoxically, whilst having a minimal sense of self on the one hand, I've always possessed ...

Image adapted from the sleeve to the Killing Joke album  What's THIS for ...! (E.G. / Polydor Records, 1981) [1]   "He shall fall ...