"I turned to face Geordie. One word representative of the transition of reason to truth commenced by dialogue, profound meaning in the fact of complete and utter oblivion. Such was my anticipation that I thought I might stammer. The sound of my own voice uttering the given words seemed deafening without the aid of volume.... ICHABOD"
Jaz Coleman 1988 ODIC
The Death and Resurrection Show is the definitive, exclusive cult documentary film about the English Art Punk band Killing Joke that fans and rock audiences have been anticipating for years.
Set against the return of the original Band's line-up for the final 30th anniversary worldwide tour, the film is based around the dark, humorous and often misunderstood portrait of the perverse, encyclopedic genius of Killing Joke's founding front-man Jaz Coleman and the strange powers over other’s reality that he claims and seems to have.
The film covers the history of Killing Joke; dubbed the Forefathers of Industrial and considered to be one of rock's most influential bands you'd be hard pressed to find many bands who haven't at one time or another cited Killing Joke's music and belief system as an influence. The members of Nirvana, The Cult, Metallica, Tool, KLF and Soundgarden are just a sampling of the musicians who have admitted to being under the Joke's influence; Chris Cornell insisted that they were a template that he used in forming Soundgarden.
Including exclusive candid interviews with many of the key commentators from the last 30 years of music, the film visits Killing Joke's cult historical background through many of the people that were there or influenced by the results. Rock god Jimmy Page acknowledges Killing Joke made the music a mystic rite of self-transformation, Dave Grohl repents to Jaz Coleman that Nirvana listened to the Joke's music before going on stage to play and confesses that he has had reoccurring dreams of hundreds of UFOs with a message to us all, that show early human beings were impregnated by an ancient race of extraterrestrial aliens.
Rolling Stones producer Chris Kimsey remembers the Joke as intelligent bullies, devil worshippers able to create hypnotic walls of rhythmic sound capable of wiping out the planet. Peter Hook from New Order recalls joining the band very briefly, fleeing to the Isle of Wight after one of Jaz Coleman's apocalyptic visions! The Royal Historian, Envoy to the Grand Protectorate of the Imperial Dragon Court of Hungary and author of the controversial bestseller ‘Bloodline of the Holy Grail’, Sir Laurence Gardner, discusses working with Jaz Coleman and his belief that Jesus Christ was an extraterrestrial visitor that has deluded us all for too long. Sammy, the Egyptian music engineer on Killing Joke's album Pandemonium, testifies to the band’s penchant for mystical grandeur when they performed an intense Magik ritual experiment in the heart of the great Giza Pyramid unlocking a dark hideous entity, which even after the 20 years since the recording session still haunts him.
As the film unfolds a Czech Journalist, unaware that she has been chosen to prove, explain, amplify and participate in an esoteric experiment in ritual magik, conducts interviews with the many Gatherers (Killing Joke's army of followers) to investigate the phenomenon of Jaz Coleman and Killing Joke. She retraces his original footsteps to Egypt, Iona, Glastonbury, Nazca and finally to a mountainous island off the coast of New Zealand to finally meet Coleman, be purified and finally understand his hidden agenda. Ultimately she learns how to survive in the coming new world amidst the resurrection of nature and the resurrection of Killing Joke. She gets more than she bargained for; a dramatic, dark and tragically humorous reminder of Coleman's prophetic words.
Secretive, high-minded and influential, Killing Joke are the Knights Templars of rock. Sensational, unstable and probably crazy; but in these times, there isn't a band on the planet capable of getting anywhere near the unadulterated power and intensity that Killing Joke creates.
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The Death & Resurrection Show's Friend Space (Top 6)
Cheers to you Killing Joke... I regret deeply that circumstance prevented me from seeing the boys perform live. Reason (a very un-american quality), which I consider my highest faculty, has replaced my faith in mysticism, yet your music is still as vital, moving, and spiritually nourishing as it was to me 26 years ago when I stumbled across your 1st album. Pragmatically speaking though, ceremonial magick is, in my opinion, more akin to reason than religion even though I am not a "believer." There are lots a thing I cannot qualify or quantify including the connection I feel towards Killing Joke. Whether you are of a faith or not it all boils down to WILL. I am excited about the film and readily anticipate its release as I am positive all who your music has touched excitedly await it. Thank (insert appropriate entity, deity, demigod, hero, .et al here) that the "daemon" you conjured was not put back down into the firmament.
Thanks for sending me the add request. I really enjoy Killing Joke's music and it brings a tear to my eye knowing that I'll never be able to listen to the full lineup. RIP Paul Raven, gone never forgotten...
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