Pandemonium (Killing Joke album)

Infobox Album
Name = Pandemonium
Type = studio
Artist = Killing Joke


Released = Start date|1994|6
Genre = Post-punk, Industrial metal
Length = 60:32
Label = Big Life Records
Producer = Youth
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:7e881v0ozzpa link]
*Kerrang! Rating|5|5
Last album = "Extremities, Dirt & Various Repressed Emotions"
(1990)
This album = "Pandemonium"
(1994)
Next album = "Democracy
(1996)
Misc = Singles
Name = Pandemonium
Type = studio
Single 1 = Exorcism
Single 1 date = Start date|1994|3
Single 2 = Millennium
Single 2 date = Start date|1994|4
Single 3 = Pandemonium
Single 3 date = Start date|1994|7
Single 4 = Jana
Single 4 date = Start date|1994|10

"Pandemonium" is an album first released in June 1994 by Killing Joke under the Zoo label.

This album marked Killing Joke's return after a four year long hiatus, the longest the band has taken since it was initially founded. This album also featured the return of a founding member, as Youth replaced Paul Raven on bass guitar.

The screaming descending guitars of the title track, as well as the brooding "Communion" and the hyper-charged "Whiteout," would become live staples. A remastered CD with "Another Cult Goes Down" and an experimental dub remix of "Pandemonium" was released in 2005 by Cooking Vinyl.

The album was described in its five-K Kerrang! review as "a jagged black cathedral of sound".

Track listing

All tracks written by Coleman/Glover/Walker.
#"Pandemonium" – 6:42
#"Exorcism" – 7:26
#"Millennium" – 5:34
#"Communion" – 6:56
#"Black Moon" – 5:19
#"Labyrinth" – 5:55
#"Jana" – 4:06
#"Whiteout" – 5:43
#"Pleasures of the Flesh" – 5:42
#"Mathematics of Chaos" – 7:24
#"Pandemonium" (A Thread of Steel in the Suspension Bridge of Time and Space Mix)* – 9:18
#"Another Cult Goes Down" (Portobello Mix)* – 6:19

Tracks marked with an asterisk (*) appear only on the 2005 reissue.

Personnel

*Jaz Coleman - vocals, synthesizer
*Kevin "Geordie" Walker - guitar
*Martin "Youth" Glover - bass guitar
*Geoff Dugmore - drums
*Tom Larkin - drums
*Larry De Zoete - drums
*Hossam Ramzy - percussion
*Said El Artist - percussion
*Aboud Abdel Al - violin
*Matt Austin - programming
*Paddy Free - programming