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said "the Joke sound absolutely free and grand here, allowing songs to stretch well past the five-minute mark and just begging the detractors to have at it by sitting firm on their classic delivery", adding that "newcomers may find this all too much to take in, while old fans can cherish the band's
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The album title refers to the location of the album recording. The band recorded the album in "Hell", the darkest basement studio at Studio Faust Records, run by Richard "Faust" Mader in
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magazine, argued "Out of step with the world they might well be, but Killing Joke's righteous frenzy still feels horribly necessary."
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called the album "everything we’d ever want from a Killing Joke record" and "their finest album in well over a decade".
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The track "Hosannas from the Basements of Hell" was released as the album's first single, and reached number 72 in the
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received near universal acclaim upon release. David Jeffries of
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This was Killing Joke's last studio album to feature bassist
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most personal album as another victory." Adrien Begrand of
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Studio album
Killing Joke
Prague
Czech Republic
Genre
Industrial metal
post-punk
Label
Cooking Vinyl
Producer
Killing Joke
Killing Joke
Absolute Dissent
Singles
post-punk
Killing Joke
Cooking Vinyl
Prague
Czech Republic
self-titled, album
Turn to Red
Paul Raven
Russian
Victor Safonkin
Cooking Vinyl
UK Albums Chart
UK Singles Chart
CD-R
AllMusic

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