MMXII (album)
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| Studio album by Killing Joke | ||||
| Released | 2 April 2012 | |||
| Recorded | 2011 in Wiltshire, England; Prague, Czech Republic | |||
| Genre | Industrial rock, post-punk, industrial metal | |||
| Length | 50:47 | |||
| Label | Spinefarm, Universal | |||
| Producer | Killing Joke | |||
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| Classic Rock |   |
| Drowned in Sound | |
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MMXII is the fourteenth studio album by English rock band Killing Joke, released on 2 April 2012 by record label Spinefarm and distributed worldwide by Universal Music Group.
We don't know if we're all gonna be here next year, we really don't. So let's celebrate!
Following up the 2010 release of Absolute Dissent, Killing Joke's original lineup of Jaz Coleman, Geordie Walker, Martin "Youth" Glover and Paul Ferguson worked for the release of the new album since 2011, writing and recording about twenty-six tracks mainly in Wiltshire in South West England. The album, produced by the band, was engineered, mixed and programmed by Clive Goddard, Tom Dalgety, Michael Rendall and Reza Udhin at Studio Faust Records in Prague, Czech Republic.
This year is about getting our collective dreams in order, restoring the biosphere, the idea of well-being as opposed to economic growth, the idea of partnership and co-creation with fellow human beings, moving away from national boundaries and more towards what Schiller and Beethoven were saying in some of their work.
MMXII is a dense and dark end-of-time album that explores the 2012 phenomenon with political, anti-capitalist and forward-looking themes, which is also able to find moments of optimism and hope, and positive light in the fields of environmentalism, reforestation, permaculture and the dawning of the Age of Aquarius. The industrial rock album's compositions are characterized by Walker's guitar riffs, Youth's warm and vibrant bass guitar, Fergusson's impeccable timing and by Coleman's sweet harmonies mixed with rants.
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