Revelations (Killing Joke album)


Revelations is the third studio album by English post-punk band Killing Joke, released in July 1982 by E.G. Records. It was recorded in Cologne, Germany and produced by Conny Plank, making it their first album not to be self-produced.

Release

Revelations was released in July 1982 by E.G. Records. It reached number 12 in the UK Albums Chart.
Two singles were released from the album: "Empire Song" and "Chop-Chop". "Empire Song" was performed on Top of the Pops, but without singer Jaz Coleman, who had recent departed for Iceland fearing nuclear holocaust.
A remastered version was released in 2005, including an alternate recording of "We Have Joy".

Reception

Revelations has generally received mixed-to-favourable reception by critics. Nick Lancaster of Drowned in Sound praised the album, calling it "a less individual work – record company pressures and an outside producer necessarily toning down the band's nihilistic excesses – but it's all the better for it." Christopher Gray of Austin Chronicle called it "faster" and "sleeker" than previous albums. Fact put the album at no. 11 on their list titled "20 Best: Goth Records Ever Made". In negative retrospective reviews, AllMusic believed the album had a "lack of cohesion and direction", while Trouser Press wrote that it "suffers from an uninvolving lethargy".

Track listing

Personnel

; Killing Joke
; Technical