1001 Albums Summary

If there is one thing they know how to do, it’s introducing a song. Every track on this album slaps you in the face immediately and creates such a dark and foreboding setting, and the transition from the end of Bloodsport into The Wait is especially phenomenal. Where they lose the ball is anything following the intro. Even saying that, there is not an anti-climactic moment in this entire album because there is a total lack of ANY developmental structure. They pique your interest by introducing the idea of a song and walk off like they just made War Pigs. Yes, it’s heavy, it’s punk, and yes, it resembles early industrial music at times. It’s influential but no it is not GREAT. Killing Joke is best experienced through the 30-second SoundCloud previews for each track, leaving the rest up to interpretation because God knows it would probably be better than what already exists here. Put short, listening to The Wait adequately describes my feelings consuming this nothing-burger.