A massive thank you & merch now in store
A new merchandise drop will be available on the forthcoming Unspeakable spoken word UK tour. The limited range will include a thick gauge tour poster, tote bag and t shirt.
Jaz Coleman/Ondrej Smeykal
Black & Red – ‘On the Day the Earth Went Mad’
Who’s mad about the world we currently live in? Jaz Coleman certainly is! He’s been mad about it his whole life.
If you’ve listened to/read any Killing Joke lyrics over the last 40-plus years, then our current circumstances will come as no surprise.
‘On The Day The Earth Went Mad’ is released today across all formats – limited edition numbered red vinyl 10”, digital single and a very small run of white label test pressings.
“The Black and Red project was born in Australia in 2010 when I set out to find the greatest virtuoso of the didgeridoo only to find the maestro of the instrument resided in Prague where I lived. Upon my return to the Czech Republic, I was introduced to Ondrej Smeykal. We ended up not just developing an ancient instrument but recording the Black and Red project (adding only Indian Harmonium) and an explosive duo was formed which could recreate the recording live perfectly. The funny thing is Black and Red only made sense after lockdown” explains the prophetic Jaz Coleman.
Who’s mad now? We all are.
Lyrics
Mass volcanoes blocking out the sunlight
Frightened citizens giving up their civil rights
Chemical death dumps, geo engineering
Deforestation ecocide is nearing
On the day the Earth went mad
Criminal gangs resort to mutilations
Cults of death emerge in every nation
Lynch mobs blind to all humanity
Signs read in the entrails of our savagery
Hurricanes and tidal waves
Mutinies and mobs on the rampage
Activists and angry demonstrations
Neutralising all communications
On the day the Earth went mad
Crisis capitalists now our hidden masters
By stealth engineer disasters
Redirect the gulf stream flow
Blossoms in winter
And a summer snow
On the day the Earth went mad
Holograms in the ionosphere
Keep the public in a state of fear
Microchipped zombies on the street
Numbed by Gwen Towers (by the elite)
Scientists searching for a black hole
Reflections of the human soul
(it was)
On the day the Earth went mad
A new merchandise drop will be available on the forthcoming Unspeakable spoken word UK tour. The limited range will include a thick gauge tour poster, tote bag and t shirt.
A new merchandise drop will be available on the forthcoming Unspeakable spoken word UK tour. The limited range will include a thick gauge tour poster, tote bag and t shirt.
For days I have been staring at the blank paper in front of me unable to write anything. How does one begin to convey this immeasurable sadness within? Or reduce the last 45 years into a few paragraphs?
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