KILLING JOKE – featuring the band's original lineup – will release their new album MMXII (2012) on April 2nd via Spinefarm Records / Universal. The album will be released in CD hardcopy and digital formats. It will also be released on double coloured gatefold Vinyl.

Vocalist Jaz Coleman commented: “If we can concentrate on what it can be, the dream of clean streams, of re-forestation, of permaculture, of disengaging all the banks – identifying all the majority shareholders of the top 100 corporations and dismantling them. If we start dreaming of a fairer system and defining what an elite should be – an intellectual powerhouse and not international bankers. This is what I’m touching on with the songs; ‘Fema Camp’ is about the concentration camps they have been building in America; ‘Corporate Elect’ needs no explanation; ‘Rapture’ is the way I perceive a Killing Joke concert – it’s a spiritual experience for myself to get into that state of grace… music is the theme of mantra. I’m not into organized religion at all, but I’ve always liked what Fela Kuti did in Nigeria, playing music like it was a temple. Maybe we will evolve into a time where we will be performing for ritualistic and spiritual reasons alone and not for monetary reasons?”

He further commented: “There’s a song called ‘On All Hallows Eve’, which is about my belief in ancestor worship, backed up by quantum theories that there is no death. You only ever remember the time-line that you are alive in – you can’t remember being dead because you never were. ‘Colony Collapse’ is about what’s happening, what’s going on out there. ‘Poleshift’ is the first track on the album and about the potential polar shift of the earth’s magnetic field, its erratic behaviour, and also the polar shift that will be needed.”

To celebrate the album’s release, Killing Joke are currently streaming the track ‘Rapture’ online. Check it out below:

Tracklisting is as follows:

‘Pole Shift’

‘Fema Camp’

‘Rapture’

‘Colony Collapse’

‘Corporate Elect’

‘In Cythera’

‘Primobile’

‘Glitch’

‘Trance’

‘On All Hallow’s Eve’

The band will be heading out on an 11-date UK headline tour for March 2012. Tour dates can be found below:

March

4 – Exeter, UK - Lemon Grove
5 – Bristol, UK - O2 Academy
6 – Norwich, UK -Waterfront
8 - London, UK - Roundhouse
9 - Sheffield, UK - Corporation
10 – Manchester, UK - Academy 2
12 - Glasgow, Scotland - O2 ABC
13 – Newcastle, UK - O2 Academy
14 – Wolverhampton, UK - Wulfrun Hall
16 - Portsmouth, UK - Pyramid Centre
17 – Oxford, UK - O2 Academy