"Choose ye an island! Fortify it! Dung it about with enginery of war! I will give you a war-engine".Quote by Occultist Aleister Crowley.'The Death and Resurrection Show' †is a definitive, exclusive cult documentary about the English Art Punk band 'Killing Joke', that fans and rock audiences have been waiting for for years. Set against the return of the original Band's line-up for the final 30th anniversary worldwide tour the feature documentary is based around the dark, humorous and often misunderstood portrait of the perverse, encyclopedic genius of Killing Joke's founding front-man 'Jaz Coleman' and the strange powers over other’s reality that he claims and seems to have. The film covers the history of Killing Joke dubbed the Forefathers of 'Industrial'; considered to be one 'of rock's most influential bands - in fact you'd be hard pressed to find many band's who haven't at one time or another cited Killing Joke's music and belief system as an influence. The members of Nirvana, The Cult, Metalica, Tool, KLF and Soundgarden are just a sampling of the musicians who have admitted to being under the Joke's influence; Chris Cornell insisted that Killing Joke were a template that he used in forming Soundgarden. With exclusive candid interviews with many of the key commentators from the last 30 years of Music, the film chronologically visits Killing Joke's cult historical background. The rock god Jimmy Page who acknowledges Killing Joke, for whom the music was also a mystic rite of self-transformation. 'Dave Grohl' repents to Jaz Coleman that 'Nirvana' listened to the Joke's music before going on stage to play. Confesses that he has had reoccurring dreams of hundreds of UFOs with a message to us all, that show early human beings were impregnated by an ancient race of extraterrestrial aliens.
The Rolling Stones producer who worked with the Joke, 'Chris Kimsey' remembers them as intelligent bullies, devil worshipers able to create hypnotic walls of rhythmic sound capable of wiping out the planet. Peter Hook, from 'New Order' recalls joining Killing Joke briefly and after one of Jaz Coleman's apocalyptic visions, then fled to the Isle of White! He has never seen Killing Joke since. The Royal Historian, Envoy to the Grand Protectorate of the Imperial Dragon Court of Hungary and author of the controversial bestseller: ‘Bloodline of the Holy Grail’, Sir Laurence Gardner discusses working with Jaz Coleman and believes that 'Jesus Christ' was an extraterrestrial visitor that has deluded us all for too long. 'Sammy', the Egyptian music engineer on Killing Joke's album 'Pandemonium' testifies to Killing Joke’s penchant for mystical grandeur when they performed an intense 'Magik' ritual experiment in the heart of the great Giza Pyramid unlocking a dark hideous entity, which even after the 20 years since the recording session still haunts him. As the film unfolds a Czech Journalist unaware that she has been chosen to prove, explain, amplify and participate in an esoteric experiment in ritual magik, conducts interviews with the many 'Gatherers' (Killing Joke's army of followers) to investigate the phenomenon of Jaz Coleman and Killing Joke. She retraces Coleman's original footsteps to Egypt, Iona, Glastonbury, Nazca Peru and finally to a mountainous Island off the coast of New Zealand to finally meet Coleman, to be purified and finally understand the Joke's hidden agenda. Ultimately she learns how to survive in the coming 'new' world; the resurrection of nature and the resurrection of Killing Joke. She gets more than she bargained for..., a dramatic, dark and tragically humorous reminder of Coleman's prophetic words. Secretive, high-minded and influencial, Killing Joke are the Knights Templars of rock. Sensational, unstable and probably crazy… but in these times, there isn't a band on the planet capable of getting anywhere near the unadulterated power and intensity that Killing Joke creates.Â
