Derived from the Greek pan, meaning ‘all’, and daimon, meaning ‘demon’, the word ‘pandaemonium’ was coined by the English author John Milton and published in his 1667 story Paradise Lost, where the center of hell is called Pandaemonium. The same word, minus the A, pandemonium, means chaos, mayhem and madness. Doubtless this was not lost of Killing Joke. Few things are. But while the band has had an extraordinary influence on rock music, touching everyone from the entire industrial scene to major names like Metallica, Faith No More and Nirvana, they had somehow fallen off the map in the early ’90s. Before the Pandemonium album, which today celebrates its 25th anniversary, it had been four long years since the last album, Extremities, Dirt And V...
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