Killing Joke confirm that all hope is probably lost (or at least missing) with their first new studio material in over seven years. Enter the Lord of Chaos EP – two brand new recordings, plus two re-workings of songs from the con-frontational UK band’s last studio album, Pylon (2015). “I’ve never known anything like the time we are living in now; not since the Cuban Missile crisis but now in comparison we have multiple flash points,” says Dr Jaz Coleman. ‘Lord of Chaos’ is about complex systems failure, when technology overloads and A.I. misreads the enemies intentions.” Tracks 1 and 2 – produced by Killing Joke and mixed by Tom Dalgety – set the tone for the band’s next studio album, currently being worked on in Prague. Meanwhile, Tracks 3 and 4 give a fresh spin to numbers from the Pylon album – “Big Buzz” having been re-mixed by Dalgety and Nick Evans, and “Delete” getting the full Dub treatment courtesy of KJ’s Youth, who has a longstanding reputation in this area.