Legendary post-punk/industrial act Killing Joke is scheduled to perform at Summer Darkness on June 31st, in their original lineup! There is also a documentary coming up about the band called The Death and Resurrection Show, which you can already view the trailer from over here.

Be sure to check out the whole Summer Darkness lineup here, they have some great stuff lined up for this year’s edition!

Here is some awesome high quality footage of Dream of an Opium Eater‘s performance at Roadburn last year. The post-metal band consists of band members from Killing Joke, Enslaved, Johnny Truant and Million Dead and have only played four performances so far. But they are working hard on a record right now and you can already check out the song ‘Operate’ on their myspace. Stay tuned for more information!

Taken from the Roadburn blog

Trailer for a new documentary about Killing Joke called “Killing Joke: The Death and Resurrection Show”. Seems to be pretty interesting!

The Film MySpace boasts:

Set against the return of the original Band’s line-up for the final 30th anniversary worldwide tour, the film 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 and considered to be one of rock’s most influential bands you’d be hard pressed to find many bands 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, Metallica, 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 they were a template that he used in forming Soundgarden.

Film website