Following the troubled recording of Killing Joke's
Extremities, Dirt And Various Repressed Emotions, Martin Atkins invited the other members Geordie and Raven - excluding vocalist
Jaz Coleman; two former KJ members, Paul Ferguson and John Bechdel; and Chris Connelly, with whom he'd worked as part of
Ministry/
Pigface, to join him and record an album for his
Invisible label as Murder Inc. While much was made of the fact that the band featured two of the most renowned drummers of the post-punk scene playing together in one band, their output failed to set the world alight.
The group gradually fell apart and Geordie began working with
Youth and Coleman once more and recorded
Pandemonium and
Democracy with the reformed Killing Joke, before the band fell apart again. The Murder Inc. idea was partially revived in Atkin's
Damage Manual project, again featuring Connelly and Walker, a project that survived Walker's return, once again, to Killing Joke ...to record
Killing Joke.