Jehovahkill

Jehovahkill
Studio album by Julian Cope
Released	19 October 1992
Recorded	1991–1992
Studio	Fallout Shelter Studios, London Fortress Studios, London
Genre	Folk psychedelic rock krautrock acid rock post-punk
Length	70:19
Label	Island
Producer	Julian Cope Donald Ross Skinner
Julian Cope chronology
Peggy Suicide (1991) Jehovahkill (1992) Rite (1993)
Singles from Jehovahkill
"Fear Loves This Place" Released: October 1992[1]

Jehovahkill is the eighth album by Julian Cope, released in 1992. After the critical success of Peggy Suicide (1991), Cope's idea for Jehovakill was to incorporate a krautrock attitude into his music. He began recording the album with musicians Rooster Cosby and Donald Ross Skinner, while co-producing it with the latter. The sessions yielded what Cope considered to be his most sonically experimental material to date. Originally titling the record Julian H. Cope, he sent an eleven track version to Island Records, who initially rejected its release, but gave Cope extra recording sessions for the album. During the extra sessions, in which six extra songs were recorded, the album became harder and was retitled Jehovahkill.

Inspired by prehistoric monuments, the album features ancient, pre-Christian heathen and pagan themes, while commenting on "the destructiveness of mainstream religion." The theme spread to the packaging, with the cover depicting the Callanish Stones, a site with a cruciform layout that predates Christ by at least 2,000 years.^[2] Musically, the album combines krautrock with a dark folk sound. Upon release, it reached number 20 on the UK Albums Chart, although Island Records dropped him soon after its release, leading to outrage in the music press. The album proved to be one of Cope's biggest critical successes. Select later named it the 36th best album of the 1990s, and NME named it the 95th greatest British album ever. A deluxe edition was released in 2006.