The KLF - The Black Room (1992)

'The Black Room' was referred to in interviews even before 'The White Room' was released in 1991. Originally it was planned to be hardcore techno (in the style of and featuring the original version of 'It's Grim Up North'), then electro-metal (like 'America: What Time Is Love?') and finally it was to be a thrash-metal collaboration with Extreme Noise Terror. It would have been the yang to the yin of 'The White Room', being very dense and hardcore, in a  techno-metal sort of style. It was scheduled for release by KLF Communications at the end of 1991, then was put back to March 1992,  but Extreme Noise Terror and the KLF were still recording in February, and so eventually the sessions were abandoned. One track was released from this collaboration, a metal version of '3 A.M. Eternal', and the two bands also performed together at the 1992 Brit Awards ceremony, a performance which NME listed at number 4 in their 'top 100 rock moments'. Although out-takes from the sessions circulate, they have been impossible to verify since they are only instrumentals and feature no vocals, but they certainly sound like Extreme Noise Terror to me, and so we can only imagine what they would sound like with Bill Drummond's vocals on them. This disc collects both parts of the 'It's Grim Up North' single (mixed together into one 16 minute track), the '3 A.M. Eternal' collaboration, the ENT instrumentals and a couple of other out-takes from the sessions. This disc was put together by TheLazenby as part of a series of KLF releases which can be found here http://www.bootlegzone.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=37499&start=0, so thanks to him for all the hard work. 

Track listing

01 It's Grim Up North 
02 I'm Fucked
03 Deep Shit
04 Bite It Harder
05 Thirty-Eight
06 The Black Room
07 Fuck The Election
08 Turn Up The Strobe
09 3 A.M. Eternal
10 Jerusalem On The Moors
11 What Time Was Love