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The principal players in the South London-based band Killing Floor originally met while 
playing in a blues band called the Loop. During the British blues boom of 1968-1969, lead 
guitarist Mick Clarke and vocalist/harmonica player Bill Thorndycraft decided to form a 
straight blues group, recruiting prospective members from the classified pages of Melody 
Maker. Joining them were piano player Lou Martin, bassist Stuart MacDonald, and drummer 
Bazz Smith. Taking their name from Howlin' Wolf's Killing Floor (Wolf's cover was itself a 
version of Robert Johnson's The Lemon Song), the band played just one gig before ex-
Radio Caroline DJ and ardent blues fanatic John Edward offered to manage them. Edward's 
connection with the Southern Music publishing company led to them signing with Southern's
Spark Records imprint. The band was booked into Pye Recording Studios and with Edward 
aboard as producer, they recorded their self-titled debut in 12 days' time.

1969 - Killing Floor (2007 Remastered)
01. Woman You Need Love 4:50
02. Nobody By My Side 4:53
03. Come Home Baby 4:03
04. Bedtime Blues 7:29
05. Sunday Morning 1:02
06. Try To Understand 2:37
07. My Mind Can Ride Easy 2:29
08. Wet 0:42
09. Keep On Walking 4:57
10. Forget It 5:32
11. Lou's Blues 2:38
12. People Change Your Mind 8:20

There were additional lineup changes in 1970-1971, at which point the group included ex-
Juicy Lucy vocalist Ray Owen, drummer Rod D'Ath, and bassist Mick Hawksworth (ex-Fuzzy 
Duck/Andromeda/Ten Years Later). A second Killing Floor album, Out of Uranus, was 
released in 1971 on Penny Farthing Records, this time with executive producer/label 
honcho and the Troggs' manager Larry Page overseeing the sessions. By mid-1972, 
Killing Floor had disbanded.

1970 - Out Of Uranus (2004 Remasterd)
01. Out Of Uranus 4:37
02. Soon There Will Be Everything 3:52
03. Acid Bean 4:19
04. Where Nobody Ever Goes 5:20
05. Sun Keeps Shining 4:24
06. Call For The Politicians 2:22
07. Fido Castrol 4:42
08. Lost Alone 5:07
09. Son Of Wet 5:10
10. Milkman 5:30

In 2002-2003 the original 1968 lineup of the band reassembled to record the album Zero 
Tolerance (the first new Killing Floor recording in over 30 years), released by the Appaloosa 
label in 2004. They have appeared in concert in Europe since then, and started work on 
their fourth album in 2011. 

2004 - Zero Tolerance
01. Burnout 3:58
02. Prozac Blues 4:36
03. Calm Down 4:33
04. Sperm Bandit 4:27
05. The Big Issue 3:01
06. Strange Love 3:30
07. Zero Tolerance 4:19
08. Run On 4:01
09. Iron Ewe 4:26
10. What Is It About You 3:39
11. Road Of Diamonds 4:13
12. The Radnor Rumble 5:15
13. Fred McDowll 5:03
14. Bring It On Home 6:37

2012 - Rock'n'Roll Gone Mad
01. Rack My Brain 4:57
02. Trouble In My Life 4:11
03. One Cigarette (Toxic Nipple) 5:15
04. Xenophobic Blues 4:12
05. Afghan Coat 2:50
06. Rock'n'Roll Gone Mad 2:14
07. Cardiac Arrest 3:16
08. Dissatisfied 3:19
09. Auntie Peggy's Handbag 2:41
10. Cold Water 2:11
11. Tell You What Happened 2:58
12. Same Booze Different Bottle 4:49