The Black Room is an unfinished studio album recorded by the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty), intended to be the follow-up to their KLF album The White Room.
Jimmy Cauty said of it in December 1990: "The 'Black Room' album will all be this kind of electro turbo metal.
"What actually happened," said ENT singer Dean, "was that Bill heard us on [John] Peel when he was in the bath and got in touch.
Asked how they found working with "the pop genius of the age", the band agreed on a party line: "Just say that he's mad, barking bleedin' mad..."[6] Mark Stent, the engineer/producer for these sessions, thought the music was pure genius.
"The most awesome track for me was one called 'The Black Room and Terminator 10' which was like a very slow tempo thrash.
I tell him how, when I was standing in the twilight of the recording booth, the microphone in front of me, Jimmy's magnificent metal guitar riffs roaring in my headphones, a voice came out of me which I had never heard before, words flowed that I had never written and a precipice appeared before me.
He feels that Jimmy and I are evading our responsibilities; we should return to our war-horse and complete the task.
But maybe Jimmy and I should wait until we are both over fifty before we record the sound of us as battle-scarred veterans of a hundred mercenary campaigns, when the music would not be drawn from our fading libidos but from the horror of life spent confronting that abyss – kinda like Milton backed up by Megadeth.
[9]Instrumental outtakes purportedly from the February 1992 Black Room sessions circulate.