SPK, formed in 1978 in Sydney, Australia, was a 1980s and early 1990s industrial music and noise music act featuring Neil Hill (Ne/H/il) and Graeme Revell, the latter went on to become a successful Hollywood movie composer. The group was formed when Graeme Revell met up with Neil Hill. They were both working at a psychiatric hospital when they became inspired by the manifesto of the German radical Marxist group known as the Sozialistisches PatientsKollective SPK,(these words taken from SPK's manifesto : "Kill, Kill, Kill for inner peace/ Bomb, Bomb, Bomb for mental health/ Therapy through violence!" are on one of SPK's (the Band) first recording, Slogun 1979).