You Are The Judge, The Jury & The Executioner (7:31)
Review: Godflesh returns after a nearly six-year hiatus, following up 2017's Post Self with a brand new one, Purge. It's something of a revisiting of the same concepts explored in the duo's 1992 album Pure: a recent interview with founding member Justin Broadrick reveals he's a very emotional character, having dealt with issues such as diagnosed autism and PTSD. The title Purge is apt, then, alluding to its hellish feudal qualities (and clearly, the righteous ousting of them). Each track segues through reams of noise, experimental hip-hop and guitar riff bombast as ever, all while grasping after fearsome themes of paternalism and monarchy.
You Are The Judge, The Jury, & The Executioner (7:28)
Review: Purge is the much anticipated new album from rock behemoths Godflesh. The band is led by frontman Justin Broadwick - formerly half of Techno Animal with The Bug's Kevin Martin - who has expressed his discomfort at being quizzed about his music on social media. He battles with autism and PTSD and uses music as therapy and a release from the stress and isolationism that comes with those conditions. This record finds the band look back to their 1992 album Pure which is what first marked them out as special and it's raw, dense, unrelenting heavy rock with snarled vocals that offer comfort for the despairing.
Review: Godflesh are back with a new single taken from their new and upcoming album Purge which finds frontman Justin Broadwick - formerly half of Techno Animal with The Bug's Kevin Martin - using music as a way of processing his autism and PTSD. It is full throttle, dense post-rock music with his guttural vocals front and centre amidst walls of scuzzy guitar and industrial drum sounds. The original of 'Nero' comes remixed, and also as a dub and alternative version which is even more head-twisting. Not for the faint of heart, this one.
Review: Dry Run Records first put Heart Ache out in 2004, the record landing on the still smouldering ashes of Godflesh, who had disbanded two years earlier but left a lasting legacy. Some of which can be heard on this Jesu outing, the outfit formed by Justin Broadrick in the wake of the other's demise.
It's not hard to hear what we're talking about. Heart Ache has industrial edges whichever angle you're looking for, born in and among the rusting warehouse of Birmingham, UK, a place that has spawned a plethora of greats who specialise in harder, tougher, faster ends of the musical spectrum. But then there's also an expansive, almost cosmic thing happening here too. Math, poly, and post rock are all evident, experimental tones and drones thrown in to accentuate the feeling that we are well beyond metal now.
B-STOCK: Creasing to corner of outer sleeve but otherwise in excellent condition
Heart Ache (19:11)
Ruined (20:13)
Ruined (live Geneva 2005) (16:55)
Ruined (Closure) (10:42)
Review: ***B-STOCK: Creasing to corner of outer sleeve but otherwise in excellent condition***
Dry Run Records first put Heart Ache out in 2004, the record landing on the still smouldering ashes of Godflesh, who had disbanded two years earlier but left a lasting legacy. Some of which can be heard on this Jesu outing, the outfit formed by Justin Broadrick in the wake of the other's demise.
It's not hard to hear what we're talking about. Heart Ache has industrial edges whichever angle you're looking for, born in and among the rusting warehouse of Birmingham, UK, a place that has spawned a plethora of greats who specialise in harder, tougher, faster ends of the musical spectrum. But then there's also an expansive, almost cosmic thing happening here too. Math, poly, and post rock are all evident, experimental tones and drones thrown in to accentuate the feeling that we are well beyond metal now.
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