Godflesh

Just three years after the hypnotic crunch of Purge, 25 years after an uncertain hiatus that nearly scuttled the band, and 38 years since Godflesh’s inception, Broadrick and bassist-at-arms Ben Green set out to mercilessly crush this cold world with their tenth and penultimate album, this year’s Decay. Across those decades, Godflesh emerged as an undisputed metal trailblazer, perhaps even a genre unto themselves. As the 1980s crumbled into the 1990s, Godflesh hit the heavy music world with all the force of the Yucatán asteroid. Upon impact, debut full-length album Streetcleaner vaporized anything in its immediate vicinity, wholly enrapturing its initial audience, and as its ash-plume of influence reached every inhabited continent on the planet, lesser music was either rendered extinct or crept toward irrelevance. Thus began an over ten-year reign of sonic destruction through albums like Pure and Hymns that gripped the guts and colonized the psyche, through EPs like Slavestate and Messiah that detonated like expertly targeted mortar shells, and through all the experiments with beats and sampling that proved how versatile Godflesh could be while operating within its own self-imposed boundaries. Having joined forces now with Relapse , Godflesh is ready to unleash an even bolder, bleaker series of sounds in Decay.