Post Self
The new LP from pioneering industrial band Godflesh is the duo’s best effort in over 20 years—a sinister amalgam of Justin Broadrick and G.C. Green’s collective work to date.
Legendary industrial metal act Godflesh follow up 2014's immaculate A World Lit Only by Fire with their new ten-track album, Post Self. The...
At some point, Justin Broadrick must reconcile his past with his present. Listeners have shown the willingness to adapt to any iteration he devises.
A few decades after BLACK SABBATH first extracted heavy metal from the human spirit in Birmingham, England, hometown younglings GODFLESH burst forth welding that heavy metal with clanging industrial steel on 1989's "Streetcleaner". Sure, across the big pond MINISTRY was playing with its own industri...
The ten tracks on offer span the width and breathe of the Godflesh oeuvre, sounding as rhythmically calculating and drill-press noisy as early works on the one hand while coming across as more nuanced on the other with bouts of formless amorphousness weaved into various sections.
A review of Post Self by Godflesh, released November 17th worldwide via Avalanche Recordings.