Ascension

Justin Broadrick continues to make beautiful, sad music with his Jesu project, here really leaning on the sound of isolation.

With Jesu’s 2007 album Conqueror, frontman Justin Broadrick crafted one of the greatest albums of his career, one that includes Godflesh’s formidable catalog as well as stints in Napalm Death, Head Of David, and sundry side projects. After Conqueror, though, Jesu seemed to run out of steam. The situation was perhaps…

Opiate Sun was different from Jesu's predecessors in that Broadrick let his vocals fall out in front of his thick, sludgy melodic wall of guitars, feedback, downtuned basslines, and keyboards.

<strong>Jamie Thomson</strong> admires beautifully brutal heavy music from Justin Broadrick's Jesu