Godflesh, God, Techno Animal, Jesu etc (S&D/CoD)

Destroy: Some of the later Godflesh albums are really boring

Pretty classic, I'd argue. No doubt they are a bit monotonous, but I like the groove (or lack of groove) these two mine. Some of the recent Techno Animal stuff is just stunningly violent sounding. Great for annoying upstair neighbors and shredding speakers.

The Bug is all cringy wincy like phoebe philo. Redeemed by occasional substandard Anti Pop cameos.

Techni Animal live is like being lifted up off the ground by the darkest bass lines around. The beat poetry only adds to the intensity

God was always a bit too weird for me... comments about Kevin Martin seem a bit off. He is a really nice bloke, or he was when I last spoke to him

I never got into Godflesh in the same way, although I bet if I heard them now I'd love them.

Change this to [I'm inadvertantly a fan of all that thanks to first getting into _____, so I've got all sorts of _____-related releases kicking around] and you've got a formula for the Raggettstacks!

God, Possession
Techno Animal, Re-Entry
Godflesh, In All Languages, Pure, Streetcleaner
The Bug, Pressure

All recommended. Not recommended: Brotherhood Of The Bomb, that other Ice album, the Curse Of The Golden Vampire discs.

I wish I still owned Godflesh's Selfless and Love And Hate In Dub.

I'm a little uncertain about the Jesu disc. Haven't gotten my copy in the mail yet, but I'm not sure Broadrick has much to say anymore, either.

Based on the one track I've heard, that description is very OTM.

i'm pretty much burnt out on him but he can still make good riffs.

I'm not really in love with any of that Kevin Martin related stuff, but I have always loved Final, Sidewinder, etc.

Damn I love that man. Isolation has always been his gig, but does a song name like "Friends are Evil" approach self-parody?

Macro Dub I was the real deal -- an astounding assortment of artists and styles, and one of my favourite comps of the 90's.

www.hydrahead.org/hh/mp3s/jesu_faulter.mp3

The Bug - no where nearly as good as I had hoped

That was before I heard the album courtesy of a friend. ;-)

Never heard much else from the JKB side of post-Napalm Death stuff, though I have an abiding love for Lull/Scorn, but Jesu totally slayed me the first time I heard "We All Falter." Rest of the album is only slightly less majestic.

To be fair, though, he is hardly alone -- Isis were veering towards that realm some time back, Red Sparowes...

S: Porter Ricks & Techno Animal - Symbiotics

the silver EP, however ... heard it for the first time today and it sounds like the music a) i was trying to make myself five or six years ago (and failing miserably), and b) i've been waiting half my life for someone else to make. absolutely astonishing; i can't get enough of it.

my awakening to metal/post-metal/etc is a relatively recent thing; as i've posted on other threads, it's entirely rooted in my love of slowdive and MBV et al all those years ago. i know absolutely sod all about godflesh or any of the other offshoots, but i'm intrigued: taking my love of "silver" as a starting point, what should i seek out next?

the EP just gets more and more awesome, though. what's the first EP (heart ache?) like?

doesn't really - the name is about the only thing they have in common. under the skin is more like a hybrid of godflesh and god, with a couple of longer tracks that actually get kind of funky. definitely worth hearing if you dig earlier god/flesh stuff.

The new remixed version of the Jesu - Jesu album, out on Pic Disk from Hydrahead is really great. Vocals are more upfront. I wouldn't be surprised if next year it gets a release on normal vinyl(probably on 5 colours too since it's HH) But if you can get the pic disk then do so. The quality is the best i've heard on a pic disk. As good as normal vinyl i'd say.

o rly? remixed in what way? ie so it sounds like it was actually recorded using some form of high-fidelity equipment, or inna "oceanic remixes" stylee?

Silver is now AWESOME and really far more melodic and three-dimensional (the depth of the sound is astonishing) than I'd expected. There's really some substance behind this sound, something of almost infinite allure, which is feeding my curiosity no end.

Grimly y rnoiwontfuckingsayit It sounds great. Vocals are far more up front and the whole thing does sound great.

kerr: wow. that sounds fucking awesome. i shall check it out.

Ebay will be much higher. Avalanche had the original Conspiracy records double vinyl version when it came out, £19.99 they wanted for it.
I got mine cheaper than that from Conspiracy and it was on red vinyl too.

So e-vinyl is probably your cheapest bet.

also Fall Of Because

man, that doesn't sound like an endorsement. but i'm a grouch hatin' on silver and all.

Ned, dismiss me all ya like but if it weren't for yer Allmusic review I probably wouldn't be listening to this album right now. Get in!

Boo Radley's finest hour safely purchased as well, for a combined total of under 14 quid. Great day!

Aurora Borealis will be releasing a limited edition 12" vinly-only EP containing two new Jesu tracks, each one eighteen minutes long. A split 12" EP with Eluvium is also being mixed,limited to 4,000 copies, it will be released jointly through Hydra Head and Temporary Residence who will have 2,000 copies each.

Yes and yes again.

http://www.roboticempire.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=3295

Battle Of Mice / Jesu - Split CD (Robotic Empire)
$11.99
Several years in the making, the long-awaited JESU / BATTLE OF MICE split is finally available. Each band has two exclusive, lengthy tracks on this limited edition release. JESU, comprised of the cult-followed Justin K. Broadrick, showcases "Clear Stream" and "Falling From Grace", two pieces towards the darker end of the spectrum he’s created under the JESU moniker. BATTLE OF MICE contribute the two most sinister songs they’ve recorded, "The Bishop" and "Yellow & Black". Heavier than the material found on their "A Day Of Nights" debut yet more dynamic overall, these two final (?) tracks from BATTLE OF MICE compliment the JESU material well. While both bands utilize traditional "heavy" music instruments, they are also unified by usage of keys, atmospherics, and general unique elements thrown in to vary it all. This CD is limited to a one time pressing of 2000 copies and comes housed in a "mini gatefold" CD jacket.

I ordered the vinyl version. Which you can get links to if you follow that link i posted. There's several colour variations.

http://www.piratespress.com/myspaceimg/ROTW031408/ROBO0704.jpg
http://www.roboticempire.com/store/350/bom_jesu_silver225_2.gif
http://www.roboticempire.com/store/350/bom_jesu_clearblack225.gif

and black vinyl

Nice.

pretty!

need to get...unfortunately I've been spending too much money on music as it is. Hopefully I'll order it soon.

shamelessselfpromotion, but i interviewed justin for the guardian recently: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/jul/18/electronicmusic

isn't there supopsed to be another 'official' jesu album out this year?

Battle of Mice - good music, bad vocalist imo

stevie, that was your piece? so it was! hahaha, i linked to it here without realising. really enjoyed it: thank you.

thanks grimly!

http://www.bluecollardistro.com/hydrahead/product_info.php?products_id=2550&cPath=4_135&store=0

Haha, when I saw this bumped my first thought was to go and check Hydrahead to see if the preorder was up yet.

Single-track LP (!!!) and an EP due in summer, plus some other action ... including mention of a School of Seven Bells remix. This I like the sound of.

a School of Seven Bells remix

Nutty.

whoa

New Jesu up for sale on Justins own label
http://www.avalancheinc.co.uk/store.html

is that White Static Demon worth checking out?

I like it. Lots of white noise and feedback in innumerable layers.

New Jesu is the awesome.

The Greymachine disc (Broadrick, Diarmuid Dalton, Dave Cochrane and Aaron Turner) is really, really good. Super heavy in the vein of Ice's Under the Skin.

greymachine are really good. i mentioned that in the metal thread but no one seemed to share my enthusiasm.

it is good

Anything in the vein of Under the Skin sounds awesome.

Both the new Jesu and Greymachine leave me cold. The first is dull, and - for me - too slow to build. The later is just not my bag at all - I've yet to like any music associated with Aaron Turner. Too red-lined, hate the vocals, a touch samey.

However, I absolutely love the White Static Demon album.

Listening to the samples on the Aquarius website and the music sounds great (Ice comparisons totally make sense) but the vocals are pretty annoying. It's hard to tell how much of them there are though.

Bass sounds awesome.

the bass does sound awesome. who is the bassist for this? i think that their contributions and aaron turner's really add a pulse to this album. "wasted" has such an awesome groove to it.

The bassist is Diarmuid Dalton, the drummer is Dave Cochrane. It is Jesu plus Aaron Turner.

Really Cochrane's a bassist?

Or rather does Cochrane really play drums? I thought he was a bassist.

He's the bassist on Under The Skin, for example.

He was also the bassist in God (one of 'em). I didn't know who played what on this disc 'cause I don't have a real copy, just a promo; at one point I had heard that Broadrick was the drummer, though.

All I have's the promo so just bad assumptions from me (Alton was on bass last I saw Jesu).

According to discogs it's a Broadrick on drums and a drum machine, two bassists (Cochrane and Dalton), Broadrick (again) and Turner on guitars and vocals.

That's discogs though so anything could really be going back there.

Two bassists would explain how thick it sounds.

http://greymachine-disconnected.com/

Listening here. "Wasted" is seriously out of fucking control great (dig the awesome "Mentasm"-style stabs.)

This is really good, but it would be so much better with Broadrick on guitar. And even just two tracks with Kevin Martin would have made it a total classic for me. Still a really nice album, though. It really is a bit like listening to some lost Ice album.

At the turn of the New Year, I signed a deal with Ghostly International to develop a new project - Pale Sketcher. Pale Sketcher is intended as a vehicle for me to explore, exclusively and in more detail, the 'electronica' side of jesu.
It occurred to me during the writing of the last Jesu EP 'Opiate Sun' in early 2009, that Jesu, first and foremost, was intended to be a guitar oriented project. The 'electronica' side of Jesu was just an inevitable direction for me, but never satisfied with this battle between guitars and electronica with Jesu, I decided to separate the two directions - Jesu, now, and for the forseeable future, being guitar based exclusively, with Pale Sketcher being the project where I can focus and develop further, the Jesu 'electronica' sound, without need for further fusion or compromise.

Ghostly International saw sense in the concept for this project, when I touched upon this direction with my remix of School Of Seven Bells for Ghostly.

So, forthcoming on Ghostly Intl in July 2010, is, on both CD and digital (vinyl TBA) the entry release into the Pale Sketcher project - the entire out of print Jesu release 'Pale Sketches' demixed by Pale Sketcher! Two further remixes, one by King Midas Sound and one from Tower Of Light, will accompany the release, formats TBA.

An extract of 'Plans That Fade (Faded Dub)' from 'Pale Sketches Demixed' can be heard on the release page for the forthcoming Ghostly Intl compilation 'Ghostly By Night', to be released April 13th 2010. Please go here -

http://ghostly.com/releases/ghostly-by-night

More Pale Sketcher news soon.

Jesu full length LP 3 still in demo stage. Hoping for recording to begin in August 2010, this new LP will be released through Caldo Verde.

So wait why didn't he just use the Final name for this?

Oh darn:

http://earache.tumblr.com/post/664337445/godflesh-streetcleaner-deluxe-2cd-has-arrived

i would buy that. always felt like my original disc sounded kinda crappy. and i can't believe i'm saying this about a cd, but not loud enough! or maybe that was just my copy.

i would buy remastered version of first album too. i think that might actually exist already. i should just upgrade all my godflesh. even the stupid fye store across the street has some of the double-disc reissues.

Wow!

My internet is crap right now (going out every five seconds) - anyone know where I can find the tracklist for this?

i saw that techno animal and porter ricks thing in the record shop recently -- is it worth a shot?

I like it, but it's neither the best Techno Animal or Porter Ricks.

it's worth picking up if you like both.

That Streetcleaner reissue looks ace. I haven't picked up any of the previous Godflesh repressings -- haven't they all been 2xCD pairings of previously released stuff, sans unreleased material?

Yep. The Streetcleaner one has a marked improvement in sound overall and the demos are interesting and you've got good notes by my man Jon Selzer.

The Greymachine disc (Broadrick, Diarmuid Dalton, Dave Cochrane and Aaron Turner) is really, really good. Super heavy in the vein of Ice's Under the Skin.

Dug this out today and it's sounding very good still. I have it on cheap earbuds at the office -- hardly any bass coming through in the mix, which means it basically sounds like a black metal album. Interesting!

Whatever happened to the Pale Sketcher record?

I dunno, but Pale Sketcher is a horrific band name so...

Pale Sketcher record is okay. i'm going to need to spend more time with it.

also, uh, I FORGOT HOW MUCH 'POSSESSION' IS LIKE THE BEST ALBUM EVER.

I saw a used copy of Symbiotics on CD for $40 today. Is it getting this much? The far, far, far more legit record store just down the street is selling a VINYL copy of it for $20, and I got mine for $12 or whatever.

What say folks of The Sidewinder record?

No idea, but I was actually going to revive this thread today to say that Selfless sounded incredible this morning with the windows down, 85 degree swampy morning heat, on the drive to the office.

xp I remember it being a more snippety sounding Re-Entry-era Techno Animal record, but it's been a couple of years since I put it on.

So wait this Blood of Heroes CD has been out for almost a year according to Amazon???!

Yeah, it's been out since like May of last year, I think. I reviewed it (and the remix album, which is OK) on BurningAmbulance.com the other day.

Yeah that's where I saw it. This has to be one of the least publicized Broadrick things ever (although I guess this is a pretty obscure list of collaborators minus Laswell.)

It's interesting from you review it sounds like this is revisiting the second Ice album (whereas the Greymachine record was all about the first one.)

Okay this is pretty great. Kinda can't believe a record no one has heard has a remix record?!?!

New Pale Sketcher much better than the first Pale Sketcher.

http://www.factmag.com/2011/02/21/fact-mix-224-justin-broadrick/

Tracklist:
Donnacha Costello – ‘Always A Part’
Caustic Window – ‘A1′
Fairmont – ‘Walk Home’
Lootpack – ‘Questions’
Seefeel – ‘Spangle’
Dettinger – ‘A1′
Burial – ‘Archangel’
Slowdive – ‘Shine’
Dr Octagon – ‘Moosebumps’
Oval – ‘Do While X’
The Field – ‘Kappsta’
Various Artists – ’7′
Cabaret Voltaire – ‘Doublevision’
Pale Sketcher – Unreleased Dubplate 1
The Aggrovators – ‘Find A Dub’
Boards Of Canada – ‘Music Is Math’
Mark Kozelek – ‘Leo And Luna’
Pale Sketcher – Unreleased Dubplate 2
RZA – ‘Grits’
Babybird – ‘Saturday’
Cabaret Voltaire – ‘Jazz The Glass’ (
D Bridge – ‘The Question’

Forgot how great that dBridge lick is.

Love the Pale Sketcher album tbh.

Well the one I have, which is the Jesu Demixed thing.

http://jesu.bandcamp.com/album/jesu-picture-disc-mix-unreleased-original-vision

This is the master that was NOT used for what became the Picture Disc Mix, this was intended to be the master, but was shelved last minute; this master was intentionally sampled at a higher rate, so as to achieve a 'pop' sound / production, unlike the mix to be found on the 'actual' jesu Self Titled, a move which would be an absolute travesty for some! And a move that was decided against at the last minute, so the master was resampled back to the original pitch and sent to be pressed as the Picture Disc. So, this master is unreleased, and available here for the first time, the 'actual' Picture Disc master, is also available here at Bandcamp.

The Picture Disc of the Self Titled Jesu album, was remixed entirely for the LTD ED Picture Disc version (1000 copies), released in 2006. An Alternative mix with quite significant differences to the original album mix; the concept was to remix it more 'cleanly', due to the original mix containing a lot of distortion. There are still clicks, etc in this mix though due to the nature of the original recording. Here, the album is now remastered in 2012, since the original Picture Disc master was intentionally mastered flat.

The catalyst for this entire remix of the album was the pressing plant who were to cut and press the picture disc - with the original master of the S/T, they claimed the original was to max'ed out and distorted to be cut to an picture disc! I was, at the time, intrigued by the concept of a cleaner, and even 'poppier' mix of this album, anyway, so set about cleaning the the thing up. Hence the re-sampled higher speed version; attempting to go even further with this 'pop' concept.
For the record, my personal favourite mix of this album IS the original mix, which is known, universally, as the debut jesu album 'S/T', the mix that made it to CD/Vinyl, etc, etc.

Justin K Broadrick. May 2012.

i have the pic disk and its great but apparently this is the "pop" version that should have been on the pic disk. So i think its worth $7 if its as good as the pic disk version (the only pic disk i have that sounds awesome btw)

right about to start playing this

my godddd, 'demodex invasion' off 're-entry' bloody brings it, doesn't it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P--XCIsNtBc&feature=share

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x60HORf_vlw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HrRI-ATq7k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfAtvbApPsM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iahO6AnCdSk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dYkEXGFTMs

that's probably not in the correct order. Been hoping some live material by the band would appear for a while. Then Russ Smith posted a track to facebook I think.

& main reason I was looking on this thread was to look up lps by Godflesh since Earache are having a sale with 2cd versions of Streetcleaner and Songs of Love and Hate for £6.66 a pop. I don't really have any Godflesh and I knew Justin from gigs way way back in Head of David days etc.

or that might even be 2 different gigs and me be too tired to recognise it

oh fuck me this year's jesu record is gorgeous isn't it (based on opening track)

best since Conqueror

I *liked* Infinity, yknow

i liked them all but its still their best since Conqueror

it's gotten to the point where I will cop any Jesu EP and ignore any Jesu LP ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

You freak

I really like the one with the lighthouse on the cover where Jarboe sings

the latest lp was the best since the 2nd one

Yay: there's a new Jesu album in the works.

Uh: ...it's a collaboration with Sun Kil Moon

https://twitter.com/JKBroadrick/status/592653468768186368

Wasn't that long ago that Sun Kil Moon involvement would inspire excitement rather than caution

you know what's super fucking good? that last jesu album (no sun kil moon)

Interviewed Justin B for the Quietus:

http://thequietus.com/articles/20697-justin-broadrick-interview-godflesh-jk-flesh-napalm-death-jesu

fucking hell how good is re-entry by techno animal ?
i broke out in excitement sweats during the final track on disc 1 when listening at a decent wall shaking level earlier today.
no remastering needed, it still sounds insanely good.
i picked up the follow up album, the brotherhood of the bomb years ago and left it unloved due to not feeling the hip hop vocals.
listening again today, i still prefer the vocal free tracks, and it's not in the same league as re-entry, but still, there are moments that are incredibly thrilling.
ooh, and now i think of it i think i have some jk flesh ep (a freebie from years ago) hidden in my archive.

ha, found it : 'nothing is free' by jk flesh, which i believe was a digital freebie.
ok, its not even that loud and my joggers are flapping in the bass noise.

Funnily enough I listened to Re-Entry for the first time yesterday.

If someone had told me it basically sounded like an O'Rang album I probably would have checked it out years and years and years ago.

wait have y’all heard the anatomy of addiction? it freakin rules

love that record

also New Kingdom remixes "Gold Teeth" on Appeal to Human Greed

Amazing record, I saw them in London around this time, with Bark Psychosis and they were astonishing, so much crazy loud and overlaid dissonance that I stared hearing choirs of angels and all sorts.

i think i've bumped every godflesh-related thread in the past week but imo there should be more talk about jk flesh on this page

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE3DySx6y_E

feel like i made a mistake taking eight years to hear this

i only have a freebie digital ep thing that jk flesh released a while back.

https://jkflesh.bandcamp.com/album/nothing-is-free

not an easy listen.
but damn when in the mood it hits the spot, and seriousy rattles the walls.

huh, I somehow missed that one! I’ve checked out most of the JK Flesh, etc. releases in recent years

have v.much enjoyed your recent godflesh posts BN

has left me keen to revisit the last two LPs - got really into Post Self at the time but haven't listened for a while

i'm checking out the two jesu releases from last year and they're kinda weird? broadrick really exploring vocal loops a la "comforter" from every day i get closer to the light from which i came

holy shit i had no idea about any of this. jkflesh album is amazing. what i've always wanted to hear from this kind of sound but never quite gotten.

i'm checking out the two jesu releases from last year and they're kinda weird? broadrick really exploring vocal loops a la "comforter" from every day i get closer to the light from which i came

― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, January 15, 2021 12:59 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

to follow up on this: terminus is jesu-by-the-numbers with a few weird flourishes. if you want to hear a jesu record, it is one. but the never ep finds the jesu sound straying into... extremely processed technopop???? it rules

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuJjHsFPJDQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr4_E1ZOT7I

and this song sorta splits the difference between the usual jesu sound and the vocal cut-up electropop in the above song and it sounds so good. i would like for justin broadrick to release an entire album that sounds like these two songs

Really getting into Alone, have listened several times in the last few days. Hook is very 1979?

currently totally obsessed with "alone"

and the rest of terminus has pretty much grown on me already. great, stark slowcore record basically

quickly becoming my favorite since conqueror

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohFf0_q6q_A

just wonderful

lol i cannot stop listening to the new jesu album, didn't see this one coming

The Greymachine disc (Broadrick, Diarmuid Dalton, Dave Cochrane and Aaron Turner) is really, really good. Super heavy in the vein of Ice's Under the Skin.

― unperson, Sunday, August 9, 2009 7:21 PM (eleven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

greymachine are really good. i mentioned that in the metal thread but no one seemed to share my enthusiasm.

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the greymachine album is so evil

genuinely terrifying. swans wishes. etc.

jandek made a metal album it's called greymachine

no mention so far of the KM + JB collaboration from a couple of years ago under the Zonal moniker.
deep drones, and words by moor mother.
heavy stuff.

https://zonal.bandcamp.com/album/wrecked

That record is great, mark e, though sometimes I have to skip it when it comes on shuffle— very intense! But that's Camae's way.

i keep meaning to check out the zonal record!!!!

this week i got really into jkb's dnb project tech level 2 lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-DmYeBlcCg

only a few singles from the early '00s (plus an EP he just released last year) but it's all good imo

wow no one was joking about that greymachine album, truly malevolent energy

I nommed the greymachine in that year's metal poll iirc and not many of us voted for it?

Had to do a decent length of run on the car today so took it with me and it's maybe better than I remember it being. Wasted in particular is immense.

Is greymachine not on streaming

it isn't! weird. it's on bandcamp tho https://greymachine.bandcamp.com/album/disconnected

Never thought I'd get to hear what God sounded like live again, damn this is a glorious racket.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMXjIxNSam0

Was I at this? I think so.

ive lost track of all of the identities he has that ive learned abt in the past couple months. how do people keep track lol

This one just came up on shuffle— nice track, I like it much better than the original fwiw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MK_v1kIrec

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VCIUPsUgg4

Three years ago or so (pre-COVID) I had a brief exchange with Martin about putting together a CD box set gathering up all the God material. I think it probably would have been around five CDs, maybe six, but the rights would be a giant pain in the ass (multiple labels, many of which don't exist anymore) to negotiate and he didn't feel like it. Oh, well...

Damn, that would be really cool.

Relapse is reissuing Techno Animal's Re-Entry in September:

https://www.relapse.com/products/techno-animal-re-entry-2xcd

Also available as a 4LP set for $80:

https://www.relapse.com/products/techno-animal-re-entry-4x12

already on streaming, looks like

Picked up the digital copy of Re-Entry from Bandcamp. I still have my original CDs somewhere in a dusty Case Logic. I hope I didn't dispense with the iconic original art. I forgot how great this album is. I don't have a record player, but I'm tempted to by the 4LP set and the damn t-shirt.

Listening to it got me listened to Ice's Under the Skin which I would kill for a remaster/reissue of. I would also love God's Possession and Anatomy of Addiction to remastered and released.

I would also love God's Possession and Anatomy of Addiction to remastered and released.

I talked to Martin a few years ago about doing a God box but he wasn't interested. Too much hassle negotiating the rights, for too little reward.

Yeah I was talking to him last year and he was firmly pushing the 'looking forward, never back' line.

Loco is the album with the most room for remastering I think but I'm not sure how good the original tapes are.

i have the orig cds and love the whole sound as per post i made a few years ago.
do i really need the remastered edition ?

terminus is actually the best album ever

Remastered version of The Brotherhood of the Bomb coming out in February on vinyl and CD; digital available now:

https://technoanimal.bandcamp.com/album/the-brotherhood-of-the-bomb-2023-remaster

Not as excited for that one. A few good songs on it, I guess.

Yeah, I don't love it myself. I really hope they reissue Ice's Under the Skin (and Bad Blood, I guess).

There's a new album by The Bug coming out October 4 on Relapse. The single disc version is called Machine and it's 12 tracks culled from the five Machine EPs Martin put out digitally on his own Bandcamp page between 2023 and early 2024. There's also going to be a 2CD version with all 21 tracks from all five EPs.

Pre-order info is here: https://www.relapse.com/pages/the-bug-machines-i-v-machine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bsNm2wcR6A

Cracking show but I think the date is wrong - I'm pretty sure this was supporting Boss Hog with Gallon Drunk as openers, which the internet tells me was the 2nd and not 7th.

Weird, the same guy has the full GD show from the same date (marked as 7th) but some footage of Boss Hog from the same position marked as 2nd.

Perhaps he's going off some ancient handwritten VHS tape label and is mistaking twos for sevens

Could be.