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?

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.

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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.