{"id":19054,"date":"2023-03-03T21:23:23","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T21:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/?p=19054"},"modified":"2023-03-03T21:23:57","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T21:23:57","slug":"godflesh-announce-new-album-purge-their-first-new-music-since-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2023\/03\/03\/godflesh-announce-new-album-purge-their-first-new-music-since-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Godflesh announce new album PURGE, their first new music since 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With the highly anticipated new album PURGE<\/em><\/strong>, Godflesh<\/strong> revisits and updates the concepts of PURE <\/em>(1992), as well as bringing a whole host of new dirges and laments. Amongst the many layers of dirt, PURGE <\/em>mangles 90s hip hop grooves and puts them through the Godflesh filter to create something futuristic in style – and utterly unique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both minimal and maximal, Godflesh deliver alien grooves that swing whilst also retaining the psychedelic, bad trip edge with layer upon layer of filth and heaviness – that Godflesh have always been known for. This is, and always has been, feel-bad music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The title alone – PURGE<\/em> – references directly how songwriter and creator Justin K. Broadrick utilises Godflesh’s music as a temporary relief from his diagnosed autism and PTSD. It’s the next stage in a journey he has been on since he began creating music, feeling alone and like an outsider in any scene or group, from childhood through to adulthood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The music of Godflesh gives Broadrick the means to express a lifetime of feeling misunderstood and overwhelmed by hyper-sensitivity. The band is the vehicle to provide some sense of catharsis and transcendence; a way of communicating overload, as well as the constant disenchantment at the human condition, and man’s abuse of power and the systems that chain us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PURGE<\/em> references the cycle of horror that man always has and always will<\/em> put us through; those in positions of power revel in the infliction of pain and horror upon individuals – in the name of their religion, their power, their money, their flags…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PURGE <\/strong><\/em>TRACK LISTING:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

01 – NERO <\/p>\n\n\n\n

02 – LAND LORD <\/p>\n\n\n\n

03 – ARMY OF NON <\/p>\n\n\n\n

04 – LAZARUS LEPER <\/p>\n\n\n\n

05 – PERMISSION <\/p>\n\n\n\n

06 – THE FATHER <\/p>\n\n\n\n

07 – MYTHOLOGY OF SELF  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

08 – YOU ARE THE JUDGE, THE JURY, AND THE EXECUTIONER<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PURGE <\/em>is 8 songs, delivered in a concise fashion for fellow outsiders. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A digital only single of the opening song ‘NERO’, coupled with 3 self-remixes will be released 3rd April. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The duo of Godflesh – Justin K Broadrick and Ben Green – augmented by Machines, are seen as a pivotal entity in the world of ‘heavy’ music, impacting entire subcultures within the scene since the band’s inception in 1988.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Godflesh have been credited as being one of the first bands to cross old British industrial music with down-tuned, primitive and minimal metal, accidentally pioneering the ‘industrial metal’ sound – yet reaches far beyond the confines of the genre. The band is widely regarded as a cultural icon, and its impact can be felt across generations of heavy music, both mainstream and underground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Godflesh will perform at select shows worldwide and key festivals, including headlining Birmingham’s Supersonic Festival<\/a>, and Oblivion Fest<\/a> (Austin, TX, USA) around the release date of the album. To be followed by a small string of US dates too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FOR MORE ON GODFLESH:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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