A World Lit Only by Dub

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A World Lit Only by Dub
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Remix album by
Godflesh
Released6 December 2024
Recorded2013–2024
Genre Industrial metal
Length46:35
Label Avalanche
Producer Justin Broadrick
Godflesh chronology
Purge
(2023)		A World Lit Only by Dub
(2024)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Decibel Positive [1]
Kerrang! 4/5 [2]
Thrashocore8.5/10 [3]

A World Lit Only by Dub is the second remix album by English industrial metal band Godflesh, released on 6 December 2024 through frontman Justin Broadrick's label Avalanche Recordings. It features remixed dub versions of tracks from the band's seventh studio album, A World Lit Only by Fire (2014), created by Godflesh. Broadrick described the remix album as a way to celebrate A World Lit Only by Fire ten years after its original release. [4]

Contents

Background

After reforming in 2009, Godflesh released the 2014 EP Decline & Fall and the 2014 studio album A World Lit Only by Fire , both of which saw Japanese versions with bonus dub remixes. [5] [6] This combined with a history of in-house remixing (for example, 1997's Love and Hate in Dub ) led to interviewers asking frontman Justin Broadrick if A World Lit Only by Fire would receive a fuller remix treatment. [7] [8] Broadrick first spoke publicly about A World Lit Only by Dub as early as 14 October 2014, a week after A World Lit Only by Fire's release and a decade before the remix album's release. [7] He stated that the original intent of A World Lit Only by Dub was to explore the post-punk side of Godflesh's sound, and he planned to employ former Godflesh drummer Ted Parsons to provide live drumming. [7] [8] However, Parsons does not appear on the final release. [4]

Broadrick characterized the five remixes on A World Lit Only by Dub as "extended mutated versions; exploring and pushing the inherently experimental nature of Godflesh, now finalised and somewhat re-contexdtualised 10 years later." [4] Reviewers emphasised how "calling [the songs] remixes feels like something of a slight disservice" given how altered they are, featuring numerous new and rerecorded parts, entirely new structures and titles more reminiscent of new songs than remixes. [1] [2] [3] [9]

Track listing

All songs written by Justin Broadrick. [4]

No.TitleLength
1."Cursed by You All"9:07
2."Dead Ending"10:10
3."Life Given Life Taken"9:23
4."Our Fathers in Heaven"9:11
5."Towers"8:44
Total length:46:35

Personnel

Credits adapted from A World Lit Only by Dub liner notes. [4]

References

  1. 1 2 Bellino, Emily. "ICYMI: Godflesh Release Remix Album, A World Lit Only By Dub". Decibel . Retrieved 5 November 2025.
  2. 1 2 Law, Sam. "Album review: Godflesh – A World Lit Only by Dub". Kerrang! . Retrieved 5 November 2025.
  3. 1 2 Ikea, Tristan. "Godflesh – A World Lit Only by Dub" (in French). Thrashocore. Retrieved 5 November 2025.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Godflesh (2024). A World Lit Only by Dub (digital liner notes). Avalanche Recordings. AREC084. Retrieved 6 December 2024.
  5. ↑ Godflesh (2014). Decline & Fall (Japanese edition) (CD liner notes). Daymare Recordings. DYMC-222.
  6. ↑ Godflesh (2014). A World Lit Only by Fire (Japanese edition) (CD liner notes). Daymare Recordings. DYMC-230.
  7. 1 2 3 Tfaaon (14 October 2014). "Justin K. Broadrick, guitariste et chanteur de Godflesh". La Grosse Radio (in French). Archived from the original on 18 March 2018. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
  8. 1 2 Valjean, Jean. "Godflesh by Mail October 2014". Metal Orgie (in French). Archived from the original on 9 August 2018. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
  9. ↑ Yücel, Ilker. "ReView: Godflesh – A World Lit Only by Dub". Regen Magazine. Retrieved 5 November 2025.
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