Godflesh discography | |
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Studio albums | 9 |
Live albums | 3 |
Compilation albums | 5 |
Video albums | 1 |
Music videos | 5 |
EPs | 6 |
Singles | 14 |
Remix albums | 2 |
The English industrial metal band Godflesh have released eight studio albums and six extended plays along with a number of singles, compilations and remix and live albums. The group formed in 1982 under the name Fall of Because, but they did not release any music (outside of a 1986 demo tape titled Extirpate) [1] until 1988 when Justin Broadrick and B. C. Green changed the project's name to Godflesh and recorded a self-titled debut EP. [2] That EP, released through the independent label Swordfish, was met with underground success and has since been recognised as one of the first industrial metal releases, if not the first. [3] [4] [5]
Though the self-titled EP acted as Godflesh's introduction to innovation and experimentation, their next release and first through Earache Records, 1989's Streetcleaner , garnered even more recognition for its musical importance. [6] [7] [8] After the success of Streetcleaner, Godflesh recorded Pure in 1992, which has drawn retrospective recognition as a significant release in the post-metal genre. [9] [10] The band's third album, Selfless (1994), was Godflesh's debut on Columbia Records. [11] The album sold under expectations, [12] and that coupled with MTV banning the music video of its lead single, "Crush My Soul", led to Columbia dropping support of Godflesh. [11] [13] Regardless of the disappointing commercial performance of Selfless, Broadrick considers that album and all of the preceding releases as Godflesh's best material. [14] [15]
In 1996, Godflesh, back on Earache, released Songs of Love and Hate , which featured Bryan Mantia on drums; this was a significant departure from the band's characteristic style, since all of their previous releases had been structured around programmed industrial beats from a drum machine. [16] Broadrick later described this shift as a dilution of Godflesh's original goal, which was to meld human and machine music. [17] Love and Hate in Dub , a remix album released in 1997, saw Godflesh again experimenting, this time with hip hop, breakbeats and dub. [18] [19] Those experiments continued and heightened with the 1999 studio album Us and Them , which again featured machine percussion. [20] After Us and Them proved creatively dissatisfying for Broadrick, [21] the band found a new live drummer (this time in Ted Parsons). Hymns (2001) was recorded in a professional studio, which led to a great deal of frustration for the band. [22] [23] Shortly after Hymns' release, Green quit Godflesh, and Broadrick officially ended the band not long after that. [24]
Godflesh reformed in 2010 as Broadrick and Green. [25] After performing scattered shows for four years, the band's return album, A World Lit Only by Fire (2014), was released to critical acclaim and appeared on several critics' year-end lists. [26] [27] It was a notably heavy industrial metal album focused again on downtuned guitar, distorted bass and driving machine drums. [28] [29] In 2017, Godflesh's eighth album, Post Self , was released. Like A World Lit Only by Fire, it drew critical praise and award recognition; [30] [31] unlike that previous album, however, Post Self proved introspective and experimental. [32] Despite regular acclaim from critics and fellow musicians, Godflesh have received only minor commercial success. [33]
Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Notes | ||||
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UK Indie [34] [35] | GRE [36] | US Heat [37] | US Sales [38] | US Taste [39] | |||
Streetcleaner |
| 19 | 45 | — | — | — |
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Pure |
| — | — | — | — | — |
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Selfless |
| 12 | — | — | — | — |
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Songs of Love and Hate |
| — | — | — | — | — |
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Us and Them |
| — | — | — | — | — | |
Hymns |
| — | — | — | — | — | |
A World Lit Only by Fire |
| 47 | — | 22 | — | 25 |
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Post Self |
| 41 | — | 23 | — | — |
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Purge |
| 29 | — | — | 94 | — |
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"—" denotes a title that did not chart or was not released in that territory. |
Title | EP details | UK Indie [34] | Notes |
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Godflesh | 20 |
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Slavestate |
| — | |
Cold World |
| — | |
Merciless |
| — |
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Messiah |
| — | |
Decline & Fall |
| — | |
"—" denotes a title that did not chart or was not released in that territory. |
Title | Album details | Notes |
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Slavestate Remixes |
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Love and Hate in Dub |
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Title | Album details | Notes |
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The Ten Commandments |
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Life Is Easy |
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In All Languages |
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New Flesh in Dub Vol 1 |
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Long Live the New Flesh |
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Title | Album details | Notes |
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Streetcleaner: Live at Roadburn 2011 |
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Godflesh – The Earache Peel Sessions |
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Pure : Live |
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Title | Year | Album | Notes |
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"Pulp"/"Christbait Rising" | 1989 | Streetcleaner |
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"Slateman" | 1991 | Non-album single | |
"Straight to Your Heart" | Loopflesh/Fleshloop |
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"Mothra" | 1992 | Pure | |
"Xnoybis" | 1995 | Selfless | |
"Crush My Soul" |
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"F.O.D. (Fuck of Death)" | 2013 | Non-album single | |
"Ringer" | 2014 | Decline & Fall | |
"New Dark Ages" | A World Lit Only by Fire | ||
"Imperator" | |||
"Post Self" | 2017 | Post Self | |
"Be God" | |||
"Nero" | 2023 | Purge |
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"Land Lord" |
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Godflesh are an English industrial metal band from Birmingham. The group formed in 1982 under the original title O.P.D. but did not release any complete music until 1988 when Justin Broadrick and B. C. Green renamed the band and decided to use a drum machine for percussion. Melding heavy metal with industrial music and later with electronic music and dub, Godflesh's sound is widely regarded as a foundational influence on other industrial metal and post-metal acts and as significant to both experimental and extreme metal.
Streetcleaner is the debut studio album by English industrial metal band Godflesh. It was released on 13 November 1989 through Earache Records and was reissued with a second disc of previously unreleased material on 21 June 2010. The album is widely acclaimed by critics and is often cited as a landmark release in industrial metal; though not the genre's first release, Streetcleaner helped define what industrial metal would become.
Slavestate is the second EP by English industrial metal band Godflesh. It was released in July 1991 through Earache Records. The EP saw the band experimenting with more samples and electronic sounds than their predominantly industrial metal prior releases.
Pure is the second studio album by English industrial metal band Godflesh. It was released on 13 April 1992 through Earache Records. Though originally labeled only as industrial metal, the album has since been recognised as one of the earliest post-metal releases. Musically, Pure is rhythmically mechanical and features harsh guitars, with protracted songs and an abundance of deliberate repetition. Like much of Godflesh's music, it is regarded as particularly heavy and aggressive, and these elements helped it gain critical acclaim.
Us and Them is the fifth studio album by English industrial metal band Godflesh. It was released through Earache Records on 17 May 1999 in Europe and on 8 June 1999 in North America. As with Godflesh's 1997 remix album Love and Hate in Dub, Us and Them is influenced by breakbeats, drum and bass, oldschool jungle, trip hop and hip hop.
Hymns is the sixth studio album by English industrial metal band Godflesh. It was released on 23 October 2001 through Music for Nations and was the band's final album before breaking up in 2002. In 2010, Godflesh reformed and in 2014 released their comeback album A World Lit Only by Fire. Hymns had a troubled production and was intended to be distinct departure from Godflesh's intensely regimented industrial sound to something more traditionally hard rock. It was the band's second and final album to feature a live drummer rather than a drum machine.
Paul Neville is an underground experimental guitarist and musician from Birmingham, England.
Godflesh is the debut EP by English industrial metal band Godflesh. It was originally released in 1988 through Swordfish Records and later saw several reissues on Earache Records with two additional songs. An unexpected underground success, the eponymous EP made it onto the UK Indie Chart and peaked at position 20. Though not supported by any singles or music videos at the time, a fan-made video for "Avalanche Master Song" has since been made official by the band.
"Slateman" is a song by English industrial metal band Godflesh. It was released as a 7-inch single in 1991 through Sub Pop and later reissued on Earache Records as a CD, a 7-inch and a 12-inch. In 1996, the single was repackaged alongside Cold World (1991) on one disc by Earache Records as the compilation Slateman/Cold World. Both "Slateman" and its b-side, "Wound '91", were appended to the end of most issues of Godflesh's 1991 EP Slavestate.
Merciless is the fourth EP by English industrial metal band Godflesh, released in 1994 through Earache and Columbia. In 1996, the EP was reissued along with the Selfless (1994) album as the compilation Selfless/Merciless.
"Crush My Soul" is a song by English industrial metal band Godflesh, taken from the album Selfless (1994). It was released in 1995 by Earache Records on 12" vinyl and CD. The single's two remixes were also included on the Selfless/Merciless compilation released on Earache Records in 1996.
Love and Hate in Dub is first remix album by English industrial metal band Godflesh released on 24 June 1997 through Earache Records. The remixed songs are sourced from their 1996 album Songs of Love and Hate, and they adopt a more ambient, dub and drum and bass flavor.
In All Languages is the first compilation album by English industrial metal band Godflesh, released on 24 July 2001 through Earache Records. It is a double album, and a companion music video DVD was also released in 2001. In All Languages' first disc acts as a greatest hits collection spanning from Godflesh's 1988 self-titled EP to their 1999 studio album, Us and Them. The second disc compiles rare and unreleased tracks.
Cold World is the third EP by English industrial metal band Godflesh, released in late 1991 through Relativity Records. It was recorded and mixed during September 1991 as part of the Pure (1992) sessions.
Streetcleaner: Live at Roadburn 2011 is the first live album by English industrial metal band Godflesh. The release was recorded on 14 April 2011 at the Roadburn Festival in Tilburg, Netherlands. Apart from being the group's debut live album, it was also the first time they played Streetcleaner in its entirety.
"Xnoybis" is a song by English industrial metal band Godflesh, taken from the album Selfless (1994). It was released in 1995 through Earache Records as a CD, and was also distributed as a promotional to radio stations.
Post Self is the eighth studio album by English industrial metal band Godflesh. It was released on 17 November 2017 through frontman Justin Broadrick's own record label, Avalanche Recordings, and was the band's second album since reforming in 2010. The single "Post Self" was released for streaming on 31 October 2017, and a second track, "Be God", was released for streaming on 11 November 2017, six days in advance of the full release. Godflesh avoided interviews in the wake of Post Self, hoping to retain some of the album's purity and give listeners a chance to digest the music in a vacuum.
Life Is Easy is the first compilation album by English industrial metal band Fall of Because, compiling songs recorded in 1986 and 1987 before the band became Godflesh. Released on 24 August 1999 through Alleysweeper and distributed by Martin Atkins' label Invisible Records, Life Is Easy contains many songs that went on to be rerecorded and turned into Godflesh tracks.
"Mothra" is a song by English industrial metal band Godflesh. It was taken from their 1992 album Pure and saw release as a radio promo and music video in the same year. The track's title is derived from 1961 Japanese film of the same name by Ishirō Honda. Musically, "Mothra" is a grinding, mechanical song with shouted vocals and heavily distorted instruments.
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