★★★★★
Tweet Can't Teach an Old Dog New Tricks First guitar player of grindcore legends Napalm Death, Justin Broadrick, has revitalized his claim to cult-fame Godflesh with the first full length release of original material - A World Lit Only by Fire - in 12 years. This album testifies to the industrial metal seeds that the band so successfully sowed in their hey-day, but it seems as though it's lacking a specific je ne sais quoi found in their original workings...
- www.mxdwn.com
2014-10-21
★★★★★
Godflesh hasn't released an album since October 2001. Think about that. A lot has happened in the intervening 13 years, from the War on Terror to the rise and dominance of social media sites like Facebook. Is there even a space in the here and now for a group that was a pioneering industrial band? A World Lit Only By Fire, which follows an EP released earlier this year, is proof that, indeed, there might just be life in the concept yet...
- www.popmatters.com
2014-10-09
★★★★★
In 1988, the same year industrial metal pioneers Ministry released the complex, experimental The Land of Rape and Honey, Godflesh surfaced from the urban decay of Birmingham, England, with a primitive self-titled EP that proved slow and steady songs could be just as heavy as frantic speedfests. Anchored by trudging, programmed drums and lumbering guitars tuned almost as far down as the bass, Godflesh generated a dense, abrasive din spattered with a psychedelic haze of bellowing vocals...
- www.wonderingsound.com
2014-10-08
★★★★★
Christopher Krovatin | Oct 07, 2014 | Comments 0 | Tags: Godflesh Unlike many comeback records, Godflesh's 2014 album--the industrial-metal pioneers' first new full-length since 2001--manages to both satisfy the hunger for the band's signature sound and take that sound to a new level of confidence and power...
- www.revolvermag.com
2014-11-04
★★★★★
It would be impossible to overstate the impact and influence Godflesh's pioneering industrial squall has had on heavy and experimental music over the last 26 years. While guitarist/vocalist Justin Broadrick has since embarked on many other disparate musical adventures, it is the return of this, his most celebrated band, that has really set hearts aflutter...
- www.theguardian.com
2014-10-07
★★★★★
"Have you ever participated in genocide?" When I interviewed Justin Broadrick in 2007, he said he was asked that question while applying for a trip to the United States for the first time after 9/11. His anecdote was good for a sick laugh; Broadrick can be funny, despite his reputation as a poker-faced purveyor of extreme metal, shoegaze, and industrial music as a former or current member of the British groups Napalm Death, Jesu, and the resurrected Godflesh, among others...
- pitchfork.com
2014-10-06
★★★★★
It's been four years since industrial metal legends Godflesh reunited to perform live again after having been split up since the early 2000s. Finally, 2014 has seen the release of brand new material, first with the stunning EP, and now with their highly anticipated full-length. Monolithic, heavy, raw and aggressive, is 100 percent Godflesh, shattering any doubts that the duo, led by mastermind Justin K. Broadrick, could maintain their classic sound...
- exclaim.ca
2014-10-04
★★★★★
If Trent Reznor can win an Oscar for scoring a movie about Facebook and Ministry's Al Jourgensen can read the five-day Los Angeles forecast for thousands of perplexed viewers in El Paso, there's no reason to be surprised by the rebirth of Godflesh. When the band broke up in 2002 following the departure of bassist G.C. Green, its death seemed final...
- pitchfork.com
2014-07-02
★★★★★
Godflesh founder Justin Broadrick is one of a short list of people responsible for more or less all intelligent metal, at least on this side of the Atlantic. His band pioneered a combination of super-heavy doom riffs, droned, bleak vocals and miserable lyrical themes in the late 80s and early 90s, leading directly to the rise of alternative metal bands such as Korn and influencing contemporaries the likes of Ministry. Even Metallica once dubbed Godflesh "the heaviest band in the world"...
- recordcollectormag.com
2013-04-01
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