This album feels like it is a new beginning for the band. We feel really excited about having Ted Parsons in the band and working in the studio with him. There are two noticeable differences with this record than any past albums we have done. Unlike past albums,...
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At that time, Fall of Because was the entire opposite of all the speed stuff happening. We'd do gigs with Napalm Death and Extreme Noise Terror. When we would play, Paul and I would face Justin with our backs to the crowd and play for ourselves. And everybody...
Our initial goal of Godflesh was to have this brutally heavy shit, but have a mechanical side to what we do: To be groove-oriented. We always wanted a fat groove. Obviously, we were able to get that fat groove, having a drummer, unlike before, when we used a...
The word [Pure] has got so much - it is loaded because it's not even blatant. I like the extremity of it as well. Essentially we are coming from extremes but it's extremes that get a bit lost in the mangle because you just can't be that specific...
GODFLESH released their debut album on this day in 1989. Powerful industrial metal, a term which almost instantly lost any meaning in the following decade.
The cover image is taken from a scene in the 1980 film Altered States, watch below.