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Godflesh «Post Self» kassett tape metal Hospital Productions

Godflesh «Post Self», kassett.

The new album is simultaneously inventive and classic Godflesh. The blue and icy atmosphere of ‘Post Self’ touch on the happenings of early 90’s Norwegian innovations. From the opening track it’s clear that the vocal performance is Justin Broadrick’s best in ages, utilizing new approaches ranging from higher tortured screams to truly brutal and barbaric low roars not heard since ‘Street Cleaner’. Within those extremes, mystically effected vocals coming from an industrial corner support the classic ‘post punk’ vocal style that became a hallmark dating stretching back to ‘Head Of David’ as well as the bonus tracks featured on the ‘Street Cleaner’ cd version to the ultimate hypnotic Godflesh track ‘Flowers’. A pervasive cold lurks throughout the record, deeply settled into the atmosphere of ‘Post Self’. Nasty and vile machine rhythms create an 80’s nighttime rainy streets groove. Dark, hardened, heartbreaking and beautiful.

‘Post Self’ feels like the culmination of all of Broadrick’s various musical interests and achievements in his 30 years of dedication to subcultural music: Industrial, noise, post punk, ambient, extreme metal, bass music, and much much more… but it is also quintessential Godflesh in its monumental and timeless feeling of existentialism and the human condition. ‘A World Lit Only By Fire’ was Godflesh’s mortal return - but 'Post Self’ feels like Godflesh’s immortal soul.

 Tracklist:

  Side A 

Post Self

Parasite

No Body

Mirror Of Finite Light

Be God  

Side B 

The Cyclic End

Pre Self

Mortality Sorrow

In Your Shadow