Godflesh: "New Dark Ages"

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The gratifying ruckus of chord and calamity that is "New Dark Ages," the first new single from Godflesh's upcoming full-length, A World Lit Only By Fire, breeds heavy sounds and promise.  The single is eruptive, compelling and assuredly factorial.  With the release of June's Decline and Fall EP, the rekindled partnership of Justin K. Broadrick and GC Green was more or less announced.  With A World Lit Only By Fire, Godflesh delivers its first full album in 13 years.  The album will release October 6th.

I recommend the single.  You can sample it below.

All info and links were provided by Rarely Unable PR.



GODFLESH ANNOUNCE DETAILS OF FIRST ALBUM IN 13 YEARS, SHARE NEW SONG AND ANNOUNCE UK TOUR DATES. A WORLD LIT ONLY BY FIRE SET FOR OCTOBER 6 RELEASE

LISTEN TO "NEW DARK AGES" HERE:
https://soundcloud.com/ godflesh-2/new-dark-ages/s- Az4VJ

(photo credit VB)
Industrial metal innovators Godflesh have announced the details of their highly anticipated full length A World Lit Only By Fire, set for an October 6 release on their own Avalanche Recordings label. The album arrives on the heels of June’s Decline And Fall EP, which was met with widespread acclaim for its effortless synthesis of the duo’s fan-favoured early albums, themselves groundbreaking genre experiments that pioneered an integration of electronic music’s bombastic rhythms, metal’s bludgeoning force, and post punk’s aural atmospherics. Whereas the new EP succeeded by fulfilling listener expectations, the full length exceeds them; delivering a full force exploration of the furthest boundaries of Godflesh’s extreme sonics, and then pushing beyond them, detailing the rich musical experience accrued in the dozen year span and countless musical projects (Jesu, Final, Vitriol, Greymachine, Techno Animal, etc.) between recordings.

The duo, comprised of legendary talents of Justin Broadrick (also of Jesu, JK Flesh, Techno Animal, Pale Sketcher, and more) and GC Green, formed in 1988 in the same fertile Birmingham, UK scene that forged the talents of Napalm Death, Carcass, and Head of David among many others. Initially disbanding in 2002, the band resumed live performances in 2010 and began the arduous work of crafting a follow up to 2001’s Hymns. The resultant self-recorded ten song set mounts the thin line between high definition clarity and raw, visceral heaviness, inducing a meditative state via seething minimalism that hinges on ritualistic riff repetition and the tenuous membrane between anxiety-inducing dissonance and cathartic minor key melody.

A WORLD LIT ONLY BY FIRE TRACK LIST

 1. New Dark Ages
2. Deadend
3. Shut Me Down
4. Life Giver Life Taker
5. Obeyed
6. Curse Us All
7. Carrion
8. Imperator
9. Towers of Emptiness
10. Forgive Our Fathers

A WORLD LIT ONLY BY FIRE DECEMBER UK TOUR DATES

Tue 09.12.14 The Haunt Brighton
Wed 10.12.14 Garage London
Thu 11.12.14 Rescue Rooms Nottingham
Fri 12.12.14 Sound Control Manchester
Sat 13.12.14 Art School Glasgow

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

 http://www.avalancheinc.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/ pages/Justin-K-Broadrick/ 118373041529126
https://twitter.com/JKBroadrick

Sincerely,
Letters From A Tapehead

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