Godflesh announce new album 'Decay,' release new “Living/Ending” single
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Influential industrial metal band Godflesh will unveil their new album in September.
Revealed today, Decay will be released on September 25 via Relapse Records. The first single from the record titled “Living/Ending” can be heard below. Godflesh mastermind Justin Broadrick said this about the new album, which was recorded before Broadrick’s abdominal surgery:
“Decay was born from the same sessions as Purge. It was one huge pool of songs. I picked what I felt was appropriate for what I wanted to achieve with Purge, with the intention of releasing the songs that didn't fit as a new album within a year of Purge being released. Unfortunately, two years passed whilst considering external labels, so that I didn't have to self-release Godflesh anymore, but it took an awful lot of time to establish a comfortable home for me. The recordings were done, but as usual for me, I did change a lot of stuff once I came back to it.
Fortunately, all of the recordings for Decay were completed long before the surgery, vocals included… although the back end of a couple of songs were recorded with the hernia itself, and that was a struggle. I was already aware that the Godflesh shout, so to speak, was exacerbating the hernia greatly, as was every Godflesh performance in the lead-up to the surgery once the hernia appeared, and the hernia was mostly caused by year upon year of shouting in Godflesh. The album was mixed post-surgery, and while I was still in some pain and considerable discomfort, but fortunately Godflesh is generally me expressing my pain, albeit [usually] mental, philosophical and existential, whereas this was physical pain.”
Decay can be pre-ordered here.
Decay tracklisting:
Master and Slave
Living/Ending
Feral Colony
Fear of Man
Fodder
Consume Me
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