{"id":811342,"date":"2026-08-12T17:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T17:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/811342\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T17:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T17:10:09","slug":"godflesh-preview-penultimate-album-with-pummeling-song-living-ending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/811342\/","title":{"rendered":"Godflesh Preview Penultimate Album With Pummeling Song ‘Living\/Ending’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBen Green\u2019s thumping bass leads to huffy breathing, which leads to bone-snapping drum machine rhythms and an ectoplasmic elastic guitar riff. Then comes Justin Broadrick<\/a>\u2018s pained growls: \u201cWipe out\/Suction\/Forlorn\/Evermore.\u201d This is Godflesh<\/a> then, and this is Godflesh now as heard on the new single, \u201cLiving\/Ending,\u201d which recalls the industrial death rattle of the band\u2019s debut LP, Streetcleaner<\/a>, but with the thickness of their Slavestate EP. The song is the first taste of what the band says will be its penultimate album, Decay, out Sept. 25.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn March, Broadrick revealed on Instagram<\/a> that Godflesh would be retiring from touring following a devastating hernia surgery and that he could no longer scream the way Godflesh\u2019s music required. He alluded to the end of Godflesh in a statement released Wednesday. \u201cMusic, for me, is rarely complete, but it has to reach a point where enough is enough,\u201d he said. \u201cCreatively, there has to be self-discipline. One has to end it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tGodflesh reunited in 2009 after a seven-year hiatus with albums that continued the crushing industro-metal maelstroms they pioneered in the late Eighties. Purge, released in 2023, placed Number Two on Rolling Stone\u2019s list<\/a> of the best metal albums of that year, while Post-Self <\/a>appeared on the 2017 list<\/a> and A World Lit Only by Fire made the 2014 list<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe seeds of Decay took root when the group was working on its most recent album, 2023\u2019s Purge. \u201cFortunately, all of the recordings for Decay were completed long before the surgery, vocals included \u2026 although the back end of a couple of songs were recorded with the hernia itself, and that was a struggle,\u201d he said. \u201cI was already aware that the Godflesh shout, so to speak, was exacerbating the hernia greatly.\u2026 The album was mixed postsurgery, 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAlthough Godflesh still has a final album to announce, Broadrick is already refocusing his creative efforts on music that\u2019s less physically demanding, specifically for his Jesu and JK Flesh projects. \u201cI feel quite lucky, because Godflesh is now physically impossible for me, rendering it useless,\u201d he said. \u201cI now wish to move out of its constraints, move on creatively with heavy\/ugly music to new ground.\u201d In his Instagram announcement, Broadrick said he hoped to complete the final Godflesh album (sans shouting) by the end of 2026.<\/p>\n

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\n\tDecay Track List<\/p>\n

\n\t1. \u201cMaster and Slave\u201d
2. \u201cLiving\/Ending\u201d
3. \u201cFeral Colony\u201d
4. \u201cFear of Man\u201d
5. \u201cFodder\u201d
6. \u201cConsume Me\u201d<\/p>\n