It's arrived. I am happy.The vinyl version of the new Godflesh album is here. I first saw Godflesh supporting The Revolting Cocks in London in about 1990. I'd heard the Peel Session that they had recorded and felt it was quite unlike anything I'd heard in a long time. I went out and purchased 'Steetcleaner'.The chance to then see them live with RevCo was too good to ignore. If my memory is correct we were expecting Godflesh to be the 2nd of 3 bands on stage. In fact they played first. Unfortunately it's not the Godflesh performance that I remember most vividly about the evening - rather the strippers that accompanied The Revolting Cocks on stage and having to sprint to catch the last train home from London Waterloo station.
Fast forward a number of years and 'A World Lit Only By Fire' arrives direct from the band.
You could be forgiven for thinking that the best part of 25 years between Streetcleaner and this album would have seen the band mellow a little (especially listening to JKB's other project, Jesu). No. Not one bit. Call this industrial or metal or whatever, Godflesh have produced one of the finest, heaviest albums I've heard in a long time. From the opening thunderous baseline in 'New Dark Ages' to the closing,slower paced 'Forgive Our Fathers', there is no let up form the bass and riff assault. It's good to see them back and on form.
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