GODFLESH: Songs Of Love And Hate Cassette

Justin Broadrick has been making music that sounds like the end of the world since before most people knew the world could end. Songs of Love and Hate is Godflesh at their most bleakly hypnotic, slower, more suffocating, and somehow more claustrophobic than anything they had done before.

Released in 1996 as Birmingham's industrial metal scene was quietly reshaping everything from nu-metal to post-rock, this record is a masterclass in using repetition as violence. The drum machine doesn't groove, it grinds. Broadrick's guitar tones are thick enough to bury someone under. The industrial hip-hop and sludge metal elements don't compete, they collapse into each other in the best possible way. If your dark aesthetic runs deeper than aesthetics, this is the one. On cassette, naturally, because digital is too clean for this.

Format: Cassette (CS). UK origin.

Fans of: Jesu, Swans, Killing Joke, Streetcleaner-era Godflesh, Neurosis.