AVALANCHERS ~ View topic - GODFLESH

https://www.normanrecords.com/records/167430

No idea if this is real or fake?!?!?!?

I don't see why not, both the release date and blurb match up with what the man's been teasing about. Norman store is very legit and it's not the first time a JKB record's distro info is entered before actual promo. Every time it's been a real release.

Sure looks legit...seems like a strange thing to make a hoax out of anyway...nonetheless I can't find one single other mention of it on the web...odd,indeed...

Member Joined: 21 Oct 2006 Posts: 1580 Location: moon

looks delicious

Member Joined: 21 Oct 2006 Posts: 1580 Location: moon

post self. love the ambiguity between pure transcendence and the practice of sharing them selfie pics on facebookgram

I'm still not in love with the last record but the remixes or dub versions I'm fond of.
Has anyone read "Darkness" by Lord Byron?
Seems to be the influence. So dark.

But still, excited for a new release!

Just found this on a Justin fan Tumblr:

http://jkflesh.tumblr.com/

First details with a pre-order of the next Godflesh album “Post Self” appeared on Norman Records. Release date in November. Stay tight for a press release and ordering directly from the artists’ label.

Over 2 years in the making, ‘Post Self’ explores the less 'metal’ side of Godflesh; taking in the formative influences, and spitting out something more informed by late 70’s early 80’s post punk and industrial than it is anything metal related.
Thematically personal and obsessive, exploring anxiety, depression, fear, mortality, and family relationships (Mother / Father).
AREC040VC - Limited edition white vinyl version. 1000 copies worldwide.
Post Self
Parasite
No Body
Mirror Of Finite Light
Be God
The Cyclic End
Pre Self
Mortality Sorrow
In Your Shadow
The Infinite End

we'll see, last album was a self-parody. drop a track online Broadrick.

Nothing wrong with the last album...it was another GF album...not like it was some big departure or anything...what do you want from the guy? Sheesh...

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Member Joined: 06 Sep 2006 Posts: 7685

whooaaa

I don't really give a shit if anyone did or didn't like the last GF album but if you didn't, I am curious as to why you didn't....its not like it was some big departure in sound or approach...I saw them on that tour and they were as heavy and monolithic as always...what would you have had them do differently? It was GF doing what they do....

Hah! Here I was googling away on this Post Self thingy, and it turns out that you guys are still alive!!!!

Yeah, i don't hear it.....a lot of these criticisms feel like nit picking just for the sake of it but ok.....to each his own...carry on.

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My only point is that I don't feel like its some great radical departure...its Justin doing what he does in terms of GF....I don't know,I will certainly take it over the last few jesu releases....talk about something that ran its course....

Oh, you can "hear" the difference between JKB playing a seven string versus a six string? I'm gonna have to straight up call bullshit there. The association you make between that instrument and a band that you enjoy (or don't enjoy) isn't about the sound, but the people playing it. Don't throw the Broadrick out with the bathwater and all that...

Anyway yeah, I agree with Doomy.

I've been way out of the loop for way too long but...

If a new Godflesh album **weren't** polarizing, they'd be doing something wrong.

Just think back. Honestly, to every record ever. Slavestate - WTF is this? Pure - Why does it sound this way? Selfless - Metal! SOLAH - God, I hate that album...

If anything, I think the last played it safe. Had a sterile feel...almost certainly its intent.

But I too love those four songs Falldown claimed and would cite them as among the band's best. Who knows...a new direction (quelle surprise!) could be right up some people's filthy, back alley.

edit: You can often tell a six-string tuned way down vs a seven-string by its sound. For the gritty shit, I tend to prefer the former.

Only took a new album announcement to get the regulars back out of the woodwork!

Can't wait to hear it based on the description. Don't mind the last one, liked it at the time but don't go back to it a whole lot. It was still infinitely better to have it rather than nothing at all....

only MJH, Horgh, and Michael Winner's opinions are Trve

Member Joined: 06 Sep 2006 Posts: 7685

i didn't think the last one was terrible. just to me it seemed like the guys reorienting themselves to the Godflesh mode.

and i guess what i found best about them in their height was that they didn't have a mode--or not one what was predictable to me anyway.

it'd be cool if that last one did the heavy lifting of finding their collaborative footing again and this time out have their eyes set on other territories. i guess the description of the new album sounds like that's mostly the case.

Member Joined: 30 Sep 2006 Posts: 316 Location: Dunwich

Marvellous to see all the Avalanchers back out to play again.

Now. Who's missing? Gray anyone?

I was indifferent to the last Godflesh until a year or so after it came out, at which point it clicked for me and I love it now. It's totally stripped down, back to basics, and I can see why it may come off as a bit bland compared to the more experimental side of Godflesh. But I love how heavy and angry it is - I'm a simple creature.

Godflesh is experimental mode can be hit or miss for me... I liked a lot of scattered moments on US & Them but it's still probably the album I have revisited the least.

I liked the last album but then again, I was just happy one of my favorite bands ever was back in full swing. The cd has been in the cd changer in my car literally since it came out (and now since my changer is broke its really not leaving) I can definitely see the complaints though. Its a bit "by the numbers". Would've fit in perfectly if it had been the follow up to Selfless. But like Matt said, they were more than likely getting settled back into being Godflesh. Playing stuff you wrote 20 years ago is easy, getting back into the mindset of creating it again takes some work. Kinda on the fence about the 8 string sound. Love that he can play a whole octave below a standard guitar, but yeah they definitely have a different sound compared to the extra grind you get from tuning a 6 string way down to A or B. That shit totally killed it live though. Saw them two days in a row on the last tour and they were on fire both nights. Probably the best they've ever sounded on stage techwise. They played a way smaller venue the second night and holy fuck was Justin's little feedback thing at the end LOUD.

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I have a strong feeling this next album will be amazing. So, if the last one was a "getting back into the groove" type of thing, then so be it.

Yeah, I'm pretty psyched for it...the world needs a Godflesh album right now...

Member Joined: 17 Feb 2007 Posts: 1281

Looks like the pre-release hype is working on JKB Time too, given that the LP's slated for release in just over a month and he still hasn't officially announced it.

Who? What? When?

Good morning.

news has made it to PRP and Blabbermouth now:

PRP: http://www.theprp.com/2017/10/10/news/godflesh-release-post-self-november/

BM: http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/godflesh-to-release-post-self-album-in-november/

Awesomeness! This one sounds more like my cup of tea... I've tried to like the last album, oh I've tried. I saw them twice on tour with that album but it still didn't click for me. It's not bad, but I prefer the Decline & Fall EP.