Justin K Broadrick interviewed by BrooklynVegan

Klaus Kinski of BrooklynVegan recently conducted an in-depth interview with Justin K Broadrick of Jesu-fame. An excerpt from the chat follows below.

BrooklynVegan: What’s next for Jesu? Final?

Justin K Broadrick: “The Jesu Opiate Sun EP on Caldo Verde for October 27th. I’ll begin writing the new Jesu album come October, which will lead to the recording of this new full length in January 2010. The next full length Final album is The Apple Never Falls Far From the Tree for the Tone Float label and will be a double vinyl… most of this is recorded and will be completed around the same time I write the Jesu album.”

Brooklyn Vegan: While in Godflesh, did you feel that your fans had certain expectations as to what Godflesh was supposed to sound like, and therefore feel pressured to create records that catered to those expectations?

Justin K Broadrick: “Maybe. This filtered through eventually I think. The Hymns album may have somewhat subconsciously catered to these expectations, a handful of songs only, but I think this was there. I always felt Godflesh was essentially a post punk band. Post punk bands for me, when I was young, were the epitome of fresh and exciting and breaking down all barriers. I mean, Killing Joke not only sounded abstract and punky in 1980, they were also highly informed by dub/reggae and the space within this music… delay / echo on the vocals in Killing Joke was almost unheard of in regular punk rock during these periods, for example.

For me Godflesh came from post punk and then infused a bastardized form of metal, even usurped industrial music in its, for me, truest form -Throbbing Gristle, SPK, Test Department, Whitehouse and so on. I think anything that absorbs so much eclectic music is destined to be marginalized to some extent both by critics and fans alike. It’s asking too much of people on a large scale to comprehend something that absorbs a vast breadth of sound.”

Continue reading: An interview with Justin K. Broadrick – BrooklynVegan

Tags: BrooklynVegan, Godflesh, Greymachine, jesu, Justin K Broadrick

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