Posts Tagged ‘jesu’

Album of the day: Jesu – Opiate Sun

Posted on Saturday, February 13th, 2010

Jesu - Opiate Sun

Lovingly pinched from Pitchfork: The EP might be the ideal format for Justin Broadrick’s music, regardless of his alias. Whether he’s trying to erase your head via concrete-slab guitars in Napalm Death, reduce techno to a series of clockwork hammerblows with Final, or massage your pleasure centers with neo-shoegaze in Godflesh, Broadrick’s music has a laudable singularity. The three-or-four-song dose mainlines his all-consuming mood of the moment without the potential dilution of trying to fill up a CD.

Broadrick claims to be channeling his long-unused (or presumed non-existent) pop instincts via Jesu, and the band’s DNA always has too much of hard rock’s cathartic oomph and pop’s peaks and valleys to pass for ambient. But Jesu’s extended-players like Silver, Lifeline, and now Opiate Sun do seem to bring out Broadrick’s more memorable riffs and choruses. If nothing else, they foreground those riffs and ringing climaxes in a way that the hour-plus ebb-and-flow of Jesu or Conqueror isn’t designed to do.

Opiate Sun isn’t as good as the all-over bodiless sparkle of Lifeline, which may be the best non-collaborative release in Broadrick’s unwieldy discography. It’s more of a Jesu sampler, a four-song distillation of the band’s major modes, with some of Broadrick’s most accessible, ingratiating songwriting– radio-ready if not for the tempos and the fuzz.

Continue reading:  Pitchfork: Album Reviews: Jesu: Opiate Sun.

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Godflesh Mainman Justin K Broadrick Doesn’t Rule Out Possibility Of New Material

Posted on Saturday, February 6th, 2010

Godflesh the industrial metal band from Birmingham, England which formed in 1988 by Justin K. Broadrick (guitar, vocals, and programming) and G.C. Green (bass) and disbanded in 2002, will perform at this year’s installment of the Hellfest, set to take place June 18-20, 2010 in Clisson, France. This will mark ...read more

Roadburn’s Album of the Decade: Electric Wizard – Dopethrone

Posted on Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

The votes are in, the points have been awarded and the math has been done. More than 150 of you have taken the time to forward your Top 10 list for the Roadburn Album of the Decade.
Here then is your list (and a stunning list it is). ...read more

Tom Gabriel Warrior announces the first bands for Only Death Is Real event at Roadburn 2010.

Posted on Thursday, November 19th, 2009

Tom Gabriel Warrior, the founder of Swiss pioneers Hellhammer, Celtic Frost, and now TRIPTYKON has announced the first confirmed acts to appear at his curated event, titled Only Death Is Real, appearing  at Roadburn  Festival 2010 in Tilburg, Netherlands on Friday, April 16th.
Following is a ...read more

Justin K Broadrick interviewed by BrooklynVegan

Posted on Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

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 ...read more

CraveOnline reviews Greymachine’s Disconnected

Posted on Monday, August 17th, 2009

On the exact opposite end of the scale are the Greymachine and their new album Disconnected which is a brutal and ugly album. How ugly? Imagine a low flying plane cruising over the remnants of a burned out city filled with desperate people killing each other for basic survival. Take ...read more

For your online listening pleasure: Greymachine, Jesu & The Devil’s Blood

Posted on Friday, August 7th, 2009

There’s some nice, new music online: stream the whole GreyMachine (Jesu’s Justin Broadrick, Isis’ Aaron Turner, Head of David’s Dave Cochrane and Godflesh / Jesu’s Diarmud Dalton) debut album here.
A track of the album, Vultures Descend, has been available as mp3 for some time now. A new Jesu song, Deflated, ...read more

Pitchfork news: Jesu + Isis = Greymachine

Posted on Saturday, July 4th, 2009

Basic physics:  When the frontmen of two of the heaviest bands in the world get together, they are guaranteed to make something extremely fucking heavy.
Jesu mastermind and former Godflesh frontman Justin Broadrick and Isis leader Aaron Turner have teamed up to form Greymachine, along with fellow Jesu / Godflesh member ...read more

A beginners guide to the music of Swans

Posted on Sunday, May 24th, 2009

Swans are perhaps the single biggest influence on the burgeoning doom / sludge / drone scene aside from the obvious likes of Black Sabbath. New York’s Dan Bukszpan wrote a beginners guide to the music of Swans:
One of the unexpected wonders of being in my band, Slow Horse, is that ...read more