Posts Tagged ‘Justin Broadrick’

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

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

Greymachine’s Justin Broadrick has a warning for his fans

Posted on Thursday, July 30th, 2009

Matt Debenedictis of  Noisecreep recently conducted an interview with Justin Broadrick. An excerpt from the interview follows below.
If you like the musical-landscape-mixing melodies and heavy drone of Justin Broadrick’s main gig Jesu, he has a warning for you in regard to his newest musical venture Greymachine.
“I am making it ...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