My search for a C/NC on the new site did not yield any results. Kerble if necessary.

Have been a distant admirer for years, lately been enjoying Purge. Vocals are the weak link for me but bless them for making Alesis drum machines grudgingly acceptable.

How's about it?

More about the first few albums than anything after the post-Jesu-being-done revival with the 9 string djent guitars. Not crap for the track Locust Furnace alone.

biscuitdough wrote: Mon Aug 07, 2023 6:41 pm djent

Genuine question, does playing a guitar with an extra string or two make one "Djent"? I'm not super familiar with the term but from what little know I don't hear a lot of that in Godflesh.

Maybe should be a separate thread or something.

I think it derives from Meshuggah making a rhythmic "duh-jent" sound on every track. I don't recall it being a term until internet kids discovered Meshuggah 20 years late.

I totally love their first record and most of streetcleaner.

Pure is one of my favourite albums of all time. They really hit on an atmosphere that is bleak but not oppressive, mechanised but filled w/ anguish and despair... very powerful for such a limited bag of guit tricks (and being sonically compromised, I'll admit).

Very good band from the start up to and including Selfless, including all the EPs and singles. I do think Streetcleaner is a tad overrated though.

Good on Songs... through to Us and Them.

Patchy thereafter. I though A World... was pretty bad - a lackluster imitation of Streetcleaner through a 'down w/ the kids' lens. It honestly reminded me of the early Pitchshifter records. I liked Purge on first listen but haven't gone back to it yet.

Justin is so bad live that I've stopped paying to see him: tried 4 times and every it was amateurish to the point of embarrassment.

NC overall, though.

I "saw" them at Oblivion Access this year. And of course, by "saw" I mean, I heard them while they played a hundred or so feet away from me while I "saw" the back of someone's head and their camera phone. Seemed cool though.

ErikG wrote: Mon Aug 07, 2023 7:02 pm

biscuitdough wrote: Mon Aug 07, 2023 6:41 pm djent

Genuine question, does playing a guitar with an extra string or two make one "Djent"? I'm not super familiar with the term but from what little know I don't hear a lot of that in Godflesh.

Maybe should be a separate thread or something.

Godflesh are not djent at all, which is why I find it distasteful that they use those goofy things. Apparently it was on some Jesu stuff and I didn't even notice, though.