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tiresome. I did a lot of that album by myself, in a very hermit-like state of mind. I was in a technologically obsessed state of mind and I lost sight of what Godflesh should be. The end result was something very eclectic and ambitious that didn't even sound like a Godflesh album. That album is the sound of an identity crisis and we did it in public. I am glad it wasn't promoted well.
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What was going on at the time of my career with Godflesh was an identity crisis. I'd spent a lot of time making that album and it almost sounded like it was a remix of a remix album. There were so many changes going on and it was just a regurgitation of what I had done before. It was really fucking
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is more indebted to electronics and pure noise. The razor-sharp guitars and sweeping, guttural vocals that fans have come to expect from any Godflesh record are still intact, but the pair extend the sound with avenues rarely heard on their proper albums." Ian Christe of
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is the same kind of record Godflesh has been making since its inception... It's just that the duo has pushed the envelope much farther than any of its contemporaries." Chronicles of Chaos critic Paul Schwarz thought: "At 64 minutes,
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is a lot to take in, especially in one sitting, and I find it a little bit of a struggle as an album, but it does have some great tracks and creates a blanket of depressive, atmospheric
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admitted that he "hated" the album as it was the expression of an "identity crisis". Years later, he revised his thoughts, saying that his hatred of
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stated: "Start to finish, this is a beautiful, moody and sincere record from a band most thought had milked its last cow." Ken Hollings of
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The album's closing track, "Live to Lose", was originally recorded in 1995. It was intended to be a vinyl-only bonus track on
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critic John Bush, who described the record as "heavy grindcore with drum machines," wrote: "From the
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on 17 May 1999 in Europe and on 8 June 1999 in North America. As with Godflesh's 1997 remix album
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was "overstated", and that his main issue in the album lies in its more "cringe-worthy moments."
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s Kevin Stewart-Panko also thought that the track "Internal" "acts as an elegiac,
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wrote, "Out of the masterful, combative collection of rants, songs and beats on
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Hollings, Ken (August 1999). "Soundcheck: Godflesh – Us and Them".
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Christe, Ian (October 1999). "Godflesh – Us and Them".
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thought that rather than the lurching stomp of 1992's
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Index

A distorted, blue-tinted photograph of a gargoyle statue
Studio album
Godflesh
Genre
Industrial metal
industrial hip hop
Label
Earache
Producer
Justin Broadrick
G. C. Green
Godflesh
Love and Hate in Dub
In All Languages
industrial metal
Godflesh
Earache Records
Love and Hate in Dub
breakbeats
drum and bass
oldschool jungle
trip hop
hip hop
Justin Broadrick
"Nail"
"Endgames"
media help
Love and Hate in Dub
AllMusic
drum'n'bass

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