“Music, for me, is rarely complete,” says GODFLESH mastermind Justin Broadrick, “but it has to reach a point where enough is enough. Creatively, there has to be self-discipline. One has to end it.”
Broadrick is primarily referring to the nebulous process of writing and arranging songs into their various potential shapes, but he could just as easily be describing GODFLESH‘s imminent conclusion. Just three years after the hypnotic crunch of ‘Purge’, 25 years after an uncertain hiatus that nearly scuttled the band, and 38 years since the band’s inception, Broadrick and bassist-at-arms Ben Green set out to mercilessly crush this cold world with their tenth and penultimate album, ‘Decay’, incoming September 25, 2026 on Relapse.
After a nine-year hiatus, GODFLESH again flickered awake, and the ‘Decline & Fall’ EP ushered in another fertile era that treated us to the violent return record, ‘A World Lit Only By Fire’, and its more texturally nuanced follow-up, ‘Post Self’.
When ‘Post Self’ concluded, Broadrick stopped, because he no longer felt GODFLESH was needed. But during the pandemic lockdown of 2020, further fires flared in Broadrick‘s mind — in the middle of the night, as he tells it — and GODFLESH blazed anew, this time with almost overwhelming results.
Having joined forces now with Relapse Records, GODFLESH is ready to unleash an even bolder, bleaker series of sounds in ‘Decay’. These songs arrive shortly after Broadrick released a public statement about major abdominal surgery he underwent earlier this year.
‘Decay’ track listing:
01. Master And Slave
02. Living/Ending
03. Feral Colony
04. Fear Of Man
05. Fodder
06. Consume Me
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