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#Godflesh will be performing in Riga next Saturday (11 Oct). This is important. #JustinKBroadrick is not just one of the most trailblazing artists in metal, being a vocalist of the first #NapalmDeath album and starting the genre of industrial metal. But he is a true auteur of metal - a world where auteurism is very rare.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoK7dPaGQ0U&list=RDAoK7dPaGQ0U&start_radio=1

Godflesh - Body Dome Light (Official Audio)

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Sven Vabar Oct 5, 2025

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Metal has usually been too much confined by the boundaries of subculture(s), but JK Broadrick has organically mixed very different kinds of extreme metal, post punk, hip hop, drum'n'bass, dub, ambient and shoegaze with no regards to unwritten rules of some subculture whatsoever. This is very rare. Who else can be called auteur in metal? #TrentReznor maybe - a disciple of Broadrick.

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Sven Vabar Oct 5, 2025

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I started out as a big fan of #Jesu in late 2000s and mostly didn't get Godflesh. But I gradually started to get them. These days I still very much like older Jesu stuff but Godflesh is the metal act I listen to most often. Interestingly, Jesu hasn't put out any good records since 2010. However, all three albums by Godflesh that are released after their reunion (2014, 2017, 2023) are great. How can one artist be so "uneven" in different projects?