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GODFLESH Announces New Album 'Decay', Shares 'Living/Ending' Single
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.
Across the decades, GODFLESH emerged as an undisputed metal trailblazer, perhaps even a genre unto themselves. As the 1980s crumbled into the 1990s, GODFLESH hit the heavy music world with all the force of the Yucatán asteroid. Upon impact, debut full-length album "Streetcleaner" vaporized anything in its immediate vicinity, wholly enrapturing its initial audience, and as its ash-plume of influence reached every inhabited continent on the planet, lesser music was either rendered extinct or crept toward irrelevance. Thus began an over ten-year reign of sonic destruction through albums like "Pure" and "Hymns" that gripped the guts and colonized the psyche, through EPs like "Slavestate" and "Messiah" that detonated like expertly targeted mortar shells, and through all the experiments with beats and sampling that proved how versatile GODFLESH could be while operating within its own self-imposed boundaries.
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".
"It's all just instinctive," Broadrick says of the band's ebb and flow over the years. "I write and create when appropriate, and as I feel and as I need."
So 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.
"'Decay' was born from the same sessions as 'Purge'," Broadrick declared of the new record's six tracks. "It was one huge pool of songs. I picked what I felt was appropriate for what I wanted to achieve with 'Purge', with the intention of releasing the songs that didn't fit as a new album within a year of 'Purge' being released. Unfortunately, two years passed whilst considering external labels, so that I didn't have to self-release GODFLESH anymore, but it took an awful lot of time to establish a comfortable home for me. The recordings were done, but as usual for me, I did change a lot of stuff once I came back to it."
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.
"Fortunately, all of the recordings for 'Decay' were completed long before the surgery, vocals included… although the back end of a couple of songs were recorded with the hernia itself, and that was a struggle," Broadrick explained. 'I was already aware that the GODFLESH shout, so to speak, was exacerbating the hernia greatly, as was every GODFLESH performance in the lead-up to the surgery once the hernia appeared, and the hernia was mostly caused by year upon year of shouting in GODFLESH. The album was mixed post-surgery, and while I was still in some pain and considerable discomfort, but fortunately GODFLESH is generally me expressing my pain, albeit [usually] mental, philosophical and existential, whereas this was physical pain."
As GODFLESH's active tenure comes to a close, Broadrick shares his gratitude that it was ever his vessel to use as he willed. He says: "It expresses my pain, and I've put my body and soul into this expression for the majority of my existence. I feel quite lucky, because GODFLESH is now physically impossible for me, rendering it useless. I now wish to move out of its constraints, move on creatively with heavy/ugly music to new ground."
"Decay" track listing:
01. Master And Slave
02. Living/Ending
03. Feral Colony
04. Fear Of Man
05. Fodder
06. Consume Me
Photo by Kim Sølve
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