GODFLESH — Pure (review)

GODFLESH — Pure album cover Album · 1992 · Industrial Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
Warthur
Industrial metal pioneers Godflesh advance their sound by incorporating influences from the very earliest phases of the industrial music subgenre, with pieces like Love, Hate (Slugbaiting) and Pure II at points drifting out of metal territory entirely into the sort of sickly, rotting from the inside musical landscapes first exposed to the world in the most disturbing works of Throbbing Gristle or Nurse With Wound. A rather transitional, experimental album, it isn't quite as immediately arresting as Streetcleaner, but it's a decent enough listen for industrial metal fans and suggests a band whose creative process is still very much alive and ongoing. Decent, but not something I see myself revisiting as often as its predecessor.
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