Godflesh deconstruct the songs, crank up the gut-wrenching bass, and lead us through a nightmarish steel factory of clanking, rage, and mechanized motions.
26 songs (9 covers and a “bonus track” called “I Ate Joe King’s Breakfast”), many of which were released on 7″ with cool-ass pictures of guns and strippers.
Not an elderly Mississippi bluesman with a bottomless reservoir of righteous anger. Instead, we get four deadend kids who dig drinkin’, drivin’, and gamblin’.
Recorded live at the Trocadero in San Francisco, Exodus returns from the depths of hell (or at least the bargain bin) fronted by original madman Paul Baloff.
Four CDs break up 84 classics into: songs released between 1956-’58, ’58-’61, ’62-’69, and ’69-’77, which includes six Sun recordings, and six Country Classics.
An enthralling, harrowing experience, denying the simplified roles women in music have backed themselves into, speaking for one rather than pandering to all.