@@DeadAccount97 I can see why. Justin's personality and ideas, which have inspired the music and the themes he touches on in the music, have always come from a place of vulnerability and self-doubt. it's partly what makes the music so great and so relatable. I can totally see why he'd hate how he comes off this interview, he must've had a rush from being coked up or something.
In April 1991 when Earache's Grindcrusher tour came through town and played the Country Club, Krk and I got there early specifically to interview Godflesh for Flipside. We knocked on the door of their tour bus, but only G.C. Green aka Ben the bassist and their sound guy were there. They said Justin and Paul had gone off somewhere and wouldn't be back until it was time to play, so we shrugged and interviewed only Ben... we figured it was better than nothing. And he did give us a pretty good interview. Now 30 years later I finally find out where the hell Justin and Paul were.
I can speak for myself, but I think the visual imagery for Godflesh is quite disturbing and the lyrics as well to a degree...just take a look at the Streetcleaner cover art and tell me that it isn't disturbing to some extent.
Justin calls the Beach Boys "the most extreme, most faraway thing we can think of." Well, he's not wrong about that. It just threw me for a loop to hear a METAL FRONTMAN say that! LOL! And it's weird to hear that G.C. Green being a die hard Beach Boys fan when just one look at him and you think that he's into The Clash. The strange auras that surround band members when you develop an outside impression of them...and THEN...the unexpected secrets they share. Things you'd never imagine in a million years that would be associated with them. That's why I love musicians like this. The mysteries that surround them that otherwise hide pretty common things that they share with others. I mean G.C. Green's love for The Beach Boys is a dime a dozen compared to, say, Justin K's love for Krautrock, which isn't as common among music lovers.
I’ll also throw in Einsturzende Neubauten (particularly their early work), Zeni Geva, Converge, the first Scorn album (also featuring Justin Broadrick), SYL, and this newer band called Frontierer. Obvs this is a topic that can invite argument, and while there may be no wrong answers (being “truly heavy” can mean different things to different people), I think something like, say, *Streetcleaner* is unquestionably heavier than a really heavy thing (shout out to Hevy Devy, lol).
I sleep well at night knowing I've seen Lightning Bolt, Boris, Earth, Sunn, Cryptopsy (original lineup playing BMF and NSV). I also got to see Jesu live like 15 years ago. Beautifully heavy live. Would love to see Godflesh proper live someday
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I love how he talks about his own band. So confident and badass. No wonder they’re a band 27 years later.
He admitted years later that he hates this interview for that same exact reason why you (and I for that matter) love this interview, hahaha.
he was tweaked as fuck
@@DeadAccount97 I can see why. Justin's personality and ideas, which have inspired the music and the themes he touches on in the music, have always come from a place of vulnerability and self-doubt. it's partly what makes the music so great and so relatable. I can totally see why he'd hate how he comes off this interview, he must've had a rush from being coked up or something.
In April 1991 when Earache's Grindcrusher tour came through town and played the Country Club, Krk and I got there early specifically to interview Godflesh for Flipside. We knocked on the door of their tour bus, but only G.C. Green aka Ben the bassist and their sound guy were there. They said Justin and Paul had gone off somewhere and wouldn't be back until it was time to play, so we shrugged and interviewed only Ben... we figured it was better than nothing. And he did give us a pretty good interview. Now 30 years later I finally find out where the hell Justin and Paul were.
😂😂😂
Broadrick is a hero of mine, very inspiring and humble.
"The only thing we can relate to is extremities" love that quote. wish I could whip that one out after telling a crazy story.
not only heaviest, but most disturbing too, thats why I love em since I was 13
BoyfromSevilla why would you say disturbing ? (6yrs later lol)
I can speak for myself, but I think the visual imagery for Godflesh is quite disturbing and the lyrics as well to a degree...just take a look at the Streetcleaner cover art and tell me that it isn't disturbing to some extent.
@@DeadAccount97 Streetcleaner cover art is from movie called altered states
At this show, Godflesh played after Napalm Death and someone was stabbed in the pit. True Story.
LEGENDARY
Really?
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Justin calls the Beach Boys "the most extreme, most faraway thing we can think of."
Well, he's not wrong about that. It just threw me for a loop to hear a METAL FRONTMAN say that! LOL!
And it's weird to hear that G.C. Green being a die hard Beach Boys fan when just one look at him and you think that he's into The Clash. The strange auras that surround band members when you develop an outside impression of them...and THEN...the unexpected secrets they share. Things you'd never imagine in a million years that would be associated with them.
That's why I love musicians like this. The mysteries that surround them that otherwise hide pretty common things that they share with others. I mean G.C. Green's love for The Beach Boys is a dime a dozen compared to, say, Justin K's love for Krautrock, which isn't as common among music lovers.
Have had techno animal on repeat this year, time to dig out street cleaner 😃
I love Justin Broadrick, despite his heavy, oppressive music with Godflesh. G.C. Green and himself are sweethearts really.
took me three days to completely recover from the earache... and the gig lasted approx 2 hrs... It was.... well... extreme, to say the least
I haven't seen this since 1994 on vhs! Thank you!
Swans, these guys (G'flesh), Lightning Bolt, and Boris. Heaviest bands ever. also Earth.
Sunn O)))?
Also Cryptopsy, Les Rallizes Dénudes, Pestilence, Deicide
I’ll also throw in Einsturzende Neubauten (particularly their early work), Zeni Geva, Converge, the first Scorn album (also featuring Justin Broadrick), SYL, and this newer band called Frontierer. Obvs this is a topic that can invite argument, and while there may be no wrong answers (being “truly heavy” can mean different things to different people), I think something like, say, *Streetcleaner* is unquestionably heavier than a really heavy thing (shout out to Hevy Devy, lol).
I sleep well at night knowing I've seen Lightning Bolt, Boris, Earth, Sunn, Cryptopsy (original lineup playing BMF and NSV). I also got to see Jesu live like 15 years ago. Beautifully heavy live. Would love to see Godflesh proper live someday
We've got identical music taste lmao. Btw, Brian Chippendale of LB has once said that Godflesh is one of his favorite bands.
FUCKIN HEAVIEST BAND EVER...
~STILL~
Mental note: Work this in to your day to day conversations: "the only thing we can relate to is extremities" Favorite JKB interview of all time
i know them very well... even seen em playing live recently... my ears are still bleeding....
If I end up in mma......
I found my entrance song
STILL the heaviest 9 years later
The beginning is awesome.
awesome material!!! Thanks! :)
You should try listening to Swans, to say the very least, they are the most brutal displays of self destruction in a musical sense, ever.
THIS IS FUCKING GOLD!
yeah nerds make the heaviest music.. everybody knows..
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U.S. TOUR THIS OCTOBER. MHM
sep 16 here queens nyc 🤘🤘
Y de pronto en medio de la entrevista... South of Heaven!!! jajaja.
HAHAHA! At 1:15 I almost pissed my pants...
When was this??? I was in my teens when these guys were out and they look so young! I'm assuming this a few years after, not 2011!
early 90s probably
About 91/92
April 1991 during the US Grindcrusher tour.
Seen them live? My goodness, I can't even explain the jealousy that I'm expressing towards you.
@ptola heaviest band, but someone screams out "fuck u putos" in this interview not cool lol
Maybe that was the dude who stabbed someone during Napalm Death later that night. EDIT: or during Godflesh's set like that other guy said.
Un Sonido casi inclasificable, pero que ya no se da mucho hoy en día.
Haha so young