A World Lit Only by Fire (album)
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| Studio album by Godflesh | ||||
| Released | 7 October 2014 | |||
| Recorded | 2012–2014 | |||
| Genre | Industrial metal | |||
| Length | 53:57 | |||
| Label | Avalanche | |||
| Producer | Justin Broadrick | |||
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| Metacritic | 84/100 |
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| Pitchfork | (8.0/10) |
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A World Lit Only by Fire is the seventh studio album by English industrial metal band Godflesh. It was released on 7 October 2014 through band leader Justin Broadrick's own record label, Avalanche Recordings. It is the first studio album of new material Godflesh released in 13 years since Hymns (2001).
The track "New Dark Ages" was released for streaming on 5 August 2014.
After disbanding in 2002, band leader Justin Broadrick formed bands Jesu and Greymachine, and released music under various monikers, including Final. Godflesh reunited in 2010. The band released their first new recording in over 12 years through Decibel magazine's Flexi Series: a cover version of Slaughter's "F.O.D. (Fuck of Death)". The band started working on the album in 2012. On 2 June 2014, Godflesh released the Decline & Fall EP, featuring new material by the band.
The album features an eight-string guitar. In an interview with the French radio station Le 106, Broadrick stated:
"It will be [musically] similar to the first two or three [Godflesh albums]. I just think, like we're playing these shows, we feel very pure about we're doing and honoring the initial intentions with what we originally set out to do. Which, I think, like most bands and musicians and all the rest of it, by the time you get on to your fourth album, it's somewhat of a dilution going on to what you initially tried to achieve. It will definitely sound aggressive and it probably won't sound like any of the other records we've made, but it will have the minimalism of the first few records."
Conversely, in the same interview, bass guitarist G. C. Green said, "It won't sound like the first two record [sic]; it will be more the spirit". Also in an interview with Vice, Broadrick stated, "It's certainly more like Streetcleaner than Hymns." According to the press release of the album, the songs "span the divide between high definition clarity and raw, visceral heaviness, inducing a meditative state via seething minimalism that hinges on ritualistic riff repetition and the tenuous membrane between anxiety-inducing dissonance and cathartic minor key melody."
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