Godflesh - "Christbait Rising" Earache Records

[tamaroyalstar]

Streetcleaner and Pure are two albums that changed my life. I still listen to pure when I am going to sleep. Godflesh have that ability to tap into your hidden feelings and bring them alive.

[filc0]

One of the best Godflesh tunes!!!

[sualkkk]

I know them since 1990 and that was an awesome period, only hearing masterpieces from Earache. They were ever my favorite! After them only napalm death, entombed, carcass, carnage, bolt thrower, morbid angel, cathedral, pitch shifter, etc... damn!!! AN ERA THAT WILL NEVER COME BACK...

[warwick2155]

Such a great album, this is one of my fave songs. I love their dark, atmosphere style metal. Godflesh are one of the best

[EYEmusique]

love it! - true pioneers - one of those bands that changed my life - mixing the mechanical sound of an industrial beat with doom metal, cathartic vocals and a bit of funk you can dance to :-)

[gonzoid52]

Oh Yes!

[Maeryck]

I've listened to Godflesh forever, but this is the first time I have seen this vid. Thanks for posting it.

[Jaguarkick]

Don't hold me back, This is my own hell

Christbait, Slugbait, Rise and bring you down

Christbait Rising, In your own mind

Christbait Rising, Bleed dry mankind

[FenderUsa]

this is brilliant

[mixterdeeshay]

how stupid are some of the people posting on this thread??...fark!

[mattowabaka]

@mixterdeeshay To answer your question I'd have to say about 99.8% of those who comment on YouTube vids are perhaps among the stupidest people alive. We're talking troglodytes here. Case in point "it sounds like Fear Factory (which it doesn't) therefore it is Fear Factory". The logic used to arrive at that statement just befuddles me. If you're not familiar with a topic, in this case G-flesh, how hard is it to open a new browser tab and just do a little research before commenting? Sheesh!

[unknownmulatto]

fear factory site godflesh as one of their primary influences...

[oohoohmelikey]

I'm someone who is not in the "know" i'm in the discreet non socialist but sociopathic psychopathic 17 year old stuck in a duality in my mind losing sight of everything.

[piercetapes]

Justin Brodrick is on guitar/vocals. Burton C. Bell was never in GODFLESH

[fatzac86]

people in the "know" blow

[deanchamp]

this made my top 5 songs of all time list i did for a compilation with friends recently. something very special about it that persists

[MetalRulesDan]

@Metitanium I thought about that but then I realized when this band was around, he was really young though. I know when fear factory formed, he was fresh out of high school.

[MetalRulesDan]

The singer's voice reminds me of Burton C. Bell a lot. Which is a good thing. I would love to see Fear Factory cover this song!

[TheDarksun2012]

I'm coming!!!!!

[sonicdruid]

i love this fucking song!!!!

[prinznevsky]

this still creeps me out just like it did back in '90. I got the self-titled the next day, Streetcleaner the day after...

[BiorythmicDrifter]

This song is monumental, this particular piece had a profound effect on me when it came out (still does). This is revolutionary, no one else can touch this.

[skinthewhiterabbit]

just about every song this band did was/is a gem.

[XMxOxRxSX]

i love driving in lonely rainy days

with this track on

[ghostofsedition]

FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARK!

[Klarkalel]

trilha sonora perfeita para assassinatos isolados com requintes brutais de sadismo, sem a presença de deus ou qualquer semelhança de esperança ou fé envolvida, desespero puro e doloroso a

caminho de trevas e escuridao, sem hora para terminar.

Nesta brilhante trilha do horror, é isso que o GODFLESH transmite, simplismente EXTRAORDINARIO!!!!!!!

PS. e é muito pouco para eles, acreditem!

HeLdEr

PiRaCiCaBa

BrAsIl

[anon916]

Yes, this song isn't for every one. But people in the "know" know.......

[subhumanmaster]

amazing crushing yet uplifting

[angelsad16]

bella cazzo

[atomapocalyps]

basz!

[industrymonkey]

Don't hold me back this is my own hell!

Don't hold me back this is my own hell!

Christbait, Slugbait, rise and bring you down!

Christbait, Slugbait, rise and bring you down!

Christbait Rising! In your own mind...

Christbait Rising! Bleed dry mankind!

Christbait Rising! In your own mind...

Christbait Rising! Bleed dry mankind...

Rise...

Awesome lyrics. Awesome music.

[MikeN72]

Thank you for posting. I saw them live back in the early ´90s in the ICA (as far as I can remember), London. I´m sure it was this lot that talked of using a particular bass frequency that would, when they played live, make people in the audience poo-poo and wee-wee in their undercrackers. But then I was very, very drunk

[jessie1cutie]

Awesome song!!

[cisco9x]

No he's not! He's mine

[shawshank73]

Streetcleaner was their best album. I was never as excited with any of the other releases since that one.

[KingBizarre]

indeed, it was a remarkable album. I got turned onto Godflesh back in '90.

[copperkrone]

us and them was pretty sick.

[jfeuiebf]

I like Selfless also, very 'mechanical'

[sludgechimp]

to "666DAEDSIDOG" you prolly wont get this cos you wrote ages ago....dude if you cant find slow brutal and dismal shit around as good as godflesh's 'streetcleaner' album,man check out a band called'''CORRUPTED'''they are a japanese collective that sings in spanish..{now thats brutal!!.0check out a song called'EL MONDO FREO"..that fucker goes for over an hour and will put you in sludge heaven!!

[mccaslin7575]

Godflesh came on after Napalm Death. STREETCLEANER. Somebody got stabbed in the pit during the Godflesh set. Yikes!

[grofbalazs]

they were the last buffalos of industrial metal

[metaleer1979]

Watch what you say roadrunner used to too. Now... eeeehk

[HamburgerMartyr]

earache records put out some good shit.

[solongforlorn]

ahhhh the memories......

[meatforyourmom]

hey sure shot, i agree with everything minus the melvins comment. even justin has admitted personally and in interviews that he loves buzz and crew and mevins have been a influence on him.

[umbaninja]

Total winner!!!

[defana]

nice audio quality. whats that 56kbit/s?

[OOverflowW]

Streetcleaner album was a masterpiece !

Actually it's STILL a masterpiece

[jfeuiebf]

grooovy!

[SureShotDC]

Fact: if this band were an animal it would eat the Melvins, shit Big Black and power-fuck Einsturzende Neubauten. Forget Ministry, Fear Factory, the Melvins, the Revolting Cocks, NIN, etc. Every band should kneel at the clawed hooves of Godflesh. Period. "Christbait Rising" = best song title ever accompanied by the bleakest chorus ever.

[jfeuiebf]

agree

[mrFyUnCoK]

fear factory took this sound and made it 'bouncier'. what a bunch of hacks, it's a shame no one knows of godflesh but seems to know all about fear factory!

[702blowinsmokeclouds]

Fucking awesome, very under rated band...

[Lethargyca]

stupid propaganda...

[Dubhlais]

No, Khanate's telf titled album is the music of the Apocalypse, this is just a warm-up act, albeit a damned good one.:D

[theddrumdrummer6669]

i agree with this dude completely.

[jasonbigelow]

i agree,but think that instead Khanate should begin the apocolypse,and when the wrath of God comes,this plays.

[puzleboy]

Not... even... close

[Thewonkandfriends]

I expect to hear this music when I arrive in hell.

[jfeuiebf]

that would be 'heaven'

[sunsplash1980]

this is music of the apocalypse

[heavensdead6669]

Panic DHH are one of the only bands I can think of who are still fairly recent and occupy the same kind of territory as this sound.

[mansonrkmc]

I saw Godflesh at an In Store show in Chicago back in 90 or 91. Reckless Records on Broadway. They played Medusa's later. 40 people there, packed in a record store.

Killer.

[nwarde]

Brutal and raw. They were a great band.

[suckfeast]

this and swans possibly the best thing since a shaved vagina

[tomaszmigdal]

Still kicks ass !!! Mega classic

[cookiemonsterateYOU]

i'm to get to listen to all their songs (when i have the time and not too lazy). i like their melancholic tone of their music without using death grunts(which i love) and drowning sound of the drum machine.

[prawdziwyDumek]

Check out Polish bands called Kobong , Neuma or SAMO - They play something similar to this good shit.

[suckfeast]

old godflesh old pitchshifter these are the sounds we grew up on and glad to have done so

these bands and good speed before all the retards started making the put you in the hospital garbage the call tweak or whatever

[rossxdeceased]

excellent industrial with extremity

[allrequiredfields]

Note: no makeup, clown masks, pretty long hair, etc. There's just no more legit, interesting, heavy music anymore.

[jubilee64]

Bang on dude, Godflesh made authentic music, real emotion, real power, no need to dress it up with shallow bullshit, ditto early Pitchshifter and Amebix, which is why it still sounds bloody awesome! Can't disguise quality, but any fool can wrap crap up in cheap trappings and call it what its not...Peace

[allrequiredfields]

...and this stuff defied specific classification; I couldn't really even call this 'industrial', it was like dudes that wanted to make heavy sounds, you know? I hate to sound like an old man - and there is some good music going on now - but there's hardly anything heavy like this now that's still quality, and doesn't attract total meat-heads for fans. I guess we're holding out on both sides of the pond for more shit like this that's worth lending an ear.

[666daedsidog]

Dude nothing like this I have heard comes even close

Public Hanging maybe but that is more of a copy of godflesh (still epic though)

I maybe starting to show my age but the glory days of metal are well behind us

The only 'metal' I hear now is this Nu Metal crap

Nothing in the last 5-8yrs or so has anything original

However I live in a small town

Me and a half a dozen mates are true metal heads but unfortunately all the metal comes from me

So If I aint heard it no one in the clan has

Help?

[ROONTANG]

The glory days of metal aren't gone. They're still here. What you're seeing on MTV and hearing on the radio is mearly a pathetic attempt by record companies to cash into the genre. There are HUNDREDS of fantastic metal bands still touring and releasing killer albums. Don't let the nu-metal mallcore shit fool you, metal is still going strong.

[666daedsidog]

I do agree that there must be hundreds if not thousands ofexcellent metal bands out there

At the moment im into Finntroll, Falkenbach and Korpiklaani (going through a folk metal stage)

However when I wrote that message I was no doubt half cut on a bottle of Jim Beam and didnt express my thoughts clearly

It was more a cry for help

Im always on the look out for something that sounds like no other

In the last few years im finding it harder to do

(i never go by radio or mtv perish the thought)

[ROONTANG]

No worries mate, Jim Beam will fuck you right up! ^_^ I'm enjoying some Captain Morgan rum at the moment. ;)

[666daedsidog]

Rock on

Im on beer tonight

As im typing this Obituary - Kill for me is on

Iv drunk 13

another 11 to go

I think im gonna be shitfaced

Oh now its Bile - Your a fucking loser

Fuck im glad the woman is at work she dosnt let me listen to my music

[puzleboy]

Totally. Seek thee some black metal or death metal, my friends.

[dougem9er]

Agoraphobic nosebleed and pig destroyer rock...

[666daedsidog]

Im liking Pig Destroyer

Cheers dude

[Edd731]

They are both fucking great, like Godflesh.

[Zodist]

@666daedsidog,aaarrhhh,i remember public hanging playing in Sydney back in the mid 90's with Alchemist,Aftermath,Cruiform and so on.Good old day when death metal was on the rise in Australia.Cheers.Doom and Gloom.

[pinholedstars]

allrequired...you're wrong.

There's plenty good heavy music that isn't just for the cro-magnon set.

check out Zu. Check out Noxagt. Check out Jesu, the guy from Godflesh's new band. Check out Intronaut.

There's plenty new music that has little to nothing to do with hardcore.

[chthonic1666]

Anyone have any recommendations of music similar to streetcleaner?

[MindTransmission]

Get Pitch Shifter's first LP Industrial and the follow-up EP Submit. You won't be disappointed.

[MetalManiac72]

Can't find it, but PSI is ok.

[djheadbanger]

Deadworld have a very Godflesh sound, tho it's not the early Godflesh sound, but the ladder. Back in the days when I listened to this kind of stuff they only had one album, but that may have changed. I haven't listened to them in years. Don't know if that helps but whatever.

[leliorising]

Agreed with MindTransmission. You will find some of the songs on youtube. Sounds like what Godflesh might sound with Burton C Bell doing vocals from his Soul of a new machine days. It doesnt sound so much like Pitchshifters latter stuff so much.

[UncannyJerry]

early SWANS stuff. preceded Godflesh

[Godtech88]

Fear Factory - Soul of a New Machine (1992)

by 70% it was inspired by Godflesh and 30% Death

[Godtech88]

There is also an experimental band called Neurosis who play similar music...

[randcfan]

Neurosis are gods, I am new to godflesh, but keep hearing about them since I am hugely into sludge, neurosis being my favourite band. any reccomendations on where to start?

[lurchbag]

Streetcleaner

[lurchbag]

Streetcleaner

[pinholedstars]

Start and end with Swans.

Check youtube for the live tape "A Long Slow Screw"

[doops128]

this is true

[snegelslurkin]

saw them at the channel in boston back in 91 , so great !!!

[ludik69]

best band ever !!!!!!!!!!!! so pure ^^

[tekbear23]

GODLESH was the best band ever - ou may kill me for this, but i think they were even better than SWANS, even if they kindof invented it. isn't a student supposed to be better than his teacher?

[swans1997]

Nah, in this case teacher is better than student. I like though.

[djheadbanger]

yea this is way better than the Swans, sorry. Also, you have to take into consideration the evolution of Godflesh. For example, the album "Us And Them" does not sound anything like the "Streetcleaner" album, let alone the Swans.

Anyways, Streetcleaner is my second favorite Godflesh album. With me being a producer and all, I have to say "Us And Them" is pure genius. The production was second to none and years ahead of anything else at that current time. Perfect blend of breakbeat and metal

[allrequiredfields]

With you being a producer and all, can I have your autograph?

[Terrorizer89]

Godflesh rules and so does this song.

anyone terribly disagree with me?

[caosvalencia]

no one can, because it's just the plain truth

[fatzac86]

@Terrorizer89 at least 1; anyone can scream and bang on a guitar, are there any musicians in this group?

[heathward]

@fatzac86 this whole album has some seriously crafty guitar work and drum machine loops. it's not just "screaming and banging", as you say. this album was huge for not only the dark metal demographic, but basically any artist or listener that had a tatse for metal. i know, i was around when this album came out. it was big time and everybody was talking about it...EVERYBODY. mike patton from faith no more deemed streetcleaner his favorite album of all time back in 1990. JB is a metal pioneer.

[xfirebomb]

Labelling this band is senseless. Either good or band is a better acid test. Kafka was original but also admitted to influence. If you are alive, you will be influenced by eberything around you. It's the whole point in writing lyrics and being in a band in the first place. Great fucking band.

[fatmanosman]

If you're going to show your influences you can do alot worse than feed off a band as awesome as Swans!

[djheadbanger]

as far as streetcleaner and early godflesh goes, yes it's heavily swans influenced, but listen to Us And Them, with the breakbeats and dark hip hop grooves, very original shit. "I, Me, Mine" "Us And Them" and "Witch Hunt" are my fave godflesh songs. I still like all their albums tho, except for slavestate... too cheesy industrial for me.

[audiodead]

This song made a big impact on me when I heard it back in the 80's. It was so different from all the thrash and hardcore that was being produced at that time.

[artic300]

YESSSS

[artic300]

Streetcleaner got me.

[steinber]

SWANS  COP

[sergeantshroom]

Justin K Broadrick has admitted that Swans was one of the major influences on Godflesh. Ex-Swans drummer Ted Parsons also became drummer for Godflesh and is currently also a member of Justin Broadricks new band Jesu.

[smkinnear]

Parsons was only a member of Swans for a short time, his main band for many years were Prong.

[bloodlock87]

true. there's no denying that broadrick aped SWANS, but i'll be damned if he didn't do an excellent job. pity he never covered Power For Power

[WetWalnuts]

Godflesh is still the heaviest, most brutal, most utterly nihilistic band on earth...long live Godflesh!

[Omnisk]

Agreed :)

[RONSBM1488]

not the heaviest, but that's not necesarely a good think though. Godflesh owns, pioneers of industrial metal/industrial grindcore

[BLOODFORTHEBLOODGODD]

thanks for the vid

[RipperofSouls]

sounds like ministry.

[Fraeg]

hmm al and justin have both been pushing the envelope for many years now.

[CrowleyHead]

True, but Justin's definitely a influence for Al. I mean, look at "Filth Pig".

[vanishingofemptiness]

they did this after.

[GreatYawgmoth]

Ministry sounds like Godflesh. But I think in an other way, Ministry are pioneers too as well as Fear Factory and they are both mainley influenced by Godflesh, which are influenced by Throbbing Gristle and Swans. I think that is not "copying".

[CrowleyHead]

More Big Black than Gristle. Check out "Racer X" if you need an example.

[taoist77]

'Streetcleanr' the first ever 'industrial metal' album. No streetcleaner,No psalm69.

It's that simple. And sorry but i don't really consider ministry to be 'industrial' They're a million miles away from TG,SPK.etc

[master10734]

This is real heavy(the true heavy aspect).

[WindowLickernz]

Oh hell yes! When this first came out I bought the LP and just fell in love with it, Redshafted you are right in saying this just shat on everything else in its day. Streetcleaner influenced me into starting an electronic metal band, we used an amiga 500 to generate drums and samples and my guitar was used thru a peavy bass amp with a boss heavy metal pedal to get it as heavy as possible.

Godflesh Streetcleaner was my fav LP for the longest time over anything else.

[redshaftedflicker]

Ripped even the extreme metal world a new asshole when this came out. Alienated most, converted some and blew everyone away. Makes most "metal" sound extremely weak in comparison.

[fromdeepitcame]

Love it! takes me back. JB Rocks

[sadfuk]

My mates and me one summer took magic mushrooms many times to the first album and street cleaner.We let go of reality that summer I can tell you. Great times.Now we all have jobs and mortgages. Don't do drugs kids.

[404system404]

LMAO! I feel your pain... :)

[Noarderwyn]

Best track ever by Godflesh.....

[daverawks]

This was one CD that I could really sink into and just let go of reality. Am I the only one here that had that experience???

[daverawks]

Anyone looking for this CD still? I have it. Let me know and I will send it to you. The only problem with the CD is that the Audio level seems to be lower than normal. Anyone else notice this problem?

[anarchartist]

this is the very first Godflesh song i ever heard. this song along with Like Rats, on a Earache compilation cassette tape.

i have been a huge fan of Justin K Broadrick ever since.

lovin it.

thanks for posting.

[CaseofGlass]

This album is one of the most brilliant albums ever done. This is art, people

[GuyInnagorillasuit]

"Without Godflesh there wouldnt have been been a surge of industrial metal bands."

I still like Godflesh in spite of that fact.

[ryolite38]

Okay there have been some shitty ones along the way.

[Bloodfromtheair]

Classic Godflesh song. I tried to introduce Streetcleaner to so many people and I always got negative response. How they fail to see the brilliance of that record is beyond me...

[ryolite38]

How can you get a negative response to Streetcleaner? Without Godflesh there wouldnt have been been a surge of industrial metal bands.

[Ohgr]

Perhaps if you got these people listening to Hymns first, they may respond beter to Streetcleaner later.

[trigger0977]

what a fucking tune i aint herd this for years cheers for posting it!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ryolite38]

Cracking tune dodgy video.