Songs of Love and Hate (Godflesh)
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Songs of Love and Hate is Godflesh
's fourth official album
. It was released in 1996 on Earache Records
. This album shows a slight change in Godflesh's sound, incorporating more electronica and hip-hop elements while toning down the crushing heaviness of earlier releases. This is the first Godflesh release to include full lyrics, as well as a studio drummer, Bryan Mantia
.
Godflesh
Godflesh are an English industrial metal band from Birmingham, England. Originally known as Fall of Because, they formed in 1988 by Justin K. Broadrick and G.C. Green and disbanded in 2002. Godflesh's innovative music is widely regarded as a foundational influence on industrial metal and post-metal...
's fourth official album
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
. It was released in 1996 on Earache Records
Earache Records
Earache Records is a heavy metal-oriented record label based in Nottingham, UK and New York, USA. It helped to pioneer extreme metal by releasing many of the earliest grindcore and death metal records in the period 1988-1994.-History:...
. This album shows a slight change in Godflesh's sound, incorporating more electronica and hip-hop elements while toning down the crushing heaviness of earlier releases. This is the first Godflesh release to include full lyrics, as well as a studio drummer, Bryan Mantia
Bryan Mantia
Bryan "Brain" Mantia is a contemporary rock drummer. He has played with bands like Primus, Guns N' Roses, Praxis and Godflesh, and with other popular performers such as Tom Waits, Bill Laswell, Bootsy Collins and Buckethead...
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Track listing
- Wake – 4:19
- Sterile Prophet – 4:19
- Circle of Shit – 4:53
- Hunter – 4:40
- Gift from Heaven – 7:45
- Amoral – 4:57
- Angel Domain – 3:55
- Kingdom Come – 5:34
- Time, Death and Wastefulness – 6:13
- Frail – 5:25
- Almost Heaven (CD-only bonus track) – 5:41
Reception
| Year | Publication | Country | Accolade | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Terrorizer | United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages... |
"Albums of the Year" | 2 | |
| 1996 | The Wire The Wire (magazine) The Wire is a British avant garde music magazine, founded in 1982 by jazz promoter Anthony Wood and journalist Chrissie Murray. The magazine initially concentrated on contemporary jazz and improvised music, but branched out in the early 1990s to various types of experimental music... |
United Kingdom | "Albums of the Year" | 39 |
Personnel
- G. C. Green – bass guitarBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
- J. K. Broadrick – guitarElectric guitarAn electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
, vocals - Bryan MantiaBryan MantiaBryan "Brain" Mantia is a contemporary rock drummer. He has played with bands like Primus, Guns N' Roses, Praxis and Godflesh, and with other popular performers such as Tom Waits, Bill Laswell, Bootsy Collins and Buckethead...
– drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....