Pure

Artist: Godflesh
Label: Earache Records
Category: Music

Average customer rating:

Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 745316003221
EAN: 0745316003221
ASIN: B00000582X

Release Date: 1996-02-13

Pure

Related Categories:

General

| Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

Hardcore

| Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

Industrial

General

| Rock | Styles | Music

Alternative Metal

| Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music

Death Metal

| Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music

General

| Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music

Pop Rock

| Pop | Styles | Music

Tracks:

Spite
Mothra
I Wasn't Born to Follow
Predominance
Pure
Monotremata
Baby Blue Eyes
Don't Bring Me Flowers
Love, Hate (Slugbaiting)
Pure II

Similar Items:

Streetcleaner
Messiah
Songs of Love and Hate
Hymns
Godflesh

Amazon.com

Attention Skinny Puppy/Ministry industrial groove freaks: this vaunted U.S. act delivers 80-minutes of hard grooves, hell-hound vocals and profound heaviosity. --Jeff Bateman

Customer Reviews:

clever title.......2006-12-25

where do i start... this album makes me dance... and thrash... and stare vacantly at my shoes... its not really industrial-metal ( NIN , Ministry, Fear Factory etc.) but those bands did cop their style from Godflesh. its not really shoegaze ( My Bloody Valentine, Ride, etc. ) but Godflesh ( Justin Broderick & GC Green ) did borrow some off their plates. Godflesh were like post-apocalyptic scavengers, stuck in a pre-apocalyptic world. Pure is an old album, but i still put it on for a walk across town on a cold grey day. its uplifting, depressing, oppressive and liberating all at the same time.
its different than anything that came before, and nothing new will ever be the same...

Pure brilliance (pun unintended).......2005-04-05

Since I just described Godflesh's sound in some depth last month while reviewing Streetcleaner, this review is going to be a short one, but I still feel it necessary. While Streetcleaner was certainly a great album, those looking for a prime example of Godflesh's sound should pick up this monstrous masterwork posthaste. In tone and mood Pure is somewhat similar to the doomier work of black Sabbath, but its heavy reliance on abrasive guitar noise and pulsating pseudo-industrial beats bears the mark of such latter-day noise merchants as Killing Joke, Big Black, and even the Jesus Lizard. All thematic resemblances aside, however, Godflesh didn't really sound like any of those bands, or like anyone else for that matter. Pure is one of those perception-realigning albums that come along all too rarely, filled with lengthy, epic dirges of the sort that High on Fire and Neurosis have been specializing in lately. The gruff, throaty growl that frontman Justin Broadrick used to such great effect on Streetcleaner is still very much in evidence here, but in other places his vocals are more subtle, even somewhat melodic, blending effortlessly with the music to form mantras of yearning and disaffection that take much of this album well beyond mere aggro territory into the kind of sonic profundity that few artists in any style ever achieve. From the opening industrial-metal anthem Spite, to the mournful swirl of I Wasn't Born to follow, to the metallic scrape of Love, Hate (Slugbaiting), to the ominous collage of conflicting sounds that is the 21-minute closer Pure II, Pure is a testament to human emotion in its purest and bluntest form. Before you exit this mortal coil, you must hear it at least once.

bass that unsettles your bowels.......2004-06-17

like having your netherregions simaltaneously assaulted in a loving way by a planer and/or cheese-grater and lemon /or lime, depending on personal preference/ juice from one of those odd plastic dispensers..a fist to cuffs bout with herr leonard where his good graces will not allow you to fall down before he wants you to..i think i once got lost in the last track of the album /'pure ii' if i remember correctly its title //which is a distillation of an over three hour noisescape, i believe// /on a basementbed and fartoomuch from behind the counter of the local apothecary in a heavenly haze of abandon..no, in seriousness, an album to satisfy the urge to explore the bottom treads of your opa's baumaschine..

Highly Original Sound.......2004-04-23

Although the now disbanded Godflesh (featuring Justin Broadrick of Napalm Death fame) are in the same category as bands such as Fear Factory, Ministry, and Pitchshifter, they do not sound anything like any of those acts. This is why I give this, Godflesh's second album of note, a very high rating: originality. The sound is just so cool, not like that cliched techno-pop that's getting WAAAAAAAY too much radio airplay. Track 2 (Mothra) is a pretty cool video as well. Also, the last song (Pure II) is over 21 minutes long! If you are into techno but want something a little less cliched (and heavier), check this out.

Pure.......2003-07-14

This is GF's follow up to the Slavestate ep and I'm happy
to report it's a better one. Pure doesn't hold a candle
to Streetcleaner- which is considered to some their finest hour.
This cd shreads with melancholy bleakness that few bands
could tap into. The songs are like dirges into the human
psyche- with cold and mechanical precision. The bleak harsh
feedback ridden guitar tone is still there accompanying
the wall of bass that has become a GF trademark. Elements of
experimentation are apparent throughout the disc the good thing is it's the kind of experimenting I enjoy and less of the dance
elements of Slavestate. GF seems to be a bit more open minded to

Music Album:

Music Album

Music Album

Music CD

Masquerade ~ Samantha Siva

Look What I Found ~ Daryl Sherman

Native Dancer ~ Wayne Shorter

Mouldy Five Featuring Sammy Rimington

Wild Is the Wind ~ Nina Simone

In San Fransico ~ Cannonball Adderley

Canciones De Oro ~ Concha Piquer

Paulo Goulart & Nicete Bruno Contam Joao E Maria ~ Paulo Goulart, Nicete Bruno

Musica Dentro ~ Pooh

Aztec Dances ~ Xavier Quijas Yxayotl