Godflesh - Topic

Godflesh are an English industrial metal band from Birmingham, formed in 1988 by Justin Broadrick and B. C. Green. Before forming Godflesh, the pair worked together in Fall of Because, a band that began in 1982 as O.P.D. and helped lay the groundwork for Godflesh’s formation. Through their fusion of hip hop–derived drum programming, metal riffs, and industrial dissonance, later exploring electronic and dub elements, Godflesh developed a sound widely recognized as foundational to industrial metal and post-metal, and influential across experimental and extreme metal.
The band signed to Earache Records in the late 1980s and released their debut album Streetcleaner to contemporary and lasting acclaim. After the release of their sophomore album Pure and their major label debut Selfless, they started experimenting with live drums as well as hip hop and breakbeat sounds. The resulting albums, Songs of Love and Hate and Us and Them, were followed by Hymns, which saw a simplification of the band's style. Shortly after Green's departure in 2002, Broadrick ended Godflesh and pursued various other projects, such as Jesu.