Pure

Godflesh

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 13, 1996)
• Original Release Date: 1992
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Earache Records
• ASIN: B00000582X
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #199,337 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Spite

2. Mothra

3. I Wasn't Born to Follow

4. Predominance

5. Pure

6. Monotremata

7. Baby Blue Eyes

8. Don't Bring Me Flowers

9. Love, Hate (Slugbaiting)

10. Pure II

Editorial Reviews

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

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pure, July 13, 2003

By	Mark Golde (Warwick RI United States) - See all my reviews

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
hip hop elements without loosing it's brute force. A fine effert indeed.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Godflesh's best, December 11, 2001

By	"[e-mail]" (Brooklyn, NY United States) - See all my reviews

First, a correction. Contrary to underwhelmingly brief review by Amazon staffer Jeff Bateman, Godflesh hail from Birmingham, England. Founding members Justin Broadrick and Ben Green, in fact, played in the earliest mid-80's incarnation of those godfathers of Grindcore, Napalm Death.

At any rate, Pure is the apotheosis of the Godflesh sound, a heady mixture of synthetic backbeat and crunching guitar. But unlike earlier Godflesh releases, this album positively swings. The beats are much more inventive here, catapulting the material beyond grindcore or even industrial. Although many later industrial/metal acts took a lesson or two from the Godflesh playbook, none have since equaled the power or fury of this one great release.

And it sounds just as heavy, hypnotic and mysterious as it did the day it was released.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This was the record that cured my writer's block., August 8, 2001

By	Serdar S. Yegulalp "carbon-based unit" (Huntington, NY United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I know that sounds like a bizarre claim to make, but it's God's own truth. "Pure" is one of the very, VERY few albums in my collection -- thousands of discs spanning jazz to noise to Weird Al -- that I find myself coming back to again and again, and finding something new in it every time.

I discovered this album not long after it was released, in the summer of 1992. In the years before I had been a pretty prolific writer, but then came a year and a half in which I didn't write anything at all. Trying to do anything creative was like trying to squeeze fruit juice out of beach sand.

Out of nowhere I blundered into "Pure," thanks to a mention in PULSE! magazine that drew my interest. I'd never heard of them before; it was always good to find a new band with some degree of uniqueness. That and they had a name that damn near inspired envy in me.

"Pure" is eight songs (plus two bonus tracks) that are put together as carefully and with as much force and power as any bunch of symphonies you care to name. Every track is golden in some way; everything sticks to you; everything makes you come back for more. The music pummels you, barks at you, and dares you to feel something when everything and everyone around you seems to be determined to make you feel nothing. And in my case, it presented me with images that amounted to a story. I started writing again shortly after that and I haven't stopped since.

It has been about a decade since this album first reached me, and every time I throw it on, it never fails to explode with the same thrills that it did the first time. Rare, that -- like steak.