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GODFLESH
1989 - Streetcleaner.
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October 9, 1989 - 2024: 35 years of: Streetcleaner.

Extreme deconstruction.

Nowhere in modern times an LP has been so loud, so inhuman and so mechanical. Abrasive and devastating, the Streetcleaner LP is the industrial / extrememetal album all industrial / extrememetal albums are benchmarked against. Behold the holy communion of GODFLESH.

From England and led by ex-NAPALM DEATH guitarist, now also singer / programmer Justin Broadrick ...GODFLESH's second explosion is a bold statement of mighty trust krushing power during the developing underground-scene. Along bassist G.C. Green and second guitarist Paul Neville, the power-tool trio uses an electronic-drums for rhythms. Hail the Alexis HR-16.

The opener "Like Rats" instantly brings walls down as it is a bludgeoning knock-out. Massive guitar-riff, massive deep sub bass and an epileptic drum-machine pattern ...lethal, hypnotic and effective. The demented repetitive machine-gun "Pulp" drills deep inside your subconscious for a full 4:16sec of pure demanufacturing mayhem ...you will never be the same, never.

"Life Is Easy" is an older re-recorded dark melodic epic, warped in distorted low-end frequencies. Samples from serial-killer Henry Lee Lucas sets the morbid mood for the powerful "Streetcleaner" title-track, with a tormenting typhoon of feedbacks and jackhammering-rhythms that turns the brain into liquid-stew. Yet the classic cataclysmic "Christbait Rising" is still the track the entire industrial-scene is leveled with. You can imagine buildings imploding and lifeless bodies trashing the city's landscape ...lovely beautiful apocalypse.

Extreme conditions demand extreme responses.

Brutal 1989, when extreme-music was gaining new grounds: SWANS high on nitroglycerine. Exciting times for hard-edge sounds and GODFLESH were a breath of fresh-air and fully part of the ear ache mosh. It is now safe to go out now ...the streets have been cleaned.

Now 35 years young and the soundscapes displayed on Streetcleaner have yet being matched. GODFLESH reshaped the scene and the effects of Streetcleaner totally grindcrushed the end of this decade. After a couple of EPs, the cold world vibe shall be modernized with 1992's Pure CD.

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Streetcleaner = full LP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU1nJIJEzgM&list=PL6_qhP3eWX5Owfj_dPVOofsesH3jRtIOo
The Peel sessions in 1989
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbI8JoqM18M
Interview in West-Hollywood in 1990
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F5T7ZwYuAA
Live in Germany in 1990
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WwmQDnJkhk

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NAPALM DEATH