Godflesh, God, Techno Animal, Jesu etc (S&D/CoD)

http://www.roboticempire.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=3295

Battle Of Mice / Jesu - Split CD (Robotic Empire)
$11.99
Several years in the making, the long-awaited JESU / BATTLE OF MICE split is finally available. Each band has two exclusive, lengthy tracks on this limited edition release. JESU, comprised of the cult-followed Justin K. Broadrick, showcases "Clear Stream" and "Falling From Grace", two pieces towards the darker end of the spectrum he’s created under the JESU moniker. BATTLE OF MICE contribute the two most sinister songs they’ve recorded, "The Bishop" and "Yellow & Black". Heavier than the material found on their "A Day Of Nights" debut yet more dynamic overall, these two final (?) tracks from BATTLE OF MICE compliment the JESU material well. While both bands utilize traditional "heavy" music instruments, they are also unified by usage of keys, atmospherics, and general unique elements thrown in to vary it all. This CD is limited to a one time pressing of 2000 copies and comes housed in a "mini gatefold" CD jacket.

I ordered the vinyl version. Which you can get links to if you follow that link i posted. There's several colour variations.

http://www.piratespress.com/myspaceimg/ROTW031408/ROBO0704.jpg
http://www.roboticempire.com/store/350/bom_jesu_silver225_2.gif
http://www.roboticempire.com/store/350/bom_jesu_clearblack225.gif

and black vinyl

Nice.

pretty!

need to get...unfortunately I've been spending too much money on music as it is. Hopefully I'll order it soon.

shamelessselfpromotion, but i interviewed justin for the guardian recently: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/jul/18/electronicmusic

isn't there supopsed to be another 'official' jesu album out this year?

Battle of Mice - good music, bad vocalist imo

stevie, that was your piece? so it was! hahaha, i linked to it here without realising. really enjoyed it: thank you.

thanks grimly!

http://www.bluecollardistro.com/hydrahead/product_info.php?products_id=2550&cPath=4_135&store=0

Haha, when I saw this bumped my first thought was to go and check Hydrahead to see if the preorder was up yet.

Single-track LP (!!!) and an EP due in summer, plus some other action ... including mention of a School of Seven Bells remix. This I like the sound of.

a School of Seven Bells remix

Nutty.

whoa

New Jesu up for sale on Justins own label
http://www.avalancheinc.co.uk/store.html

is that White Static Demon worth checking out?

I like it. Lots of white noise and feedback in innumerable layers.

New Jesu is the awesome.

The Greymachine disc (Broadrick, Diarmuid Dalton, Dave Cochrane and Aaron Turner) is really, really good. Super heavy in the vein of Ice's Under the Skin.

greymachine are really good. i mentioned that in the metal thread but no one seemed to share my enthusiasm.

it is good

Anything in the vein of Under the Skin sounds awesome.

Both the new Jesu and Greymachine leave me cold. The first is dull, and - for me - too slow to build. The later is just not my bag at all - I've yet to like any music associated with Aaron Turner. Too red-lined, hate the vocals, a touch samey.

However, I absolutely love the White Static Demon album.

Listening to the samples on the Aquarius website and the music sounds great (Ice comparisons totally make sense) but the vocals are pretty annoying. It's hard to tell how much of them there are though.

Bass sounds awesome.

the bass does sound awesome. who is the bassist for this? i think that their contributions and aaron turner's really add a pulse to this album. "wasted" has such an awesome groove to it.

The bassist is Diarmuid Dalton, the drummer is Dave Cochrane. It is Jesu plus Aaron Turner.

Really Cochrane's a bassist?

Or rather does Cochrane really play drums? I thought he was a bassist.

He's the bassist on Under The Skin, for example.

He was also the bassist in God (one of 'em). I didn't know who played what on this disc 'cause I don't have a real copy, just a promo; at one point I had heard that Broadrick was the drummer, though.

All I have's the promo so just bad assumptions from me (Alton was on bass last I saw Jesu).

According to discogs it's a Broadrick on drums and a drum machine, two bassists (Cochrane and Dalton), Broadrick (again) and Turner on guitars and vocals.

That's discogs though so anything could really be going back there.

Two bassists would explain how thick it sounds.

http://greymachine-disconnected.com/

Listening here. "Wasted" is seriously out of fucking control great (dig the awesome "Mentasm"-style stabs.)

This is really good, but it would be so much better with Broadrick on guitar. And even just two tracks with Kevin Martin would have made it a total classic for me. Still a really nice album, though. It really is a bit like listening to some lost Ice album.

At the turn of the New Year, I signed a deal with Ghostly International to develop a new project - Pale Sketcher. Pale Sketcher is intended as a vehicle for me to explore, exclusively and in more detail, the 'electronica' side of jesu.
It occurred to me during the writing of the last Jesu EP 'Opiate Sun' in early 2009, that Jesu, first and foremost, was intended to be a guitar oriented project. The 'electronica' side of Jesu was just an inevitable direction for me, but never satisfied with this battle between guitars and electronica with Jesu, I decided to separate the two directions - Jesu, now, and for the forseeable future, being guitar based exclusively, with Pale Sketcher being the project where I can focus and develop further, the Jesu 'electronica' sound, without need for further fusion or compromise.

Ghostly International saw sense in the concept for this project, when I touched upon this direction with my remix of School Of Seven Bells for Ghostly.

So, forthcoming on Ghostly Intl in July 2010, is, on both CD and digital (vinyl TBA) the entry release into the Pale Sketcher project - the entire out of print Jesu release 'Pale Sketches' demixed by Pale Sketcher! Two further remixes, one by King Midas Sound and one from Tower Of Light, will accompany the release, formats TBA.

An extract of 'Plans That Fade (Faded Dub)' from 'Pale Sketches Demixed' can be heard on the release page for the forthcoming Ghostly Intl compilation 'Ghostly By Night', to be released April 13th 2010. Please go here -

http://ghostly.com/releases/ghostly-by-night

More Pale Sketcher news soon.

Jesu full length LP 3 still in demo stage. Hoping for recording to begin in August 2010, this new LP will be released through Caldo Verde.

So wait why didn't he just use the Final name for this?

Oh darn:

http://earache.tumblr.com/post/664337445/godflesh-streetcleaner-deluxe-2cd-has-arrived