So, you wanted a new Godflesh full-length, huh? JK Broadrick and BC Green delivered, and then made you pay, with 54 minutes of skull-squeezing density. At first blush, A World Lit Only By Fire was impressive in the way it crunched the UK godfathers’ formula, as if the 4,372 days between Fire and previous LP Hymns never happened. Broadrick’s brushed-metal guitar tone and Green’s crackling bass buzz ricocheted around the room in classic fashion, crashing together and forming a sea of heaving industrial, just as it was presaged on teaser EP Decline And Fall. But then Fire just kept raging, with each element growing hotter and more fervent with every recall. Broadrick answering himself to complete koans, Green testing and exploring the fallout area around the pulsating thrum, the drum machine striking again and again and again, pulping anything organic. On track 1, these components were pleasing. On track 10, the purifying repetition transformed them into something else. Only those who really wanted it hit replay. –Ian [LISTEN]