Justin K. Broadrick (Godflesh, Jesu etc.)

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Justin Broadrick (born on 15 August 1969 in Birmingham, England) is a British singer, songwriter, guitarist and drummer. He is best known as a founding member of the band Godflesh, one of the first bands to combine elements of extreme metal and industrial music.

Broadrick was born in the council estates of inner Birmingham.[1] His first musical project was Final. Initially beginning as a punk band (albeit with drum machine) in 1982, he released his first demo at age 11.[2] The project developed to embrace the power electronics subgenre of industrial music in 1983, releasing material on his own Post Mortem Rekordings cassette label. The project was abandoned in July 1985.
Ben Green and Paul Neville founded Fall of Because in 1982 and later asked Justin to play with them. Unlike Napalm Death, Justin played drums and vocals, not guitar. Among the songs written, "Life is Easy", "Mighty Trust Krusher", and "Merciless" existed in primitive forms. They released a demo in 1986 called Extirpate, but dwindled shortly after. In 1999, the Life is Easy record finally came out, which gathered both studio and live material from that time period.
Broadrick was asked by Nicholas Bullen to join Napalm Death as guitarist in July 1985, and appeared on the A-side of the band's debut album, Scum. He played with the group until October 1986 when he was offered a position as drummer of Head of David.
After leaving Head of David in 1988, he began the project Godflesh which went on to record for Earache Records. Godflesh disbanded in 2002 (soon after the departure of fellow founding member G. Christian Green), and Broadrick entered a period of hiatus until his return with the Jesu project. He also revived the Final project at this time.
During his career, Broadrick has maintained a number of temporary side projects, particularly collaborations with Kevin Martin. These include Techno Animal and Curse of the Golden Vampire; Broadrick also worked with Martin's groups God and Ice.
In 2007, Broadrick began to release limited runs of material on his Avalanche Inc. label including new material by the Final project.
He now resides in the quiet countryside town of Abergele, Wales.

Godflesh live in Schorndorf 1990

JESU - Walk On Water (Live)

The Eye: Jesu (Part 1 of 3)

The Eye: Jesu (Part 2 of 3)

The Eye: Jesu (Part 3 of 3)

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Op donderdag 9 oktober 2008 20:37 schreef bartrid het volgende:
Pale Sketches is een stuk electronischer dan het meeste Jesu werk. Ik vind hem op zich niet beter dan Conqueror (die ben ik met meer luisterbeurten steeds meer gaan waarderen) maar wel goed. Brotherhood of the bomb is geweldig, 1 van mijn favoriete hiphop platen.

http://www.myspace.com/perfectascats met een Cure cover van Jesu.