✦✦✧✧ Keep in mind that when I say the track "LAND LORD" sounds like it was rejected for the Matrix soundtrack, I mean that with corrosive, fistpumping love. The problem with this industrial noisefest is one of consistency; when it works, it’s glorious, but when it misses, it feels like underdeveloped material.

✦✦✧✧ After the full-throated “A World Lit Only By Fire,” this new album from Godflesh feels like a cruel hard turn of the steering wheel, off the familiar if potholed road the band helped pave. At least the album telegraphs the move into its new territory: more experimental, moodier, and absolutely industrial.

★★★☆ This is a potent slab of unfriendliness, a stripped-down and detuned post-industrial attack that’s honestly hard to take in one sitting. That’s surely a sign of the album’s potency, and Godflesh are as potent and outside the norm now as they were 20 years ago.