Jesu

   
Artist: Jesu

   Genre(s): 
Experimental
   Rock
   Alternative
   

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Discography:


   
 Lifeline EP

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 4


   
 Conqueror

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 8


   
 Silver

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 4


   
 Jesu

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 9


   
 Jesu (CD 2)

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 2


   
 Jesu (CD 1)

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 8


   
 Heartache

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 2

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Jesu is another melodious protrude spearheaded by Birmingham-based instrumentalist and producer Justin Broadrick -- a fixture of England's utmost euphony scene since desegregation the earliest recording batting order of Napalm Death in the mid-'80s. Also a sometimes-member of several other bands (Head of David, Techno Animal, etc.), he is in all likelihood best known for his decade-plus leadership of pioneering industrial corps de ballet Godflesh. Having in the end, officially set that sacred asylum to rest following a reported nervous breakdown in 2002, Broadrick turned his attention to a new entity, Jesu, which he named after the utmost song on Godflesh's tramp song, Hymns. Essentially a solo project with Broadrick handling vocals, guitars, bass, and computer programing, Jesu's 2004 debut EP, Heart Ache, consisted of two, 20-minute-long meditations melding uncompromising sonic textures with seemingly abstract musings and a few hard-won melodious rewards. But with the next year's eponymic uncut tone ending, former Godflesh associate drummer Ted Parsons (also ex-Prong, Swans, etc.) and bassist Diarmuid Dalton were called in to help shape out a more evenly paced, and for sure more focused (though only slimly shorter, at ten minutes average per piece), localise of ambient, monotone, and semi-industrial extrapolations. Jesu, the album, received nigh unqualified critical clap crosswise the world, and bucked up Broadrick to move ahead with his new endeavour, resulting in some other form-challenging EP in 2006's Atomic number 47. At the end of the year Broadrick was playing with Sunn 0))) on a tour of the U.K piece Jesu's succeeding album was leaking across the Internet. Early in 2007, Vanquisher was formally released. A U.S. tour with Isis was suppositional to concur with the liberation, only act permits were not cleared in fourth dimension and Jesu was non allowed unveiling in the country as the enlistment began.





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