Us and Them (Godflesh album)

Us and Them
Studio album by Godflesh
Released	May 17, 1999
Recorded	1997-1999
Genre	Industrial metal
Length	64:05
Label	Earache
Producer	Justin Broadrick, G. C. Green
Godflesh chronology
Songs of Love and Hate (1996) Us and Them (1999) Hymns (2001)

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Allmusic	[1]

Us and Them is Godflesh's fifth album. It was released on May 17, 1999, in Europe, and on June 8, 1999, in North America, on Earache Records. As with Songs of Love and Hate, the album is influenced by breakbeats, drum and bass, industrial and hip hop. Frontman Justin Broadrick later admitted that he "hated" the album as it was the expression of an "identity crisis".^[2]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"I, Me, Mine"	5:20
2.	"Us and Them"	5:56
3.	"Endgames"	4:56
4.	"Witchhunt"	5:11
5.	"Whose Truth Is Your Truth"	5:03
6.	"Defiled"	5:29
7.	"Bittersweet"	4:34
8.	"Nail"	4:09
9.	"Descent"	5:38
10.	"Control Freak"	5:37
11.	"The Internal"	6:33
12.	"Live to Lose"	5:39
Total length:		64:05

Personnel

• G. C. Green – bass
• Justin Broadrick – guitar, vocals

References

1. Bush, John. "Us and Them - Godflesh". Allmusic. Retrieved 25 June 2013.
2. Bromley, Adrian (14 January 2002). "Hymns of Progression". Chronicles of Chaos. Retrieved 24 June 2013. What was going on at the time of my career with Godflesh was an identity crisis. I'd spent a lot of time making that album and it almost sounded like it was a remix of a remix album. There were so many changes going on and it was just a regurgitation of what I had done before. It was really fucking tiresome. I did a lot of that album by myself, in a very hermit-like state of mind. I was in a technologically obsessed state of mind and I lost sight of what Godflesh should be. The end result was something very eclectic and ambitious that didn't even sound like a Godflesh album. That album is the sound of an identity crisis and we did it in public. I am glad it wasn't promoted well.