Label: Avalanche Recordings
Reissued 3/29/2024, Originally released 2014
Limited red colored vinyl LP pressing. "Where some bands tend to emerge from a long absence with a sound that feels inspired by the current trends in music, Godflesh's seventh album feels like it was influenced by their first. Although the sound has been updated, with Broadrick making liberal use of the guttural drone created by the eight-string guitar he used on the Jesu record, the tone feels like classic Godflesh, evoking a world covered in rust and grime illuminated by the unforgiving and uneven light of a bare, swinging light bulb. Tense, muscular, and mechanical, it feels as though A World Lit Only by Fire is an elaborate machine created by BC Green and Broadrick, and from the moment the album's opening track, "New Dark Ages," switches over from its slowly building beat to an impossibly detuned, nearly atonal chug, it's clear that once its inscrutable engines have been engaged, there's no stopping them until they've run out of power." -AllMusic
Track listing:
- New Dark Ages
- Deadend
- Shut Me Down
- Life Giver Life Taker
- Obeyed
- Curse Us All
- Carrion
- Imperator
- Towers of Emptiness
- Forgive Our Fathers