Crush My Soul

Promo CD and 12" given out to radio stations.

The inlay of the single read the following:

"like most of my lyrics, "crush my soul" started off personal and eventually became a worldview; sometimes my worldview also becomes personal. it addresses the human race and its ever increasing lack of emotional response, the cold machines that we're becoming. it's a huge scream at people to quite simply feel, to look at themselves inside before judging others. this sometimes can seemingly only be achieved by the individual going through some emotional pain of some description, which is most certainly good for the soul. people need to be emotionally crushed to feel.

godflesh formed in 1988 in sunless birmingham, wonderful england, with the intention of pushing rock music beyond its obvious limitations, influenced by early '80s post-rock, death/heavy metal, early industrial/electronic music (no, not depeche mode, but throbbing gristle, whitehouse, spk, etc.) and '60s sweetness (!). we set out to challenge with the core being brutality.

-justin broadrick,
GODFLESH"