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Pure

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Godflesh’s Streetcleaner combined industrial and doom to create a wholly new, post-Swans style of depressive/rageful metal; two years later, they came back with this monster, which was even more repetitive and beat-driven (they sampled Eric B. & Rakim’s “Let The Rhythm Hit ’Em” on the title track), with the guitars, some of which are played by Robert Hampson of Loop and Main, dissonant and stinging rather than bludgeoning. The songs are long and spacious, but never relaxing — even the 20-minute closing ambient instrumental, “Pure II,” sounds like a distant battlefield.

Phil Freeman

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