Godflesh Announce Decay LP Through Relapse And Share 'Living/Ending' As Justin Broadrick Enters Final Chapter

Godflesh have announced Decay, the band’s tenth and penultimate studio album, scheduled for release on September 25, 2026 through Relapse.

The announcement arrives with the first single, “Living/Ending,” offering the first look at the six-track record from Justin Broadrick and Ben Green.

The new album follows Purge and arrives at a decisive point in the history of Godflesh, with Broadrick having previously made clear that the project is approaching its final studio chapter.

Godflesh are not simply releasing another album. Decay comes with the weight of an ending.

For decades, the band has stood as one of the defining names in industrial metal, building a sound around mechanical rhythm, crushing repetition, distorted guitar, bass pressure and bleak emotional force.

From Streetcleaner and Pure to Hymns, A World Lit Only By Fire, Post Self and Purge, Godflesh have operated as one of heavy music’s most uncompromising projects.

With Decay, that history moves closer to conclusion.

“Living/Ending” is the first single from Decay.

The title alone fits the album’s larger context: life, closure, physical limitation, discipline and the need to bring something to an end.

Broadrick has described music as something that rarely feels complete, but eventually has to reach the point where “enough is enough.” That idea sits at the center of Decay, an album tied not only to new material, but to the wider closing movement of Godflesh.

According to Justin Broadrick, Decay was born from the same wider pool of material that produced Purge.

The songs were part of a larger creative period, with Broadrick selecting what belonged on Purge and later returning to the remaining material for what became Decay.

That gives the album a direct connection to the band’s most recent studio era, while also allowing it to stand as a darker and more final statement.

The record contains six tracks, making it a compact release rather than an extended full-length sprawl.

Decay also arrives after Broadrick publicly addressed major abdominal surgery and the physical toll of performing Godflesh material.

The recordings for Decay were completed before the surgery, including vocals, though Broadrick has explained that parts of the process were affected by the hernia he was dealing with at the time.

Godflesh has long been built around a form of vocal and physical intensity that cannot be separated from the band’s sound. Broadrick has now connected the end of Godflesh as a live act to medical advice and the physical risks of continuing that kind of performance.

That makes Decay more than a new album campaign. It is part of the final stretch of a project that has demanded body, voice and mind from its creator.

The release of Decay through Relapse gives the album a new label home for one of Godflesh’s final studio statements.

For a band with a catalog that has moved through different eras, labels, formats and interruptions, the Relapse connection places Decay inside a heavy music infrastructure known for extreme, underground and influential artists.

The album also continues Godflesh’s long connection to heavy music audiences that value industrial metal, noise, post-metal, experimental heaviness and uncompromising catalog releases.

TRACKLIST

1. Master and Slave

2. Living/Ending

3. Feral Colony

4. Fear of Man

5. Fodder

6. Consume Me

GODFLESH

Justin Broadrick

Ben Green

Decay matters because it is not only the next Godflesh record. It is the band’s tenth studio album and its penultimate full-length release.

That word is important. Decay is not being presented as the final Godflesh album, but as the one before the final studio statement.

For listeners who have followed Godflesh since the industrial metal shock of Streetcleaner, the experimental shifts of the 1990s, the long interruption, the return period and the later albums, Decay now becomes part of the closing map.

It follows Purge, connects back to the same creative sessions and arrives after Broadrick’s announcement that Godflesh live performances have ended.

For Rockum, this is a major heavy music story: one of industrial metal’s essential names is moving toward its final chapter while still releasing new material with the weight, discipline and bleak force that defined the project.

As Godflesh prepare to release Decay, the new single “Living/Ending” opens the band’s penultimate album cycle with a title that feels inseparable from the moment. Justin Broadrick and Ben Green are not simply continuing a catalog; they are moving Godflesh toward the end of its studio path. With Relapse releasing the album on September 25, Decay stands as a compact six-track document from one of industrial metal’s most important and physically demanding projects.