Heavy Song of the Week: Godflesh’s Farewell Starts with the Thrilling “Living/Ending”

Heavy Song of the Week is a feature on Heavy Consequence breaking down the top metal, punk, and hard rock tracks you need to hear every Friday. This week, we highlight the new single “Living/Ending” from Godflesh. Everything about Godflesh feels mythic and perfect. From being founded by someone who helped create grindcore with Napalm Death to fusing doom metal, hardcore, industrial, and post-punk into the most nihilistic Birmingham metal since Sabbath to bringing in everything from dub and hip-hop to the wide genre explorations and explosions outside of the group by Justin Broaderick, they are a force that has consistently revolutionized extreme music of all strips for over 30 years. So when Broaderick announced a close to the project following an intense abdominal surgery he had at the beginning of 2026, it was news received with heavy hearts. “Living/Ending,” the first single from their upcoming final album Decay, shows the band is going out every bit as strong as they came in. The song gestures all the way back to the scourging industrial doom of Streetcleaner, with its gargantuan Jah Wobble style post-punk bass plowed through enough distortion to make it feel like hammers from ...