Now Available:
Jesu - Conqueror 2xLP + T-Shirt / Bundle
Godflesh - A World Lit Only By Fire LP, CD, CS + T-Shirt, Hoodie 
GODFLESH - Decline & Fall CS

Get your Justin K Broadrick fix and grab those limited vinyl colors and cassettes before it's too late!
LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH!

Sugarbear put in some time and popped a pile of new items and bundles onto RealTomatoKetchup, just in time for there to not be enough time to ship before Christmas. Real (tomato) talk, though, this isn't stuff you want to give someone else, anyway. These presents are for you, gifts to tell yourself, "Hey, good going on sticking it out through the pre-apocalypse. Here's a little something for you, sport."

And so, here is what you have to choose from to reward that special someone on your private "Me" list:



Get on it, though, most of these have single digit quantities in stock.


Also, to check out our actual webstore (not the slipshod one where we sell our office leftovers) head over to www.HydraHeadShop.com

HYH-079-1
JESU - s/t
2xLP
Release Date: October 25th, 2011
Pre-Order starting September 28th

1000 pcs on black, brown, or clear gold vinyl. Repress.

We have some new items up on www.RealTomatoKetchup.com including:
-Jesu poster pack (4 posters - s/t, Silver, Lifeline, and Conqueror)
- Melvins A Senile Animal Box Set (4xLP, belt buckle, and comic in a silk-screened box. Only 1!)
- Neurosis Sovereign LP (clear vinyl, dinged jacket - vinyl tore through edge during shipping)
- Torche Meanderthal LP repress (simplified standard gatefold jacket)
- Pelican poster pack
plus a bunch of other stuff. Have a look, and check back regularly. There are always new items that we have limited quantities of.

In 2007 Hydra Head bought some equipment for Jesu to use on their 2007 US Lifeline tour. This Marshall JCM 800 has been sitting in the hallway of Hydra Headquarters since Jesu dropped it off (along with a quarter-full tequila bottle, a beer, and a cardboard sign that read "Jesu needs weed, will trade for merch").

JKB and JCM at CMJ 2007

JCM making a grilled cheese.

JCM drinking JESU's leftover tequila (and peppers).

JCM passed out because it's a lightweight (you try drinking 4 ounces of the spiciest tequila ever tasted when you only weigh 41 pounds)

JCM reading on the john

JCM signing Lifeline posters (clinging on to the glory days)

JCM skating out front of HHQ.

JCM busting a sick kickflip.

The amp is fun to have around, making grilled cheeses, getting tanked, and skating out front, but it is time for it to get out in the world and back to work. It has been coasting on having been on tour with Jesu for almost 4 years now.

If you want to give it a good home, check out the ebay page here.

For you Apple iTunes acolytes who have pounced on Ping, Jesu is on there and actually using it very well.

In probably the best use of it we have seen, Justin Broadrick has been compiling a playlist (currently 56 songs) of music that has influenced Jesu. From Cocteau Twins to The Monkees, it is an eclectic and occasionally surprising mix.

If you use Ping, follow Jesu and even if you don't, check out the playlist. Looks like he will keep adding to it, too.



Jesu releases are available in the Hydra Head shop, Hydra Head Download store, Amazon, iTunes and wherever else you buy good music.

Look! There are like six new Jesu items in the store, including an awesome "Will trade for merch!" cardboard sign!

We have released a lot of records to date, but never so many in such a short span of time. This Friday (Black Friday, November 26th, 2010) we have a 2xLP, 2 single LPs, a CDep, and a limited 7" all hitting stores for the first time.  Here are some pics of the vinyl colors, because we know you like to look at stuff like that (click to enlarge). Order all four from the Hydra Head shop and use the coupon code: SUGARBEAR2 to get 10% off.

Harvey Milk - s/t 2xLP - available on black (not pictured), black cherry, and seafoam vinyl

Daughters - s/t LP - available on Diarrheainbow (aka light brown), Baby Blue, and black (not pictured) vinyl. Free Daughters - The First Supper b/w Boner X-Ray 7" while supplies last (Limited to 500 total!  200 available through the Hydra Head Shop, the rest through local stores)

Cave In - Anomalies Vol. 1 LP - available on black or white vinyl (no pic because you should already know what black or white vinyl looks like. Unless you are blind, in which case we apologize, but also in which case what do you care what color it is?)

Kayo Dot - Stained Glass CDep

If you count both physical formats of the new Jesu 2xCD/2xLP and we are putting out 7 releases in 11 days! Here's a look at those vinyl colors:

Release "Heart Ache & Dethroned" on 2xLP/2xCD/Digital Today on Hydra Head!

Justin Broadrick is in it for the long haul -- he started with grindcore legends Napalm Death at age 15, spent decades making brilliant industrial sludge as Godflesh, and has created endless electronic projects. He's six years and counting into Jesu, blending ambient guitar buzz with hypnotic rock rumble. This set re-releases his 2004 debut EP, Heart Ache, two songs (at near 20 minutes each) halfway between Godflesh and shoegaze, plus the Dethroned EP, four old songs that lay unfinished until now. It's the sound of a man moving to his next stage, unsure how he should make his machines howl. Mournful or loud? Why not both? - Spin Magazine

The more metal, shoegaze, various “posts,” and electronics intersect, the more obvious it is ex-Napalm Death/Godflesh/Techno Animal Justin K Broadrick’s been at the forefront of something even before he started Jesu seven years ago. Of all his projects, though — the older Final, more recent Pale Sketcher included — Jesu crystallizes his personalized blend of drone, metal, industrial, electronics, shoegaze, ambient, noise, and disarmingly fragile melodies. This re-release of Broadrick’s first Jesu offering, the 2004 Heart Ache EP, proves the point in shimmering, crunchy spades. - Stereogum

There are few artists operative at the fringes of popular music today whose sound has not been in some way or another informed or shaped by the works of Justin K Broadrick. As a founding member or sole proprietor of seminal outfits such as Godflesh, Napalm Death, Techno Animal, and Final, Broadrick has managed to help change or even define the now widespread genres of industrial and death metal, abstracted hip hop and dub, grindcore, and ambient electronics. So is also the case with his work in Jesu, who in the course of a very productive seven year existence have taken the churning pummel of his former project Godflesh, augmented it with the textural melody of 90s shoegaze rock and spawned a new sub-genre and the inevitable legions of imitators. And while imitators may abound, as the originator of this relatively newfound musical territory Jesu is still the clearly visible leader.

For those who may only be vaguely familiar with the history and subsequent trajectory of Jesu the re-release of the debut EP, Heart Ache, may function as the most suitable starting place for the process of initial immersion and discovery. Over the span of two towering 20 minute tracks one can hear not only the smoldering remnants of Godfleshembedded in the aural tapestry, but also the foundational elements that would define the future of the Jesu lexicon - extended and hypnotic structures, overlapping multi-layered melodies, alternately harsh/beautiful sonic embellishments and a palpable sense of the human capacity to express feeling through the mode of song craft. While Heart Ache itself may be reason enough to warrant investigation by the uninitiated, the inclusion of the recently completed Dethroned EP as a part of this release gives further reason for new listeners and long time devotees to discover (or remember) why so many accolades lay heaped at the altar of Jesu. The 4 tracks from Dethroned were originally conceived and partially finished in 2004, but were only finally completed in 2010. Perhaps due to the length of time over which these tracks were created the full evolution of Jesu is apparent within their structures, fluctuating from suffocatingly heavy to delicately sparse and covering an emotional spectrum of considerable depth. While "full circle" might not be quite the appropriate term to describe the content of Dethroned there is a completeness to its statement, recalling the monuments of Jesu past while simultaneously pointing towards the ever widening path of its future.

* Order "Heart Ache & Dethroned" here!



Track Listing

DISC ONE: heart ache
01 heart ache [19:42]
02 ruined [20:14]

DISC TWO: dethroned
01 dethroned [07:12]
02 annul [07:16]
03 aureated skin [06:46]
04 i can only disappoint you [07:09]

Jesu - Heart Ache & Dethroned

2xCD / 2xLP / Shirt now available for pre-order

Release Date: November 16th, 2010

There are few artists operative at the fringes of popular music today whose sound has not been in some way or another informed or shaped by the works of Justin K Broadrick. As a founding member or sole proprietor of seminal outfits such as Godflesh, Napalm Death, Techno Animal, and Final, Broadrick has managed to help change or even define the now widespread genres of industrial and death metal, abstracted hip hop and dub, grindcore, and ambient electronics. So is also the case with his work in Jesu, who in the course of a very productive seven year existence have taken the churning pummel of his former project Godflesh, augmented it with the textural melody of 90s shoegaze rock and spawned a new sub-genre and the inevitable legions of imitators. And while imitators may abound, as the originator of this relatively newfound musical territory Jesu is still the clearly visible leader.

For those who may only be vaguely familiar with the history and subsequent trajectory of Jesu the re-release of the debut EP, Heart Ache, may function as the most suitable starting place for the process of initial immersion and discovery. Over the span of two towering 20 minute tracks one can hear not only the smoldering remnants of Godflesh embedded in the aural tapestry, but also the foundational elements that would define the future of the Jesu lexicon - extended and hypnotic structures, overlapping multi-layered melodies, alternately harsh/beautiful sonic embellishments and a palpable sense of the human capacity to express feeling through the mode of song craft. While Heart Ache itself may be reason enough to warrant investigation by the uninitiated, the inclusion of the recently completed Dethroned EP as a part of this release gives further reason for new listeners and long time devotees to discover (or remember) why so many accolades lay heaped at the altar of Jesu. The 4 tracks from Dethroned were originally conceived and partially finished in 2004, but were only finally completed in 2010. Perhaps due to the length of time over which these tracks were created the full evolution of Jesu is apparent within their structures, fluctuating from suffocatingly heavy to delicately sparse and covering an emotional spectrum of considerable depth. While "full circle" might not be quite the appropriate term to describe the content of Dethroned there is a completeness to its statement, recalling the monuments of Jesu past while simultaneously pointing towards the ever widening path of its future.

TRACKLISTING
DISC ONE: heart ache
01 heart ache [19:42]
02 ruined [20:14]

DISC TWO: dethroned
01 dethroned [07:12]
02 annul [07:16]
03 aureated skin [06:46]
04 i can only disappoint you [07:09]

Also available from Jesu / Hydra Head

Jesu - s/t CD, MP3	Jesu - Silver CD, MP3	Jesu - Conqueror CD, MP3
Jesu - Lifeline CD, 12", MP3	Jesu - Why Are We Not Perfect CD, MP3	Jesu / Envy - split CD