When industrial metal titans Godflesh went on hiatus in 2002, guitarist Justin Broadrick abandoned punishing riffs for soaring melodies in a new project he dubbed Jesu. While the band's glacially paced rhythms owed something to the thunderous sound of doom metal, Jesu borrowed their glittering, atmospheric guitars from the swirling noise of shoegaze. Without skimping on the heaviness, Broadrick would continue pushing metal's boundaries on every Jesu release, even incorporating elements of ambient music and experimental electronica into the band's blissed-out roar.