Jesu

Jesu is the most melodic and accessible of Justin Broadrick's many projects, incorporating heavy guitar riffs and ambient textures into expansive yet pop-informed song structures. Originally devised as a successor to industrial metal juggernaut Godflesh following their initial breakup, Jesu's self-titled 2004 debut album was a bleak, sludgy set of post-metal with noticeably cleaner vocals than Broadrick's former bands. Subsequent EPs, split releases, and albums like 2007's Conqueror found Jesu incorporating more shoegaze and post-punk influences as well as electronic elements. Broadrick started the Pale Sketcher offshoot to explore Jesu's ambient techno-informed side, while the main project returned to a guitar-focused sound with 2011's Ascension. Following collaborations with Sun Kil Moon and Dirk Serries, as well as a preoccupation with other projects like a reunited Godflesh and techno alias JK Flesh, Broadrick revivified Jesu with genre-blurring releases such as the 2020 full-length Terminus and 2023 drone-metal EP Pity/Piety.