In All Languages is a compilation album

Compilation album

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 released by British industrial metal

Industrial metal

Industrial metal is a musical genre that draws from industrial music and many different types of heavy metal, using repeating metal guitar riffs, sampling, synthesizer or sequencer lines, and distorted vocals. Founding industrial metal acts include Ministry, Godflesh, and KMFDM.Industrial metal's...

 band Godflesh

Godflesh

Godflesh are an English industrial metal band from Birmingham, England. Originally known as Fall of Because, they formed in 1988 by Justin K. Broadrick and G.C. Green and disbanded in 2002. Godflesh's innovative music is widely regarded as a foundational influence on industrial metal and post-metal...

 on 24 July 2001. It is a double album. A videos

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 DVD

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 with the same name was also released.

History

In All Languages was released on 24 July 2001, thirteen years after the formation of Godflesh

Godflesh

Godflesh are an English industrial metal band from Birmingham, England. Originally known as Fall of Because, they formed in 1988 by Justin K. Broadrick and G.C. Green and disbanded in 2002. Godflesh's innovative music is widely regarded as a foundational influence on industrial metal and post-metal...

. It would be the band's first and only compilation album (excluding Selfless/Merciless and Slateman/Cold World, which were both two albums jointed) since the band would disband one year later. The only album which had yet to be released by them was Hymns.

Music

The first disc of the album features the band's most famous songs: "Like Rats", "Xnoybis", "Frail", "The Internal"; as well as tracks from the group's EPs

Extended play

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 such as "Avalanche Master Song" and "Slateman". Disc two is a rarities collection featuring B-sides

A-side and B-side

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, extended mixes and BBC

BBC

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 sessions.

Critical reception

Eduardo Rivadavia from Allmusic gave In All Languages a 4.5 of 5 stars rating, calling it a "near-perfect career synthesis". The critic praised the inclusion of the tracks of the second disc which, according to him, "become especially relevant for a full appreciation of the band" and are "[a] great place to start discovering Godflesh". He only regretted the fact that it couldn't feature songs from the band's last record, Hymns.

Disc one

1. "Avalanche Master Song" – 5:14
2. "Like Rats" – 4:13
3. "Streetcleaner" – 6:05
4. "Slateman" – 5:59
5. "Slavestate" – 3:58
6. "Mothra" – 4:33
7. "Spite" – 4:32
8. "Pure" – 5:04
9. "Xnoybis" – 5:18
10. "Crush My Soul" – 4:28
11. "Anything Is Mine" – 4:01
12. "Circle of Shit" – 4:55
13. "Frail" – 5:27
14. "I, Me, Mine" – 5:16
15. "The Internal" – 5:50

Disc two

1. "Love Is a Dog from Hell" – 8:16
2. "Crush My Soul (Ultramixedit)" – 8:10
3. "Flowers" – 7:37
4. "Tiny Tears (BBC
   BBC
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    Session)" – 3:10
5. "Pulp (BBC Session)" – 6:10
6. "Newspite" – 4:27
7. "Empyreal 2" – 5:15
8. "Blind" – 7:18
9. "Slavestate (Radioslave)" – 4:58
10. "Gift from Heaven (Breakbeat)" – 5:57
11. "Xynobis (Clubdubedit)" – 6:19
12. "Witchhunt (Tyrant RMX)" – 5:12
13. "Us and Them (Defensive RMX)" – 5:23

Personnel

• G. C. Green – bass
  Bass guitar
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• Paul Neville
  Paul Neville (musician)
  Paul Neville is an underground experimental industrial metal guitarist and musician from Birmingham, England.He is best known as the second guitarist in the seminal industrial metal band Godflesh on the second half of their Streetcleaner album and on the Slavestate EP as well as a tour member of...
  
   – guitar
  Electric guitar
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• Justin Broadrick
  Justin Broadrick
  Justin Karl Michael Broadrick is a British singer, songwriter, guitarist and drummer. He is best known as a founding member of the band Godflesh, one of the first bands to combine elements of extreme metal and industrial music.-Biography:Broadrick was born in the council estates of inner...
  
   – guitar, vocals and lyrics
  Lyricist
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• Bryan Mantia
  Bryan Mantia
  Bryan "Brain" Mantia is a contemporary rock drummer. He has played with bands like Primus, Guns N' Roses, Praxis and Godflesh, and with other popular performers such as Tom Waits, Bill Laswell, Bootsy Collins and Buckethead...
  
   – drums
  Drum kit
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Releases

The album has been released in several editions.

Label	|Format	Earache Records Earache Records Earache Records is a heavy metal-oriented record label based in Nottingham, UK and New York, USA. It helped to pioneer extreme metal by releasing many of the earliest grindcore and death metal records in the period 1988-1994.-History:...	2001	CD	60246
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Earache Records	2006	CD	40102462
Ear Kandy Records	2008	CD	246

DVD

The day of the release of In All Languages, a videos

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 DVD

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of the same name was also released. It features videos for "Crush My Soul", "Mothra", "Slavestate", "Christbait Rising" and "Avalanche Master Song".