"Godflesh make their return with A World Lit Only by Fire, the duo's first album in 13 years. Where some bands tend to emerge from a long absence with a sound that feels inspired by the current trends in music, Godflesh's seventh album feels like it was influenced by their first ... The worry when a band comes back from a long absence is that they'll have forgotten whatever it was that made them interesting in the first place, but A World Lit Only by Fire makes it crystal clear that Godflesh have a long, unfailing memory, and that their punishing work has only just begun"