About Fall Of Because

Industrial metal band of Ben Green (bass) and Paul Neville (vocals, guitar, programming) formed in 1982. Justin K. Broadrick (vocals, drums) joined them in 1983. The band took it's name from a Killing Joke song (The Fall Of Because). Besides Swans, they're one of the earliest incarnations of a heavy brand of rock oriented industrial music. They released a demo in 1986 called Extirpate, but dwindled shortly after. In 1999, a compilation called Life Is Easy finally came out, which gathered both studio and live material from that time period. In 1988 they split up. Just as Justin left Head of David (another band he was playing drums for at the time) circa 1988, he contaced Ben about reviving Fall Of Because. Ben agreed, and Justin decided to take over on guitars now, instead of drums. He felt that he knew what beats he wanted, and chose to use a drum machine to help out. This is what became Godflesh. Several tracks were the basis of future Godflesh songs, including Life Is Easy, Devastator and Merciless. Finally, a segment from a live portion of the LP was used as the 3 minute intro to Love, Hate (Slugbaiting) off of Pure.