Final

ambient

There are multiple artists with this name: 1) Final from Birmingham, UK serves as an undefinable and experimental interpretation of Justin Broadrick's more recognized music; encompassing the brutal and the dark to the beautiful and the melodic, the term ambient is often used to describe the sound of Final, but the music is not at all intended to function purely as background as the genre ambient generally implies. Before Justin Broadrick was in Napalm Death and way before his Jesu, Godflesh and Techno Animal projects, he had Final, this was the first music that he made and the first concerts he ever performed; initiated in 1982 at the tender age of 13, inspired by the true old industrial music of Whitehouse, Throbbing Gristle, Ramleh and Maurizio Bianchi, Justin used his step fathers primitive musical equipment to forge his own sound influenced by the aforementioned artists and attempt with like minded individuals and friends to establish his own sound and vision. Basic recordings were made and this led Justin to form a cassette label in early 1984 (Post Mortem Rekordings) releasing his own cassettes and eventually other artists too, this tape only label lasted from early 1984-86, releasing over 50 cassettes of confrontational hate noise / power electronics and Throbbing Gristle-inspired electronic psychedelia. By the time Justin joined Napalm Death in 1985, he had already become interested in creating music outside of the industrial / noise genre, even Final itself around...