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{{Short description|2001 compilation album by Godflesh}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2019}}
{{Infobox album
| name       = In All Languages
| type       = Compilation
| artist     = [[Godflesh]]
| cover      = File:In_All_Languages_cover.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = 24 July 2001
| recorded   = 1988–1999
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = [[Industrial metal]]
| length     = {{Duration|m=153|s=5}}
| label      = [[Earache Records|Earache]]
| producer   = [[Justin Broadrick]]<br/>[[G. C. Green]]
| prev_title = [[Us and Them (Godflesh album)|Us and Them]]
| prev_year  = 1999
| next_title = [[Hymns (Godflesh album)|Hymns]]
| next_year  = 2001
}}
'''''In All Languages''''' is the first [[compilation album]] by English [[industrial metal]] band [[Godflesh]], released on 24 July 2001 through [[Earache Records]]. It is a double album, and a companion [[music video]] [[DVD]] was also released in 2001. ''In All Languages''' first disc acts as a greatest hits collection spanning from Godflesh's 1988 [[Godflesh (EP)|self-titled EP]] to their 1999 studio album, ''[[Us and Them (Godflesh album)|Us and Them]]''. The second disc compiles rare and unreleased tracks.
==Background and content==
''In All Languages'' was released on 24 July 2001,<ref name="AMG-InAllLanguages">{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r541386|pure_url=yes}}|title=Godflesh - ''In All Languages''|author=Rivadavia, Eduardo|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=19 June 2008}}</ref> thirteen years after the formation of [[Godflesh]]. Godflesh would disband one year later, only to reform in 2010.<ref>{{cite web|title=GODFLESH Mainman Doesn't Rule Out Possibility Of New Material|date=5 February 2010 |url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/godflesh-mainman-doesn-t-rule-out-possibility-of-new-material/|publisher=[[Blabbermouth.net]]|access-date=6 May 2016}}</ref>
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The first disc of the album primarily features tracks from previous albums ("Like Rats", "Xnoybis", "Frail", "The Internal"), although songs from the group's [[Extended play|EPs]] do hold a presence, such as "Avalanche Master Song" and "Slateman". Disc two is a collection of more obscure songs, featuring [[A-side and B-side|B-sides]], extended mixes, and two tracks from the band's [[BBC]] session.<ref name="AMG-InAllLanguages"/> Two songs from the never-released ''Us and Them in Dub'' remix album also appear on the second disc.<ref name="MH1">{{cite journal|last=Gabler|first=Pete|title=Peeling Back the Flesh|journal=[[Metal Hammer]]|date=July 1999|url=http://www.godflesh.com/articles/untarticles.html|access-date=22 February 2018}}</ref> The day of the release of ''In All Languages'', a [[music video]] [[DVD]] of the same name was also released. It features videos for "Crush My Soul", "Mothra", "Slavestate", "Christbait Rising" and "Avalanche Master Song".<ref name="AMG-InAllLanguagesDVD">{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r543760|pure_url=yes}}|title=Godflesh - ''In All Languages'' (DVD)|author=Buchanan, Jason|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=19 June 2008}}</ref>
In a 2009 retrospective interview, Godflesh frontman [[Justin Broadrick]] proved dissatisfied with ''In All Languages'', saying, "[it] didn’t succeed too well. I was still learning about self-mastering at that time. I wouldn’t say I was satisfied at all with the results a short time after and since."<ref name="BV1">{{cite web|last=Kinski|first=Klaus|title=an interview with Justin K. Broadrick|url=http://www.brooklynvegan.com/an-interview-wi-34/|publisher=[[BrooklynVegan]]|access-date=19 February 2018}}</ref>
==Critical reception==
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}} <ref name="AMG-InAllLanguages" />
|rev3 = ''[[Kerrang!]]''
|rev3score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Mörat |first= |date=July 7, 2001 |title=Albums
|magazine=[[Kerrang!]] |location=UK |publisher=[[EMAP]] |issue=860 |page=48}}</ref>
| noprose = yes
}}
Eduardo Rivadavia from [[AllMusic]] called ''In All Languages'' a "near-perfect career synthesis". He 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". His only regret was the fact that it couldn't feature songs from the band's then-forthcoming record, ''[[Hymns (Godflesh album)|Hymns]]'' (2001).<ref name="AMG-InAllLanguages"/>
==Track listing==
All lyrics written by [[Justin Broadrick]] and G.C. Green.
{{Track listing
| extra_column    = Source
| headline        = Disc one: ''Flesh of God''
| title1 = Avalanche Master Song
| extra1 = ''[[Godflesh (EP)|Godflesh]]'', 1988
| length1 = 5:14
| title2 = Like Rats
| extra2 = ''[[Streetcleaner (album)|Streetcleaner]]'', 1989
| length2 = 4:13
| title3 = Streetcleaner
| extra3 = ''Streetcleaner'', 1989
| length3 = 6:05
| title4 = Slateman
| extra4 = ''[[Slateman (song)|Slateman]]'', 1991
| length4 = 5:59
| title5 = Slavestate
| extra5 =''[[Slavestate]]'', 1991
| length5 = 3:58
| title6 = Mothra
| extra6 = ''[[Pure (Godflesh album)|Pure]]'', 1992
| length6 = 4:33
| title7 = Spite
| extra7 = ''Pure'', 1992
| length7 = 4:32
| title8 = Pure
| extra8 = ''Pure'', 1992
| length8 = 5:04
| title9 = Xnoybis
| extra9 = ''[[Selfless (album)|Selfless]]'', 1994
| length9 = 5:18
| title10 = Crush My Soul
| extra10 = ''Selfless'', 1994
| length10 = 4:28
| title11 = Anything Is Mine
| extra11 = ''Selfless'', 1994
| length11 = 4:01
| title12 = Circle of Shit
| extra12 = ''[[Songs of Love and Hate (Godflesh album)|Songs of Love and Hate]]'', 1996
| length12 = 4:55
| title13 = Frail
| extra13 = ''Songs of Love and Hate'', 1996
| length13 = 5:27
| title14 = I, Me, Mine
| extra14 = ''[[Us and Them (Godflesh album)|Us and Them]]'', 1999
| length14 = 5:16
| title15 = The Internal
| extra15 = ''Us and Them'', 1999
| length15 = 5:50
| total_length = 74:53
}}
{{Track listing
| headline        = Disc two: ''Beyond the Flesh''
| extra_column    = Source
| title1 = Love Is a Dog from Hell
| extra1 = ''Pathological Compilation'', 1989<ref name="Comp 1 Discogs entry">{{Cite AV media notes |title=Pathological Compilation |type=CD liner notes |others=Godflesh |year=1989 |url=https://www.discogs.com/Various-Pathological-Compilation/release/68426 |access-date=4 April 2018 |publisher=Pathological Records |id=PATH CD 1}}</ref>
| length1 = 8:16
| title2 = Crush My Soul
| extra2 = ''[[Crush My Soul]]'', 1995
| note2 = Ultramixedit
| length2 = 8:10
| title3 = Flowers
| extra3 = ''[[Merciless (EP)|Merciless]]'', 1994
| length3 = 7:37
| title4 = Tiny Tears
| extra4 = [[List of Peel sessions#G|Peel Session]], 1989
| note4 = BBC Session
| length4 = 3:10
| title5 = Pulp
| extra5 = [[List of Peel sessions#G|Peel Session]], 1989
| note5 = BBC Session
| length5 = 6:10
| title6 = Newspite
| extra6 = ''Corporate Rock Wars'', 1994<ref name="Comp 2 Discogs entry">{{Cite AV media notes |title=Corporate Rock Wards |type=CD liner notes |others=Godflesh |year=1995 |url=https://www.discogs.com/Various-Corporate-Rock-Wars/release/104681 |access-date=4 April 2018 |publisher=[[Earache Records]] |id=MOSH136}}</ref>
| length6 = 4:27
| title7 = Empyreal 2
| extra7 = ''Rareache'', 1995<ref name="Comp 3 Discogs entry">{{Cite AV media notes |title=Earache Records Presents: Rareache |type=CD liner notes |others=Godflesh |year=1995 |url=https://www.discogs.com/Various-Earache-Records-Presents-Rareache/release/3049458 |access-date=4 April 2018 |publisher=[[Earache Records]] |id=MOSH100}}</ref>
| length7 = 5:15
| title8 = Blind
| extra8 = ''[[Merciless (EP)|Merciless]]'', 1994
| length8 = 7:18
| title9 = Slavestate
| extra9 = ''[[Slavestate]]'', 1991
| note9 = Radio Slave
| length9 = 4:58
| title10 = Gift from Heaven
| extra10 = ''[[Love and Hate in Dub]]'', 1997
| note10 = Breakbeat
| length10 = 5:57
| title11 = Xnoybis
| extra11 = ''[[Xnoybis]]'', 1994
| note11 = Clubdubedit
| length11 = 6:19
| title12 = Witchhunt
| extra12 = ''Us and Them in Dub'', unreleased
| length12 = 5:12
| note12 = Tyrant Remix
| title13 = Us and Them
| extra13 = ''Us and Them in Dub'', unreleased
| note13 = Defensive Remix
| length13 = 5:23
| total_length = 78:12
}}
==DVD==
{{Infobox album
| name       = '''In All Languages'''
| type       = video
| artist     = [[Godflesh]]
| cover      = File:In_All_Languages_(2001)_DVD_cover.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = 2001
| recorded   = 1988–1994
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = [[Industrial metal]]
| length     = 24:48
| label      = [[Earache Records|Earache]]
| director   = Various
| producer   =
| prev_title =
| prev_year  =
| next_title =
| next_year  =
}}
Alongside the CD, ''In All Languages'' was accompanied with a separate DVD release featuring the same artwork. The DVD version is composed of the band's five music videos, most of which were not previously available to the public.<ref name="DVD">{{Cite AV media notes |title=In All Languages |type=DVD liner notes |others=Godflesh |year=2001 |url=https://www.discogs.com/Godflesh-In-All-Languages/master/334321 |access-date=4 April 2018 |publisher=[[Earache Records]] |id=MOSH250}}</ref> Inside the DVD is a user manual explaining the band's direct involvement with and approval of all the videos.
===Music videos===
Unlike the other videos featured on ''In All Languages'', "[[Godflesh (EP)|Avalanche Master Song]]" was created by three fans: Jack Sargent, Julian Weaver, and Stephanie Watson. After following the band [[Head of David]], Sargent, Weaver and Watson decided pursue the drummer's, Broadrick's, career and film various shows of his new project, Godflesh.<ref name="DVD" /> The video comprises these bootleg recordings interspersed with heavily distorted shots of industrial machinery. The live footage is the earliest known of Godflesh performing, as it was taken from their first public show in [[Brixton]], London.<ref name="DVD" />
The music video for "[[Streetcleaner (album)|Christbait Rising]]" is a compilation of live recordings from the band's 1989 tour opening for [[Loop (band)|Loop]].<ref name="Loop">{{cite web|title=Loop interview|url=http://thequietus.com/articles/15364-loop-godflesh-justin-broadrick-robert-hampson-interview|website=The Quietus|access-date=9 November 2017}}</ref> The music being performed does not match up with the track itself. The audio fades out, cutting away a minute and a half of the song.
Robert Garfield directed the music video for "[[Slavestate]]" in [[Hyde Park, London]].<ref name="DVD" /> Released in 1991, the video is abstract and features a number of distorted shots of Broadrick and previous Godflesh album covers.
Barry Maguire directed the music video for "[[Pure (Godflesh album)|Mothra]]" in 1992.<ref name="DVD" /> It combines shots of the band performing in a rundown disco with strange images of animals and suited men.
Godflesh's most noteworthy video is for their song "[[Crush My Soul]]." It was directed by [[Andres Serrano]] and garnered some [[Crush My Soul#Music video|controversy]] for its portrayal of violence and religious imagery.
===Track listing===
{{tracklist
| extra_column    = Director
| title1          = Crush My Soul
| extra1          = [[Andres Serrano]]
| length1         = 5:01
| title2          = Mothra
| extra2          = Barry Maguire
| length2         = 4:47
| title3          = Slavestate
| extra3          = Howard Garfield
| length3         = 4:06
| title4          = Christbait Rising
| extra4          = Godflesh
| length4         = 5:27
| title5          = Avalanche Master Song
| extra5          = Jack Sargent, Julian Weaver, Stephanie Watson
| length5         = 5:27
| total_length    = 24:48
}}
==Personnel==
*[[Justin Broadrick]] – guitar, [[singing|vocals]], programming, samples, production, remastering
*[[G. C. Green]] – [[Bass guitar|bass]]
*[[Paul Neville (musician)|Paul Neville]] – [[Electric guitar|guitar]] on "Streetcleaner", "Slateman", and "Slavestate"
*[[Robert Hampson]] - [[Electric guitar|guitar]] on "Spite" and "Flowers"
*[[Bryan Mantia]] – [[Drum kit|drums]] on "Circle of Shit", "Frail", and "Gift from Heaven (Breakbeat)"
==References==
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[[Category:2001 compilation albums]]