
Heathen Earth was recorded on February 16, 1980, and the new edition will contain an eight-page booklet titled Industrial News, a previously unpublished photo from the live show and a digital copy of 11 bonus tracks, including live recordings from 1980 and 7-inch versions of Subhuman and Adrenalin. This went on to become a Throbbing Gristle project.” It was the band’s final studio recording prior to their return in 2004. A statement adds: “Following Robert Wyatt’s recommendation, RAI originally commissioned Cosey Fanni Tutti to create a sound work based on the theme of ‘a journey through the body’. Journey Through A Body was recorded as a piece of radio art for Italian National Radio RAI over the space of five days in March 1981. The releases follow The Second Annual Report, along with new editions of 20 Jazz Funk Greats and The Taste Of TG: A Beginner’s Guide to Throbbing Gristle which are all out now. Their 1982 album Journey Through A Body will be released on silver vinyl and CD, while live albums Heathen Earth (1980) and Mission Of Dead Souls (1981) will arrive on blue vinyl & 2CD and white vinyl & CD respectively.

Throbbing Gristle were pioneers of early industrial music, who evolved out of the performance art consortium COUM Transmissions.Ī trio of Throbbing Gristle albums are to be reissued on September 14. Rated #88 in the best albums of 1979, and #4891 in the greatest all-time album chart (according to RYM users). Released in December 1979 on Industrial (catalog no. 20 Jazz Funk Greats, an Album by Throbbing Gristle.
