Cold World

Starting with, of all things, a soft, dark synth string piece, "Cold World," and its fellow tracks -- all versions or remixes of the same song, "Nihil" -- complement the Pure album, having been recorded at the same sessions. Cold World originally surfaced as a semi-teaser to the full-length effort, and certainly the title track would have easily fit on the album as a whole, with Robert Hampson providing another appearance with the band on a good mid-level cruncher with, indeed, prominent keyboard parts. As for "Nihil," it's a fair but not deathless number that makes all the appropriate noises without being as gripping as peak Godflesh tracks. The "Total Belief" mix is a more intriguing instrumental exploration and reconstruction of the track, while the "No Belief" mix follows in the same general vein without adding much more to what has gone before.