Justin Karl Michael Broadrick[4] (born 15 August 1969) is an English musician, singer and songwriter.

He was briefly in the English grindcore band Napalm Death when he was a teenager in the mid-1980s, writing and recording guitar for their debut album, Scum.

Since the 1990s he has worked with Kevin Martin as Techno Animal an electronic music project based in a fusion of industrial, dub, ambient and hip hop, which disbanded in 2001 and was reactivated in 2017 under the new name Zonal.

Their first recording was titled Live in the Studio and was the first catalogued release on their cassette label Post Mortem Rekordings.

The project developed to embrace the power electronics subgenre of industrial music in 1983, releasing material by them and other industrial projects on Post Mortem Rekordings (which was renamed Uprising Productions in 1985) such as Family Patrol Group, Mental Health Act, Ashenden, The Grey Wolves, Con-Dom, Death Magazine 52, Fern and Un-Kommuniti.

[19] Final went under numerous lineup changes during its lifetime, including musicians like Philip Timms, Daniel Johnson, Paul Neville, Nicholas Bullen, Graham Robertson and Guy Pearce.

Broadrick also had a short-lived progressive punk band called The Blakk Korridor with Diarmuid Dalton and Dan.

[22] In 1984, Broadrick joined the group Fall of Because [founded by G. Christian Green and Paul Neville in 1982 initially named O.P.D.

Soon Mick Harris (then member of a psychobilly band) joined the lineup and they shifted from anarcho-punk[23][24] to grindcore.

[25] The industrial metal band Head of David had played live with Napalm Death before their drummer left and Broadrick was invited to take his place.

They started with working on existing Fall of Because songs and Broadrick was influenced by the hip-hop sound at the time – artists like Public Enemy, Beastie Boys, Run-DMC.

[27] Broadrick also played guitar for Sweet Tooth with Scott Kiehl (of GOD) and Dave Cochrane (of Head of David), who released the album Soft White Underbelly on Earache Records in 1990.

Broadrick and Martin created a new project called Ice in 1993, where they experimented with industrial and dub music as well as hip-hop beat patterns.

[28] During this period, Broadrick produced records for Pram, Terminal Power Company, Lull and Cable Regime.

Broadrick joined Kevin Martin's band GOD as a guitarist for their second and final album The Anatomy of Addiction.

Broadrick was more influenced by hip-hop and dub music when Godflesh recorded the fourth album, Songs of Love and Hate, with live drummer Bryan Mantia.

From 1997 to 1999, Martin and Broadrick released two Techno Animal compilations, Versus Reality and Radio Hades, a split album with Porter Ricks.

[33] Broadrick released drum and bass music under numerous pseudonyms such as Cylon, Tech Level 2 and Youpho.

At that time, they were influenced by acts like Ed Rush and Dillinja, and labels like No U-Turn and Renegade Hardware.

[26] In 2000, Broadrick, Green and drummer Ted Parsons began work on the Godflesh album, Hymns.

Godflesh was booked for a European tour to open for Fear Factory, so Broadrick invited Paul Raven to replace Ben.

A week into the tour Broadrick told "Raven is a fantastic bass player, but it just wasn't Benny, who I had been playing with for 13 years and was a whole part of what Godflesh was".

Broadrick slipped into a mental breakdown, fled back to Birmingham and hid at a friend's house just as he was supposed to board a plane to begin the North American tour.

This release featured Ted Parsons on drums, Diarmuid Dalton on bass and a guest appearance from Paul Neville.

"I was still making low-tuned, heavy, guttural music, at the heart of this there was something quite pretty and beautiful, just being construed in an almost ugly fashion", said Broadrick.

In March 2010, Broadrick announced that he felt Jesu had strayed further away from the guitar driven music that he intended it to be and more into electronica.

In April 2012, Valley of Fear, a new project of Broadrick, Matthew Bower and Samantha Davies, released an album of noise rock and black metal experiments on Legion Blotan Records.

[54] In January 2016, Broadrick's Jesu project collaborated with Mark Kozelek's folk rock project, Sun Kil Moon to record an album titled Jesu/Sun Kil Moon and the collaborative act toured in support of the album.

Jesu and Sun Kil Moon collaborated once again to record a cover of "Condor Ave" for an Elliott Smith tribute album titled Say Yes!, released in October 2016.