Ringer (song)

[1] The studio (an at-home setup in Wales)[2] saw Justin Broadrick and G. C. Green recording a number of songs, two of which were cut from the album and repurposed for an extended play titled Decline & Fall.

Musically, "Ringer" is a slow, distorted, heavy song built around Broadrick's eight-string guitar,[8] Green's overdriven bass and the characteristic programmed percussion that helped Godflesh define industrial metal.

[11] Dan Reilly of Spin called the song "skull-crushing",[6] and Maya Kalev of Resident Advisor described "Ringer" by writing, "It opens with a thin growl and explodes into a colossus of riffs, vocal moans and percussive pounding that seems to choke on itself before redoubling its strength and fading into an ominous stretch.

[16][17] As a dub mix, it is noticeably sparser than the original track, featuring spaces where the otherwise omnipresent guitar chugging falls away so the song can focus on percussion and bass.

[19][12][13] Jeremy Ulrey of Metal Injection wrote that the song "has an absolutely savage central riff that almost seems written with sole purpose of teaching new school industrial dabblers like Batillus who really runs this shit.