Justin Broadrick almost suffered a nervous breakdown in 2002 when his pioneering industrial-metal band Godflesh imploded. Yet it took only four months for him to release Heart Ache, the debut EP by his current project, Jesu. Named after the last track on Godflesh’s final album, Hymns, Jesu has become a unique entity in its own right—but Heart Ache is a Broadrick solo recording, and he pours years of frustration into its two 20-minute tracks. While the heavier sections of “Heart Ache” and “Ruined” are textbook Godflesh, both songs use elements like haunted piano, cathedral-sized atmospherics, and shoegaze overload to shade Broadrick’s alternating depression and rage. It isn’t the melodic, metalgaze masterpiece Jesu would eventually make, but Heart Ache is harrowing and, in a starkly emotional way, even more absorbing.