Honor Found In Decay
Even though it barely eclipses the 60-minute mark, Neurosis’ 10th LP feels like it takes hours to unfold, as if it’s the molten-metal equivalent of watching and/or reading something as epic as *Cloud Atlas* or the whole *Lord of the Rings* trilogy. This is a good thing. Like Neurosis\' last masterpiece, 2007’s *Given to the Rising*, the band’s long-awaited return is an immersive listen that rewards repeat visits to the valley of death Neurosis personally dug. And what a bleak but strangely beautiful valley it is, populated by rich imagery; there are uplifting lines like “Bleed the pig of its life,” “Death was my first companion,\" and “Smoke from a gaping wound, spirit already flown.\" The music brings new meaning to the phrase *sturm und drang*. It’s enough to make a longtime fan forget all the side projects and solo albums that dropped in the interim and hope for another group effort before the iconic Bay Area band turns 30. (Which is much sooner than you think.)
Over the course of a 27-year career, the Oakland band has evolved from gritty metallic punk to harrowing post-hardcore prog to the majestic doom of their current phase. Their crushing, luminous new album is a highlight of the recent Neurosis discography.
Over the course of a 27-year career, the Oakland band has evolved from gritty metallic punk to harrowing post-hardcore prog to the majestic doom of their current phase. Their crushing, luminous new album is a highlight of the recent Neurosis discography.
It speaks volumes about Neurosis that “My Heart For Deliverance”—the centerpiece of its tenth album, Honor Found In Decay—is some of the best music the band has ever written. Sadly, it’s just as telling that the rest of Honor isn’t. Since finding its strength with 1992’s Souls At Zero, Neurosis has continually broken…
It speaks volumes about Neurosis that “My Heart For Deliverance”—the centerpiece of its tenth album, Honor Found In Decay—is some of the best music the band has ever written. Sadly, it’s just as telling that the rest of Honor isn’t. Since finding its strength with 1992’s Souls At Zero, Neurosis has continually broken…
While terms like genre-defining are thrown around a bit to easily in a great deal of music criticism, there can be no question that, from th...
While terms like genre-defining are thrown around a bit to easily in a great deal of music criticism, there can be no question that, from th...
Hundreds of disciples have tried to wander into the same plats of dark grandeur through metes and bounds of metallic survey. All territory NEUROSIS painstakingly blazed as far back as 1992's "Souls at Zero", considered the band's morphing point from a hardcore act into excavators of sonic expression...
Hundreds of disciples have tried to wander into the same plats of dark grandeur through metes and bounds of metallic survey. All territory NEUROSIS painstakingly blazed as far back as 1992's "Souls at Zero", considered the band's morphing point from a hardcore act into excavators of sonic expression...
A review of Honor Found in Decay by Neurosis, available now via Neurot Records.
A review of Honor Found in Decay by Neurosis, available now via Neurot Records.
By expressing human frailty with such visceral abandon, Neurosis have once again turned darkness into euphoria, writes <strong>Dom Lawson</strong>
By expressing human frailty with such visceral abandon, Neurosis have once again turned darkness into euphoria, writes <strong>Dom Lawson</strong>