★★★★★
While Neurosis' 1987 debut LP Pain Of Mind was an impressive, Black Flag-inspired statement of intent, it contained little to suggest the Oakland, California outfit would spend the next two decades and beyond morphing into such a brilliant, genre-defying behemoth. While their neighbours High On Fire have continually revised and refined their brutal sludgecore sound, Neurosis have taken a more complex route: skilfully weaving strains of folk, prog and even chilled ambience into their patented...
- recordcollectormag.com
2013-04-02
★★★★★
Bagpipes is a new one, even for me. The way that those familiarly reedy, stoic and solemn tones fill an ambient interlude from the din of 'At The Well', the 10 minute plus second track of Neurosis's ninth studio album, is oddly fitting, even if it does reek a little of 'well guys, there is one thing we haven't done yet...'...
- drownedinsound.com
2013-04-02
★★★★★
On paper--as on record, in their careers and ambitions, and even as people--Neurosis and Miguel Jontel Pinmental are absolutely unlike each other. There's been a lot of musical cross-pollination, synthesis, and general boundary blurring over the past twenty-five years or so that Neurosis have been active and Miguel has been alive, but even in 2012 (where there's such a thing as Jeff the Brotherhood and Insane Clown Posse recording a piece of Mozart doggerel produced by Jack White--holy shit...
- cokemachineglow.com
2012-12-21
★★★★★
When Kenneth Thomas, director of Blood, Sweat & Vinyl: DIY in the 21st Century, explains how he started listening to bands like Neurosis, he characterizes his discovery of extreme music as an escalation of habit. In these times of infinite musical accessibility, it's interesting and perhaps brave to admit that music can still be about habit and instinct as much as choice. Thomas says he instantly took to Godspeed You! Black Emperor, because he found them to be "emotionally engrossing...
- www.tinymixtapes.com
2012-11-16
★★★★★
Neurosis is one of the most significant bands in heavy metal, as crucial to the genre's development and vitality as Black Sabbath, Motörhead, Venom or any other pioneering act you'd care to mention. The band formed in Oakland, California in 1985, and its early hardcore and punk communiqués were wrapped in an Amebix-like crust, but in 1992 Neurosis altered its musical course towards doom-laden horizons...
- www.popmatters.com
2012-11-08
★★★★★
8
Critical Mass
Release Date: November 6, 2012Label: Neurot
Nearly three eardrum-decimating decades into their career -- and a little more than 15 years since they perfected feedback-drenched catharsis metal on 1996 watershed Through Silver in Blood -- the expressionists in Neurosis still sound as though, to them, happiness is a foreign language...
- www.spin.com
2012-11-08
★★★★★
Soon, Neurosis will be thirty years in the making. They may celebrate this coming of age with a mass idolatrous assembly. Deep in the murk and mire of a Lovecraftian tomb, they will convene to eulogise the metaphysical Gods of Drone. Cloaked in bloodied robes, their cavernous 'oms' will crack the stratosphere in two. From the ruptured spleen of the macrocosm will come Asag, demonic causer of sickness and violator of mountains...
- thequietus.com
2012-11-08
★★★★★
Integrity, resolve, power and truth.
Neurosis is one of the most significant bands in heavy metal, as crucial to the genre's development and vitality as Black Sabbath, Motörhead, Venom or any other pioneering act you'd care to mention. The band formed in Oakland, California in 1985, and its early hardcore and punk communiqués were wrapped in an Amebix-like crust, but in 1992 Neurosis altered its musical course towards doom-laden horizons...
- www.popmatters.com
2012-11-06
★★★★★
One of the more compelling storyline threads running through the music released in 2012 has been the re-assertion of power by long-established artists. Sure, the year has also seen fantastic next steps from other corners of the indie world, from bands that are proving to be career acts, to those who may have appeared on some "artists to watch" lists making good on their early potential. But take a moment to consider the 2012 albums from blazers such as Converge, Swans, and now Neurosis...
- www.prefixmag.com
2012-11-05
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