Neurosis

Neurosis

Pain Of Mind

Neurot Recordings

“Pain Of Mind marks the inception of one of the weirdest and most powerful bands there ever was as they begin their odyssey through the sonic landscape: thirty-three years, thirteen albums and counting. These gritty punk songs bear little resemblance to what Neurosis would become, but the future was written here, and if you listen closely to these kids—barely out of high school at the time, you can hear their early influences: the guitars and existential anguish of Amebix and Rudimentary Peni, the passionate politics of Crass, the heaviness of Sabbath—and here, too, they lay the foundation for some of their enduring concerns: the pursuit of transcendence, and contemplation on the downward suck of despair. “As Ian MacKaye coyly suggests in the East Bay Punk doc Turn It Around, there are ‘a lot of holes to fall into’ growing up in the Bay Area. In 1987 Dave Edwardson was 18, Scott Kelly was 19, Jason Roeder was 16, Chad Salter, the band elder, was 21, and they had already fallen into many of them, including, of course, the great abyss of depression. Only a teenager could write the punk anthems ‘Black,’  ‘Grey,’ ‘Life on Your Knees,’ and of course the title track, ‘Pain of Mind.’ They are songs of survival. “With Pain of Mind, Neurosis sunk their claws into the hearts and minds of the East Bay scene like no one else. They were fucking dark, gazing right into the abyss and refusing to turn away. The cacophony of vocals...

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The Word As Law

Neurot Recordings

On limited clear vinyl!!! “I still remember the first time I heard The Word As Law, shortly after it was released in 1990. From the first chords of “Double-Edged Sword” I was hooked—the sounds seemed to send some sort of powerful electrical current coursing through my body—and by the time the feedback faded out at the end of “Blisters” I was emotionally spent. I had never heard anything like it: it completely changed my understanding of three different musical genres—punk, hardcore, and metal. “The record blends elements of all three. There is the raw moodiness of punk. The ferocity and anger of hardcore. The musicianship and dynamics of metal. But the album transcends all those labels, in the process creating something utterly unique. “It hit me on so many levels. It spoke to the anger I had as a young punk, my sense that I was trapped in a dog-eat-dog world of relentless capitalist competition, my alienation from the broader society. But it also resonated on a deeper level. My father killed himself when I was a teenager, leaving me mourning, feeling as if I were surrounded by a thick fog of despair. This is not a happy collection of songs, but it played this incredibly positive and cathartic role in my life. Listening to it over and over, gave me an odd sense of comfort. I realized that I wasn’t the only person struggling with deep emotional turmoil and found myself slowly working through the anger and...

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Fires Within Fires

Neurot Recordings

Of all that humankind has inherited through our ancestry, no single language has transcended every age as powerfully as music. For those few who channel that inheritance of sound today, none wield its command and authority like Neurosis. Showing their discontent with convention from the very beginning, Neurosis revealed what would become an instinct for transformation in sound and scope. With each release, the sound became interchangeable with vision. A vision of the conscious and unconscious coexisting in an audial spectrum that challenged not only the constraints of what listeners expected but of the listeners themselves as beings. Over the collective’s past ten albums, Neurosis have invited listeners to join them on the path their music carved. Going beyond the remarkable, they became unforgettable. Throughout the last 30 years, the band has relished the unpredictable and embraced the unknown possibility of where the music was capable of taking them. Neurosis takes their most dominant step yet with their eleventh full-length, Fires Within Fires. Three decades in the making, striking their signature balance between light and dark, beauty and repulsion, this latest album gives due to its predecessors while progressing forward into the unfamiliar and formidable. Featuring exquisite album artwork from the renowned Thomas Hooper and the stellar recording work of the group’s longstanding engineer Steve Albini, Fires Within Fires is at once a beautiful and forbidding work of mastery. For members Scott Kelly, Steve Von Till, Jason Roeder, Noah Landis, and Dave Edwardson, the album is a welcome companion to...

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Honor Found In Decay

Neurot Recordings

It is said that great art has the power to take us outside of ourselves and bring us closer to ourselves simultaneously. Few bands have accomplished this rare feat on a more profound and consistent basis than Neurosis. For nearly three decades, their music has touched the hearts and minds of young men and women seeking contact with something beyond the physical world, something intangible, something that expresses the inner tumult of the human condition in a way that transcends time and space. Something that not only provokes questions but maybe even hints at answers. The music on Honor Found in Decay is both torturous and transcendent. It is the ongoing exposition of a vast internal dialogue that seems to carry the weight of eons. With the right kind of ears and eyes, it can seem like the trials and tribulations of mankind are being channeled through five individuals: Steve Von Till, Scott Kelly, Noah Landis, Jason Roeder and Dave Edwardson. And yet they will be the first ones to tell you that they are just regular people trying to make sense of the world around them. Aided by Josh Graham, their resident visual guru, they transmit their interpretations through multiple sensory planes. The degree to which Neurosis allows them to step out of their everyday lives is the distance between one and zero, the distance between thinking and doing, the distance between this minute and the one that may or may not follow. Which is to say: Neurosis takes...

Neurosis

(Ltd Version) Honor Found In Decay

Neurot Recordings

LIMITED EDITION PACKAGING IN MINI-LP STYLE SLEEVE *** * It is said that great art has the power to take us outside of ourselves and bring us closer to ourselves simultaneously. Few bands have accomplished this rare feat on a more profound and consistent basis than Neurosis. For nearly three decades, their music has touched the hearts and minds of young men and women seeking contact with something beyond the physical world, something intangible, something that expresses the inner tumult of the human condition in a way that transcends time and space. Something that not only provokes questions but maybe even hints at answers. The music on Honor Found in Decay is both torturous and transcendent. It is the ongoing exposition of a vast internal dialogue that seems to carry the weight of eons. With the right kind of ears and eyes, it can seem like the trials and tribulations of mankind are being channeled through five individuals: Steve Von Till, Scott Kelly, Noah Landis, Jason Roeder and Dave Edwardson. And yet they will be the first ones to tell you that they are just regular people trying to make sense of the world around them. Aided by Josh Graham, their resident visual guru, they transmit their interpretations through multiple sensory planes. The degree to which Neurosis allows them to step out of their everyday lives is the distance between one and zero, the distance between thinking and doing, the distance between this minute and the one that may or may...

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Sovereign Remastered

Neurot Recordings

For the last 26 years, Neurosis has tapped into the elusive wellspring where resonance and dissonance collude, circling emotional poles where nothing is withheld, where the psyche screams for answers to Earth’s ancient mysteries. Originally unveiled in 2000, the four-song, 32-minute Sovereign EP was the first Neurosis release issued through the band’s own Neurot Recordings, with the vinyl appearing via Hydra Head. In chronological terms, Sovereign served as a millennial segue between two of the band’s most revered full-lengths, 1999’s Times of Grace and 2001’s A Sun That Never Sets.  Opener “Prayer” sets the omnipotent tone for all that follows. A master-class in deep dynamics, the song ascends from its quiet beginnings into a rolling, hypnotic power-dirge couched in a bone-rattling rhythm. “An Offering” brings arsenic visions of Eden—or at least of the ruinous snake and the tree of knowledge around which it infamously coiled. The instrumental “Flood” is a veritable drum cannonade. And, clocking in at over 13 minutes in length, “Sovereign” offers perhaps the widest variety of textures, tones and instrumental undulations. Under headphones, it is a psychotropic experience of the highest order. —J. Bennett (Decibel)

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Live At Roadburn 2007

Neurot Recordings

Neurot Recordings proudly unveils a brand new live album from one of the most influential bands of metal's experimental underworld: Neurosis! Their first release since 2007's Given to the Rising, Live at Roadburn was recorded that same year in Tilburg, Holland, at the annual Roadburn Festival, where the band headlined to a diehard audience. The monstrous 78-minute album captures the monolithic flow and gut-level strength of Neurosis's renowned and sonically devastating live performances. This iconic band surges through hymns from their last few albums, including Given to the Rising, The Eye of Every Storm, A Sun That Never Sets and Through Silver in Blood. The Live at Roadburn 2007 release accompanies the reissue of Neurosis's classic Enemy of the Sun album, both part of this year's ongoing celebration of the legendary band's 25th anniversary.

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Enemy Of The Sun

Neurot Recordings

Originally released in 1993, Neurosis's crushing Enemy of the Sun LP takes their pulsing, hypnotic monoliths down to darker and much, much heavier territory. A mesmerizing, pressurizing, dirge-driven display of brutal riffing, thick with haunting samples, layered vocal tracks, raging multiple-member percussion contributions and some of the most mammoth build-ups ever, the album leaves a sense of anguish in one's soul long after its final notes ring out. To this day, critics and fans of heavy and experimental metal consider this spine-chilling release one of the harshest and most mind-warping of all time, and countless acts cite it as "the one that changed everything." Neurot Recordings is proud to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Neurosis by making this classic album available once again. 2010's Enemy of the Sun reissue includes two tracks not on the original release and bears a fully redesigned package by visionary artist and Neurosis live visual master Josh Graham.

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Souls At Zero

Neurot Recordings

Souls at Zero, originally released in 1992, was Neurosis’s first flash of true brilliance. Retaining their concussive and visceral punk roots, the band took their first solid steps into previously uncharted territory—employing non-traditional instruments, tribal chants, radically slower tempos and densely layered, folk-influenced melodies, essentially creating a post-metal blueprint in the process. “Sterile Vision” breathes with a barbaric folk tinge, while the menacing industrial rhythms of “Flight” and “The Web” steamroll the senses. The maniacal trepidation of “Zero” acts as the ying to the melancholic yang of “Empty.” Neurot Records is proud to keep the flame burning with this deluxe reissue. Adding demo versions of “Zero” and the title track along with a bonus live cut, the updated Souls at Zero is a vital document of one of the most influential bands in heavy music. Redesigned artwork by the revered Josh Graham completes a package worthy of timeless worship.

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Given To The Rising

Neurot Recordings

Now in its third decade of innovative noisy psychedelic-metallic thunder, Neurosis is more than a just a powerful band—it’s a religious experience. As such, personal epiphanies are repeatedly told both by those who’ve been converted by Neurosis’ sensory overloading live show and by those who’ve felt transformed while listening to the legendary quintet’s recordings. Given To The Rising is both reflective of the aggressive pummeling for which Neurosis is known, as well as an exploration into psychoactive prog-rock and eviscerating symphonic heft that moves well beyond what we’ve all come to recognize as the “Neurosis note.” Given To The Rising is like being submerged in an isolation tank—it envelops, subverting the senses with surreal visions we’d swear were our own, cleverly jarring and disorienting consciousness beyond any footing in reality. Just as any diehard Neurosis fan will tell you, there’s a moment with every new record and live show at which the band stops as if the world has frozen in position, then suddenly kicks into a behemoth wail that forces one’s head and shoulders to lurch and sway uncontrollably. Given To The Rising is a sound borne of that captivating and transcendent moment.

Neurosis

Eye Of Every Storm

Neurot Recordings

***Long-running heavy sound explorers and tribal rock warriors NEUROSIS return with their highly anticipated Eye of Every Storm, their first new album in three years. Eight massive tracks recorded and mixed by STEVE ALBINI. The band will tour in support of the album beginning in July with a special performance in San Francisco consisting of one nonstop two-to-three-hour set.

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Live In Stockholm

Neurot Recordings

***The latest installment in NEUROSIS' ongoing series of documents of their devastating live performances. This time around the band is captured blasting the shit out of Stockholm, Sweden, driving eight classic tracks recorded October 15th, 1999 by Swedish National Radio.

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Live In Lyon

Neurot Recordings

***Another document of the devastating live experience of long-time Bay Area thunder lords NEUROSIS. Seven heavy-duty, tribal-slayed cuts recorded in Lyon, France, November 2nd, 1999. The first in a series of "official bootleg" recordings to be released on the band's own Neurot Recordings. Features material from the Times of Grace, Enemy of the Sun, Sovereign, and Through Silver In Blood albums.

Neurosis

Sovereign

Neurot Recordings

***The latest in sense-overwhelming tribal rock suffocation from the Bay Area's biggest axe-wielding warriors. Four long-ass, head-stunning and spine-battering tracks loaded on an enhanced CD-ROM featuring the hypnotic visuals of the band's live show, as well as restricted web site information where fans can download additional, unreleased Sovereign material. Barbaric and beautiful both. Thank you Dave Ed.