Neurosis
| Neurosis | |
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 Neurosis in 2008 |
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| General information | |
| origin |
 United States Oakland , California |
| Genre (s) |
Post-Metal (since 1992) Thrash Metal (1990) Crustcore (1988) |
| founding | 1985 |
| Website | http://www.neurosis.com/ |
| Current occupation | |
Guitar, vocals |
Scott Kelly |
Guitar, vocals |
Steve Von Till |
| Jason Roeder | |
| Dave Edwardson | |
| Noah Landis | |
| former members | |
Keyboard |
Simon McIlroy (1990-1993) |
| Chad Salter (1985-1989) | |
Neurosis ( English for neurosis is) a post-metal - band from Oakland , USA .
Band history
Neurosis started in 1985 with a mix of hardcore and punk . Their first album, Pain of Mind , was released in 1988. Two years later, the pop-punk label Lookout! Records released the second work The Word as Law . In the course of time the band changed their style away from fast played hardcore to a slowly played variant with dark elements. After this development, the band now represents a progressive variety of Doom Metal and Ambient . Neurosis is considered to be a great influence for many bands in the underground and in the metal scene , including u. a. Isis , the death metal band Disbelief and the band Mastodon . The metal scene was not Neurosis' original target audience; the band cherished z. B. in interviews as a rule an aversion to the superficial aesthetics and self-portrayal that is typical of this genre. This rather represents the basic attitude of the original environment of Neurosis - namely punk or hardcore. In this context, the following quote from singer Scott Kelly is passed down:
“The hippies are and will remain our archenemies because they pretended to be nature's children but in reality denied their nature. They believed their 'happy family', this dull life in love , drugs and dance would be an expression of freedom , something to do with nature. It was blindness! I feel sick when I see all these characters in front of me, hanging out at a Grateful Dead concert with grins on their faces and only whimpering an ecstatic 'La la la'. That is the vision of hell : an innumerable, tamed mass of grinning faces. "
The band has since founded their own label: Neurot Recordings. In 2003 Neurosis collaborated with the singer Jarboe (ex- Swans ) on an album recording ("Neurosis & Jarboe", 2003). The band members Steve von Till, Scott Kelly and the visual artist Josh Graham are involved in numerous music projects (including Blood & Time, Isis, Red Sparowes , A Storm of Light , Shrinebuilder , Corrections House ). After the release of her album "Given to the Rising" (2007), Neurosis embarked on an extensive European tour in late summer 2008. Before that, Scott Kelly presented his second solo album "The Wake". In 2011 numerous concerts followed in North America and Europe.
In 2012 the tenth studio album Honor Found in Decay was released . In this context, the band performed many appearances in America and embarked on a European tour in mid-2013.
style
While the first albums Pain of Mind and The Word as Law were still considered a mixture of post-hardcore and thrash metal , with Souls at Zero and the following albums they defined a mixture of hardcore punk and doom metal with influences from post-rock , ambient and progressive rock known as post metal . Years after its release, Dave Edwardson described the style of the album Enemy of the Sun as a sludge / tribal festival . The riff-heavy sound of Neurosis is characterized by drone sounds and the vocal change between Steve von Till and Scott Kelly.
Despite the tendency to experiment, the music is not created in jam sessions . Kelly generally calls the creation process of the jointly written music "hard work" which aims to ensure that "everyone in the band has to be 100% satisfied with a passage".
influence
The band is credited with pioneering post-metal status, particularly due to the early albums in the genre. Lars Brinkmann, for the magazine Spex , also emphasizes the importance of the album Souls at Zero for post-metal and related music areas.
“Recorded in distant San Francisco by sun-drenched colleagues Neurosis, this album concentrated everything that hundreds of bands needed over the next 15 years to be able to rub themselves sore at the intersections of metal / hardcore and noise / rock. Nevertheless, until today no band has managed to unleash such violent hurricanes in suffering and to shake both music halls and occupied houses with indulgent pathos. "
Various performers of the genre relate to the band or are compared with it. Amenra , Dirge , Buried Inside , Overmars and Zatokrev, among others, name Neurosis as a significant influence; for other performers such as Year of No Light or Mouth of the Architect , Neurosis is used as a benchmark to describe style.
Discography
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Albums
- 1988: Pain of Mind (Alchemy Records) (1990 and 1994, Alternative Tentacles Reissue) (1999, Neurot Recordings Reissue)
- 1990: The Word as Law ( Lookout! Records )
- 1992: Souls at Zero ( Alternative Tentacles ) (1999, Neurot Recordings Reissue)
- 1993: Enemy of the Sun (Alternative Tentacles) (1999, Neurot Recordings Reissue)
- 1996: Through Silver in Blood ( Relapse Records )
- 1999: Times of Grace (Relapse Records)
- 2001: A Sun that Never Sets (Relapse Records)
- 2003: Neurosis and Jarboe (Neurot Recordings / Relapse Records)
- 2004: The Eye of Every Storm (Neurot Recordings)
- 2007: Given to the Rising (Neurot Recordings)
- 2012: Honor Found in Decay (Neurot Recordings)
- 2016: Fires Within Fires (Neurot Recordings)
Singles / EPs
- 1989: Aberration (Lookout! Records)
- 1990: Empty (1990, Allied Records) (1991, Your Choice Records Reissue)
- 1996: Locust Star (Relapse Records)
- 1999: In these Black Days Vol. 6 (Split EP with Soilent Green , Hydra Head Records )
- 2000: Sovereign (Neurot Recordings)
Official bootlegs
- 2000: Short Wave Warfare (re-release of a previously unofficial bootleg, Neurot Recordings)
- 2002: Live in Lyon (Neurot Recordings)
- 2003: Live in Stockholm (Neurot Recordings)
- 2010: Live at Roadburn 2007 (2010, Neurot Recordings / Roadburn Records)
Video albums
- 2002: A Sun that Never Sets (Relapse Records, Neurot Recordings)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Joachim Hiller: Enemy of the Sun. Ox fanzine, accessed April 22, 2014 .
- ↑ Martin Büsser : If the Kids Are United: from punk to hardcore and back
- ^ Eduardo Rivadavia: Pain of Mind. All Music, accessed April 22, 2014 .
- ^ Eduardo Rivadavia: The Word as Law. Retrieved April 22, 2014 .
- ↑ Times of Grace: Greg Moffitt. BBC, accessed April 22, 2014 .
- ^ Adrian Bromley: A Chat with Neurosis' Dave Edwardson. Chronicle of Chaos, April 18, 1996, accessed July 6, 2014 .
- ↑ Andreas Reissnauer: Neurosis Interview 07/2004. EMP, accessed September 7, 2015 .
- ^ Lars Brinkmann: Year of No Light North. Spex, archived from the original on April 27, 2014 ; Retrieved April 26, 2014 .
- ↑ Alexander Eitner: Interview Colin H. Van Eeckhout, AmenRa. (No longer available online.) Metal news, archived from the original on April 30, 2014 ; Retrieved April 29, 2014 .
- ↑ Alexander Eitner: Stéphane L. & Alain B. von Dirge. (No longer available online.) Metal News, archived from the original on April 24, 2014 ; Retrieved April 24, 2014 .
- ↑ Björn Backes: BURIED INSIDE: Interview with Nick Shaw. PowerMetal.de, accessed on August 26, 2014 .
- ↑ Oliver Plöger: Overmars - Affliction, Endocrine ... Vertigo. Visions, accessed April 25, 2014 .
- ↑ Ollie Fröhlich: Despair is a master from Switzerland. Ox fanzine, accessed September 2, 2015 .
- ↑ Cosmo Lee: Interview - Year of No Light. Stylus Magazine, accessed April 27, 2014 .
- ↑ Eduardo Rivadavia: Time Withering. All Music, accessed April 24, 2014 .
- ↑ Alexander Eitner: The Ties that Blind. (No longer available online.) Metal News, archived from the original on April 25, 2014 ; Retrieved April 24, 2014 .
- ↑ Charts CH