NEUROSIS Honor Found In Decay (SMOKE GREY VINYL) 2 x LP

NEUROSIS Honor Found In Decay (SMOKE GREY VINYL) 2 x LP

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*** This is a new and unplayed item, direct from the CRUCIAL BLAST shop. ***


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  Back in stock. Available as a limited deluxe vinyl edition, on heavyweight grey vinyl limited to 1,000 copies, packaged in a heavy Stoughton casewrapped gatefold jacket with a huge LP size full color booklet.
  More than any other band on this week's new arrivals list, Oakland, CA avant-metal outfit Neurosis no doubt needs the least amount of introduction, especially to readers of the C-Blast list. I'm having a hard time coming up with another band who has had as much of an influence on the evolution of extreme music in the past twenty years as this band, and yet their new music continues to sound timeless, and almost totally outside of everything else that is going on within the realm of underground metal and punk. From their seminal early 90's albums of earth-shaking, highly experimental sludge metal (Enemy Of The Sun, Through Silver In Blood) to their later, more slow-burning albums of atmospheric heaviness (Times Of Grace, A Sun That Never Sets), Neurosis have managed to continue to explore and expand their sound, with each album bringing new elements and new directions to their songwriting, while retaining a near constant connection to the sheer visceral power of the riff.
   Now almost thirty years after they first rose from out of the dusty warehouses of the Bay Area hardcore scene, the band has returned with their tenth album Honor Found In Decay, their first in nearly six years, and again engineered by longtime studio collaborator Steve Albini. On it, Neurosis have delivered a set of songs that are every bit as powerful and as complex as their previous works, but the most noticeable thing about the album is how much the members have brought their growing interests in traditional American folk music to their songwriting, moreso here than ever before. These songs delve deeper into Neurosis's new realms of windswept, sun-baked majesty, and at first it seems as if the music is more pensive, more restrained, and less metallic than before, and the beginning of the album reminds us of the solo work that has been coming out from members Steve Von Till and Scott Kelly, their forays into vintage country music and traditional folk coloring Honor's instrumentation, at least: the sounds of slide guitar, harmonica and Hammond organ all find their way into the album, with the slide guitar in particular becoming a prominent part of the album's over all windswept sound.
   The seven songs that make up Honor Found In Decay are filled with these traces of apocalyptic Americana and twilight psychedelia, as the lumbering crush of "We All Rage In Gold" becomes laced with eerie Theremin-like tones, the riff massive, the singer's bellowing in powerful staccato bursts. That haunting slide guitar that creeps through "At The Well" sounds like something that drifted in off of an ancient 78 rpm country record, the lonesome melody blending perfectly with the band's lumbering leaden groove. As Honor unfolds, they continue to contrast their passages of monstrous metallic crush with those more mellowed passages of twangy, almost Morricone-like atmospheric guitar and sun-dappled acoustic guitars slowly strummed over fields of dark ambience, sometimes shifting into long interludes of haunting violin sounds that are processed into strange new textures. Again, the slide guitar playing permeates the album, winding through the watery psychedelic guitars and dark Hammond organ tones that drift through the beginning of songs like "My Heart For Deliverance", becoming lost amid swirling effects and smears of backwards music, then lurches into another super-heavy angular sludgemetal groove. Later, the band breaks into an extended stretch of gorgeous instrumental rock that slowly drifts around a passage of spoken word recordings, a female voice reading over their lush, shadowy melodies, and then erupts into a striking, soulful harmonica being played over another crushing riff, turning into a strangely rustic sounding dirge. That slow-burn riffage courses through "Bleeding The Pigs", one of the album's heaviest songs, starting off with sludgy heaviness rumbling beneath a fog of billowing, deep-space synthesizer that tumbles through the gloom, eventually leading into a furious tribal drum workout that sounds like something off of their Enemy Of The Sun album, booming percussion building across the second half of the track, a smoldering blast of tribal-psych-metal, finally exploding into squalls of violent guitar noise and more of those menacing spoken-word vocals. But then on the later tracks, that weather-beaten Americana atmosphere rises again to the fore, with the wheezing folk of "Casting Of The Ages" faintly echoing the later Swans material before shifting into another bout of grinding slow-motion metal, a Hammond-soaked slab of doom and regret, while the pummeling "All Is Found... In Time" moves into a kind of grim space rock jam, shrouded in vast nebulous synthesizers, and "Raise The Dawn"'s crushing heaviness gives way to more of those withered, weary Appalachian strings.
   Stunning stuff that reminds us of just how brilliant this band is, and another in a long line of amazing atmospheric albums that again continues to expand their vision, exploring atavistic themes and self-reflection through the catharsis of bone-crushing heaviness. One of the band's most nuanced collections of apocalyptic hymns yet.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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