Neurosis - Through Silver In Blood

This is the best metal album of all time IMO.

...and I'm torn between about 5 tracks, tbh.

oh "country matters"

country matters = lj?

however did u guess

egregious hyperbole.

Neurosis: Through Classic or Dud?

that cover is ugly

locust star!

that song exhibits much of what works best for this band

reluctantly narrowed it down to a straight fight between "purify" and "enclosure in flame"

This Locust Star video could be the best thing on Youtube, ever:

I saw this tour. I've never owned the album though. I thought they'd fallen off a bit during this period. But they caught me back again with Times of Grace which I've always thought was far superior (as far as later catalog Neurosis discs go).

this record is pretty much the consensus pick, and with good reason, everyone who likes anything by this band needs to hear it

"locust star" is gonna take this but it totally deserves to. the part where they ride that riff out at the end is the best thing ever. "purify" is a close second for me.

albini's production really, really works for this band but that's about the only about times of grace that I like better than through silver (particularly the bass sound, which is kind of lame on tsib). but title track aside, the second half of tog kinda drags. and (pet peeve but...) I've always HATED how they don't repeat that awesome riff at the beginning of "the last you'll know" more than a couple times. I mean, this is neurosis, they should've driven that thing into the ground!! and then the rest of the song turns into a bit of a slog.

point is, the songwriting on tsib strikes me as more focused. (something my last post was not...) less fat, all killer, no filler, etc.

the album is always marching onwards somewhere, it is never stuck in a holding pattern, it never compromises its vision, and it unfolds its demonic visions like a motherfucker before crushing itself stone-dead

there is such skill, subtlety and thought going into every decision on this album

well, I could do without the little industrial movie sample tracks like "rehumanize".

hahaha ok "rehumanize" is the collective breath for respite after shitting-christ opening track, and "become the ocean" separates midsection from final assault

i don't expect either to get any votes but stranger things have happened ;)

I think they're effective mood-sustainers!

yeah, I think I can go with that. they're not bad or anything but I think "rehumanize" does overstay its welcome a teeny bit, imo. maybe if it were 30secs or so...

ah man, you say it like the album's demerited by an overlong 1 3/4-minute ambient interlude :-P

man that huge riff about 4 mins into "purify" is like spiritualized's "come together" gone 400x more badass

haha, just getting super-picky because this thing is just about flawless! this is one of my fave albums ever!

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enclosure in flame it is

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WTF 5 votes shared by "Eye" and "Rehumanize" that is some seriously fucked-up shit

that's HALF THE VOTES CAST, 3 for a nice if slight 5-minute riff cycle, 2 for a fucking ambient sampled interlude

jesus christ, ILM, if it weren't for me NONE of the long-form tracks wd've gotten a vote, yer all CRAZY

and you have pathetic attention-spans

i mean more than half the tracks are long-form and they're the 5 best tracks of metal pretty much ever i feel like i'm eating stupid pills here

what i am trying to say is MERRY CHRISTMAS IN HELL

polls are pretty much bullshit anyhow

there you go

re-screen this motherfucker and it's the most intense shit on earth. 'aeon' is the fever-nightmare gutpunch, 'purify' the mass cult suicide, 'strength of fates' the approaching bushfire, 'enclosure in flame' the last words of a tormented maniac, 'through silver in blood' the sinking and carnage of a stricken battleship, and the rest is just out to fucking kill you (shorter songs) or at the very least terrify the soon-to-be-dead crap outta you (ambient interludes)

certainly wasn't expecting bagpipes...

Purify is one of the greatest motherfucking songs ever written

That's right! I swear when I talk about metal! I'm a hard man, me.