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Neurosis (Music)

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Neurosis is a post-metal band from Oakland, California. Initially playing crossover thrash, they pioneered a mix of hardcore punk, Doom Metal, and Post-Rock that became known as post-metal, and have become one of this subgenre's most acclaimed acts. Their songs tend to be extremely long and often contain screamed vocals, with lengthy instrumental passages that often build in intensity to an explosive climax. Many other bands in the subgenre have cited them as an influence.On August 27, 2022, Scott Kelly posted a lengthy statement admitting that he had been abusive towards his family for a long time, taking account for his actions and announcing that he would be permanently retiring from music to set himself in a better direction. Whether he was being sincere about the matter and/or his retirement or not is up in the air, but as of now, the band's status is unknown. Current Members: Dave Edwardson - bass, backing vocals Jason Roeder - drums, percussion Steve von Till - guitar, backing vocals Noah Landis - synthesizer, keyboards, effects, samples, backing vocals Core Studio Discography: 1987 - Pain of Mind 1990 - The Word as Law 1992 - Souls at Zero 1993 - Enemy of the Sun 1996 - Through Silver in Blood 1999 - Times of Grace 2001 - A Sun That Never Sets 2003 - Neurosis & Jarboe 2004 - The Eye of Every Storm 2007 - Given to the Rising 2012 - Honor Found in Decay 2016 - Fires Within Fires Live Albums: 2002 - Live at Lyon 2003 - Live in Stockholm 2010 - Live at Roadburn 2007
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Darker and Edgier
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Darker and Edgier: Post-metal could be (and has been) considered Darker and Edgier Post-Rock.
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Ambient
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Ambient: An influence on their work as Neurosis, and they have a dark ambient side project known as Tribes of Neurot.
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New Sound Album
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New Sound Album: Souls at Zero abandoned the fast-paced crossover thrash of their early work in favor of a slower, more atmospheric sound.
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Miniscule Rocking
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Miniscule Rocking: They have quite a few interludes that count as examples of this, contrasting with the band's usual Epic Rocking.
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Boléro Effect
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Boléro Effect: Post-metal features crescendi as a core element, and they are as present in Neurosis' music as anywhere.
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Concept Album
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Concept Album: Through Silver in Blood is apparently intended as one, though it's been interpreted in a number of different ways. One common interpretation seems to be that it is an Apocalyptic Log.
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Doom Metal
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Doom Metal: Pioneers of post-metal, which is often considered a subgenre of doom metal (and is listed on this wiki as such).
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Guttural Growler
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Guttural Growler: Scott Kelly. When he does clean vocals (like on The Eye of Every Storm) he almost sounds like Tom Waits.
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Rated M for Manly
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Rated M for Manly: Even by extreme metal standards they're this personified. They're a bunch of bearded, grizzled dudes who play long, slow, heavy songs about mysticism, violence, and the apocalypse.
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Early-Installment Weirdness
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Early-Installment Weirdness: Their early material is mostly crossover thrash in the vein of Suicidal Tendencies and DRI. It is on Souls at Zero that they established the sound for which they are known today.
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Sampling / Spoken Word in Music: The band is fond of this. For example, Enemy of the Sun opens with a sample from the film version of The Sheltering Sky. It also appears frequently on Souls at Zero and Through Silver in Blood, with the samples often talking about mystical and spiritual matters.
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Album Intro Track
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Album Intro Track: "Suspended in Light" for Times of Grace.
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Metal Scream
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Metal Scream: Scott Kelly has become extremely well known for this, as he's very, very good at it.
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Drone of Dread
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Drone of Dread: Frequently employed in interludes, often paired with unsettling spoken word samples.
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Epic Rocking
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Epic Rocking: A staple characteristic of post-metal, this is frequently found in Neurosis' music. Their longest song is "Cleanse", which is either sixteen or twenty-six minutes depending on the release (however, in the latter version, the last ten minutes consist simply of a looped Broken Record sample).
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Instrumentals
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Instrumentals: They have a few, although some may qualify as debatable examples due to their use of Sampling and Spoken Word in Music. Examples include "Zero", "Empty", "Burning Flesh in Year of Pig", "Cleanse", "Rehumanize", "Become the Ocean", "Suspended in Light", "Exist", "Descent", "The Road to Sovereignty", "Erode", "Resound", and "Shelter". Often this is combined with Miniscule Rocking, although not always; in particular, "Cleanse" is the band's longest song.
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Breather Episode
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Breather Episode: Since Neurosis' music is very dynamic, this can happen almost anywhere.
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Signature Style
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Signature Style: Incredibly slow and heavy songs that make use of the Boléro Effect, tribal drum patterns, screamed vocals, and frequent ambient interludes. Their style is very hard to mistake, and it's pretty easy to tell when a band has taken influence from them.
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Post-Rock
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Post-Rock: Pioneered a variant known as post-metal. Additionally, some of their albums qualify as straight-up post-rock.
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Loudness War
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Loudness War: This has mostly been averted in their music; for instance, their latest album, 2016's Fires Within Fires, comes out to DR8, which is quite dynamic by modern metal standards. The only album of theirs that arguably succumbs to this trope is Given to the Rising, which is DR7 overall but has four tracks at DR5. The others don't have any songs below DR6, and only two other albums (Neurosis & Jarboe and Honor Found in Decay) even have an overall range of DR7; all others are DR8 or higher. Part of the band's reluctance to engage in this may be due to their long association with Steve Albini, who is known for his vocal dislike of this trope; he has recorded several of their albums. Part of this is also likely due to the nature of post-metal, which features heavy dynamic shifts as a core element of its sound (although nonetheless, not all post-metal acts have averted this trope).
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Mangst
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Mangst: The impression given off by a lot of their lyrics, especially on The Eye of Every Storm.
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Distinct Double Album
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Distinct Double Album: A strange example. Times of Grace was released alongside a sister album from dark ambient side project Tribes of Neurot, entitled simply Grace. The two releases are intended to be played at the same time. Some enterprising fans have combined them using audio editing software, although combining the two releases in this way naturally sounds different from playing them at the same time on two different sound systems, as intended. However, as many listeners probably do not possess the required equipment to do this, the combined versions can be an example of Keep Circulating the Tapes.
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Shout-Out: The cover of Souls at Zero is inspired by the film The Wicker Man (1973) (the original, not the remake).
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Lighter and Softer
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Lighter and Softer: Some of their releases are considered less heavy than their earlier work. The Eye of Every Storm is a good example of this; it's frequently classified as post-rock rather than post-metal.
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Subdued Section: Again, this is frequent in Neurosis' music, due to its heavy use of dynamic variation.
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Live Album
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Live Album: As seen above, they have three of them.
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The End of the World as We Know It
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The End of the World as We Know It: "Takeahnase", which also qualifies as Gaia's Vengeance. Through Silver in Blood also appears to be about this.
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Avant-Garde Metal
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Avant-Garde Metal: They are considered to be an example, due to their strange mixture of styles.
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Broken Record
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Broken Record: "Cleanse" ends in this way. On some versions it extends to the length of an Overly-Long Gag, but on others it fades out before too long.
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Long-Runner Line-up
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Long Runner Lineup: Hasn't changed since 1995.
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Vocal Tag Team
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Vocal Tag Team: Scott Kelly and Steve Von Till frequently trade off lead vocals with each other.
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Fading into the Next Song: Every song transition on Times of Grace and its companion album Grace does this. Some of their other releases do this some too.
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