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Reissue contains a bonus CD with demos, live-tracks and on-air radio performances.
Oakland metal outfit Neurosis dropped their full-length debut, PAIN OF MIND, in 1988. While on subsequent releases the band would perfect a razor-edged brand of mesmerizing prog metal, PAIN OF MIND captures the band full of youthful, punky energy. In fact, the album might be more easily classified as hardcore thrash than metal.
Either way, PAIN OF MIND hits like a battering ram. Lead singer Scott Kelly lets loose his banshee scream, and the band drills through in-your-face pounders with no shortage of cacophonous aggression. Though not nearly as complex or nuanced as future releases, the album is exhilarating, and remains a successful portrait of a band at the beginning of their evolution. The 2000 re-release, which includes an extra disc of demos and live material, makes it even more appealing.
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Art-metal heavyweights Neurosis have been steadily perfecting the balance between heaviness and symphonic grandeur, and they may have gotten things one hundred percent correct with TIMES OF GRACE. While the term "progressive" might elicit groans from diehard headbangers, it's entirely appropriate when describing the evolution of Neurosis's sound. Songs like "The Doorway" and "The Last You'll Know" build an inescapable sense of oppressive dread with their walls of crushing, droning guitar, but the band has far more than that to offer. Tribal rhythms, electronic textures, and delicate acoustic ...
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Neurosis's 1991 art-thrash classic, SOULS AT ZERO, was a strange bird even at the time of release. Leaving behind their more conventional punk roots, the band began incorporating samples and electronic textures, as well as a marked tribal folk influence, with their still-monstrous rock. While a legion of atmospheric metal groups including Tool, Isis, and Pelican have since traveled the road Neurosis paved here, it was a virtual wilderness at the time.
Hypnotic and menacing songs like "A Chronology for Survival" build a sense of theatrical dread with repeated spidery guitar lines and cold washes of synths, while "Sterile Vision" and "Stripped" flirt with medieval acoustic folk. The injection of space and silence into what had previously been a more standard hard-rock sound changed Neurosis irrevocably, but that's not to say they didn't leave any room for pounding, industrial-charged heaviness. In fact, the tribal-inflected rhythms on SOULS AT ZERO may well be its defining trait, as the bursts of power hit that much harder when they come less frequently. Mysterious, mesmerizing, and eerie, SOULS AT ZERO is metal for ...
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