My love for Neurosis has been growing lately... yesterday i listened to Eye Of Every Storm whilst traveling through the city at night... i recently bought some serious headphones (2,5" speakers!)...
with the shit i've been going through lately it's been a really deep experience
So much terrifying, impending doom. This album just rips your heart out and beats it with a mace over and over and over...
That splatty, stringy diminshed sounding arpeggio might be one of my favorite guitar tones ever. Probably volume backed off on the guitar into a RAT, no?
Edit: screwed the link up.
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Yeah, Neurosis know how to bring the heft. Such ungodly heft.
And if you're going through some shit, some time to think and some serious hardware strapped to your head, these dudes can really stir shit up. Be prepared to find yourself somewhat emotionally invested in them when you come out the other side, brother.
As far as saddest moments, 'Eye of Every Storm' on the title track, has this Moog/Vocal melody that comes in a couple of times with what seems like this eBowed guitar part. Just singing wordless melodies. Imbued in that is every unhappy thought I've ever had. It's also one of the most devastating moments I've heard in music. A small simple thing, It's one of the things I go around humming a lot. So yeah. I'm relatively okay at the moment, but it is 07:52AM and now I've got a hankering to immerse myself in some serious early morning downturned lips music.
My housemates will probably enjoy the break from Jazz/Battles.
WeHuntKings, how they get their tones I have never been able to work out. A lot of the heft comes from the fact that whether they're dropping the low string down to A or D, the guitarists have their instruments tuned to ADGAD (Von Till) and ADGBE (Kelly), so the characteristic dissonance can be made nastier. They hit their strings pretty hard too. Aside from that, I spent too long in the studio one day trying to cop some of their tones for a single part of song I was recording, a little homage, and no dice.
"Through Silver..." is a monster. Makes sense when you look into the why of it too.
Argh. Yeah, in case you couldn't tell I was trying to post the link to the closing track of that album, Enclosure in Flame. The dynamics in that song are very much like an orchestra heralding the end of the world.
The two different tunings make a lot of sense to me now. Everything seems to fall into dissonance so easily with them, and I was wondering if it was due to weird tunings or chord inversions.
Adoom wrote:And if you're going through some shit, some time to think and some serious hardware strapped to your head, these dudes can really stir shit up. Be prepared to find yourself somewhat emotionally invested in them when you come out the other side, brother.
yep, it's really... introspective
anyway... that tuning thing is interesting... never thought of that
WeHuntKings wrote:Argh. Yeah, in case you couldn't tell I was trying to post the link to the closing track of that album, Enclosure in Flame. The dynamics in that song are very much like an orchestra heralding the end of the world.
The two different tunings make a lot of sense to me now. Everything seems to fall into dissonance so easily with them, and I was wondering if it was due to weird tunings or chord inversions.
It worked! "Enclosure..." was were the link landed! Monstrous.
DarkAxel wrote:anyway... that tuning thing is interesting... never thought of that
so until my last posts here, i've been in love with Neurosis
not everything, but most of their stuff, for example i don't get Given To the Rising very much, don't like the direction...
the new album though... Honour Found In Decay for me it's like this... goes from mediocre through amazing to classic Neurosis the first two tracks got me really "ugh not this Given To The Rising mediocre uninteresting shit again"... than it got better and i was actually absolutely astonished and having a hard boner whilst lstening to "All is found...in time"
Adoom wrote: As far as saddest moments, 'Eye of Every Storm' on the title track, has this Moog/Vocal melody that comes in a couple of times with what seems like this eBowed guitar part. Just singing wordless melodies. Imbued in that is every unhappy thought I've ever had. It's also one of the most devastating moments I've heard in music. A small simple thing, It's one of the things I go around humming a lot.
I KNOW EXACTLY THE PART YOU MEAN...I USED TO LISTEN TO THIS ENDLESSLY.
The new album fills my soul with so much more love for satan and hope for continually great evil psychedellic/stoner metal. Need to see them live.
I'm Jesse from the middle of nowhere desert U.S.
Been playing drums a long time and recently picked up the guitar, hence joining here! Current rig is a 'VM Jag through a Peavey Classic 50/ SVT810
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DarkAxel wrote:aftr a second listen, it seems better
benjuro wrote:I just got it, some new evil in time for Halloween. Given To The Rising ending up growing on me a little, high hopes for this...
it's definitely one that grows on you, which even though I've instantly loved most of their material, I've found true for all of it. The more I listen to them the more genius I find. Ended up working a 12 hour shift all halloween but kept sneaking the new album on to our ipod player at work and got in a decent enough holiday spirit haha.
I'm Jesse from the middle of nowhere desert U.S.
Been playing drums a long time and recently picked up the guitar, hence joining here! Current rig is a 'VM Jag through a Peavey Classic 50/ SVT810
3-piece bass/drum/vox fuzz weirdo band that I drum/co-write in.
