Street date: 2020-12-31

Long known for blazing psychedelic guitar trails in the heavy music realm, Steve Von Till once again turns his attention to a world of pure yet abstract psychedelic rock guitar for his Harvestman project. This second record is even more loosely hung upon the framework of traditional music, these works are distilled and distorted into something else entirely. Traditional melodies and tunes lay lovingly wrecked and ruined in the wake of rediscovery. While it may be blasphemy to the folk purists, this odd brew is sonic heaven for heads that dream to the drone of fuzz guitar. While these recordings contain a heavy dose of the subtle sounds and textures that we've come to recognize as distinctly "Neurot" in tenor, this is yet another window on the inner working of Von Till's psyche... or at least some of what goes on in his private studio late at night. Von Till considers In A Dark Tongue a venture into a past that one would rather imagine, more than an attempt to authentically represent its origins. It is a massive meeting point of styles and influences, all of which boil down to a very pure and inspired sound. This second outing by Von Till as Harvestman features guest performances by Al Cisneros (OM) and Alex Hall (Grails).

Street date: 2020-12-31

A drone collective. Many players. One chord. The sum is greater than the parts. Consisting of Kyle Benjamin (guitarist for Chicago's Unfortunaut), Jason Hoffman (a.k.a. darkwave composer Anatole), Trevor de Brauw (of Chicago instrumentalists Pelican) and Phil Dole (of uber-dronists X-Bax) Chord devised an outline that lived for many months in the realm of conversation. With a shared appreciation for the works of Tony Conrad and Glenn Branca the group formulated a collective vision: exploit and explore the sonic depth of a single chord. Chord performances consist of each player being assigned one note from a pre-selected chord. They are then expected to consider all ranges of flexibility concerning octave, rhythm, playing style and effect treatments. The overall effect Chord generates is that of a single note being rendered into an unsolvable riddle – a harmonic Gordian knot that creates an almost pastoral feel of being blinded by the sun. The rejection of melody and structure in favour of sweeping and epic tones inspires a sense of rousing apprehension. Shrouded in the individual tunings of each player the pieces never become diluted, instead finding resolution in collective dissonance and consonance. To be in the presence of a chord achieved is transcendent. Flora is their debut album for Neurot Recordings, and the product of their collective vision.

Street date: 2009-07-20

Originally released in 1996 on Relapse, Neurosis are pleased to bring the re-issue of their fifth album home to Neurot in Europe. Through Silver in Blood sees Oakland, CA's seminal hardcore auteurs bring forth the ultimate endtime vision, conjuring up contemplative textures and dire, prophetic warnings. This album is considered by many to be their finest work and to have set the foundation for their current style. Produced by Billy Anderson, who has previously worked with Melvins, Eyehategod, Sleep and performed with Porn. Neurosis closed their Roadburn 2009 set with the title track from this release, to which the crowd went "bat-shit" in the words of one Southern employee!

Street date: 2008-11-17

Once officially wed-locked, the two Mikes decided to consummate their vows the only way they knew how: With their guitars. They lovingly recorded a single 42 minute song entitled "Amor en el Aire" at Deadverse Studios in glamorous downtown Union City, New Jersey, with Alap Momin, a.k.a. Oktopus from hip-hop revolutionaries Dälek. After last year's MGR release, Wavering On The Cresting Heft, was lavished with such breathless and punctuationally-challenged praise as "I want my money back" and "fuck you mike," it seems likely that Amigos de la Guitarra will be received similarly and with as much enthusiasm. Please purchase a copy before it is available for free on the Interhole. The lawyers keep sending us bills and strongly-worded letters.

Street date: 2008-11-03

After playing the guitar as his main instrument for some twenty years, KK Null has gradually moved towards a more electronic approach. In recent years he has concentrated his efforts on his solo and collaborative recordings. Oxygen Flash explores the outer territories of electronica, creating intense clashing waves of noise, structured electro-acoustic ambience, broken down rhythmics, scattered pitch sculptures, droning isolationist material which could be described 'cosmic noise maximal/minimalism'.

Street date: 2008-09-22

After five full length albums on the likes of Alternative Tentacles and Seventh Rule, Akimbo has bested their previous efforts and come forth with the sinister and anthemic full length album Jersey Shores. A concept album spanning twelve days of brutal and savage shark attacks that haunted the New Jersey coast in 1916, Akimbo has allowed the dark subject matter to fester into the grain of their instruments and recreate their sound anew. Steering away from the beer-fueled "rock for rock's sake" approach, the album treads into a more mysterious and brooding territory than previously heard from other releases, maturing the band's sound as a whole and adding a new chapter to the Akimbo saga. The joining of Akimbo and Neurot for this tangential exploration couldn't have seen better pairing. With six hammering, primal, evocative, haunting tracks that transport the listener through 45 minutes of timeless fear, Jersey Shores marks the brandishing of a new weapon for Akimbo to wield after ten years of aggressive battle through the hallow pits of the rock and roll underground.

Street date: 2008-06-02

US Christmas have never strayed far from their roots. Its members were born and raised in or near the mountains of rural North Carolina, a place that will always be their home. Its culture, geography, history, and spiritual presence have a great influence on the band's sound. Originally formed in the summer of 2002, and taking their name from an obscure Sam Peckinpah film reference, US Christmas (or USX) has steadily evolved into a full-blown psychedelic space rock assault. So far they've concocted two self-released CDr's, a proper full length titled Salt The Wound (R.A.I.G, 2005) and a self-titled 12 inch (their first release with Neurot Recordings). Now a five-piece unit of Matt Johnson (theremin, guitar), Nate Hall (guitar, vox), Tim Greene (drums), John Presnell (bass), Chad Davis (synth, guitar) and Ben Teeter (synth, keys, blips), they create very loud, loose and free music in a definite nasty psychedelic vein, mixing dirge, gooey sludge metal, blues and early country.

Street date: 2008-05-19

Guapo give voice to a realm of treasures, fairies, jewelled turtles, lindworms and moon worshipping plants, where the mystical philosophies of Huysmans, Kircher, Conan Doyle, Hyltén-Cavallius and others are used as facilitators and indeed, guardians for the music conceived on Elixirs. As a result, Elixirs transcends any musical antecedents that Guapo have been acknowledged for in the past. Instead, the music here explores the outer-most regions of psychedelic composition. Flickers of 70's Miles Davis are present here as over-arching themes are morphed and mined through serpentine asymmetrical structures. Chiming rounds and canons swim through a sapphirine ocean of polyrhythmic mantra. All sullenly overcast with compositions so mercurial, the paths you can take are infinite. The dense orchestration and finespun virtuosity (seamlessly captured by engineer / producer Antti Uusimaki) create a richness previously hinted at but never fully realized until now. Vocal contributions from Swans chanteuse Jarboe and O'Sullivan's long-time friend and cohort Alexander Tucker, illuminate the "Twisted Stems" suite into a realm of composition previously unexplored by the band.

Street date: 2008-05-19

Josh Graham (also Neurosis visual director, Blood And Time, Battle Of Mice and formerly of Red Sparowes) is joined on the album by bassist/vocalist Domenic Seita (ex-Tombs, ex-Asea) and drummer Pete Angevine of Satanized. Since this recording, rhythmic pugilist extraordinaire Vincent Signorelli (Unsane, ex-Swans) has signed on as second drummer. As you'd guess by the pedigree, A Storm Of Light is brutally hard-hitting. However, the group's haunting harmonic drone meshing guitar, vocals and subtle keyboard layers gives listeners a sense of slow suffocation in waves of noise rather than straightforward pummeling. Aided by master engineer Joel Hamilton (Book Of Knots, Battle Of Mice), Graham's slack-tuned guitar rumbles and groans while subtle keyboard lines and Seita's bass slither throughout the lowest ranges of the musical scale. Angevine's lunging rhythms add crashing and propulsive heft. The vocals sound as intricately layered as the other instruments, often sounding unclear how many voices are adding to the harmony... guitar notes, voices, synth chords all blur into a wash that quite suitably evokes a sense of deep sea water pressure. The debut of A Storm of Light is a truly suspenseful and captivating work that bears nearly as much to do with masterful cinema and literature as it does with the type of monolithic and epic sounds of its musical progenitors.

Street date: 2008-05-05

Steve Von Till's third solo outing continues the Neurosis' singer/guitarist's allegiance to folk traditions of his prior albums, but A Grave Is A Grim Horse is a much more personal and confident effort. Intertwined with interpretations of songs by Nick Drake, Townes Van Zandt, Mickey Newberry and Lyle Lovett, Von Till's powerful yet subtly graceful originals stand on par with these time-honored songwriters. Songs like the title track and "Looking For Dry Land" show Von Till coming into his own as a composer and arranger, perfectly adorning infectious songs with flourishes of swooping strings, pedal steel, organ, et al. Where his previous releases showed reverence for the past, A Grave Is A Grim Horse peers directly forward, seeing a path where others see fields.

Street date: 2008-05-05

Like James Joyce's Dublin, Scott Kelly's The Wake creates a reality that supersedes the place, the space and the particulars that gave birth to it. Mixing imagery that borders on a bold and stark contemplation of the limits of our earthly existence via our failed loves, efforts, conceits and even our less than noble other failures, The Wake with its lion-in-the-winter woe wrenches the almost inexpressibly sad into seven songs that sound like what you hear when you're just about to not hear anything anymore. "The weather never changes in my world." - Kelly Goddamned right. With an acoustic guitar and a croon that crams the lilt, lift and longing of several lives well lived into 5-some-odd minutes of every song this record would not only not have been possible at any other point in either his life, (or ours for that matter) than now, it also seems to suggest the shape of beyond-now: thin and on fire. Enjoy it. Time is short.

Street date: 2008-04-07

Melbourne Australia's Grey Daturas are an improvising, instrumental trio with no songs or melodies; they don't rehearse; yet they maintain a touring ethos to match that of early hardcore pioneers. Drawing sonic influence from a vast ocean of musical styles including free jazz, the avant garde, psychedelic rock, punk, metal, industrial and noise, Grey Daturas have developed a blend of psychedelia unmistakably their own. The band once again teamed up with Melbourne based recording engineer Neil Thomason to track and mix drums, guitars, bass and various other sounds and objects such as contact microphone feed back, scrap metal, hardware materials and tools, violin, saxophone and electronics. Following three months with Neil, the remaining 15 months (between numerous tours of the USA, Europe and Australia) were spent painstakingly post producing and collaging together the original tracks from Neil's sessions, with the final mastering touches of Pig Destroyer's Scott Hull, to what has become the vast and consistently flowing epic that is Return To Disruption.

Street date: 2007-12-03

U.S. Christmas create very loud, loose and free music in a definite nasty psychedelic vein, mixing dirge, gooey sludge metal, blues and early country.

They were one of the first unsigned bands to send a CD to the internet music show Combat Music Radio hosted by Neurosis’ Scott Kelly. It wasn’t long before the band heard from Scott, who began frequently playing U.S. Christmas songs on KMBT. This lead to a release agreement with Neurot Recordings.

Street date: 2007-11-19

Buried At Sea’s songs are filled with pure hatred and move at a snails pace. The new album, Ghost, is a conceptual collection of recordings from 2005 and 2006 and serves as a first offering for Neurot Recordings. Again produced by Parker at Volume, this next chapter takes the form of a thirty minute ponderous and encapsulating journey littered with all the trappings that have infamized their sound.

Street date: 2007-11-19

Throughout the 80’s Los Angeles art-punkers Savage Republic were a deep-underground phenomenon, playing highly unorthodox shows in remote desert locations, abandoned factories, skid-row parking lots and grimy bars across the U.S. and Europe with such luminaries as Einsturzende Neubaten, Minutemen, Sonic Youth and Live Skull as well as hardcore-punk slugfests with the likes of Bad Religion, Angry Samoans and Final Conflict.

1938 is their first full-length album of new material in 18 years, hot on the heels of this spring’s powerful Siam EP.

Street date: 2007-05-07

Given To The Rising is a career landmark album for a band who have influenced and inspired a new generation, including Isis, Mastodon, Sepultura and Cult Of Luna, to name a few. This is some of Neurosis' most raw and immediate material to date, it is also more complexly orchestrated than their past works and richly thickened with psych-damaged overtones. Given To The Rising is more than a just a powerful collection of songs -- it's like a religious experience. While personal epiphanies are repeatedly told by those who've been converted by Neurosis' sensory overloading live shows as well as their recordings, there's a hypnotic quality to this album that takes hold from the opening wail of guitars on track one.

Street date: 2007-05-07

This reissue of Christ On Parade's Sounds of Nature represents the band's first retrospective album. The record includes all the songs from their debut full-length as well as the Isn't Life A Dream 7-inch EP (heard here for the first time with the original vocal tracks). Also for your aural pleasure are two songs from Skate Rock Vol. 3, and one previously unreleased track - Christ On Parade's rendition of the Avengers' song "The American In Me".

Street date: 2007-05-07

Impromptu casts the listener adrift in a sea of dark reverberations and ominous implications of foreboding premonitions, with added overtones of impending doom.

Somewhere in the distance, a door creaks open (or is it shut?) as Stone conjures gurgling electronic ephemera and muffled sheets of cacophony, while Gallagher unfurls mile-wide string bends from the bottom of a cavernous echo chamber.

Street date: 2006-10-23

A Day of Nights documents the savage trajectory of an interpersonal flameout. It is a litany of ominous overtones and malicious subtext, a catalogue of the poisons that conspire to choke our best intentions; a testament to the inexorable miasma of suspicion and paranoia that creeps, unannounced, into the open spaces between us all. Which isn't to say that beauty and grace cannot be the handmaidens of ugliness and dysfunction: A Day of Nights is nothing if not mesmerizing; a living, breathing monument to the optimistic notion that everything happens for a reason.

Street date: 2006-09-11

Red Sparowes' plunge into the unexplored depths of melodic psych-noise continues with the release of Every Heart Shines Toward The Red Sun, an hour-long opus of blinding washes of colour and intense, paralysing riffage. Recorded and mixed by Tim Green (Fucking Champs, Melvins), the record is darker and more focused than Soundless Dawn and signifies a further development in Red Sparowes' project to alter the accepted orthodoxy of heavy music. Pursuing the psychedelic wall of sound ethic still further, Every Heart recalls Isis and Neurosis while subtly rewiring the sonic manifesto of those bands, an epic marriage of melodic intensity and apocalyptic noise.

Street date: 2006-09-11

Made Out Of Babies eagerly-awaited second album, 'Coward', is the sound of a band coming of age, an intense, raging mass that only the masterful production of Steve Albini manages to confine; the fit between band and engineer could not be more unsettlingly appropriate, and Albini has found the pure, furious centre pulsing away at the heart of this dynamic outfit. Compellingly scarred by its emphasis on the disturbing timelessness of human cruelty, 'Coward' is a captivating and intense record that disposes of the comforting illusions of contemporary Western society with each vicious and accurate slash.

Street date: 2006-06-26

Neurot bring you an incredible new compilation project between three of their newest rock trail blazers, available on limited edition colored triple 7" vinyl and CDEP. So what's on it? Two highly-anticipated tracks from Battle of Mice, the brand new project featuring Josh from Neurosis/Red Sparowes and Julie from Made Out Of Babies. Two exciting new tracks from Made Out Of Babies. And finally two tracks from Red Sparowes, recorded at the esteemed 'Live in the Pit' series at KFJC in Los Altos,CA. Red Sparowes: Brace yourself for the wondrous onslaught! Made Out of Babies: Get your earplugs and find a space in the front row! Battle of Mice: Clear some space on the horizon of rock as we know it. Battle of Mice are going to need the elbow room.

Street date: 2006-05-15

CURRENT 93 were founded by David Tibet and the late Jhonn Balance of Coil in 1982. Over the last 24 years they have pursued their own unique hallucinatory patripassianist vision through numerous records, books, concerts and paintings. David Tibet lives with his wife and his cats and he loves them; his hobbies are Coptic and Koine Greek and the works of Count Stenbock and Louis Wain. Jhonn Balance lives in Heaven. The Current 93 track is called INERRANT INFALLIBLE (BLACK SHIPS AT NINEVEH AND EDOM). The track is about 8.47 minutes long. OM is a two member band featuring Al Cisneros (bass/vocals) and Chris Hakius (drums), both founding members of legendary doom pioneers Sleep. The duo sonically engage through transportive bass cycles, groove laden drumming, and cryptic vocal-mantra recitations. Lyrically the band focuses upon the structure of the universe, potentiality, and freedom from the physical body. Their song "Rays of the Sun / To the Shrinebuilder" was tracked in October 2005 for this split release with Current 93.

Street date: 2006-05-01

Finally! Isis' lost classic SGNL > 05 is now back in print; an absolutely mesmeric album pointing towards the band's future heights with albums Oceanic and Panopticon. Alternatively moving from soft subtle ambience to disturbing industrial effects which forcibly grip and exhume every last breath of modern technology, SGNL > 05 is an unsettling journey within natural wonders and futuristic visions. "Celestial (Signal Fills The Void)" a remix by Godflesh's Justin K. Broadrick, originally turning up an album before of the same name, is utterly refreshing, nearly upbeat by mid-point where piano accompaniment, or something to that effect gives this one a melodious and compelling conclusion to an interesting piece of recorded art that's as difficult to describe as it is to explain. Orginally released on Neurosis' label Neurot in 2001, SGNL > 05 was an important step in Isis' evolution; a seething whisper to previous album Celestial's mechanized roar, and a real pointer to the beatific glacial splendour of their forthcoming classic full lengths.

Street date: 2006-03-20

Output Negative Space picks up where Enablers' previous Neurot Recordings album 'End Note' left off, adding more soaring melody to the sometimes parched and brittle, sometimes coiling and steeped in tension. It's musically reminiscent of the dynamics of Slint and the raw neo-beat intellect of Saccharine Trust. And, above it all, Enablers make music that exists in a realm beyond the typical sing-song gestures of traditional tunes. It's something altogether as powerful and motivating as our own psyche.

Street date: 2006-02-06

Nova Lux is a sonic narrative of post-rock splendor underscored by barely perceptible shifts in the aural firmament, the perpetual inertia of ringing notes, and the low hum of inevitability. The five ominous instrumental passages contained within are headphone music for the drone-damaged; the stirring, vaguely sinister murmurs of a half-remembered occurrence. Punctuated by the pedal steel of Greg Burns (Red Sparowes/Halifax Pier) on track one and the expert beat manipulation of Oktopus (Dalek) on track four, Nova Lux conjures up a nebulous psychic landscape in which the indefinable never takes shape, where the horizon slips in and out of focus and existential trepidation levitates just above the hearing threshold. Gallagher's guitar-based compositions are the proverbial ghosts in the machine, revealing an expert convergence of human expression and electronic technology that plumbs the murky depths and dim corners of elemental consciousness: Echoes of past experience take shape, floating across the stereo field before dissolving quietly into the ether like half-formed shadows at sundown.

Street date: 2006-02-06

FINAL serves as an undefinable and experimental interpretation of Justin Broadrick's more recognized music; encompassing the brutal and the dark, the beautiful and the melodic. The term 'ambient' is often used to describe the sound of FINAL, but the music is not designed to function purely as background as the term 'ambient' generally implies. Final3 is unsurprisingly Broadrick's third album to date and is without a doubt his most accomplished and ambitious work, recorded between 2000 and 2005. Final3 also features Justin alongside new collaborator Diarmuid Dalston for most tracks.

Street date: 2006-02-06

Tone was formed in Washington, D.C., in 1991, with the goal of creating dynamic instrumental music using a layered, multiple electric guitar format. Operating within a rock context, the result was a sound that gladly accepted the unambiguous tonality of popular music yet still found room for meaningful dissonance; austere, dramatic, and loud. With an unmistakable lineage (Savage Republic, Nice Strong Arm, Glenn Branca, Rhys Chatham, Section 25, Crispy Ambulance), Tone set about its earliest performances with the determination and belief that there was still room for intelligent instrumental music. Four albums down the line now, Tone return with Solidarity, their most brooding and fierce document to date, an instrumental rock album with more vision than the career of most bands. Presently Tone feature five guitars, one bass and two drummers - a veritable rock ochestra! Over the past decade, the band has released three albums on Washington punk tastemaker Dischord and one on Independent Project Records. Fellow Dischord vet J. Robbins of Jawbox fame produced the album.

Street date: 2005-10-31

Long known for blazing scorching psychedelic guitar trails in the heavy music realm with Neurosis, Steve Von Till now turns his attention to the world of more straightforward psychedelic rock guitar. Lashing The Rye is the first record from Steve under his new pseudonym Harvestman, and an impressive debut it is! Hung upon the framework of traditional music and mixed with a liberal dose of the subtle sounds and textures that we've come to recognize as distinctly 'Neurot' in tenor, this is a new window on the inner workings of Von Till's psyche...or at least some of what goes on in his private studio late at night.

Street date: 2005-10-17

Comprised of all the members of Neurosis and additional musicians, Wave Tribes of Neurot examines many of the same concepts and emotions as Neurosis, but from a radically different perspective. Their music also seethes and boils with end-of-the-world tension, but in contrast to Neurosis's apocalyptic furor, Tribes of Neurot's work is full of darkly ambient textures made up of odd organic samples, slow churning rhythms, and prepared guitars. Instead of blasting the senses, Tribes of Neurot creeps around them like a dense gloomy fog that finds its way into the interstices of consciousness; they engage in guerilla tactics rather than full-scale assault. Tribes of Neurot allow for a broad range of expression and experimentation in all media. Projects are underway in the realms of sound recordings, performance, ritual, video, film as well as in print and in developing hi-tech mediums. Tribes of Neurot's dense, brooding atmospheres of sound are sophisticated, challenging works that can play tricks on your subconscious. Listen carefully.

Street date: 2005-09-05

Originally released on Alternative Tentacles in 1993, now reissued with bonus tracks on the band's own label, Enemy Of The Sun is a classic and transcendent Neurosis album.

Street date: 2005-06-27

In the tradition of artists as evocative as Jesus Lizard; as imaginative and impassioned as Bjork; as discomfortingly frank as Big Black and as unnerving as filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky, the New York City quartet summons a wholly unique claustrophobic fury. It's an eye-opening revision of everything that had once seemed acceptable and rational.

Street date: 2005-02-21

At the Soundless Dawn is an album of seven compositions with titles that fit together as a complete paragraph. Throughout the album, transitions glide and instruments smudge into a warm wash of tones. It's an orchestral wall of sound that is equally as entrancing as it is unnerving. The 12-minute album closer, for instance, gradually builds tension with clever use of smeared, formless guitar notes that create a sense of three-dimensional sound as notes seem to move from background to foreground, flitting around an imaginary room. Sparing tom drum rolls add to the growing claustrophobia, until ever-rebuilding waves of strings cascade into a grand crescendo that finishes as mysteriously as it began.

Street date: 2004-11-01

Blood and Time consists of Neurosis members Scott Kelly (guitars and lead vocals) and Noah Landis (keyboards, atmosphere and backing vocals) as well as Anthony Nelson (bass) and Stephen Garrett (drums). Blood and Time's sound has evolved into acoustic/electric psychedelia, focusing on big space and beauty with an occasional sonic interruption. Lyrically deep and musically vast, Blood and Time's intent is obvious... to cut you to your soul. At The Foot Of The Garden is remarkable for its at times uncomfortable honesty alone. Like all things Neurosis, it is amazingly dark without being pretentious. It is heavy without sonic volume. Each note plods along moving inch by inch towards your heart, not terribly unlike the band's name, Blood and Time . These songs are more like confessions and whispered secrets, songs that are years of profound sorrow slowly exhaling as Scott Kelly settles into what will be the rest of his life. This fact makes this record comforting after being uncomfortable. After watching Neurosis mature over the years, Blood and Time just seems to fit into the equation. A moving testament to human endurance and humility.

Street date: 2004-10-18

9trks,37mins. Visceral spoken word and atmospherics from San Francisco, feat. members of Swans, Tarnation + Timco. These songs flaut genre and display a rich sense of collaboration

Street date: 2004-10-18

This album is formed in equal measure of five fundamental parts: one part Miles Davis' smouldering ferocity on Bitches Brew, one part Mussorgsky's stirring anthems, one part Pink Floyd's haunted lucidity, one part Dirty Three's epic grandeur and one part pure desperation. Red Light burns with an intensity of emotional expression and impeccable musicianship. It is the sound of ritual; of that urge for cathartic transcendence so often sought through layers of volume and distortion yet rendered with dramatic dynamics using only violin, guitar, piano and drums.

Street date: 2004-09-21

OXBOW (www.theoxbow.com) returns with a criminal anger, and 9 chambers of unremittingly lubricious longing.

Street date: 2004-08-23

The Eye Of Every Storm is like walking into an ornately decorated, yet meticulously organised room - there is simply too much to take in with just a quick glance. Its a culmination of the band's ideas reaching full circle to its core elements of droning folk, operatic guitar girth and churning rhythms. The band's signature pummeling riffs, crushing dynamics and brilliantly innovative use of unusual folk instruments and organic textures remain constant but The Eye Of Every Storm reaches far beyond what we've come to expect from the band in its 20 year existence. Throughout the album, dry and upfront-sounding drums and instruments weave and lock together in a way that's utterly alien to most 'heavy' music. Working with legendary engineer Steve Albini who also recorded three previous releases, the band and engineer found the perfect mix for its complex sound. Von Till and Kelly both sound much more confident in the strength of their vocals, and give up the screaming for a more expressive and melodic vocal style.

Street date: 2004-06-21

More than just a label compilation - this includes 23 artists and over 3 hours of music and visual art. Includes a track from the forthcoming and highly anticipated Neurosis album The Eye of Every Storm. CD includes album tracks and previously unreleased songs from Neurot-affiliated artists. DVD presents rare pieces of video art, music videos and documentary clips.

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