It has been a long five years since Neurosis’ last offering Given To The Rising but the long awaited follow up has finally arrived.
Long is indeed the key word here with three tracks clocking in at over 10 minutes.
That may be a lot to ask of your audience in one sitting but Neurosis are able to craft music in such a way, that you doubt where one track ends and another begins.
It’s what they do best. Besides, if you’ve followed the band since the early 90s, you should be used to it by now. If you’re not quite there yet, this will hopefully be the one that turns you.
The band have come a long way since the days of their crust punk stylings found on 1987’s Pain Of Mind, but with each Neurosis album the band continues to grow, pushing the boundaries of heavy music, time and time again.
In some kind of genius way, Neurosis always manage to crawl to another part of the not-yet-discovered musical soundscape to create dark melodic post-metal interspersed with mellow psychedelic jams.
Honour Found In Decay is seven songs of heavy ambient sludge creating an hour of musical bliss. While this music is obviously not for everyone, it probably should be.
