Metal collective Corrections House has debuted its apocalyptic new track.
Another year, another torrential downpour of albums across our desks. As always, we encountered way too much amazing music, from Meshuggah to The Mars Volta, Converge, Killer Mike, P.O.S, and many more.
Neurosis: Honor Found in Decay (Neurot, 10/30/12)
“At the Well”
Twenty-five years after the influential sludge- and post-metal band issued its first LP, Neurosis remains as stark and dichotomous as ever with its 10th studio full-length. Again led by guitarists/vocalists Scott Kelly and Steve Von Till, Honor Found in Decay pushes and pulls between anguish and ascension — between darkness and light — sometimes within the same passage.
The 11th album from sludge- and post-metal pioneer Neurosis — to be released on Oct. 30 — promises to be “both torturous and transcendent.” Trick or treat indeed.
Neurosis: Souls at Zero (Reissue) (Neurot, 2/15/11)
Neurosis: “To Crawl Under One’s Skin”
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Bands Integral to the Origin of Neurosis
by Steve Von Till of Neurosis
This playlist may contain the secrets to the origin of thousands of bands who became inspired to give it all.
1. Joy Division: “New Dawn Fades”
The driving bass. The melodic yet primitive guitar. The empty and bleak space as large as the riff. The words, “Me, seeing me this time, hoping for something else.” The emotions left behind.
As Harvestman, Neurosis guitarist Steve Von Till channels Germanic and Celtic folklore with themes of psychedelia and electronica to accentuate meditation, spirituality, and trance states through music.
Listening to all of this insane music is making my summer even hotter, but it’s good practice, because eventually, Hell awaits!
Ion Dissonance: Cursed (Century Media)
Did you love Calculating Infinity? ADD got you down? Not nearly enough riffs on the last three albums you bought, combined? This Month In Metal is pleased to introduce you to Ion Dissonance‘s Cursed. With a heavy hardcore slant in both attitude and execution, Cursed whips right along, tosses you every which way, and then runs you down when you try to get your bearings. Trim off the last track’s eight minutes of weird alien noises and insane-dude rambling and you have a 40-minute scorcher that’s suitable for slam-dancing of all varieties.
Ion Dissonance: “You People Are Messed Up”
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Veteran psych-blues rockers US Christmas are set to release their fifth studio album, Run Thick In The Night, on September 20 via Neurot Recordings. The new album was recorded by Sanford Parker (Unearthly Trance, Pelican, Twilight) at Fahrenheit Studio in Johnson City, Tennessee and mixed at Semaphore Studios in Chicago, IL.
ALARM leaves no genre unloved in our round-up of 50 albums that didn’t receive enough attention in 2009.
More details emerge about the upcoming Supermachiner release; the Shrinebuilder super-group begins recording; Mono announces a new album; Orange Tulip Conspiracy announces a full US tour for May. Get these and 10 other news bit after the jump.