Album Rating: 4.0

is eye of every storm the only other neurosis you've heard? it's a lot less aggressive than this, so that may be why, but the albums before it were more in the vein of this puppy.

Album Rating: 4.0

Through Silver in Blood

Album Rating: 5.0

Through Silver In Blood or Times of Grace. A Sun That Never Sets was just wierd, but still has one of my favourite songs of all time on it 'Stones from the Sky'. That track, put simply, is mind blowing!



"I still think Neurosis are one of the most consistently great bands of the nineties or this decade."

^^^^I couldnt agree with you more Iluvatar.

Album Rating: 4.5

I wasn't even aware they had any hardcore albums.

Album Rating: 5.0

They were not really harcore. Its more sludgy, post hardcore. Kind of wierd but really heavy. Its definitely faster than their old stuff.

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

This is a sick album. Heavy and dark, infused with crazy ambiance and rounded out by some awesome stretches of straight smooth jamming (like in Fear and Sickness, Hidden Faces, and Water is Not Enough). I've heard albums that plod, but this is different; this shambles along with heavy drag, an evil smirk, and a claw that reaches out and grabs you up at a moment's notice, and you can't help but enjoy the ride.

Album Rating: 5.0

Do you see why you would be a great reviewer Angel? Look at your description above. Makes my review look like dog poo.

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

Nah, don't say that, I very much liked your review. Plus, you had the background on the band to illustrate the progression of their sound from one album to the next, that's important for a band that's been this solid for this long.

Thank you though , I've been using sound offs (I turned the above description into one) to practice. Now all I have to do is figure out how to stretch that into like 4 or 5 paragraphs lol

Incidentally, that's the no-bullshit truth how I feel about this album, from yours and various others descriptions I REALLY didn't think I was gonna like it. Completely wrong I was. Nice these guys are.

Album Rating: 5.0

Your soundoff was great (as well as your one you did for Moonsorrow, which I personally think is an amazing album myself). Now just flesh out your soundoffs and you have a solid review. I'm really going to push you to do one, seeing as a few other people on here pushed me to do my first one too!

Album Rating: 4.0

Yeah, AngelPhoenix, just do what I do and describe what you hear, I know piss all about anything instrumentally (apart from vocals, I know a fair bit about them) and yet I somehow manage to make my reviews a reasonable length..

My reviews probably aren't the best to take as inspiration though, but you see what I'm trying to tell you ;)

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

LOL alright alright. Gimme another week or so, I wanna do one for Commuinc's Waves of Visual Decay, nobody's done one yet.

Album Rating: 5.0

You see Angel, there is another highly respected user (at least I think his reviews are great) telling you that anybody can do them. It took me almost 2 years to grow some balls and do this review.

On a side note about this album, I actually had a dream about a month ago where I was drowing in a sea of black and the song Water is Not Enough was playing in the background. That totally changed the way I view this album now. It's quite possibly one of the darkest albums I've ever heard. Theres a good discussion piece right there!

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

Yeah man. I was trying not to oversell the darkness, but like Shadows scares the crap out of me, Distill freaks me out considerably, To the Wind gives me chills, ect ect. The raw beastly base emotion that oozes from this album is impossible to deny. That's why I love the fact that instrumentally, technically, musically, whatever, it's not that complicated. They just do what they need to do, play how they need to play, to create the super-intense mood that's present here. It's like a stripped down Opeth, with a gigantic scoop of evil lol.



On a side note, that sounds more like a nightmare O_O

Album Rating: 5.0

This might seem a little wierd, but it didn't really seem like a nightmare. I actually thought it was a really ethereal experience. It pretty much showed me what this album was all about. This album is like a blackhole; everything gets sucked in, including light, and turns it into darkness. I love dark music and the dream really hit a good note with me!

Album Rating: 4.0

To The Wind is amazing, I love that song, just got this, great album.

Album Rating: 5.0

This seems like your type of music Crimson (judging from what you like listening to in general). To the Wind has one of the longest screams ever recorded on an album.

Album Rating: 4.5

Yeah, that scream Kelly does is nuts.



Sick album. Took a while to get to grips with but once you're acquainted it's like love all over again.

Album Rating: 5.0

I love albums like this; the ones that need mulitple listens to adjust to the sound. This is an album I will be coming back to when I'm 80 years old (damn thats going to be a funny sight).

I would say they're not for everybody. I like them, I just can't seem to get into them... :

how surprising