Neurosis - Discography

Neurosis is arguably the most successful post metal band. It's the most famous band from the genre, and particularly well-known in the Sludge metal movement too, due to its sludge influences. Even though, the band is nowhere near being well-known by most people, even inside the music community itself, which shows how little known is the genre.

The band is a five-piece from Oakland, California, formed in '85 as a crust punk band, but incorporated various influences to create something unique in '92, becoming well-known as one of the most successful avant-garde metal projects since then.

They're known for their violent and abrasive sound (even though it's gotten lighter with time), creating unsettling apocalyptic soundscapes with atmospheric instrumentation, sinister vocals and a "visceral-crushing approach", elements that add to the band's inimitable dark and creepy sound, and is intensified by the use of slower tempos (this element being more evident on Through Silver In Blood, widely regarded as their magnum opus).

Now, for the reader, a brief guide into their discography. A good starting point is Times Of Grace, which shows the band's most experimental and cosmic work. For more experimentation, the next three albums plus Souls At Zero should do it. The first two are better for who's looking for more generic crust punk material. Enemy Of The Sun and Through Silver In Blood should be listened to after the listener is used to the band's abrasive approach, and if they're too scaring for their taste, the last three albums show Neurosis taking it lighter but not giving up their quality.

1987 - Pain of Mind

Neurot Recordings

 

1 - Pain of Mind

2 - Self-Taught Infection

3 - Reasons to Hide

4 - Black

5 - Training

6 - Progress

7 - Stalemate

8 - Bury What's Dead

9 - Geneticide

10 - Ingrown

11 - United Sheep

12 - Dominoes Fall

13 - Life On Your Knees

14 - Grey

 

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1990 - The Word as Law

 Lookout! Records

1 - Double Edged Sword

2 - The Choice

 3 - Obsequious Obsolescence

4 - To What End

5 - Tomorrow's Reality

6 - Common Inconsistencies

7 - Insensitivity

8 - Blister

Bonus tracks:

 

1 - Life on Your Knees

2 - Pain of Mind

3 - Grey

4 - United Sheep

5 - Pollution

6 - Day of the Lords

7 - (untitled)

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1992 - Souls at Zero

Alternative Tentacles

1 - To Crawl Under One's Skin

2 - Souls at Zero

3 - Zero

4 - Flight

5 - The Web

6 - Sterile Vision

7 - A Chronology for Survival

8 - Stripped

9 - Takeahnase

10 - Empty

Bonus tracks:

 

1 - Souls (Demo Version)

2 - Zero (Demo Version)

3 - Cleanse III (Live In London)

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1993 - Enemy of the Sun

Alternative Tentacles

  

1 - Lost

2 - Raze the Stray

3 - Burning Flesh in Year of Pig

4 - Cold Ascending

5 - Lexicon

6 - Enemy of the Sun

7 - The Time of the Beasts

8 - Cleanse

Bonus tracks:

 

1 - Takeahnase (Demo Version)

2 - Cleanse II (Live in Oberhausen)

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1996 - Through Silver in Blood

 Relapse Records

1 -  Through Silver in Blood

2 - Rehumanize

3 - Eye

4 - Purify

5 - Locus Star

6 - Strength of Fates

7 - Become the Ocean

8 - Aeon

9 - Enclosure in Flame

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1999 - Times of Grace

 Relapse Records

1 - Suspended in Light

2 - The Doorway

3 - Under the Surface

4 - The Last You'll Know

5 - Belief

6 - Exist

7 - End of the Harvest

8 - Descent

9 - Away

10 - Times of Grace

11 - The Road to Sovereignty

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2001 - A Sun That Never Sets

Relapse Records

1 - Erode

2 - The Tide

3 - From the Hill

4 - A Sun That Never Sets

5 - Falling Unknown

6 - From Where Its Roots Run

7 - Crawl Back In

8 - Watchfire

9 - Resound

10 - Stones From the Sky

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2003 - Neurosis & Jarboe

Neurot Recordings

1 -  Within

2 - His Last Words

3 - Taker

4 - Receive

5 - Erase

6 - Cringe

7 - In Harm's Way

8 - Seizure

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2004 - The Eye of Every Storm

Relapse Recordings

  

1 - Burn

2 - No River to Take Me Home

3 - The Eye of Every Storm

4 - Left to Wander

5 - Shelter

6 - A Season in the Sky

7 - Bridges

8 - I Can See You

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2006 - Given to the Rising

Neurot Recordings 

1 - Given to the Rising

2 - Fear and Sickness

 3 - To the Wind

4 - At the End of the Road

5 - Shadow

6 - Hidden Faces

7 - Water Is Not Enough

8 - Distill (Watching the Swarm)

9 - Nine

10 - Origin

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2012 - Honor Found in Decay

Neurot Recordings 

1 -We All Rage in Blood

2 - At the Well

3 - My Heart For Deliverance

4 - Bleeding the Pigs

5 - Casting of the Ages

6 - All Is Found... In Time

7 - Raise the Dawn

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2016 - Fires Within Fires

Neurot Recordings 

1 - Bending Light

2 - A Shadow Memory

3 - Fire Is the End Lesson

4 - Broken Ground

5 - Reach

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Lasse Stewart.

The very first post of this motherfucking blog

Hello and be welcome to my humble blog, internet!

I am very excited with this new site and frankly don't know what to put in here but i'll be doing this post to explain everything about it. I'll be very happy to share with you some good and unconventional music in the following weeks.

About me: I'll be posting with a pseudonym called Lasse Stewart because that's one hell of a good name. I started listening to music seriously not long ago, but the whole post metal genre has captivated me a lot, and as it is rather obscure i want to share all this good stuff you may be missing out. Just be sure to buy the records and support the artists you like, because you know, they deserve it a lot. I'll be focusing on the post metal genre for now, but i plan to post some post rock discographies in the future as well.

About the blog: The name "Hera's Envy" comes from a mythological reference to my favorite post metal band, Callisto. In greek mythology, Hera was Zeus's wife, and very jealous of Zeus's lovers. So jealous she gave all of them a horrible ending, and one of them was the nymph Callisto (also the name of my favorite post metal band), who was turned into a terrifying bear by Hera, and later placed in the skies as the Ursa major constellation by Zeus, just before being killed by her son while he was hunting. Her son was also placed in the heavens as the Ursa Minor by Zeus. Enraged, Hera appealed to Tethys to never let the two touch the water, and that's why the constellations never meet the oceans.

I'll be posting a new band every week, saturday night. The discographies will be hosted at 4shared, and please let me know if any of the links are broken.

Lasse Stewart