Neurosis - Times Of Grace

Neurosis is a hard band for me to explain. I suppose that on the surface, they can be described as a industrial-tinged metal band. The vocals are strained, like many metal albums, but it's not the stereotypical 'cookie monster growl' of many groups. Instead, the lead singer sounds more like a person yelling at a estranged lover, and he had been doing so for hours. Now that that's out of the way, the difficult part of explaining Neurosis comes up. The music itself is amazingly complex, and the songs are unabashedly long. Some songs push up to 10 minutes in length. Of course, those are the 'actual' songs. Sprinkled between hard core riffs and grungey guitars are 3 to 4 minute interludes, most atmospheric and dark. All in all, this album is like metal wrapped up in an extremely colorful blanket of switcheroos and complexity.

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