The Aquarian Weekly » neurosis http://www.theaquarian.com New Jersey's Oldest Music Alt-Weekly Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:23:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Interview with Mike Scheidt from YOB: The Union Of Selves http://www.theaquarian.com/2011/08/12/interview-with-mike-scheidt-from-yob-the-union-of-selves/ http://www.theaquarian.com/2011/08/12/interview-with-mike-scheidt-from-yob-the-union-of-selves/#comments Fri, 12 Aug 2011 15:00:24 +0000 JJ Koczan http://www.theaquarian.com/?p=30577

Theirs is among the most inimitable sounds in all of underground heavy music, and with the self-produced Atma, their second album for Profound Lore following 2009’s excellent The Great Cessation, Eugene, OR, trio YOB transcend the upper stratosphere of their generation of doom. Touching and expanding on elements familiar to the band’s growing fanbase, it’s an album that nonetheless pushes into new territory as well, incorporating new rhythmic techniques, a more developed vocal approach and a guest appearance (a first for YOB on their sixth full-length overall) from Neurosis guitarist/vocalist Scott Kelly.

I spoke to guitarist/vocalist Mike Scheidt—joined in…

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Oh, Record Store Day, how I love thee as much as my wallet loathes thee. There is probably a holiday for just about everything one could want, gifts, uprisings, animals, Presidents and now a music holiday; Record Store Day. Everyone likes having music, so it’s only befitting that there should be a day in which one is encouraged to not feel guilty about blowing a paycheck on awesome vinyl and special releases. Below is a list of the more awesome things to pick up from your favorite record store on April 16. Spare no expenses because I’m certain some…

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In March, legendary singer and guitarist Scott “Wino” Weinrich will officially release the vinyl edition of his first-ever acoustic album, Adrift, via Volcom Entertainment (the CD is out on Exile On Mainstream). Wino, whose legacy spans a 30-plus-year career in bands like The Obsessed, Saint Vitus, Spirit Caravan, The Hidden Hand, Place Of Skulls, Shrinebuilder—and most lately—Premonition, continues to be one of if not the most preeminent figures in American doom metal.

His unique style and songcraft has inspired a generation of players, and as he embarks on an acoustic tour to support Adrift co-headlining with his friend and…

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Neurosis

Souls At Zero (Reissue)

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Originally released by Alternative Tentacles in 1992 and subsequently reissued in 1999 at the launch of the band’s Neurot Recordings label, Neurosis’ third album, Souls At Zero, is an essential document in an essential catalog. The post-hardcore (though not by the modern genre definition) approach of their first two albums, 1988’s Pain Of Mind and 1991’s The Word As Law, led the seminal Oakland, California, outfit to new ground of sonic experimentation, and Souls At Zero is the first instance of that experimentation made flesh. Not even as assured as they’d be a…

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Either way, it doesn’t matter. I went until I hit my word count, but this edition of Good Intentions—where I plow through the CDs I’ve been meaning to listen to on my desk—has five new albums and five reissues. Neat, huh?

La Gritona, Demasiado Tonto Para Los Niños Listos. While I only have disc one of this two CD set (and no, I don’t know why), it’s clear from the start that Hydra Head is tapping…

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Shrinebuilder tracklisting:
1. Solar Benediction
2. Pyramid Of The Moon
3. Blind For All To See
4. The Architect
5. Science Of Anger

They play:…

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The reason you’ve heard so much about how Neurosis are “going back to their roots” with this album is because the different direction is heavier, and so was…

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Given the band’s track record, then, it’s not surprising that in just a couple short weeks, they’ll release Given To The Rising, which moves in almost the exact opposite direction. Densely packed, intensely focused and crushingly heavy, it doesn’t just recall the darkened plod of influential…

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