| Neurosis / Given To The Rising |
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| Album: | Given To The Rising | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Neurosis | Added: | Aug 2007 | |
| Label: | Neurot Recordings | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2007-08-12 | Pull Date: | 2007-10-14 | Charts: | Loud |
| Week Ending: | Oct 7 | Sep 16 | Sep 2 | Aug 26 | Aug 19 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Oct 16, 2008: | A2Z Water Is Not Enough | 4. | Aug 27, 2007: | A2Z To The Wind | |
| 2. | Oct 03, 2007: | public noize racket Given To The Rising | 5. | Aug 25, 2007: | On The Warpath Given To The Rising | |
| 3. | Sep 14, 2007: | Baptism of Solitude Origin | 6. | Aug 25, 2007: | Scatterbrain Radio Water Is Not Enough |
| Album Review |
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| Ragnar of Ravensfjord Reviewed 2007-08-05 | ||
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Local (Oakland) long-running kings of the heavy riff and huge sounding epics. That’s exactly what you get here and it really pays off. This is a much heavier album than the last few (that said, they do a brilliant job with the more introspective, mellow stuff). Yet another reason why this band is so consistently great. (((((1))))) Riff, riff repeat – slow and vast sound all around. ((((2)))) Spacey effects, slow and reliant on just a few notes then building into a big monolith of doom. (((((3))))) Beautiful, clean played chords then crushed by gargantuan riffage. Mid-paced and filled with a tight ‘groove’ without going the obvious route. ((((4)))) Noisy, sparse in the first half then opens to a thundering mass of heaviness. ((((5)))) Really trippy interlude with intense voiced spoken word and spacey electronic warbles. (((((6))))) Steady and resonating as it builds into a seriously rockin’ tempo. ((((((7)))))) Killer! Totally riffy, epic and continually moving outward. ((((8))) Builds up slow then gets seriously loud and pummeling moves to a trippy “space-out” part and then back to the heaviness. (((((9))))) Another noise & spoken word interlude. This is a real trip. It alludes to the 9 – being the magic number in the Nordic pantheon. ((((10)))) Slow, folksy, introspective number that leaving the bombast for last (but not least). | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Given To The Rising | 6. | Hidden Faces | |||
| 2. | Fear And Sickness | 7. | Water Is Not Enough | |||
| 3. | To The Wind | 8. | Distill (Watching The Swarm) | |||
| 4. | At The End Of The Road | 9. | Nine | |||
| 5. | Shadow | 10. | Origin |