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In terms of career, importance, and genius, Fugazi not only surpass Neurosis but also JL themselves. However, if we take the best work from all three, as far as I'm concerned, they all excel. The point with Neurosis is that with a work like TSIB, they fit into the industrial, post-core, and sludge categories. And a piece with the awareness of Purify, I've never heard in any other similar band (Today is the Day, Isis, Pelican, etc.). You can truly feel the smoke from the explosions of a nuclear war, a sonic radioactive fallout, basically. Do you like the intro to Purify?

I would say that a lot depends on the albums we take into consideration. Souls at Zero and TSIB, for example, I believe have clear Postcore (and sludge) matrices that, as such, move away from the more deleterious metal standard that we know. Then, if we consider Roeder's tribalistic percussion, I think it's as far away as possible from the conventional metal double bass... even the growl found in TSIB I still define as "growl" with great difficulty. Postcore itself, however, has certain affinities with a certain metal violence (once a friend of mine, knowing nothing of hardcore and the like, listened to the refrain of The Art of Self Defense by JL and told me "but this is metal!"). Or, just yesterday I was listening to F/D by Fugazi and I was thinking about how well that guitar would fit in any Neurosis work... to put it simply, Postcore and Metal are found in Neurosis without continuity solutions.

Super cool album

Anyway, nothing represents the end of the world better than TSIB.

Perhaps in the violence/heaviness of the riffs they remind of metal, but the sound I would say is that of post-hardcore. I agree with Alfredo: Up Neurosis, Down Sunn and Earth :-) The Isis overall annoy me.

A respectable album and still a great review.

Do you like Neurosis too? Have you seen Black? It’s not my favorite, but there are tracks like the title track, Falling Unknown, The Tide, From Where Its Roots Run (stunning) that should be listened to at least once a day. TSIB remains unbeatable though; that’s truly a "beastly" album, just like someone else was on Sunday night, right? :-)

Thank you, Gluca :-)

Ah, supersoul is part of the rock forty-somethings who love to feel it hot on Deb with the young ones like me and gluca1985... what sadness, you could almost be my father, such Supermelancholy... and then we wonder why society is going to hell. What a clown I am with just a little more than half your age... but go to work, you have a family to support, instead of whining about a 3 on Psychedelic Lollipop! But where the hell does this people come from?? But where did they grow up, more than anything else... Sadness will prevail...

But gluca1985 still hasn't apologized to SuperSaccent for using the expression "psichedelia per famiglie"? No no, that's not how it's done! Come on, don't you dare deviate from SS's ideas, or he will come and spank you!