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FIRES WITHIN FIRES

Neurosis

Experimental/Post Metal


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3.37 | 33 ratings | 1 reviews | 12% 5 stars

Good, but non-essential

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Studio Album, released in 2016

Songs / Tracks Listing

1. Bending Light (7:47)
2. A Shadow Memory (6:50)
3. Fire Is The End Lesson (6:54)
4. Broken Ground (8:44)
5. Reach (10:36)

Total time 40:51

Line-up / Musicians

- Scott Kelly / guitar, vocals
- Steve Von Till / guitar, vocals
- Noah Landis / synth, samples
- Dave Edwardson / bass
- Jason Roeder / drums

Releases information

Artwork: Thomas Hooper

LP Neurot Recordings ‎- NR102-33 (2016, US)

CD Neurot Recordings ‎- NR102 (2016, US)

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NEUROSIS Fires Within Fires ratings distribution


3.37
(33 ratings)
Essential: a masterpiece of progressive rock music(12%)
12%
Excellent addition to any prog rock music collection(42%)
42%
Good, but non-essential (39%)
39%
Collectors/fans only (3%)
3%
Poor. Only for completionists (3%)
3%

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Review by UMUR
SPECIAL COLLABORATOR Honorary Collaborator
3 stars "Fires Within Fires" is the 12th full-length studio album by US, California based sludge/post metal act Neurosis. The album was released through Neurot Recordings in September 2016. It's the successor to "Honor Found in Decay" from 2012.

Stylistically the material on "Fires Within Fires" features very few surprises if you're already familiar with the band's atmospheric sludge/post metal style. It's slow, doomy, and organic music featuring both deep register clean male vocals and harder edged hardcore shouting vocals. The song structures are adventurous and you never really know where a song is going before you reach the end and look back at an intriguing compositional structure. The whole thing is packed in an organic sounding production courtesy of Steve Albini. The sound production takes the meaning of organic maybe a bit too far though, as this sometimes sound like it was recorded live in someone's garage. I know some people love a stripped down and raw sound production like that, and under the right circumstances a sound production like that can work wonders. Here though I think it takes the power out of the music and even the most heavy and punchy parts of the album, lack energy and conviction.

To my ears Neurosis also seem to have lost a bit of their creative spirit on "Fires Within Fires"...and don't get me wrong here, because as mentioned above this is still very adventurous music, but it's like they've made this album before a few times, and I'd like to think of them as innovators who take chances and who challenge their audience. We don't really get much of that here. "Fires Within Fires" is Neurosis playing it completely safe and since they've also tuned down on their more aggressive side, the album does become a bit tedious if you're not in the right mood. However it still speaks volumes of their general qualities that one of Neurosis lesser albums still deserves a 3.5 star (70%) rating, and I'm probably just being a bit hard on them, but that's only because I expect so much from them considering their impressive back catalogue.

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