Given to the Rising [Limited Edition]

Neurosis | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 5, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Limited Edition
• Label: Neurot Recordings
• ASIN: B000OYC3FC
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #224,903 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars every atom of sound in magnificent glow, June 18, 2007

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doomsdayer520 (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Given to the Rising (Audio CD)

Neurosis have been defining post-metal for two decades, and here they continue to show us what it really means to be heavy. Heaviness is not non-stop groaning and bashing and screaming, like you get from every two-bit nu/extreme metal hack who's currently polluting the market. Instead, true heaviness comes from nuance, intelligence, and dynamics, and Neurosis continue to elevate metal to its deepest potential. This album is a masterpiece of sonic landscaping, with gutbucket riffs and insistent rhythms sharing space with atmospheric keyboards and chaotic noise. The Neurosis strategies of tightly coiled aggression and relentless aural design result in music that is somehow both terrifying and illuminating. The bludgeoning opener "Given to the Rising" is a perfect indicator of the full Neurosis assault, while the introspection-to-aggression dynamic is most evident in "To the Wind," which even starts with a little incisive balladry. This album peaks with the one-two-three punch of controlled violence in "Hidden Faces," "Water is Not Enough," and "Distill (Watching the Swarm)." Metal that's not afraid to slow down, focus its aggression, and control its attack will have the fullest impact with the thinking listener. Neurosis have helped define that attack throughout their history, and they continue to perfect it here. [~doomsdayer520~]

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars As scary as ever, June 20, 2007

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Wheelchair Assassin (The Great Concavity) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Given to the Rising (Audio CD)

Perhaps no band has rendered the sound of the apocalypse better than Neurosis, and their most recent effort, Given to the Rising, delivers the sort of sensory carpet bombing that fans have come to know and love. Their previous release, 2004's The Eye of Every Storm, was an excellent effort, but didn't really feel to this reviewer's ears like a "true" Neurosis album, as the eerie minimalism that had always been part of the band's sound occupied the forefront much more than on previous releases. Fortunately, the buzzsaw riffs that introduce the title track serve convincing notice that the Neurosis that released such imperious classics as Times of Grace and Through Silver in Blood is still very much in existence. That's certainly not to say the band has abandoned the textured atmospherics entirely--Nine sounds like something Tom Waits would do in one of his more avant-garde moments, and much of Origin sounds like Tool minus the pseudo-intellectualism--but most of Given to the Rising ranges from slow, twisted, and ugly to mid-tempo, twisted and ugly. The guitars are simply amazing here, piling on layer after layer of momentous, hellish riffage that drives home the claustrophobic heaviness of the music like a railroad spike, a sharp contrast to the more spacious soundscapes that made of much of the previous album. More important than any stylistic concerns, though, is the simple fact that from front to back Given to the Rising is one of Neurosis's best written efforts, and anyone familiar with their catalogue will know that's saying something. As is par for the Neurosis course, songs typically stretch into 8-10 minute territory, but even at half that length the band's brilliant use of hypnotic repetition and bowel-rattling rhythms would lend them a distinctly epic feel. Even at their darkest and most punishing, Neurosis show a skillful grasp of dynamics and progressions--witness Fear and Sickness's sudden transition from an ominous tribal chug to a harrowing midsection filled with searing guitar noise and tortured howls, or the way At the End of the Road builds from a creepy, Godflesh-style crawl to a gut-wrenchingly heavy and cavernous conclusion. For all fans who like their metal on the dark and frightening side, Given to the Rising, like most every Neurosis release, is absolutely essential.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Neurosis in Prime Form as Always, June 24, 2007

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Concerned One "Thrashfan" (IA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Given to the Rising (Audio CD)

Given To The Rising is a sonic slab that blasts it's way out of the speakers and into the minds of those who shall listen to it. This is by far one of the heavier albums Neurosis has ever made. Harkening back to bits of "Souls At Zero", but with newer feeling like "A Sun That Never Sets". Steve Albini has mixed an excellent album with Neurosis, and I hope that this combination continues for another 22 years. The Limited Edition is in a Digipack Sleve, ten tracks, booklet and lyric sheet. Neurosis also limited DVD Documentary on the making of this album available also, a must have for a collector, great to see the band give their thoughts on what they produced. Check this album out, a must own, and great intro for newcomers also.