This 1996 album is heralded as the critical apex for the “post-metal” sub-genre. We discuss the hardships and trauma the band members were struggling with while recording it and how it acts as catharsis for them and their listeners. We also spend a lot of time on meaning, genre distinctions and the inability of language to describe the identity we form with music.
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- Neurotics Never Know A Chat with Neurosis’ Dave Edwardson
- Neurosis on 30 Years of Finding ‘New Ways of Being Heavy’
- Neurosis’ Through Silver In Blood is still crushing, 20 years later
- Neurosis – ‘Through Silver in Blood’ Turns 20
- NEUROSIS’ DARK PATH, DEEP BOND: INSIDE ‘THROUGH SILVER IN BLOOD’ AND BEYOND