Given to the Rising: Limited Edition

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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2008-07-13 rating:
It's given...
Given to the Rising is Neurosis' 9th studio album. This you can tell; they've honed their craft to a razor's edge. The early albums; Pain of Mind and Word as Law were fairly primitive hardcore but they began to experiment and branch out on Souls at Zero. The following two albums; Enemy of the Sun and Through Silver in Blood were absolute monsters and two of the best heavy albums of the Nineties. Their journey took in more experimental and brooding forms with subsequent albums. Obviously their experimental drone alter ego - Tribes of Neurot was creeping into Neurosis' music more and more. 2004 album; Eye of Every Storm was a dark, more folk-tinged album than anyone was expecting and wasn't too greatly received and hell knows why; it's possibly my favourite.

Neurosis are one of those bands that pour their very life and soul into their work and you can really tell; the quality of the product; the attention to detail; the depth and rich emotional landscapes the music paints. Neurosis albums aren't something you can slap on when your friends come round, it has to be experienced, backed up by the fact that it takes at least three or four solid listens for anything to sink in and reveal itself.

Given to the Rising is basically a lesson in empiricism. They've taken everything they've learnt on the way boiled it down and seared it onto a small plastic disc for our pleasure. It's closest brother is probably Times of Grace. It has the brute force and riffage of that record but encorporates the atmospherics and soundscapes of Eye of Every Storm that they were flirting with on tracks like Away and Belief. The whole thing is much more varied and accomplished than Times of Grace however and a heckload more intense! It's pretty much a complete and rounded Neurosis experience in one sitting.

A track by track review would be pointless, describing Neurosis' music with words is pretty useless. Just turn out the lights put on your headphones, turn up Given to the Rising and listen to one of the best bands around playing one of the best albums they've created.

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review by: northernmight date: 2008-02-28 rating:
Dark, atmospheric, apocalyptic and beautiful
Another epic masterpiece from the titans of slow, ultra-heavy post rock. Neorosis have moved forward with every album they have made, each album seems to retain all the masterstrokes of its precedessors while adding an additional dimension to the already complex and uneering maelstrom of claustrophobic deep riffage, hypnotic bass and occasional electronic 'noise'.

Given to the Rising raises the bar yet again. It has a more textured, but no less heavy, feel to it. Each track takes you somewhere different and unexpected, images of bleak barren wildernesses merge into industrial grinding & pummeling with delicate threads of piano and strings woven in with the craftsmanship born of their maturity and vitality.

I won't do a school boy score by track list, that would miss the whole point of the album which should be listened to as a unified whole so much greater than the sum of its parts. If you like Neurosis this is a must. It seems imposible that they can improve with their next album, but i have every faith they will.

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review by: rollin3001 date: 2007-08-20 rating:
Neurosis
This is the first Neurosis album i have bought, and i have to say it is pretty impressive. well worth buying if you're into bands such as mastodon, isis, dream thearter or opeth.

Very impressive album and one of the best this year.

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review by: mccanns23 date: 2007-08-01 rating:
The return of the beast
neurosis' ninth album is a heavier affair than their previous album which while strong wasnt as fearsome as previous releases,this album shows that the lads still have fire in their souls.
Neurosis are a band that not everyone will appreciate,i feel like i write that in each neurosis review but its important to let that sink in,whereas it would be great to think that all who read these reviews will race to their music store and pick this up,a sense of caution is needed,neurosis are epic,they pretty much always have been,and this album may be the most epic of them all,clocking in at 70 minutes long and with 10 tracks,two of which are brief spoken interludes,then you get the idea that this isnt a nice radio friendly album.
The band build the song to its brutal decay,those wanting their metal right away should leave this behind,those wanting chorus' that stick right away should also head for the exit,however those wanting something special,something that develops and then stampedes should look to this,mind you this album doesnt have the powers of their seminal albums 'a sun that never sets' and 'enemy of the sun',but its great all the same.
The dual vocals are again great but you can tell that the boys vocals have been shot to pieces here,years of screaming and living the life may have ensured that but this works to their favour.The band still fuse psycadelic sounds but they arent overly obvious but they exist,the use of organ and keyboard and synths are again used to create atmosphere and thats a word that can be linked to this album,atmosphere.Its a dark,brooding affair,yes most of neurosis' albums are like that but this is bleak in places.
The album contains tracks that really rock,and there are faster moments as well,the album is heavy and crushing yet gentle in parts,soothing and calm but that all leads to false hope,its what they do better than any band in the world if im truthful/
This would not qualify as their greatest album but its a great one,one that takes a while to really admire if im being honest again but neurosis are still alive and kicking.


review by: date: 2007-07-01 rating:
consistently excellent (both album and band!)
What an album! The sheer weight and intensity of this album is something you simply would not expect from a band who've been on the circuit for 20+ years!

There's been much touted of the return to a 'heavier' sound, and while neurosis have never been anything but heavy, this is indeed markedly heavier than anything they've put out since 'through silver in blood'. 'Given to the rising' is heavier in a much more raw, immediate way than either of it's predecessors 'a sun that never sets (my personal favourite) and 'the eye of every storm', and I think it's the quality of the vocals which really sets it apart, with Scott Kelly especially impressing with some throat-rasping growls.

Still present is the trademark swirling psychedelic chaos just beneath the surface, as is the whisper/growl interchange between Von Till & Kelly, and the one thing which still ( and perhaps always will) sets Neurosis apart from other sludgy bands like Isis or Cult of Luna, is the sheer immense weight of their sound, it's very difficult not to dragged under...

not that that's a bad thing!

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