Nobody saw it coming: ten years after Fires Within Fires and Scott Kelly’s departure, Neurosis resurrects with Aaron Turner (Isis, Sumac) on the mic — and delivers 2026’s best-rated metal album, an 89/100 across nine reviews. Sputnikmusic and Distorted Sound both pull perfect scores, the latter calling the record « even more powerful than before »; Blabbermouth (9/10) flatly ranks it as « the band’s best effort since A Sun That Never Sets« .
The consensus is crushing: the Turner graft takes, his confrontational vocals trading blows with Steve Von Till’s, and the record sweeps the band’s whole spectrum — from early industrial brutality to the seventeen closing minutes of « Last Light », cited everywhere as a peak. « We’ve forgotten how to live, so we suffer », spits opener « We Are Torn Wide Open »: tone set.
Divergences? Cosmetic. Pitchfork (8.3) and Uncut (8/10) are merely the least ecstatic voices in a unanimous pack, and the public (79/100 on 3,600-plus ratings) follows without flinching. Thirty years after Through Silver In Blood, the bosses of post-metal reclaim their throne as if nobody had dared sit on it.