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.
