Release Date: March 20th 2026. Record Label: Neurot Recordings. Formats: CD/DD/Tape/Vinyl.
An Undying Love For A Burning World - Tracklisting
1. We Are Torn Wide Open
2. Mirror Deep
3. First Red Rays
4. Blind
5. Seething and Scattered
6. Untethered
7. In the Waiting Hours
8. Last Light
Members
Jason Roeder – drums
Aaron Turner – guitar, vocals
Steve Von Till – guitar, vocals
Dave Edwardson – bass, vocals
Noah Landis – synths, samples, vocals
Review
Well, we never expected for Post-Metal legends NEUIROSIS to return with a new album especially after what went down with Scott Kelly in 2019. Most people (including myself) thought it was all over for one of the most important metal bands of the last forty years. Then the band arrived back with a new album with no fan fare or massive PR hype behind them just like how SLEEP did with The Sciences in 2018 and HUM with Inlet in 2020. However, there were more surprises with Aaron Turner (ISIS and SUMAC) joining forces with Neurosis on Guitar/Vocals.
This made complete sense and there’s possibly nobody better than Aaron Turner who perhaps formed the “other” most important Post-Metal band of the last thirty years. His vocal and creative presence fits in brilliantly with the core line-up of NEUROSIS and brings a fresh musical perspective which makes An Dying Love For A Burning World perhaps their best album in over thirty years. This is a monumental release which sees NEUROSIS on absolute fire with powerful sounds emerging from the very start.
The vocal interplay between Aaron Turner, Steve Von Till, Dave Edwardson and Noah Landis is nothing short of brilliance with everyone given the time and space to inject their own personality into the record. It may have been quite daunting for Aaron Turner to appear alongside his musical heroes but this actually feels like an ISIS and SUMAC record in places which you have to give NEUROSIS full respect to for allowing them to open themselves to musical ideas.
However, this is still a NEUROSIS record through and through with the Sludge/Post-Metal elements having an aggressive ethereal sound with that classic apocalyptic and rustic energy which has appeared throughout the band’s career. There’s some foreshadowing movements into Ambient Rock, Post-Rock and Alt-Metal which is beautifully delicate through the great work laid down by Noah Landis. The album can be quite experimental along the way but it’s delivered with real purpose as the whole Psychedelic and Progressive structure for the majority of the songs moves into many different directions.
The first three tracks of We Are Torn Wide Open, Mirror Deep and First Red Rays allows NEUROSIS to develop the whole flow and mission statement of the record with harsh vocals, abrasive soundscapes and progressive grooves being grounded and wholly original. There are some beautiful vocal harmonies on First Red Rays which transported me back to my early days of Post-Metal whilst listening to the likes of OCEANIC and Through Silver In Blood.
An Undying Love For A Burning World is quite a bleak and sombre record with NEUROSIS once more touching upon some hard hitting themes whilst moving into other areas of heavy music on tracks such as Blind, Seething And Scattered, In The Waiting Hours and Last Light. The final two tracks of The Waiting Hours and Last Light offer around twenty seven minutes of music with NEUROSIS exploring areas of Doom, Industrial, Sludge, Post-Rock and Prog Metal like no other band can. I dare to say this might be some of the best music the band have written since their 1995 masterpiece Through Silver In Blood.
NEUROSIS prove time and time again why they’re not only the definite Post-Metal band around but also one of the most important Heavy Metal bands to emerge over the last forty five years. This album is a testament to that fact as An Undying Love For A Burning World could end becoming my favourite album of the year. It’s already blowing everyone’s minds right now and you can see why as this album is an absolute masterpiece.
What more can I say!!!
Words by Steve Howe
Thanks to Rarely Unable PR and Earsplit PR for the promo.
An Undying Love For A Burning World is available to buy now digitally with physical release arriving in May 2026.
