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Neurosis - Enemy Of The Sun



7.8 | 133 votes |
Release date: 17 August 1993
Style: Post-hardcore , Atmospheric sludge metal

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01. Lost
02. Raze The Stray
03. Burning Flesh In Year Of Pig
04. Cold Ascending
05. Lexicon
06. Enemy Of The Sun
07. The Time Of The Beasts
08. Cleanse
09. Takeahnase [demo][bonus]
10. Cleanse II [Live in Oberhausen][bonus]

Additional info
Re-issued by Neurot Recordings on August 30th, 2010.

Guest review by
Desha
Rating:
N/A
Everyone knows the opening title to this one. "Lost" has such an amazing sample and beginning bass line, it burns itself inside your memory like a sleeper agent trigger - to awaken once you hear the question:

"Are you lost?"

And the answer is clear: "Yes". How can you not be, in this day and age?

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published 01.08.2018 | Comments (4)

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21.12.2013 - 05:09
Rating: 9
Unhealer
Eclecticist
This one just arrived home Can't believe it's rated so low, it's my favorite by them.
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04.06.2014 - 06:52
Rating: 9
Dr.Overkill26

A fantastic album... and definitely a grower. Music like this is like the antithesis of instant gratification music.
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Do you need what I need? Boundaries overthrown Look inside to each his own
Do you trust what I trust? me myself and I Penetrate the smoke screen I see Through the selfish lie
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02.03.2015 - 19:10
(((O)))

Haven't listened to this one in a while but it's probably my favorite Neurosis album, either this or Through Silver.. I like how Cold Ascending leads into Lexicon which is a fucking crazy track. The clean vocals in Lost are also cool.
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20.04.2016 - 13:02
Rating: 8
musclassia

Been very undecided on Neurosis (aside from Souls At Zero) pretty much since I first heard them, but seeing them at Roadburn's inspired me to revisit their albums, starting with this one. I rather like it, particularly the prominence of the tribal drumming. Lost was my favourite song on it when I first heard it and it's still the strongest song, but pretty much all the songs have at least something I enjoy going on in them.
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20.04.2016 - 15:36
X-Ray Rod
Skandino
Written by musclassia on 20.04.2016 at 13:02

Been very undecided on Neurosis (aside from Souls At Zero) pretty much since I first heard them, but seeing them at Roadburn's inspired me to revisit their albums, starting with this one. I rather like it, particularly the prominence of the tribal drumming. Lost was my favourite song on it when I first heard it and it's still the strongest song, but pretty much all the songs have at least something I enjoy going on in them.


You were there? Damn, shame... We were quite the group with Che and Zaphod.
I'm a huge fanboy so both sets were fucking brilliant from my perspective.
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Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29
Like you could kiss my ass
Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
Rod, let me love you.
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20.04.2016 - 15:39
Rating: 8
musclassia

Written by X-Ray Rod on 20.04.2016 at 15:36

You were there? Damn, shame... We were quite the group with Che and Zaphod.
I'm a huge fanboy so both sets were fucking brilliant from my perspective.


Yeah man, went by myself, got convinced by Green Carnation, Cult of Luna and a few other bands to give it a go. Enjoyed it - Neurosis was fun, although I've never put too much listening into them so the only songs I recognised in either set were Lost, Through Silver In Blood, Distil and To Crawl Under One's Skin. I'd hadn't been aware they had a couple of punk albums in the beginning so those songs surprised me (and I admittedly wasn't too keen on them), but the rest of it was pretty solid on the whole
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13.05.2016 - 08:01
Rating: 10
elekctric

I have been revisiting Neurosis this week and really gotta agree that this is poorly rated on MS. It almost feels like a concept album, if that makes sense. It truly is a fantastic album. I used to pass it over for Souls At Zero but it really is growing on me.
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25.09.2016 - 04:56
Maco
Pvt Funderground
Awesome, just like Souls At Zero, even though this one's darker.
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Crackhead Megadeth reigns supreme.
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23.01.2018 - 22:24
Desha
delicious dish
Neurosis is so hellish on this one, incredibly interesting compared to their discography from hereon out.
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You are the hammer, I am the nail
building a house in the fire on the hill
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20.07.2022 - 20:08
Rating: 9
F3ynman2000
Nocturnal Bro
A 2016 review on MA put it perfectly:
Quote:

Neurosis’ Enemy of the Sun is among the most inaccessible slab of slow, monolithic music I have ever heard in my life .... Although it’s a commercially released music, it invites no one to come inside. It’s so uncontrolled, dense, and burly, you have to haggle your way into the soundscape. And if you make the arduous effort to engage with the music, you are thoroughly punished for it.
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Enemy of the Sun is a timeless classic, composed and played so purely from the heart, and there’s no dispute whatsoever. It’s an underground masterpiece, as a true enemy of the sun should be (pun intended). This is fucking savage y’all.
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21.01.2024 - 21:54
Rating: 8
Jack_Torrance

Underrated release
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