Y’all. This is not a drill. New NEUROSIS album just dropped.

Neurosis – An Undying Love for a Burning World (Neurot Recordings, 20 March 2026)

We are torn wide open.
We’ve forgotten how to live, so we suffer.
We’ve forgotten how to struggle, so we suffer.
We’ve forgotten we are wild, so we suffer.
We exist in isolation, so we suffer.
The dissonance is deafening.

Coming up on the tenth anniversary of their last release (reviewed HERE), this morning the all-time greats of progressive-post-sludge Neurosis made the surprise announcement that they had recorded a new album — with new bandmate Aaron Turner (of Isis, et cetera) — which is NOW AVAILABLE. And not only that, they will also be performing at this year’s Fire in the Mountains, their first appearance in seven years.

Like most fans, I was heartbroken after “the incident” that put this band on hold. In a previous review (and scattered throughout the past fifteen years’ worth of writings here) I’ve made clear how huge Neurosis was through my formative metalhead years, and when they had announced the sudden membership change and hiatus several years ago (which I won’t rehash here, if you don’t know you can look it up), I was afraid they were done for good. So naturally, news of new material and new live performances (even though they made clear that there are no current plans for shows beyond FITM) has really brightened up what had started out as a pretty gloomy and oppressive workday.

“Gloomy and oppressive” also does an adequate job describing this new album — which I’m listening to for a second time through as I write these words — although of course that’s what we’ve come to expect from these guys. The new addition to the lineup seems to have been a seamless change; one that, while surprising, also completely makes sense in retrospect. Lengthy song structures with crushingly heavy sections interspersed with introspective ambiance, lyrics yelled with a sense of pain that cuts all the way to one’s soul. Filthy background noise effects and occasionally uplifting melodic moments — these eight new tracks highlight everything we’ve loved about this band for almost three decades.

In their press release, Neurot mentions “much needed catharsis” and in the album description on Bandcamp, the band starts with “We need this, perhaps more than ever, and we suspect we are not alone,” followed by several paragraphs that mention “catharsis” or a “cathartic” experience multiple times. Given how terrible everything is in the world today — and always — on a global scale as well as personal, we can all certainly use something to cling to, some glimmer of hope or positivity to stop us from sinking completely into the dismalness. And it seems that’s what restarting this band (they insist this is not a reunion since they never officially broke up) and releasing this album is supposed to represent. The title acknowledges “a Burning World,” yet professes “Undying Love” as a wish for all of us to do what we can to help each other heal.

Find An Undying Love for a Burning World at various platforms here.
 

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