Through Silver in Blood (song)
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"Through Silver in Blood" is the opening title track from the 1996 album
Through Silver In Blood
by Neurosis
. The song is a staple of their live set, often at the very end.
Beginning with a brief industrial sounding loop which echoes throughout the track, the first part of the song is based around a repeated eight-note guitar riff and tribal drum pattern which gradually develops in intensity until Scott Kelly
's agonised screamed vocals
come in, interspersed with heavily distorted guitar textures and dissonant industrial noise. During the verses, the drums occasionally become more frantic before suddenly resorting to the main rhythm, giving the impression of false build-ups throughout.
The second part of the song changes in atmosphere and becomes even more doom-laden and post-apocalyptic in tone as Kelly repeats the lines "Don't crawl, seek his burn of war. When the fallout comes, he is fire" with a repetitive guitar riff and dissonant, mechanised noise played between. The song climaxes at 11:26 with an intense, rapid drum solo, interwined with heavily processed guitar effects, before abruptly seguing into the next track.
1996 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1996.-January:* January – At the trial of two American teenagers, Nicholaus McDonald and Brian Bassett, for the murder of Bassett's parents and young brother, defense lawyers attempt to lay the blame for the murders on the fact...
Through Silver In Blood
Through Silver In Blood
Through Silver in Blood is the fifth album from the Oakland, California band Neurosis and their first record for new label Relapse Records. The album was reissued in July 2009 on Neurot Recordings.-Track listing:#"Through Silver in Blood" – 12:11...
by Neurosis
Neurosis (band)
Neurosis is a post-metal band, based in Oakland, California. They formed in 1985 as a hardcore punk band, and their sound progressed towards a doom metal style that also included influences from dark ambient and industrial music as well as incorporating elements of folk music...
. The song is a staple of their live set, often at the very end.
Beginning with a brief industrial sounding loop which echoes throughout the track, the first part of the song is based around a repeated eight-note guitar riff and tribal drum pattern which gradually develops in intensity until Scott Kelly
Scott Kelly (musician)
Scott Michael Kelly is one of three founding members of Oakland, California experimental metal band Neurosis, in which he is a vocalist and guitarist. He has been writing and publishing music since 1985 with Neurosis, Tribes of Neurot, Blood and Time and his solo acoustic project. He is also...
's agonised screamed vocals
Screaming (music)
Screaming is a vocal technique that is most popular in subgenres of heavy metal, punk and hard rock, including metalcore, deathcore, post-hardcore, groove metal, black metal, and grindcore...
come in, interspersed with heavily distorted guitar textures and dissonant industrial noise. During the verses, the drums occasionally become more frantic before suddenly resorting to the main rhythm, giving the impression of false build-ups throughout.
The second part of the song changes in atmosphere and becomes even more doom-laden and post-apocalyptic in tone as Kelly repeats the lines "Don't crawl, seek his burn of war. When the fallout comes, he is fire" with a repetitive guitar riff and dissonant, mechanised noise played between. The song climaxes at 11:26 with an intense, rapid drum solo, interwined with heavily processed guitar effects, before abruptly seguing into the next track.