Neurosis releasing a new album was the best thing to happen in like, the last 10 months, let’s be honest. We didn’t see it coming, like we also didn’t necessarily see Aaron Turner (Sumac, Old Man Gloom, ex-Isis) becoming a permanent vocalist in the band coming, though it makes an apparent amount of sense. Both welcomed surprises, and ones that the band expanded more upon in a new interview with Bandcamp.
Part of the surprise is due to how silent the band has (understandably) been since their founding (and now former) vocalist Scott Kelly admitted to abusing his wife and kids back in 2022, to which the band OBVIOUSLY to fuck off for. Which leads us up to now, where they’ve since released An Undying Love For A Burning World on March 20 which features Turner, and added him to the band.
Vocalist/guitarist Steven Von Till and Turner drove the Bandcamp interview, with Till saying this about why they chose Turner to take Kelly’s place:
“We were thinking about how we could reinvent ourselves with the same energy that we reinvented ourselves with when I first joined, when we went from ‘The Word As Law’ to ‘Souls At Zero’. But we’re no longer young men. What kind of puzzles could we put in front of us to create that level of reinvention when time doesn’t move the same way it used to? It came down to finding the right energy.
“Honestly, the only hesitation about Aaron at first was that it seemed so obvious. And we weren’t convinced that he wasn’t too busy with his own work to just want to drop everything and join our dysfunctional old man band.”
When it comes to how Turner himself feels about the situation, he said this:
“It’s not like Steve and I had never spoken, and he all of a sudden asked me to join. Our paths became interwoven a long time ago. Numerous projects of mine released stuff on [Neurosis’s label] Neurot. I did some artwork for Neurosis. Neurosis took my old band [ISIS] on tour. I don’t know if Steve remembers this, but in the early 2000s, he proposed that I come up to the Bay Area and do some stuff with him and one of the guys from Enablers.
“This is a relationship of community where everybody is doing stuff with each other constantly, and there are always ideas flowing back and forth. In that way, it wasn’t surprising to me. I’d had an open dialogue with Steve for many years. At the same time, it was definitely a what-the-fuck moment for me because this is a band that I had been deeply influenced by in many ways, both musically and ideologically.”
They may no longer be younger men, but they still play like they’ve got all the energy in the world, and Aaron surely adds to that.
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