Neurosis

Neurosis is an American post-metal band from Oakland, California. It was formed in 1985 by guitarist Scott Kelly, bassist Dave Edwardson and drummer Jason Roeder, originally as a crust punk group. Chad Salter joined as second guitarist and appears on the debut album, Pain of Mind (1987), before being replaced by Steve Von Till in 1989. The following year, the line-up expanded to include a keyboardist and a visual artist. From their third album, Souls at Zero (1992), Neurosis transformed its hardcore sound by incorporating a range of influences, including doom metal and industrial music, and became a major force in the emergence of the post-metal and sludge metal genres.

The line-up stabilised in 1995 with the arrival of Noah Landis, who replaced Simon McIlroy on keyboards and electronics. The same year, the band founded the experimental music collective Tribes of Neurot and, in 1999, the label Neurot Recordings. This line-up remained stable until 2019, when the band parted ways with Kelly after discovering his history of domestic violence against his family; these facts were not made public until August 2022, out of respect for the privacy of Kelly's family members. Kelly's dismissal put the band on hiatus until 2026, the year in which the arrival of singer and guitarist Aaron Turner (ex-Isis) was accompanied by the surprise release, in March, of their twelfth album, An Undying Love for a Burning World.

Neurosis has received critical acclaim over the course of its 12 studio albums. The BBC credited them with having taken "heavy music to previously unimaginable spaces … [and shaped] metal's definitive response to the 21st century".