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Formed in 1983 by high school mates, Buzz Osborne (guitar/vocals), Matt Lukin (bass), and Mike Dillard (drums). They started off playing cover songs of Jimi Hendrix and Cream, and experimenting with hardcore punk music. Dillard decided to move on, who was soon replaced by Dale Crover. In 1985 C/Z Records was created and released their first album that featured four songs, and then in 1986 the band released their own debut EP, followed by their full-length album “Gluey Porch Treatments” in 1987.

In 1990 the band recorded and released “Bullhead” followed by a tour of Europe. In 1993 they were signed by Atlantic Records, releasing their first major label album “Houdini;” however, they were dropped three albums later. The band then signed with Amphetamine Reptile Records, and released their next album “Honky” in the same year (1997). The years to follow found the band re-mastering old songs, returning to old sounds, and in 2003 Atlantic Records (UK) released a compilation track of their top hits when the band was signed with Atlantic.

In Fall 2006 the band set out on tour to promote their newest album “(A) Senile Animal” and in July 2008 released “Nude With Boots.” After a series of tours and a few more albums, the band also had a side project called Melvins Lite consisting of Dunn, Dale and Buzz). Melvins Lite went on a record breaking tour in 2012, performing every night for 51 days. On 14 July 2014 the band announced their newest album “Hold It In.”

Coming together as a straight-up hardcore punk band in the same vein as bands like Amebix and Discharge, Neurosis was formed by Scott Kelly, Dave Edwardson and Jason Roeder, who had previously played together in the band Violent Coercion. After touring and recording for two years, the band released their debut album “Pain of Mind” in 1987, but the Neurosis that we know today wouldn't start to take shape until the release of their second album “The Word As Law” in 1990. The album was made after a second guitarist and a sample/synth player had been added in the form of Steve Von Till and Simon McIlroy respectively, and as a result, the band began to expand their sound.

This came to a head with the album “Souls At Zero”, whose mix of down-tempo, doom influenced riffing and lush, folk-indebted soundscapes arguably gave birth to post-metal single-handedly. The band's fourth album “Enemy Of The Sun” saw the band sign a record deal with Relapse Records, release their fifth album “Through Silver In Blood” and even play some high profile shows supporting the mighty Pantera. Ever since then, the band have remained one of the most fascinating, esoteric and unmissable metal bands of their generation, the kind of band that can claim to be influenced by Joy Division, Melvins and Phillip K. Dick and then have their records back them up on that. They're artists in the truest sense of the word, and for that, they come highly recommended.