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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.
Through Silver in Blood is the fifth album from the California based post-metal band Neurosis. The album was released on April 23, 1996, and was their first record to be released under record label Relapse Records. The album was reissued in July 2009 on Neurot Recordings.
The album holds elements of industrial metal reminiscent of Godflesh, sludge metal, doom metal, avant-garde metal, and yet still retains faint elements of hardcore punk from the band's previous work. The vocals are usually shouted, growled or screamed, and the drums are often played in a similar way to the electronic drums exhibited in industrial metal and industrial rock, although the drums play a doom metal or sludge metal groove in many passages. The lyrics are mainly pessimistic and dark, and the songs are largely based on heavy riffing with extensive layers of distortion peppered with raw external white noise giving the album a very bleak, aggressive sound. However, certain songs on the album possess quieter passages, such as "Purify", allowing more depth into the album as expanded on by Dave Edwardson below.
Through silver in blood
We stand judged not by
Eyes of flesh, when
Transit times cross
Prey vision consumed
Bleeding one
Bleed alone
Breeding love
Windstorm promised
The teeth strained
Eyes see glory
Rings end in slow
Death wash out
Your wound, rings
End in slow death
Don't crawl seek his burn of war