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| 4.0 excellent | BRAman22 | September 23rd 16 |
Neurosis made a good call on cutting this album down shorter than usual. It still has everything that makes them great, but doesn't drag any of the ambient sections on for too long. This means that more of the time in this album is spent on heavier riffs which have always been when Neurosis' best quality.
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| 2.5 average | PatientlyDead | October 5th 16 |
If I wanted to listen to Remission by Mastodon, I would listen to Remission by Mastodon... Boring and uninspired.rThat Mastodon album is fantastic though.
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| 3.5 great | Alabaster Jones | September 23rd 16 |
It's a bit underwhelming for a Neurosis record, but Fires Within Fires is still a very solid outing and one of their most accessible to date, even if it does play it safe. The songwriting quality is pretty high here, with each song getting better than the one before, culminating in the fantastic "Reach", a ten-minute exercise in everything the band does well. Methodical drumming, a tense atmosphere, an explosion of post-metal riffage in the ending minutes; everything's there. The vocal tandem of Scott Kelly and Steve Von Till is still going strong, and though the tempo here is more mid-paced, the subtleties are still there to pick out despite being gone quicker than normal. As with most of the material from Neurosis, Fires Within Fires gets better after every listen. Though initially it may just seem like the band is going through the motions, the album reveals its nuances with repeated listens, like how on "Fire Is The End Lesson" when all of the instruments interweave so nicely and carefully with each other that it's hard not to go along with the groove. Solid stuff.
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| 5.0 classic | zxlkho | September 18th 16 |
objectively the greatest album ever created if you disagree you're wrong
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| 3.0 good | cjbizzlebizzle | December 29th 16 |
As someone fairly unfamiliar with Neurosis it is hard to read 5-star review after 5-star review and not feel a bit confused. Fires Within Fires contains some great atmospheres that feel like a dirty, dense slogging mud pit but overall the album is repetitive and the vocalist seems like he has seen better days; which could actually be seen as a positive in one light but his style becomes tired and stale later in the album. Fires Within Fires seems like an album built upon the great mountain of achievement of a cult classic band but a record that doesn't do much for the genre as a whole; a bit recycled.
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| 3.5 great | EasterInTheBatcave | December 19th 16 |
With Fires Within Fires, Neurosis have released an excellent 41-minute slice of their traditional post/sludge metal styling. Putting out a relatively short record was a great move; the album never drags, but the length is sufficient for the development of a compelling atmosphere. That atmosphere is dark and aggressive, with less ambient excursions than perhaps expected. Such directness works in its favour-- it results in a punchy, consistently compelling work.
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| 4.0 excellent | Benjamin Kuettel EMERITUS | December 15th 16 |
Fires Within Fires takes on a more purposeful feel than previous Neurosis albums, being the shortest and most easily digestible from them in many years. This demands a close listen more than anything else, as the subtleties in each track flicker by quickly. Tempos are largely increased here, making for a refreshing groove feel present in many of the heavier moments. The songwriting is top notch as always, feeling massive in scope and is consistently engrossing, with enough new tricks to keep it interesting. Faster songs and a willingness to further explore their calmer odysseys make for their most rewarding release in over a decade. "Reach" is their best song in 10 years.
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| 4.0 excellent | Uranium | September 30th 16 |
this is a really good album but suffers from being 1-2 tracks too short
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| 0.0 | StarlessCore | September 23rd 16 |
fire is the end lesson..............................................................guiz
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| 3.5 great | Snide | September 23rd 16 |
"Fires Within Fires" So I guess you could say this album's reception is pretty... hot.
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| 3.4 great | Trey STAFF | September 22nd 16 |
I really liked them more in their earlier days when they were still using violins and horns, and the tempos were more diverse. Having said that, it's still Neurosis and it's still really good.
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| 3.3 great | Xenophanes EMERITUS | September 18th 16 |
Classic, by the numbers Neurosis but not in the way that made "Honor Found in Decay" so lame.
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