Given to the Rising hits no false notes. It holds up after 20 listens; it will hold up after 20 years. Ten albums into their career, Neurosis has only widened the gap between it and its pretenders.   Full text...

The mighty [b]Neurosis[/b] put their ambience behind them and plunge back into the murky darkness of their previous albums.  Full text...

Given To The Rising opens with a paint-peeling title track, then toys with listener expectations for its remainder, kicking open hell's maw only after tracking through long, eerily still passages like the ones in "At The End If The Road." In spite of the "return to form" claims that followed Rising to stores, the shockwaves do take longer to arrive than fans may expect.  Full text...

After a period of rewarding transitions, this album may be the purest integration yet of the different sides of this great, great band.  Full text...

Neurosis might have reverted to its old tricks, but Given to the Rising is anything but a dismissal of its less aggravated sound. It's a perfect complement, proving, hopefully, once and for all that there isn't so much difference between the noise storm and the introverted songs.  Full text...