NEUROSIS Singer: 'We've Found Different Ways To Be Intense'

June 30, 2004

NEUROSIS singer/guitarist Steve Von Till recently spoke to Exclaim! magazine about the dramatic increase and proficiency of melodies, moods, textures and actual clean singing on the group's latest album, "The Eye of Every Storm".

"We've always gotten satisfaction from attacking our weaknesses," he said. "Our weakness for a long time had been the vocal element and lack of melody, and finding ways to incorporate those things. We haven't lost the intensity but we've found different ways to be intense. We keep the obvious in our back pocket now for when it absolutely cannot be held back."

With regards to the band's seeming lack of activity in the several years prior to the release of the new album, Von Till said, "You have to earn a living to survive in the world and we never have with music. We didn't want to start getting to 40 and have no jobs to come home to and not be able to raise our children properly. There was only so long we were willing to dig holes of debt and time."

Asked about the possibility of NEUROSIS hitting the road again in the near future, Von Till said, "We are going to try to play. We feel the itch; shit, we used to do it all the time. There's a physical release, a glory in it that we haven't felt in awhile and primarily, this thing was founded as being a live act and we need to get out there and prove that it still rings true." Read more.

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