Sat 26 06,
20:00
Neurosis
Neurosis—now, without exaggeration, a legendary band—is returning to Prague after eight long years.
ARCHA+ will host a concert by the iconic quintet from Oakland, California, whose origins date back to 1985. “Prague is way more than just another destination for us,” says the band, which shocked the music world this year with a surprise comeback in the form of the outstanding album *An Undying Love for a Burning World*.
“We are torn wide open! We are torn wide open! We are torn wide open!” Steve Von Till’s raw, bone-chilling scream—which opens Neurosis’s new album *An Undying Love for a Burning World* without warning—seems to foreshadow the thunderous roar that follows, one that few ever hoped to hear again. After the departure of one of its two frontmen, Scott Kelly, Neurosis seemed to be a closed (albeit pivotal) chapter; however, in recent years, the band has been working in complete secrecy on new material with a new member—none other than Aaron Turner (Sumac, ex-Isis). With his arrival, the quintet gained a new, truly fundamental dimension, further expanding their already broad scope: *An Undying Love for a Burning World* (2026) easily stands up to comparison even with classics like *Times of Grace* (1999)—it is brutal and raw, yet at the same time sonically rich and consistently innovative. And although Neurosis has never been an overtly political band in the sense of explicitly addressing current issues in their lyrics, it’s fair to say that the current political climate has, to some extent, influenced this “undying love for a burning world”—at least in terms of a rediscovered sense of belonging to the community for which Neurosis’s music means so much. Neurosis is, in fact, much more than “just” music.
Advance ticket sales will begin on November 13 at 11:00 a.m.