Neurot Recordings are proud to announce the reissue of one of the most ground-breaking releases in the ever-expanding lineage of icons Neurosis, Enemy Of The Sun.

With Neurosis' earliest releases – 1987's Pain of Mind, and even 1990's The Word As Law – the band's jagged and eerie blend of metallic, hypnotic, post-gutter punk was instantly recognized as wholly unique, yet it took multiple releases for the then Bay-area unit to infinitely define their sound, forcing the world to listen, then run for cover. Their 1992 full-length Souls At Zero showcased the band branching off into much more expanded songwriting, giving birth to much longer hymns, infusing them with tribal rhythms and slow-building post-doom bastardization, then breaking massive new ground for the metal world.

But it was their follow-up in 1993, the crushing Enemy Of The Sun LP, that would be the album to take the pulsing, hypnotizing monoliths Neurosis was crafting down to much darker, and much, much heavier territory for the rest of the band's still-growing roster of masterpieces. Still to this day, critics and fans of heavy and experimental metal hold this release to be one of the harshest, spine-chilling, mind-warping releases in history, and countless acts have cited Enemy... as "the one that changed everything" for them.

The eight tracks on the release was one of the most massively cavernous, crushing records the world had experienced. A mesmerizing, pressurizing, dirge-driven display of brutal riffing, thick with haunting samples, layered, anguished vocal tracks, raging multiple-member percussion contributions, and some of the most mammoth buildups ever, Enemy Of The Sun was an album that left a sense of anguish in your soul long after the record was over.

Neurot Recordings are exceptionally proud to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Neurosis, and once again issue this classic album to the masses. 2010's reissue of Enemy Of The Sun bears a fully redesigned package by visionary artist, Neurosis live visual master Josh Graham.

Some reflections on the recording of Enemy Of The Sun by Neurosis' Scott Kelly:

"As I sit here 17 years removed from the time that was the time of 1993, my reflections are more of what was to come for us then what had happened up to that point. We were on the verge a catastrophically prolific time in our declarative years. The experiments had only just begun, the sacrifices soon to come were as of yet unknown to us . The scars were still fresh from our teenage formations. All we knew was what was directly in front us, there was nothing that could stop were we were going.

When I listen back to the songs on this record I can see so clearly how much it meant and how important it was. It is equal parts heavy handed psychedelia and detailed brain leeching. There isn't a lot of give in this record, it's all take. The words of one of the poems from the book from which this album took its name, form the figures and repetitions that have danced in our heads for eternity". - Scott Kelly, April 2010

Enemy Of The Sun reissue track listing:
1. Lost
2. Raze The Stray
3. Burning Flesh In Year Of Pig
4. Cold Ascending
5. Lexicon
6. Enemy OF The Sun
7. The Time Of The Beast
8. Cleanse
9. Takehnase (demo version)
10. Cleanse II (Live In Oberhausen)