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This morning's episode features an interview with Carla Dal Forno, whose latest album, Confession, will be released by Kallista records on Friday April 24th. Carla will also be performing at Season Three Space on Saturday May 9th. You can find out more about Carla Dal Forno (and purchase her music) here https://carladalforno.bandcamp.com/

Nick's Pick of the Week is Neurosis' An Undying Love For A Burning World, which was released on Friday March 20th. You can hear it in all the usual places, or purchase it here; https://neurosis.bandcamp.com/album/an-undying-love-for-a-burning-world and my review can be read below.

Neurosis: An Undying Love For A Burning World (Neurot Recordings)

20th March 2026

In 2022, the metal community entered a collective state of shock when Neurosis’ former guitarist and vocalist, Scott Kelly, released a statement admitting to perpetrating years of abuse against his own family. Following Kelly’s statement, the remaining members of Neurosis informed fans that, upon finding out about Kelly’s behaviour in 2019, they promptly fired him from the band. Thus, Neurosis entered a period of dormancy and uncertainty, with many of their fans resigning themselves to the fact that Neurosis was done for good. Until now, when the group unexpectedly dropped An Undying Love For A Burning World, with Aaron Turner, of ISIS, Sumac and Old Man Gloom, replacing Kelly on guitar and vocals.

Neurosis were trailblazers of the post-metal sound, first forming in 1985, as a crust-punk band, they soon expanded and developed their sound to incorporate hardcore, doom, experimental and progressive elements. Initial albums were far more simplistic, with 1992’s Souls At Zero being the first record to fully push the band into uncharted territory, whilst 1999’s Times Of Grace set the early benchmark for the more avant-garde sound that the band would be eventually credited with pioneering —it was their first record engineered by Steve Albini, something that would continue until the band’s hiatus in 2016 and finally ended by Albini’s passing in 2024.

The inclusion of Turner is a perfect fit. A lifelong Neurosis fan, he has made a career of playing in several boundary-pushing metal bands, most notably with his current group Sumac, but also as an accomplished solo musician and improviser, with an epic list of collaborations to his name. It is astonishing, really, that no one saw this coming, nor saw fit to suggest it to either Neurosis or Turner, for —despite the unholy noise of their collaboration— their union is nothing short of celestial.

An Undying Love For A Burning World’s shorter songs are some of its most intense, such as Mirror Deep, Seething And Scattered and Untethered, but it is the longer songs that truly re-establish Neurosis’ place at the forefront of experimental metal. It is the album’s last two tracks, each exceeding ten minutes in length, In The Waiting Hours and Last Light, that truly reiterate why Neurosis are such masters of their game. Explosive, expansive and gleefully punishing, each song is a journey, a trek into the unknown that remains rooted in the past whilst reaching for the unfamiliar 

Neurosis’ return is a welcome surprise, and An Undying Love For A Burning World is a furious and fitting soundtrack to the apocalypse of our current, everyday existence. It is an epic record that is both sprawling in scope and painstakingly refined. Dust off that old Neurosis shirt, fellow metal aficionado, one can finally wear it with pride again.

Nick Stephan