Neurosis Return with First Album in a Decade, Adding Aaron Turner to the Lineup
Neurosis have released An Undying Love For A Burning World via Neurot Recordings on 20 March 2026, a surprise drop with no prior announcement. It is their first album since Fires Within Fires (2016). Physical copies are available for pre-order, with delivery expected in early May. Neurosis formed in Oakland, California in late 1985, when Scott Kelly, Dave Edwardson, and Jason Roeder — previously in hardcore outfit Violent Coercion — started the band as a crust punk act. Steve Von Till replaced guitarist Chad Salter in 1989, and Noah Landis joined on keyboards and electronics in 1995. In the early 2000s the band founded Neurot Recordings, their independent label, which has released all Neurosis material since and taken on a number of other artists. Beginning with Souls at Zero (1992), their sound shifted away from hardcore, incorporating doom metal and industrial influences, and the band became a foundational presence in what would come to be called post-metal.
Artist: Neurosis
Release Date: 2026-03-20
Genres: Doom Metal, Sludge Metal
Label: Neurot Recordings
Description: Neurosis return after 10 years: Exploring their legacy, the new album, and the sound of a world on the brink of collapse.
The current recording lineup consists of Von Till on vocals and guitar, Roeder on drums, Edwardson on bass, Landis on keyboards, and Aaron Turner, who joins on vocals and guitar. The band insist this is not a reunion — they never formally disbanded.
Turner is a musician and visual artist based on Vashon Island, Washington, publicly active since 1995. He is a founding member of both Isis and Sumac, and has participated in projects including Old Man Gloom, Mamiffer, House of Low Culture, and Jodis. He founded Hydra Head Records and later co-founded SIGE Records with his partner Faith Coloccia. Turner grew up in New Mexico, moved to the Boston area where he attended art school and formed Isis, then relocated to Los Angeles in 2003 before eventually settling in Washington state. Isis dissolved in 2010; Sumac, formed in 2014, has been his primary band since.
The album was recorded live — without studio overdubs — by Scott Evans (whose credits include Kowloon Walled City, Sumac, and Great Falls) at Studio Litho in Seattle across three weekends. Mixing took place in a single weekend at Evans’ Antisleep Audio in Oakland, six weeks before release. The band describe some songs as arriving nearly complete, others as requiring extended work before taking shape.
The accompanying statement frames the record in terms of necessity — personal, collective, environmental — and references the climate crisis and what the band call “the sixth mass extinction” alongside broader pressures of anxiety and isolation. Three lines in the album’s text return to the same structure: “We’ve forgotten how to live / struggle / we are wild, so we suffer.” The closing line reads: “The dissonance is deafening.”
Neurosis will play their first live show in seven years at the Fire in the Mountains festival, held on the traditional lands of the Blackfeet Nation in Montana, by invitation of Firekeeper Alliance, a non-profit focused on reducing youth suicide in Native American communities. Von Till — who also sat down with Retrofuturista to discuss his solo work (read the interview here) — sits on the board of Firekeeper Alliance.
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