Through Silver in Blood (song)

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Through Silver in Blood is the opening title track from the 1996 album Through Silver In Blood by Neurosis.

Beginning with a brief industrial sounding loop which echoes throughout the track, the first part of the song is based around a repeated eight-note guitar riff and tribal drum pattern which gradually develops in intensity until Scott Kelly's agonised screamed vocals come in, interspersed with heavily distorted guitar textures. During the verses, the drums occasionally become more frantic before suddenly resorting to the main rhythm, giving the impression of false build-ups throughout.

The second part of the song changes in atmosphere and becomes even more doom-laden and post-apocalyptic in tone as Kelly repeats the lines "Don't crawl, seek his burn of war. When the fallout comes, he is fire" with frequent dissonant, mechanised riffs played between. The song climaxes at 11:26 with an intense and rapid drum solo interwined with heavily processed guitar effects before abruptly seguing into the next track.