Through Silver in Blood (song)

"Through Silver in Blood" is the opening title track from the 1996 album Through Silver In Blood by Neurosis. The song is a staple of their live set, often at the very end.

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 and dissonant industrial noise. During the verses, the drums occasionally become more frantic before suddenly reverting to the main rhythm, giving the impression of false build-ups throughout. The song has a notable shoegaze-tinged heavy metal-style played in it, including post-metal (nicknamed "metalgaze.") The song also has a very dark industrial-based atmosphere, mainly considered as dark ambient. The guitar picking, in parts, is very technical, almost giving the track a progressive metal feel, but has a main style of experimental metal.The atmosphere of the song, besides the noisy dark ambient style, has a very sludgy and bass-filled atmosphere mainly considered sludge metal; along with the sludge metal styles, there is a heavy, but slowed down hardcore punk guitar style, paired with Kelly's screamed vocals.

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 a repetitive guitar riff and dissonant, mechanised noise played between. The song climaxes at 11:26 with an intense, rapid drum solo, interwined with heavily processed guitar effects, before abruptly seguing into the next track, Rehumanize.