''The Eye of Every Storm'' is the eighth

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from the

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n band

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. It retains the strong

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influences prominent on the band's previous album ''

A Sun That Never Sets ''A Sun That Never Sets'' is the seventh studio album from the Californian band Neurosis. The album was awarded #18 on Decibel Magazine's top 100 metal albums of the decade. The band later released a DVD of a full-length film, which the album ...

'', while exploring their trudging and massive sound with a more dynamic approach closer to

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than their earlier work.

Track listing

Personnel

Neurosis

Steve Von Till Stephen Francis Von Till Jr. is an American musician, poet, and educator, best known as the guitarist of the band Neurosis, in which he also shared lead vocals with former member Scott Kelly. Following Kelly's departure in 2019, he is now the ...

: vocals, guitar, filtered and textured sounds * Scott Kelly : vocals, guitar *Noah Landis :

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, sampler, atmospheric sounds and effects *Dave Edwardson : bass, Moog, backing vocals *

Jason Roeder Jason Roeder is the drummer of the Oakland Oakland is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States. A major West Coast port, Oakland is the largest city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Ar ...

: drums, percussion *Josh Graham : visual media

Additional musicians

*Desmond Shea :

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on "Left to Wander" and "Shelter" *Jeffrey Luck Lucas :

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on "I Can See You"

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Eye of Every Storm 2004 albums Neurosis (band) albums Relapse Records albums Albums produced by Steve Albini