Steve Von Till (Neurosis) announces new album ‘Alone in a World of Wounds’

Neurosis co-leader Steve Von Till has announced a new solo album, Alone in a World of Wounds, due May 16 via Neurot Recordings (pre-order). The album was recorded mostly at Steve’s barn studio at his home in Idaho and then mixed with Randall Dunn, and about the musical direction, Steve says, “The complex overtones of upright piano and synthesisers really inspired me to sing out more, to seek out the implied harmonies, and to find unique approaches within the limitations of my voice.” About the themes of both the album and its cover artwork (by photographer Brian Deemy), he adds:

I often wonder where the psychological break was that caused the fatal delusion that we have dominion over the natural world, how it is reduced to existing solely for our benefit. Whenever that disconnect was – I believe it to be the root of most of our problems as a society, in relationships, and even within ourselves and our own minds. It always comes back to the fact that we must have a conscious shift back to understanding that we’re all part of a living animate earth: and that we need to think of the rivers and the mountains and the weather as part of us and us as part of the world. We are wild things but we’ve forgotten. Without this shift in consciousness we’re screwed. That’s the overarching theme. And when I look back on my life it’s becoming more explicit and more clear that this is always what I’ve been singing about.

The first single is “Watch Them Fade,” which finds Steve in brooding, gothy Swans/Nick Cave territory, and as he said, he’s definitely pushing his singing voice to new places on this one. Check out the song and its fittingly eerie, Bobby Cochran-created music video below.

Steve also has a few upcoming festival appearances, and those are listed below too.

Tracklist
1 – The Corpse Road
2 – Watch Them Fade
3 – Horizons Undone
4 – Distance
5 – Calling Down the Darkness
6 – The Dawning of the Day (Insomnia)
7 – Old Bent Pine
8 – River of No Return

Steve Von Till — 2025 Tour Dates
Apr 17 – 20: Roadburn Festival – Tilburg, NL
May 30 – Jun 1: Prepare the Ground Festival – Toronto, CAN
Jul 25 – 27: Fire in the Mountains Festival – Blackfeet Nation, MT