It’s now 30 years since Steve Von Till joined Neurosis. The Oakland band had already built a reputation on the back of their live shows and 1987’s Pain Of Mind debut, but when Steve assumed joint vocal and guitar duties with founder Scott Kelly at the end of that decade, they took their first tentative steps away from the Bay Area punk scene and into a brave new world of sound. Harnessing influences from across the spectrum of underground music, albums like Souls At Zero, Enemy Of The Sun and Through Silver In Blood established Neurosis as one of the most original and forward-thinking outfits of the 1990s. By the millennium, their influence on newer bands had become undeniable, most notably in the post-metal scene that coalesced around their original sonic blueprint. A humble man...