My previous post was more about the characteristics and style of the music itself, thus encompassing all three bands as a whole. I guess as far as your observations on Neurosis go, I'd have to agree with you on that (and plus, I know you dig these bands more than I do).
The style itself is minimalistic, and to add "details" and more aspects to it would conflict with the minimalism and abstraction that the music is both comprised of and achieves its beauty via.
It's akin to say (a kind of a adverse example here) painting an abstract artwork, and then going to one section of it and doing a detailed self-portait over the top. It completely ruins the work's trajectory and so destroys it.
With this idea in tow, in correlation to the music of the above bands, I guess I feel the evolution of this style is limited, perhaps even more so than Black Metal is (I mention it because it's a somewhat acute and limited genre of music too), so the ability to differentiate from one band to another, structurally and characteristically speaking, is limited.
I feel these aspects lend to a a lack of ability to deviate from the core style too much without leaving it altogether.... but like I said, I could be wrong, we have yet to see where the style goes, as so far, its relatively young.
Because of these possible limitations, I find I can't take this style too seriously, as my hopes for it's evolution are dim, especially in light of how much attention it's recieving. To me, it seems like a really temporary movement in music.
