Isis

[Alvar]

Any word on a new ISIS album?

In 2006 avant-metal band ISIS and ambient artist Tim Hecker premiered a new live collaboration at the inaugural Bleeding Edge Festival at the Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, California.

Originally curated by Volume Co-Director Robert Crouch for the Bleeding Edge Festival, Volume will continue to work with the artists to develop and present further versions of this very special collaboration.

We are also pleased to announce that SnowGhost Music has generously offered to produce and record this project in the coming months at their studio in Montana. Visit the SnowGhost website to learn more about this unique partnership.

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further, there is still a Oceanic Live DVD being mixed.... since 2 years now....

[theis]

Ahh, I can't fucking wait to hear some new tunes.

[ben]

let me try this:

1.Panopticon
2.Oceanic/SGNL>5
3.In the Absence of Truth
4.Celestial
5.Red Sea


that was hard.

[whodunit?]

lol, BEN, you're alive?

[lostpilot]

damn, I WANT to like Isis, cause I know it is a good band, but there are some aspects in their music I dislike very very much - such as screaming and stuff. If only Isis played only instrumentally.. cause well, I have tried listening to Oceanic, and I had to skip everything to 'Weight' because of screaming. And 'Weight' was f-cking unbelievable.

Maybe anyone of you would recommend me their album which would not be so screamish?

[ben]

Their last two releases Panopticon and In the Absence of Truth (espeacially) have less screaming than their previous work.  You also might want to check out Red Sparowes, a post-rock band with one of the guitarists from Isis.  There are no vocals.

...and yea, I live!

[theis]

I'd say that Pelican is more in the same vein as ISIS. Red Sparowes remind me more of EITS.

Pelican are heavy as fuck and they don't have a vocalist. I'm sure you'd like them, bored.

[lostpilot]

Hm, I will sure try out Pelican.
And I have been listening to Red Sparowes for quite a long time, yeah, I like them basically.
thanks for the ideas!

[lostpilot]

which Pelican album is best for you, guys?
I'm thinking City of Echoes..

[theis]

City Of Echoes is a good place to start.

It's their least heavy album, but still great.

Australasia is my favorite.

The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw is also super awesome. they're all great.

[lostpilot]

nice, thanks

[ben]

Australasia is definitely their best work.  The March Into the Sea EP is really good.

[lostpilot]

Though I only have listened to only one song on Australasia, I am really liking it.

[theis]

cool man.

their song, Drought, is seriously one of the heaviest songs i've ever listened to.

[lostpilot]

now listening to it.
I really like how bands adapt instrumental heavy/rough songs to oceanic and earthish titles, like Ocean, Desert, or in this case Drought.
It gives me that rigid feeling. by the way, theis, I don't think this song is THAT heavy to be called the heaviest song ever heard (well, I do not know about you, but some songs of, lets say, Will Haven, are much more disasterous).

by the way x2, I've added you in last.fm, don't freak out

[theis]

Well, not THE heaviest, but certainly one of them. I think we all define "heavy" different. Music like ISIS, Pelican, most post-metal are what really heavy music is for me.

stuff like Will Haven and more chaotic bands like that are not heavy in what i see as heavy.

haha, that didn't make any sense.  ah well.

and cool you added me

[lostpilot]

I would define bands like Jesu or Russian Circles sort of heavy, well, Jesu being more heavy than most of the bands I listen to.
Of course, there's always bands like, in this case, Isis, where a song is "too heavy" for me just because of mostly annoying screamingly-gruntish vocals.

Therefore I have tried many post-metal/sludge/drone bands like Yeti, Mastodon, mostly from Velvet Tongue's blog, but they just seem too monotonic for me.

[theis]

you don't like Mastodon? damn.

but don't give up on ISIS yet.

give Panopticon and In the Absence of Truth a chance.

[lostpilot]

I downloaded Mastodon's Leviathan, with really high expectations, and to my own disappointment I could not listen to it. And yes, I will probably not give up on Isis, cause I really like 'Weight'. Maybe this will be one of the bands that will suddenly grow on me, hopefully.

and yeah, thanks for the recommendations, I will try to download some of those bands tomorrow.
And right now will just continue drowning in euphoria from some good ol Jesu.
I forgot how I love this band.

[theis]

I guess I should probably get me some Jesu then. I haven't really checked them out!