ISIS have split

[knut]

for the few and far between on this forum that like ISIS, bad times.

http://isistheband.blogspot.com/2010/05/isis-has-reached-end_18.html

ISIS mean a lot to me. at a point where i thought the best metal had to offer was the likes of slayer and metallica, i heard oceanic, and at a point where art to me was endless still life paintings and portraits, i saw oceanic. i could go on for... days, maybe longer, on what this bands music mean to me but it would just be rambling, overexcited and implausible gibberish, it's just too hard to describe.

so i won't.

rip ISIS.

 

[Bad^Hat]

Shit.

On the one hand I respect that they have enough artistic integrity to know when to call it quits, but on the other hand...

Shit.

 

[knut]

Shit.

On the one hand I respect that they have enough artistic integrity to know when to call it quits, but on the other hand...

Shit.

basically, yeah. on the whole, whether you enjoy the changes and progressions the band have rightfully made, they haven't really put a bad album out, at least i don't think so. there's a lot of ''oh it wasn't oceanic or celestial, that new album wasn't'' but then they never wanted to make anything similar.

a damn good run from one of metals most original acts.

just listen to the end of threshold of transformation, that really euphoric shining ending where everything comes perfectly together then disappears quietly into the background as simple played out notes, and remember that it's the technically the last ISIS song. how wonderfully fitting, and it even made me sad before there was even any remote signs of a split.

(though they do have a new song on a split cd with melvins coming out which is with a japanese bonus track, and one last ep to do, but it's kind of the last ever song)

 

[Danimal]

I was just discovering their Celestial and Oceanic albums too.

 

[Bad^Hat]

Panopticon and Absence are better.

If I'm honest though, Wavering Radiant wasn't really anything special. Don't get me wrong, it was a great album, but it was starting to feel a bit "road well traveled" by that point. In fact, a lot of people say Absence of Truth was too similar to Panopticon/Oceanic, that they were just spinning their wheels, but to me that will always be their best because I feel like they achieved perfection within their own sound on that album. Anything after that would be a shadow of that greatness unless they managed to change or evolve in some way, and in my opinion they didn't quite get there (but not for lack of trying).

So, if they say it's time to split, I'll take them at their word. The saddest part of all this for me is that I'll probably never see them live now.

 

[knut]

in the absence of truth is a great record, probably my favourite of 2006 alongside mastodon's blood mountain, but i think that is the record that has the same spin as the previous titles, whereas wavering radiant is the radical step forward into new territories. wavering radiant hasn't really clicked with me as much as i would of liked it to have, but then oceanic took like 2 years to grow on me so i'm going to wait it out. i would say that ISIS' ''perfection within their own sound'' is probably oceanic and panopticon myself because they were what came after such a long run of demos, EP's and splits to eventually form a coherent sound from the foundations of celestial