Buddha Posted January 22, 2005 Report post Posted January 22, 2005 (edited) cenzija..... How to define Isis' sound? Hrmm... Imagine the members of Neurosis DJing a show and spinning nothing but a mix of Mogwai and Godflesh -- paced interludes of quiet solitude that build ever so patiently toward leviathan moments of primal release. Not good enough? Okay... Imagine Bob Ross -- the all-too-smiley, bearded, afro-haired painter of that '80s television show The Joy of Painting ("Okay, now let's paint some clouds; pretty, fluffy clouds.") -- having grand mal seizures on canvas. The epic music of this Boston quintet is as deeply rooted in atmospherics and ambience as it is in the thunderous hardcore and heavy metal that form the backbone of their sound. Neurosis' musical aesthetic would be the closest comparison, but the visionary genius of Justin Broadrick (Godflesh, Techno Animal, among many others) and the prog-metal of Tool color their discipline just as well. So it should come as no surprise then that the band released last year's brilliant SGNL>05 on Neurot Recordings with remix work done by one of their heroes, the aforementioned Mr. Broadrick. And it should further come as no surprise that Ipecac, with their impeccable taste, would sign Isis and release their latest, Oceanic. Oceanic picks up and continues further in the directions hinted at on Isis' previous full-length, Celestial. However, that place and the devices used to take the listener there are not as up front and forthcoming as they once were. Celestial very studiously knocked one upside the head with its heavy and heady scrawl of noise, using the quieter spaces in-between to give the listener room to regain their senses. Conversely, Oceanic first lulls one with its quiet fortitude, creeping through a discomfiting underworld at a glacial pace before arriving at its destination, throwing wide the doors to the furnace of Hell and blasting the listener full force in the face with its suffocating heat. The result is a very spiritual tearing down and building back up of artistic and musical notions. It's what drove the innovations of King Crimson, and what today informs the aforementioned music of Neurosis and Tool, both compatriots in the artistic quest Isis has also set sail on. Words fail to best describe the experience. Aggro-prog. Ambient-industrial. Simply, heavy. However you choose to define it, what's certain is that you can't codify Isis' sound with any one language or set of instructions, because at the center of their art is the music's ability to defy any such preconceptions. -Craig Young Edited January 22, 2005 by slowdiver Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buddha Posted January 22, 2005 Report post Posted January 22, 2005 Aggressive Tendencies - Top Ten 2002 Year in Review December 05, 2002 1. Isis Oceanic (Ipecac) “People are tired of the same old shit and they’re looking for something beyond fantastical lyrical content and ridiculous bullshit. I think that’s why people are turning more towards bands like the Dillinger Escape Plan, Botch and, hopefully, Isis,” says Isis guitarist and vocalist Aaron Turner on their ascent to the upper echelon of metallic greatness. Their rise has been indelibly cemented in the aggressive music annals by the expansive sophomore masterpiece Oceanic. Since their inception in 1997, Boston’s Isis have seen their stock rise exponentially with a string of increasingly heavy but meticulously refined and obtuse conceptual releases that redefined density, artistic heaviness and sonic depth. Their first full-length, 1999’s Celestial (on Escape Artist), following a couple of EPs, was an album so texturally thick and gravitationally heavy that few thought it would be surpassed, yet their past accomplishments pale in comparison to the sonic achievement of Oceanic. Isis (completed by bassist Jeff Caxide, guitarist Michael Gallagher, drummer Aaron Harris and keyboardist Bryant C. Meyer) has created an album that is vast, torrential, serene, roiling, calm, sparse, oppressive, destructive and beautiful. It’s also laced with more melodic moments of contemplation and atmospheric explorations, straddling the line between brutality and artistry. “I feel like there’s a much greater diversity within each song and within the album overall,” Turner says. “Celestial definitely had its strong points, but as a whole, it wasn’t as dynamic as Oceanic. This offers a more interesting experience, in that it’s not continually bludgeoning and there are actually moments of memorable melody and recognisable hooks, not just repetitive grinding. “There are only so many directions a ‘heavy’ band can go,” he continues. “You can either write the same riffs over and over or you can try to do something that expands beyond, incorporating more textural and atmospheric elements, and more melody. As a unit that has been together for a while now, Oceanic is a result of us being comfortable writing together and trying new things. I think with Celestial, we still had this idea that it had to be the densest, heaviest, most crushing thing, and now we realise that we can do that without even trying. While that’s still an aspect of our music, we’ve concentrated more heavily on the melodic aspects, dynamics and song structure.” This evolution isn’t a Cave In style departure towards prog rock and major labels — Oceanic is, in parts, more crushing and cacophonous than Isis has ever been, a contrast that expands their sound instead of forsaking it. “When we were doing it, we knew that it was going to be different, and that was what we wanted. But it’s not like when Metallica changed their logo and cut their hair. Every release we’ve done has been different than the last, but anybody that followed Isis since the beginning won’t see this as a huge departure, but as an extension of what we’ve done.” And what they’ve done is create the best album of 2002. Chris Gramlich Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SGNL>05 Posted January 22, 2005 Report post Posted January 22, 2005 Dahnilo, poslao sam pitanja Isisu. poz Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buddha Posted January 22, 2005 Report post Posted January 22, 2005 Woo-hoo!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kent Posted January 22, 2005 Report post Posted January 22, 2005 Najbolja recenzija koju sam procitao o Isis-u bila je ona Panopticon-a u Mojo-u. E, sad, mozda uzmem taj broj, pa neka neko bude dokon i izvrsi transkripciju Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BodyRemover Posted January 22, 2005 Report post Posted January 22, 2005 slowdiver jebale te recenzije. potrosim brdo love kad gledam preko telefona ostavi link samo, jebes mu majku. poz Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buddha Posted January 22, 2005 Report post Posted January 22, 2005 slowdiver jebale te recenzije. potrosim brdo love kad gledam preko telefona ostavi link samo, jebes mu majku. poz mislio sam da je ovako lakse. kent do anything right, sniff Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BodyRemover Posted January 22, 2005 Report post Posted January 22, 2005 bolje od isis slika - - moje letosnje slike s pecanja. poz Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kent Posted January 22, 2005 Report post Posted January 22, 2005 Bolje, nema sta. Nego, debeli, igrao sam na St.Johnstone, jebacu ti familiju ako na to padnem. Onako kazem. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BodyRemover Posted January 22, 2005 Report post Posted January 22, 2005 a u vezi necega - bend basiste i dvojice gitarista iz isis - red sparowes: mnogo dobar bend! izgubljena karika. nekad lice na tristeza, lanterna a nekad na faith no more, radiohead... nemaju veze s maticnim bendom mnogo osim sto dele neke od uticaja (normalno). imam utisak da je ceo album mogao da se spakuje u pola sata ali ne smeta, ne smara u smarackom smislu vec mnogo opusta pa nekad izgubim koncentraciju. odlicno, odlicno. poz Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kent Posted January 22, 2005 Report post Posted January 22, 2005 Mainz - Stuttgart 2 2.20 Schalke - Werder 1 2.20 St.Johnston - Partick 1 1.85 Norwich - Middlesbrough 2 2.40 Sunderland - Sheffild 1 2.10 Agassi - Johansson 2 2.85 ulozeno: 100 dinzdi dobitak: 12 862 dindze moli boga da agassi dobije jerbo cu te osisati, tako mi svega ps fali li ti jos jedno r u imenu tog benda? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buddha Posted January 22, 2005 Report post Posted January 22, 2005 (edited) bend basiste i dvojice gitarista iz isis - red sparowes: mnogo dobar bend! izgubljena karika. nekad lice na tristeza, lanterna a nekad na faith no more, radiohead... nemaju veze s maticnim bendom mnogo osim sto dele neke od uticaja (normalno). imam utisak da je ceo album mogao da se spakuje u pola sata ali ne smeta, ne smara u smarackom smislu vec mnogo opusta pa nekad izgubim koncentraciju. odlicno, odlicno. poz eto jos jednog od razloga da dovuces svoja deBella guZzica ovamo. Edited January 22, 2005 by slowdiver Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BodyRemover Posted January 22, 2005 Report post Posted January 22, 2005 @kent i wolfsburg je bio odlican tip ali nije prosao... ovaj vikend je (za mene) verovatno najveci fijasko otkad se kladim. apsolutno nista nisam pogodio. agassi je, ako se ne varam, sada prilicno jadan? () (izgleda samo jedan corak ces imati ) poz Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buddha Posted January 24, 2005 Report post Posted January 24, 2005 stigao intervju sa Isis-om Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SGNL>05 Posted January 24, 2005 Report post Posted January 24, 2005 Weeeeeee, okačena je engleska verzija. http://www.hardandheavy.net/eng/interviews...x.php?op=1&id=8 Enjoy. poz Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buddha Posted January 24, 2005 Report post Posted January 24, 2005 "I don't think I understand that term, post-rock. Sounds like the name of a cereal or something." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kent Posted January 24, 2005 Report post Posted January 24, 2005 Koji je pametnjakovic proglasio Sonic Youth i Radiohead post-rock bendovima? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buddha Posted January 24, 2005 Report post Posted January 24, 2005 not me. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BodyRemover Posted January 24, 2005 Report post Posted January 24, 2005 onda znam koji. sonic youth su, bre, izmislili one koji su izmislili post rok poz Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcoman Posted January 24, 2005 Report post Posted January 24, 2005 meni se ovo ne svidja otprilike se sve svelo na "koju vi muziku slusate", "sta privatno slusate" i ...ovaj... jesam li vec pitao sta slusate i da, nezaobilazno za svaki intervju radjen od strane Srbina, "ja sam iz Srbije, fazon, sta kazete na to" i "hocete li svirati blizu srbije" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buddha Posted January 24, 2005 Report post Posted January 24, 2005 pa sta je trebalo da ih pitamo? koji wc papir koristite? da li pusite travu? da li pecate? kakve su ribe u kaliforniji? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out Of Time Posted January 24, 2005 Report post Posted January 24, 2005 pa bre realno mogao si bolje da ga nachinish... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buddha Posted January 24, 2005 Report post Posted January 24, 2005 in the wordless chamber me pitao dal imam neka pitanja. ja mu poslao ona sto stoje od pre 3 meseca. ja mislio ion ce da pokupi jos neka. pitao na forumu, ostavio na temi. niko se nije javio sem mene. i sta sad? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SGNL>05 Posted January 24, 2005 Report post Posted January 24, 2005 Opušteno ljudi... btw. Danilo sad sam gledao ovaj dvd iz filozofa, odlična je bila svirka.. aj uzdravlje odoh da spavam Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out Of Time Posted January 24, 2005 Report post Posted January 24, 2005 nishta... sedi i sachekaj da ga ja sachinim... cish... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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