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Bonnaroo 2010: Isis In Concert; Audio Stream Available

Posted on Monday, June 14th, 2010

Founded in Boston, Isis has been highly influential in the ambient doom-metal scene. The band’s slow-moving motifs have become more progressive in recent years, culminating in Isis’ fifth and final album, Wavering Radiant. (The band is breaking up after its current tour.) Like its predecessors, Wavering Radiant is a thematic work, in this case dealing with supernatural planes of existence.

LISTEN to one of the group’s last shows, as it plays the Bonnaroo Music Festival in Manchester, Tenn, down below:

Continue reading Bonnaroo 2010: Isis In Concert : NPR.

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Self-titled Magazine: Aaron Turner Revisits Isis’ Entire Catalog

Posted on Tuesday, June 8th, 2010

As sad as we are to see Isis go, the band’s imminent breakup—set to commence after their current tour—isn’t the least bit surprising. A quick scan of Decibel’s final Isis cover story written by self-titled contributor J. Bennett all but confirmed it five months ago, with each of the members ...read more

Album of the day: Twilight – Monument To Time End

Posted on Sunday, May 23rd, 2010

Praise for Twilight‘s Monument To Time End from San Francisco’s Aquarius Records: Whoa. Just when we warmed ourselves to the idea that this would NEVER happen… it happened. The return of Twilight, described out of necessity as a “black metal supergroup”, a bad description for something so awesome, but more ...read more

Terrorizer: Aaron Turner speaks in the absence of Isis

Posted on Friday, May 21st, 2010

Announcing yesterday their decision to disband following the current run of live shows, as of June 23, progressive post-metal titans Isis, responsible for much of the current lay of the extreme metal landscape, will be no more, stating in a press release that “in the interest of preserving the love ...read more

Isis Call It Quits

Posted on Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

ISIS have decided to call it quits, the band have offered the following statement regarding their decision: ISIS has reached an end. It’s hard to try to say it in any delicate way, and it is a truth that is best spoken plainly. This end isn’t something that occurred over ...read more

The Exile of Satan from Heavy Metal Design: the art of Seldon Hunt, Stephen O’Malley & Aaron Turner

Posted on Sunday, November 29th, 2009

Those “heavy metal” bands that debuted during that first palmy MTV generation sound like nontoxic pop compared to today’s vast offerings of subaltern metal genres, where intricate is the new heavy, and glacially slow is far more radical than hyperfast. Metal has evolved in such diverse directions—drawing from and crossing ...read more

We need more records: Vinyl in the Digital Age: Straight From the Horse’s Mouth, Talking to Bands

Posted on Thursday, September 10th, 2009

Lovingly pinched from Noisecreep: Vinyl records should have been something dead and buried when the digital age took its big thick grasp, as the number one music store in the country became a digital one. But the truth is, vinyl might be a driving force, helping keep the aching music ...read more

CraveOnline reviews Greymachine’s Disconnected

Posted on Monday, August 17th, 2009

On the exact opposite end of the scale are the Greymachine and their new album Disconnected which is a brutal and ugly album. How ugly? Imagine a low flying plane cruising over the remnants of a burned out city filled with desperate people killing each other for basic survival. Take ...read more

Khanate and Isis members form Jodis; debut album announced

Posted on Monday, August 17th, 2009

Jodis is the new band between Khanate’s James Plotkin, Aaron Turner (Isis, Old Man Gloom, Lotus Eaters), and Tim Wyskida (ex-Khanate, Blind Idiot God). James Plotkin describes the sound of Jodis as “expansive, tonal, minimal, or all of the above. It has been described to me as a more relaxed ...read more

Pitchfork news: Jesu + Isis = Greymachine

Posted on Saturday, July 4th, 2009

Basic physics:  When the frontmen of two of the heaviest bands in the world get together, they are guaranteed to make something extremely fucking heavy. Jesu mastermind and former Godflesh frontman Justin Broadrick and Isis leader Aaron Turner have teamed up to form Greymachine, along with fellow Jesu / Godflesh ...read more