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evilford
May 24th 2023


64086 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Cool



Yes

JohnnyoftheWell
Staff Reviewer
May 24th 2023


60295 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

Not q as consistent but the peaks are on par

Have just realised that every ISIS album from this to ITAOT has a highlight opener, a lowlight track 2 and a relatively template track 3 hmmm

evilford
May 24th 2023


64086 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

I've just realized that every ISIS album is just banger after banger

pizzamachine
May 24th 2023


27110 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

just now only now

robertsona
Staff Reviewer
May 24th 2023


27412 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

I love “the other”!

normaloctagon
Contributing Reviewer
May 24th 2023


3957 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

i get totally lost in this thing. it has a quality that none of the other albums have for me, a perfect balance of all the isis ~things~ in one package that hits like no other album when the mood is right



tracks like Weight are just totally quintessential post-rock you can feel the genre's essence seeping out of the movements in that thing, it's breathtaking honestly

JohnnyoftheWell
Staff Reviewer
May 24th 2023


60295 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

think The Other was the first ISIS song i heard and umm yeah no regrets about skipping straight to Panopticon lol

majority of this is defs special though. these tracks develop so smoothly but pack such huge HEFT that I wanna say is absent from the rest of the discog up until the very very end (and that the way Threshold of Transformation calls back to the same level of brutishness is just one of the reasons it's a perfect send-off)

normaloctagon
Contributing Reviewer
May 24th 2023


3957 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

the way the electronics are used here is so raw and almost rudimentary but also so soothing and dream-like

JohnnyoftheWell
Staff Reviewer
May 24th 2023


60295 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

am making the call that the only music that matters this week is ISIS and the Field (and maybe Kayo Dot and Vladislav Delay on backup) let's eat

normaloctagon
Contributing Reviewer
May 24th 2023


3957 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Looks like meat’s back on the menu boys

Demon of the Fall
May 24th 2023


33636 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

take Kayo Dot out and that’s a rather tasty menu

normaloctagon
Contributing Reviewer
May 24th 2023


3957 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

What is a Kayo dot

Demon of the Fall
May 24th 2023


33636 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

terrible poseur band, don’t you dare even consider checking ‘em

normaloctagon
Contributing Reviewer
May 24th 2023


3957 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

I wouldn’t dream of it

Sharenge
May 24th 2023


5074 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

rude

porcupinetheater
May 24th 2023


11027 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

demon we are in a fight now i am fighting you

porcupinetheater
May 24th 2023


11027 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

From Sinking was like my first introduction to proper heavy music when my dad came back from the library with the Oceanic CD, shit's a porc foundational text

ShapeOfJizzToCum
May 24th 2023


864 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Isis is the greatest post metal band and this is the greatest post metal album of all time yeah.



Someone sold me the double 180g black vinyl in like 2014 for only 30 bucks on discogs and it was (and still is) in pristine condition and there's no way it was worth that little and wherever they are today, bless them.

evilford
May 24th 2023


64086 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

If I had to rank em I'd put neurosis just over ISIS. This is probably on par with my fav neurosis tho (tsib). Both probably top 5 albums oat for me

Flugmorph
May 24th 2023


34034 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

cult of luna > neurosis > isis



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