Album Rating: 5.0

I would tell you my fav post metal albums but Guy has basically covered it. All he is missing is Dirge and Year Of No Light. Blindead was terrific until their vocalist left. Irreversible is a personal fav, sad they broke up. Sarin (RIP) , The Moth Gatherer, Steak Number Eight, Process Of Guilt, Cranial, Izah, Sunpocrisy are noteworthy too.

@guy I’m curious to hear your thoughts on Rosetta, and why they’re so important to you?

Album Rating: 4.0

rosettas first 3 albums are great

Album Rating: 4.5

@ normaloctagon



Caught them in a little spot some friends of mine rented out to put on free shows, they were touring with Battlefields. This would have been about 2006 IIRC, so memory is hazy, but I remember both bands setting up and taking turns playing back and forth. Got into Battlefields for sure, but Rosetta was world-changing for me. BJ's drumming was unbelievable, and Armine had this fierce command of the room, even without a stage and from a relatively small dude.

Bought the Galilean Satellites album and was mesmerized. I remember listening to Itinerant walking across campus one night when it was really rainy and realizing how hard I'd fallen for the depth and atmosphere to that recording, how fucking monstrous Armine sounded, how the finale of Au Pays Natal felt like the soundtrack to the end of the world (or Europa at least).

Prompty got out of the metalcore band I was in and started a post metal band that, honestly, just ripped Rosetta and CoL off endlessly lol, but nobody in Columbia, MO but us knew who they were so we gained a bit of popularity. Got to play with some bands we all respected (Minus the Bear, Gaza, Junius, A Life Once Lost, Russian Circles and eventually, Battlefields and Rosetta).

For me, The Galilean Satellites is the most sonically engrossing album I've ever heard. I'm in the minority in that I prefer it unsynced, as it is already dense enough as is. I felt there was no way they'd be able to follow it up, but then came Wake/Lift. It wasn't better, but it wasn't trying to be either. It was every bit as masterful as TGS in it's own way. Then they did it AGAIN with A Determinism of Morality. It wasn't until the Anaesthete that I felt a drop in quality, but even that one is quite good imo.

Over time I feel like CoL's library and sustained fucking excellence gives them the GOAT band of the genre, but Rosetta's holy trilogy remains untouchable as far as I'm concerned, and continues to age gracefully fifteen years later.

Album Rating: 4.5

Rosetta are way more interesting than Pelican and have a sense of melody and space none of the other big pm bands have, along with, surprisingly a more visceral hardcore influence with all the gang vocals and occasional breakdown. They’re just a really dynamic band on their first 3-4 albums (ADOM is easily their best imho)

Album Rating: 3.5

More Izah music when

Album Rating: 4.5

Friendly reminder that 20 minutes/40 years rules hard, even the acoustic version

Album Rating: 4.5

Le double post

Album Rating: 4.5

nice little active thread going here guys. AT thoughts post Panopticon make a ton of sense hearing his new projects. He likes atmo-sludge, as do the rest of you seemingly, but these last 2 were more emblematic of what post-metal represents. like Amenra's whole discog ape the single-minded amto-sludge ferocity but nothing really post-metal about it and also what limits them to B tier for me.

When this got a tepid reception on release I knew the vibes had shifted. even as an angsty teen chasing crescendo deliverance I was in awe of the richer textual layering and less exponential song structure. amazing night cruising album

Somebody should really write a comparative piece between the rise and fall of post-metal and modernism and/or the 20th century novel. I guess that's where I ought to step up but I would be surprised if one's not already floating out in that blog ocean.



@0GuyMan0 small world, probably have laid eyes on you. Columbia did steal some good shows from the border cities.

Album Rating: 5.0

The end of this record is such a bittersweet sendoff. Gets me into such a solemn and contemplative mood.



@azazzel there’s something there between that genresphere’s early obsession with pointing every moment towards the build up of the most tectonic climax possible and the telos of modernism. I mean Isis still delivers those in their last two albums (see 20m/40y) but the song structures feel more organic and varied. I love that each of their albums feels like a distinct place. What’s interesting is that the current musical climate seems more attuned than ever to mood and atmosphere (“vibes”) but post-metal’s penchant for long development, battery acid vocals. and hypnotic repetition will probably always consign it to the fringes of metal.

I love all of the big name post metal bands and some of the B tiers have stellar work as well

In terms of creating a certain kind of "ambience" these guys were unparalleled though
Some of the most immersive soundscapes ever captured

Album Rating: 4.0

'Rosetta are way more interesting than Pelican and have a sense of melody and space none of the other big pm bands have, along with, surprisingly a more visceral hardcore influence with all the gang vocals and occasional breakdown. They’re just a really dynamic band on their first 3-4 albums (ADOM is easily their best imho)'



a thousand times yes

Album Rating: 4.5

Isis and Post Metal in general is peak autumn music. However, it's been raining for three weeks straight here in Germany so i checked back in "earlier" than expected

Album Rating: 5.0

Are these guys the greatest musical act of the 21st century?

Album Rating: 4.0

no, because unfortunately their final two albums are far from classic

Album Rating: 5.0

Disagreeeeereeee

Rosetta truthers immediately forfeit all right to dictate what counts as a post metal classic I do not make them rules

Album Rating: 4.0

I will take any rosetta album over WR tbh

Album Rating: 4.0

also our lord and saviour Mr. Turner himself has been pretty open about his disdain for the final two Isis albums because of how uninspired he considers them compared to the band's earlier output

Album Rating: 5.0

Bad time to admit I've never listened to Rosetta?