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Boston's remarkable five-piece band Isis answers the long-standing call for a more metallic musical counterpart to Slint and For Carnation, and succeeds without holding back on the metal or playing too bluntly to finesse the art-rock. The roaring opener, "SGNL>05 (Final Transmission)," is a monument
Boston's remarkable five-piece band Isis answers the long-standing call for a more metallic musical counterpart to Slint and For Carnation, and succeeds without holding back on the metal or playing too bluntly to finesse the art-rock. The roaring opener, "SGNL>05 (Final Transmission)," is a monumental waltz that flickers between taut Shellac-style riffing and big monolithic Slayer triplets, glued together by the dank, black metal touches of later Darkthrone. "Divine Mother (The Tower Crumbles)" is like Master of Puppets-era Metallica covering Jesus Lizard, two of the original influences of Slint metal. "Beneath Flow" is a brief, mysterious, clanking exploration that leads into the tempered doomscape of "Constructing Towers," the powerful orchestral centerpiece of SGNL>05. In the midst of turning melancholy, and ambling into a very original investigation of heaviness, Isis are light on emotional frames of reference, but a pretty and poised remix of "Celestial (Signal Fills the Void)" by Justin Broadrick of Godflesh saves the day, organizing the battering drums, acres of guitar, and voices into a repetitive drone-metal version of a hit single. --Ian Christe (Review copyright Amazon.co.uk)
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Track listing1. SGNL > 05 (Final Transmission)
2. Divine Mother (The Tower Crumbles)
3. Beneath Below
4. Constructing Towers
5. Celestial (Signal Fills The Void)
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