Cloudspeakers

It’s upsetting to see that the word “somnolent” is now on par with “angular” in critical overspeak, reduced to another red flag outing the word-drunk, unimaginative re... Read more

ISIS is typisch zo'n band die dankzij een mix van teveel stijlen nooit daar is gekomen waar mogelijk was. De uitgespannen post-rock nummers behoren zonder twijfel tot een van de besten in het genre... Read more

På Roskilde Festival 2009 var der en klar forskel mellem mentor og protegé. Protegéen ISIS fyldte Odeon med deres progressive postrock med lige dele råbevokal og ren vokal dybt forankret i tung... Read more

In the decade since Isis first arrived in recorded format with 1999’s The Red Sea, the six-piece has gone from ripoffs of Godflesh and Earth to idolized avatars of whatever post-metal means this we... Read more

Isis have put together an incredibly mind-boggling and sinister album. From start to finish, Wavering Radiant is a brutal cosmic juggernaut of raw emotions and technical prowess with just the right... Read more

Postrock. Het is óf strontvervelend óf avontuurlijk. Niks er tussenin, maar gelukkig zit Isis al jaren in die laatste categorie. Met Wavering Radiant zal dat niet veranderen. Wederom construeert de... Read more

Atmospheric and loud aren't two mutually exclusive qualities when it comes to music, they just tend to be packaged as such. Yet if there's one band in recent memory to have deftly married the two (... Read more

So long have Isis issued their bombastic decrees from atop the post-metal mountain, so rotten are so many of the bands that mimic Isis’s guitar textures and titanic crescendos, that we forget how g... Read more

Style over substance, mood over meaning, Isis isn’t spectacularly different from their peers, especially those who wriggle into the bromidically named subgenre of post-metal. Even with a lyric sh... Read more

Consipracy, 2009Konkurrent Voor Digg*ers van: nekwervelbrekend geweld en atmosferische bedwelming Wie denkt dat er geen gulden middenweg bestaat tussen stagnatie en vernieuwing, slaat de bal mis. Z... Read more