![]() In October 2003, Isis relocated to Los Angeles. It was at the time their most successful release, receiving album-of-the-year accolades from Rock Sound and Terrorizer in 2002. Turner himself describes it as their "quintessential album". While much of the material on the album retained the band's former "metallic" intensity, this departure saw the band appeal to a far wider audience as a result, Oceanic may be the group's most noted album to date, and is widely considered a turning point in the history of the band. Whereas Celestial was still deeply rooted in metal and hardcore, 2002's follow-up, Oceanic, saw the band acquire new characteristics comparable to post-rock and ambient music, significantly aiding in the birth of the genre of post-metal in what many saw as a logical progression. Following SGNL>05, Isis signed with Mike Patton's label, Ipecac Recordings, who have issued the band's subsequent studio albums. Isis remained with this lineup until their breakup.įor the SGNL>05 EP, they contacted Justin Broadrick (of Godflesh and Jesu) through their friends in Neurosis to remix the title track from Celestial, which they used as the EP's closer. After releasing their debut full-length, Celestial, and its sister EP, SGNL>05 (on Neurot Recordings), in 2000, Isis gained national underground attention in the metal/hardcore scene through tours with Cave In and Neurosis. However, his stay would not last this ultimately led to the addition of Bryant Clifford Meyer of The Gersch as well as former Cast Iron Hike guitarist Michael Gallagher in 1999. Jay Randall (now of Agoraphobic Nosebleed) soon replaced him, working on Red Sea (1999). After an East Coast tour in the summer of 1998 in which Randy Larsen of Cable joined them on guitar, Mereschuk left the band. None of us were happy with what we were doing musically at the time, two of us lived together, we had similar tastes and similar record collections." Isis released a demo and their first EP, Mosquito Control, in 1998, with this line-up. ![]() As Turner states, "Isis formed as a result of the dissatisfaction with past bands of the founding members. Several sessions of experimentation in Boston, MA led friends Aaron Turner (guitar/vocals, also the owner of Hydra Head Records and its subsidiary, HH Noise Industries), Jeff Caxide (bass guitar), Chris Mereschuk (electronics/vocals) and Aaron Harris (drums) to form Isis in late 1997. The band released their last and most recent album, Wavering Radiant, on May 5, 2009. ![]()
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