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sleeper 
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 Posted: August 24 2008 at 05:55 |
 HughesJB4 wrote:
superprog wrote:
now listening to Isis's 'In The Absence Of Truth'.
Quite a departure from 'Oceanic' and 'Panopticon' in that the sound/performance is so propulsive and light compared to the lavasludge crush of the previous two. Still takes some getting used to for me but it does have its charms.............
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When I first got a hold of In The Absence of Truth, Garden of Light got played at least 5 times a day for more than a month straight.
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Itsa nice album but the production leeves a lot to be desired IMO, the guitars dont have any bite to them. The materiel sounds excellent live, though. Just got Yakuza's Transmutations albu, brilliant stuff!
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keiser willhelm
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Posted: August 24 2008 at 13:26 |
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ive got yakuza's samsara and im digging it. love the jazz influence.
ITAoT is nice, but i agree the guitars have no force at all. cool drumming but it all gets a little repetative. and i really dislike the vocals and the entire album. did like Firdous E Bareen and the short spacey number quite a lot however. im deleting my review of that album and rewriting it, i almost completely disagree with what i wrote.
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sleeper
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Posted: August 24 2008 at 16:48 |
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^I rather like the vocals on that album. Got to say, though, I prefer Cult of Luna with this style of Post Metal.
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superprog
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Posted: August 25 2008 at 23:28 |
the distorted guitar parts were i thinked mixed a lil too low so its frustrating somewhat......... like u KNOW that bit is supposed to be more crushing but isn't..............
but the paradoxical thing is that i keep wantin to go back to listen again hahahaha.............i wouldnt wanna say that Isis pussed out when you know they are tryg to do something diff from the post-metal beast they helped birth...........
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keiser willhelm
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Posted: August 26 2008 at 02:41 |
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yeah i dont know why i dont like the vocals. . . the mellower ones are alright but not great and the growling (always a weak point of isis's post imo) were just a little too samesy throughout.
Cult of Luna is rising fast thought on my charts. reeeaallly like somewhere along the highway. def. better than newer isis (post oceanic)
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Dim
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Posted: August 26 2008 at 02:49 |
Really Mike? That makes me happy to see! Somewhere along the highway is in my top five favorite albums of all time, absolutely genious.
I like Aaron Turner's growl, even on the pitiful in the absence of truth.
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sleeper
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Posted: August 26 2008 at 11:22 |
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Have you seen them(Cult of Luna) live Dim? Finland is absolut magic!
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Dim
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Posted: August 26 2008 at 17:52 |
sleeper wrote:
Have you seen them(Cult of Luna) live Dim? Finland is absolut magic! |
The last time they toured here was on their tour for salvation, which was almost four years ago, so no I havent seen them, but their supposedly coming to the states this time around, and there will be nothing stopping me from seeing them.
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superprog
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Posted: September 03 2008 at 23:24 |
just found out about this band Swallow The Ocean:
ahhh, tks to Isis, we love the idea of oceans..........Oceanic, The Ocean, Ocean, cmom cmon who else has ocean in the name?
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superprog
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Posted: September 03 2008 at 23:26 |
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oh yeah or water-aqua allusions.............there's Tides too.........
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WhisperInTheNight
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Posted: September 05 2008 at 20:41 |
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Man, I haven't listened to Isis in forever. I must rectify the situation.
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West side skyline
Crying for an angel dying
Life expiring in the city
Fallen angel...
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Dim
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Posted: September 05 2008 at 22:48 |
WhisperInTheNight wrote:
Man, I haven't listened to Isis in forever. I must rectify the situation. |
Thats a good idea! 
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WhisperInTheNight
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Posted: September 05 2008 at 23:35 |
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I remember In The Absence Of Truth being notably different from their earlier material.
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West side skyline
Crying for an angel dying
Life expiring in the city
Fallen angel...
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Dim
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Posted: September 05 2008 at 23:41 |
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I personally dont like it at all, it just doesent have the vibes that Oceanic or Panopticon have.
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superprog
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Posted: September 09 2008 at 05:11 |
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ahahah took me so long but of late i have been playin it and hey hey hey it DOES somehow work itself out eventually as a good transitional album, where Isis are leaving behind the sludge and movin into something more proggy n' propulsive...........but Holy Tears does manage to crush quite beautifully...........
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Plankowner
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Posted: September 13 2008 at 23:23 |
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IntrOnaut "Prehistoricisms" is being released in 3 days.. Sep 16, 2008.
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keiser willhelm
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Posted: September 15 2008 at 17:20 |
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intrOnaut is an interesting band. dont really know what to think of them yet but i think i like them . . . ive got Void and Challenger (and the t-shirt that came with them!)
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Plankowner
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Posted: September 18 2008 at 18:11 |
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I'm liking the new Intronaut... had a bit of a preview when I saw them live, love the drums on the track "Any Port" ... Still on the first listen.
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Posted: October 06 2008 at 21:52 |
keiser willhelm wrote:
intrOnaut is an interesting band. dont really know what to think of them yet but i think i like them . . . ive got Void and Challenger (and the t-shirt that came with them!) |
Jury still out?
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GoldenSpiral
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Posted: October 07 2008 at 10:56 |
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Ooo I didn't know Intronaut had a new one. I'll have to check it out. I like Void a lot.
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