Isis Has Disbanded

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 ISIS
has reached an end. It's hard to try to say it in any delicate way, and
it is a truth that is best spoken plainly. This end isn't something
that occurred over night and it hasn't been brought about by a single
cataclysmic fracture in the band. Simply put, ISIS has done everything
we wanted to do, said everything we wanted to say. In the interest of
preserving the love we have of this band, for each other, for the music
made and for all the people who have continually supported us, it is
time to bring it to a close. We've seen too many bands push past the
point of a dignified death and we all promised one another early on in
the life of the band that we would do our best to ensure ISIS would
never fall victim to that syndrome. We've had a much longer run than we
ever expected we would and accomplished a great deal more than we ever
imagined possible. We never set any specific goals when the band was
founded other than to make the music we wanted to hear and to play (and
to stay true to that ideal), so everything else that has come along the
long and winding path has been an absolute gift. As with any momentous
life-changing decision (which this certainly is for the 5 of us), we
feel a very dynamic range of emotions about this and cannot express all
of it within the space of a few sentences, and perhaps it's best to do
what we've always done in and let our music speak for us. It is and has
been the truest expression of who we are as a collective and in some
ways who we are as individuals for the 13 years in which we've been
together. The last and perhaps most important thing we might say in
relation to all this is how grateful we are for the people that have
supported us over the years. It is a lengthy list that would include
those who put out our records, those that played on them and put them
to tape, the many bands with whom we shared the stage, all of our
family, friends and companions who supported us in our individual lives
and thus made it possible for us to continue on in the band, and most
importantly those who truly listened to our music whether in recorded
form or by coming to out to our shows (or both). It is quite true that
we would never have done what we have without those people, that is
many of you who are reading this. Our words can never fully express
what we feel, but we hope that our music and the efforts made to bring
it into being can serve as a more proper expression of gratitude for
this life and for everyone in it. Thank you. 

In more immediate and practical terms the tour we are about to embark
upon is indeed our last. We are hoping that these final live rituals
can help us bring a close to the life of this band in a celebratory and
reverent way, and also provide us with a chance to say goodbye to many
of those that have supported us over the years. While there is a
measure of sadness that comes with the passing of this band, we hope
that the final days can be joyous ones during which any and all that
wish to come and join us will do so. It seems fitting that the last
show of the tour and of our active existence will take place in
Montreal, the site of the very first ISIS show in 1997 (though that was
an unintentional move when booking the show initially). After the tour
we also plan to follow through with other projects set in motion some
time ago - pursuing the completion of a final EP, compiling live audio
and visual material for future releases, and generally doing whatever
we can to make our music available for as long as there are people who
wish to hear it. 

Thanks again to any and all,

ISIS, May 18, 2010

http://isistheband.blogspot.com/2010/05/isis-has-reached-end_18.html

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