Isis
In The Abscence Of Truth

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Band: Isis

Origin: America

Official website: www.hydrahead.com/isis

ISIS "IN THE ABSENCE OF TRUTH"

In the coming years, it will be wise to keep this band's name in mind. In light of their recent work, Isis presents themselves as a group with all the right credentials to land the winning blow and bring forth a masterpiece that would not look out of place in their diverse discography.

Turner's group (guitar and vocals), active for quite a few years now—with their first demo dating back to 1998—has only recently been reaping the fruits of their labor, making that so-called leap in quality, especially thanks to their last two releases, "Panopticon" and this intriguing "In The Absence Of Truth" for Ipecac.

It is a difficult task to single out a track from the entire work, as the album deserves to be assimilated as a whole, transporting the listener into a world rich with nuances, Tool-like voids and fills, progressive passages, and almost black metal outbursts. Starting from suffused and calm atmospheres à la Mogwai, the sound tends progressively to elevate, open up, and blend with the most extreme metal, in a continuous interchange of parts that aligns the band with Maynard James Keenan's group (10,000 Days), although the American band, unlike Tool, retains their solid hardcore foundation. From the weighty sonic suffering of Neurosis, the band inherits some atmospheres, masterfully highlighted by the rhythm section, but it is in the ensemble that everything rises above the average, imposing on the listener a level of attention that is not superficial.

The writing and composition process is meticulously curated, aimed at creating a deliberately "cerebral" album... They are incorporated into the hardcore scene, but to associate them with a genre seems reductive to me!!

Do not ignore them!