The music of ISIS is a suitable metaphor for their 12-year career: patient, meticulous, fraught with tension and gradually building towards an apex of seismic proportions. From the hypnotically bludgeoning down-tuned riffs of their early years to the gracefully sprawling passages on their pivotal sophomore album Oceanic and continuing through the intricate rhythmic textures and increased melody of 2006's In The Absence of Truth, ISIS have successfully navigated the process of growing and evolving without disavowing their initial vision. This is their '09 album.
01 Hall of the dead - 7:39 02 Ghost key - 8:29 03 Hand of the host - 10:42 04 Wavering radiant - 1:48 05 Stone to wake a serpent - 8:30 06 20 minutes/40 years - 7:04 07 Threshold of transformation - 9:52