LOS ANGELES, Feb. 6 – ISIS, the Los Angeles by way of Boston quintet, will release their fifth full-length album, Wavering Radiant, on May 5 via Ipecac Recordings.



The album, recorded over the late Summer and Fall of 2008 in Los Angeles, was produced by Joe Barresi (Queens Of The Stone Age, Melvins) and will also see a vinyl release on Apr. 21.



Aaron Turner recently discussed the new album with Billboard, saying "This is a better sonic representation of what the band actually sounds like. In the past I think some of the recordings were a little too clean in their final form. There was something about the energy that seemed to be lacking. It seems to feel more like us than anything else has."



"I feel a sense of completion with this record that I've never felt before,” Aaron Harris adds. “We spent more time creating this record than we have with any other, and I feel in my heart that this record is in many ways our best."
Cover art was once again created by Turner.
The track listing for Wavering Radiant is:

1. Hall Of The Dead
2. Ghost Key
3. Hand Of The Host
4. Wavering Radiant
5. Stone To Wake A Serpent
6. 20 Minutes / 40 Years
7. Threshold of Transformation



ISIS is currently planning extensive worldwide touring behind Wavering Radiant with more details to be announced shortly.

too bad this didn't mention, "I finally realized that I cannot sing. So I will stop putting my awful cracking no ranged bullshit on this record"

i liked In The Absence of Truth. this will be excellent

this is gonna blow hard.

Fuck this faggot ass Neurosis tribute band.

Aren't you in MAST? Just checking.

The comparisons to Neurosis are marginal at best. Ok, Turner's clean vocals are a red flag and both bands have lengthy compositions. ISIS are a band who are inspired by Neurosis, but both bands have distinctly different sounds. I don't get why no one mentions the Godflesh influence on their earlier works, especially Mosquito Control.

oh, and repost =)

I hope this isn't as boring as the previous album. I really like Isis, but that last one was a real snoozer.

http://theworriedwell.blogspot.com/2009/03/isis-wavering-radiant.html

leaky

rofl

+1

I love Panopticon, but i wish they had kept that Godflesh sound. the Streetcleaner cover is awesome.

I've listened a couple of times and nothing sticks with me about it.

Mosquito Control is ftw. But this is meh.

yeah I tried listening to it on the train this morning and it was awesome helped put me right back to sleep almost missed Back Bay.

Grabbing this now. Hope it's worth it.

no.

I can't go by someone else's opinion though.

ok, but still no.

Rich's comment won this thread.

see i dont hear neurosis when i listen to them if anything i hear a mix of godflesh and the cure.

well at least with the new records anyways

realy looking forward to this

Well color me faggot! I like this AND the new Mastodon.

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It might be premature to say, but I can already tell this is a better record than the last album. Aaron's harsh vocals are back on point, but I just can't figure out why he insists on doing even more clean vocals. The sparse wailings on Celestial and Oceanic were fitting, and I can tolerate the incoporation of the clean vocals on Panopticon. Well, so far... not bad.


Agreed.

I would definitely agree that it's better than the last 2 albums.