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a pack of wolves:
Personally, I always think you need to have progressed beyond rock music in order to count as post-rock, much like post-punk was a progression beyond punk. But it is odd there isn't a genre for that style of metal (other than saying 'it sounds like it's on Hydrahead'). But maybe that's a good thing, perhaps it'll help it to stop becoming stale and narrow.
El Opium:
From what I've heard of Isis I feel that there are plenty of other bands who've done the same thing as them and better. Isis are just more immeidietly digestible to your average college-radio indie-rock audience than bands like Sunn 0)) or Skullflower who usually get relegated to the late night experimental show.
a pack of wolves:
You really think they're in the same kind of ballpark as those guys? I would've thought they were doing a rather different style, a lot less traditional than what Isis play. Isis always sound to me like they've been heavily influenced by fairly straightforward indie (no bad thing in my book, incidentally).
The problem I have is that they overuse the quiet/loud dynamic without ever getting quite loud enough, and that too many of the parts they prolong for some time on Oceanic aren't good enough to merit their length. The record just seems too stretched, like it's been pulled out when tightening it would have given it the punch it needs.
KharBevNor:
--- Quote from: a pack of wolves --- But maybe that's a good thing, perhaps it'll help it to stop becoming stale and narrow.
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I normally call it art-metal or post-metal. Although post-metal should really in my book mean Borknagar, Vintersorg, Arcturus, ...And Oceans, Blut Aus Nord etc.
Kid Amnesiac:
Isis pwn. Hard.
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