Turner’s friend James Plotkin was already working with Ipecac, so he showed some material to Patton, who, unknown to the band, was already a fan. The entire band were avid fans of Melvins, so their label – Mike Patton’s Ipecac Recordings – was instantly put forward as an ideal candidate. Following SGNL›05, the band felt a need to expand its ambit, both artistically and in terms of distributive reach. Isis remained with this lineup until their dissolution in 2010.įor the SGNL›05 EP, they contacted Justin Broadrick (then of Godflesh) through their friends in Neurosis to remix the title track from Celestial, which they used as the EP’s closer. After releasing their fulllength debut entitled Celestial and its sister EP, SGNL›05 (on Neurot Recordings), in 2000, Isis gained national underground attention in the metal/hardcore scene through tours with Cave In and Neurosis. Isis then recruited guitarist/keyboardist Bryant Clifford Meyer (formerly of The Gersch) and guitarist Michael Gallagher (formerly of Cast Iron Hike) in 1999.
Jay Randall (now of Agoraphobic Nosebleed) soon replaced him, working on Red Sea (1999). After an East Coast tour in the summer of 1998 where they were joined by Randy Larsen of Cable on guitar, Mereschuk left the band. During a show at the Middle East in Boston, MA, they sold copies of Mosquito Control attached to a circular sawblade as a very limited print edition. None of us were happy with what we were doing musically at the time, two of us lived together, we had similar tastes and similar record collections.” Isis released a demo and their first EP, Mosquito Control, in 1998, with this lineup. As Turner states, “Isis formed as a result of the dissatisfaction with past bands of the founding members. Several sessions of experimentation in Boston, Massachusetts led friends Aaron Turner (guitar/vocals also the owner of Hydra Head Records and its subsidiary, HH Noise Industries), Jeff Caxide (bass guitar), Chris Mereschuk (electronics/vocals) and Aaron Harris (drums) to form Isis in late 1997. They disbanded in June 2010, just before the release of a split EP with the Melvins. The band’s last album, Wavering Radiant, was released on May 5, 2009. They borrowed from and helped to evolve a sound pioneered by the likes of Neurosis and Godflesh, creating heavy music consisting of lengthy songs that focus on repetition and evolution of structure. Massachusetts, with a career spanning from 1997 to 2010. Isis (stylized as ISIS) was a Los Angelesbased postmetal band, founded in Boston,
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