Discography Deep Dive: Isis – Wavering Radiant

"Eyes are shut, feet are bare, for this journey I'm unprepared." Isis - Wavering RadiantMay 5th, 2009Atmospheric Sludge Metal / Post Metal / Progressive MetalIpecac RecordingsBoston, Massachusetts, USA So we've come to the final entry in Isis' main series of records, Wavering Radiant. How fitting it is that this segment always deals with five records …

Discography Deep Dive: Isis – In the Absence of Truth

Isis - In the Absence of TruthOctober 31st, 2006Atmospheric Sludge Metal / Post Metal / Progressive MetalIpecac RecordingsBoston, Massachusetts, USA Coming into the fourth album from American post metal quintet Isis we're greeted with an album title and cover art that differs from the expected formula for the first time in the band's discography. Instead …

Discography Deep Dive: Isis – Panopticon

"Our skin worn thin, our bones exposed, life reduced to ticks." Isis - PanopticonOctober 19th, 2004Atmospheric Sludge Metal / Post Metal / Progressive MetalIpecac RecordingsBoston, Massachusetts, USA So we come to the third full length record in Isis' career, 2004's Panopticon, which dropped two years after their previous effort, Oceanic. Immediately one look at the …

Discography Deep Dive: Isis – Oceanic

"All in a day, it changes everything." Isis - OceanicSeptember 17th, 2002Atmospheric Sludge Metal / Post MetalIpecac RecordingsBoston, Massachusetts, USA Two years after the band's first full length effort they would return with their sophomore LP, Oceanic. Boasting an even longer runtime that would eclipse an hour, it was also the band's first outing on …

Discography Deep Dive: Isis – Celestial

"Do you ever get that feeling that you're sinking." Isis - CelestialJuly 19th, 2000Post Metal / Progressive / Atmospheric Sludge MetalEscape Artist RecordsBoston, Massachusetts, USA A group like Isis likely needs no introduction, but I'm going to do it anyways. The perhaps unfortunately named group who took their identity from the Egyptian goddess and would …

Discography Deep Dive: Baroness – Gold and Grey

"I'd do anything to feel like I'm alive again." Baroness - Gold and GreyJune 14th, 2019Progressive Sludge Metal / Progressive RockAbraxan HymnsSavannah, Georgia, USA So we've come to the final entry in Discography Deep Dive as it relates to the work of Savannah sludge legends Baroness, ending with their fifth full length record, Gold and …

Discography Deep Dive: Baroness – Purple

"But good fortune never was shining on me, the way it shone on you." Baroness - PurpleDecember 18th, 2015Progressive Sludge Metal / Progressive RockAbraxan HymnsSavannah, Georgia, USA In 2012, following the horrible bus accident that Baroness encountered near Bath, England, two of the band's members, long time drummer and founding member Allen Blickle and bassist …

Discography Deep Dive: Baroness – Yellow and Green

"I took your advice and the requisite pills, and the forbidden pies from a white windowsill." Baroness - Yellow and GreenJuly 17th, 2012Progressive Sludge Metal / Progressive RockRelapse RecordsSavannah, Georgia, USA Having revisited the band's first two releases, Red Album and Blue Record, we come to the first album from the band that I wasn't …

Discography Deep Dive: Baroness – Blue Record

"Now it's time for medication. Stallions on the eiderdown." Baroness - Blue RecordOctober 13th, 2009Progressive Sludge Metal / Progressive RockRelapse RecordsSavannah, Georgia, USA While Red Album may ultimately be my personal favourite of Baroness' discography, I have to admit that the first time I heard Blue Record it blew me the hell away. It feels …

Discography Deep Dive: Baroness – Red Album

"Rays upon pinion, lay me down." Baroness - Red AlbumSeptember 4th, 2007Progressive Sludge Metal / Progressive RockRelapse RecordsSavannah, Georgia, USA Georgia seems to be a veritable birthing place for legendary sludge metal bands, having given purchase to such greats as Mastodon and Black Tusk, as well as Kylesa, which I covered on last month's Discography …