Recently, I played the post-metal band ISIS’ album Oceanic and LOVED IT. In the comment of the subsequent review, Mr. 1537 himself said that he agreed, Oceanic is great. But Panopticon is better!
Challenge accepted!
It so happened that I already had a copy of Panopticon here and, after 1537’s endorsement, it got bumped up in the listening pile. And am I ever glad I got to this now. WHAT AN AMAZING RECORD! I mean, Oceanic was great, but this one has a slightly different feel to it… the instrumentations are more laid-back, or something. The use of dynamics and the sheer diversity of what they’ve laid down here blew my mind! This came out two years after Oceanic, so maybe the band just grew into this sound even more, or something, I dunno.
It hardly matters what happened, the fact is that this album exists, it fucking ROCKS, and you need to go get yourself a copy.
PS For those interested, a panopticon is this.
keepsmealive 
I did prefer the song you sent from this to the one you sent from Oceanic.
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YAY! Yeah, I knew Oceanic didn’t grab you, I’m glad the Panopticon stuff was more pleasing! Sending metal to our Heavy Metal Overlord, the Master of Taste in these matters, is always a tricky thing. I just throw caution to the wind and fire away!
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Told ya so!
I love the concept of the panopticon too, a prison in plain view a great metaphor for our society at large.
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Yup full agreement, though I would still play Oceanic into this one, as one big long metal bliss-out!
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Panopticon: you never know when we’re watching you, so just be good. Sounds like friggin’ Santa Claus.
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Or most governments, come to think of it…
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Deffo
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Well, now that I’ve showed my cards and I’ll be one of the first to go down, I can only hope the new prison state will allow me to blog from inside.
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I hope you’re not on a CIA or FBI watchlist because of this post!
I really like what I have heard from these guys. My kinda metal.
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Oh man, if I’m on a watchlist because of liking a friggin’ post-metal band named after an Egyptian goddess, then the paranoia levels have reached a point that make me unwiling to leave the house in the morning. Just ‘cos a bunch of yahoos with guns decided to make that their acronym means nothing to a band that broke up in 2010… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis
Anyway, if you liked what I sent from Oceanic, Panopticon is really friggin’ mind-blowing too!
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You may have heard, but dumb people have been giving various businesses in the US that happen to have the name “Isis” in their names a hard time.
I did like what you sent. Swirly and heavy.
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Those dumb people need to just keep eating their Freedom Fries and inbreeding themselves into oblivion. Only then can the human race go forward with any hope.
I can send some Panopticon, see whatcha think. GIVE ‘ER!
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What he said, totally!
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That’s what she said!
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She did! I heard her!
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