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The massively influential slow-churn metal band Isis are calling it quits. The band announced their impending breakup yesterday on their blog, writing, "This end isn't something that occurred over night and it hasn't been brought about by a single cataclysmic fracture in the band. Simply put, ISIS has done everything we wanted to do, said everything we wanted to say. In the interest of preserving the love we have of this band, for each other, for the music made and for all the people who have continually supported us, it is time to bring it to a close."
Next week, Isis heads out on a North American tour, playing shows with allies like Melvins, Tombs, and Cave In, and stopping at the Bonnaroo Festival. In that blog post, Isis announced that the tour will be their last, with their final show taking place June 23 in Montreal. The dates for that tour are below.
The band also wrote that after the tour wraps up, they'll finish up a few final projects: "pursuing the completion of a final EP, compiling live audio and visual material for future releases, and generally doing whatever we can to make our music available for as long as there are people who wish to hear it. "
To read the full goodbye post, click here.
In a statement, the band's Ipecac Records label bosses Greg Werckman and Faith No More frontman Mike Patton said, "It has been a complete honor to be a part of the Isis team. Isis is a major part of our label's foundation. Those five talented guys are our friends and we look forward to see and hear what they each do in the future."
Over the past decade or so, Isis have pioneered a form of metal that basically belongs to them-- long songs that take as many musical cues from post-rock and shoegaze as from Sabbath, slowly building toward crunching, howling catharsis. In the band's wake, a swarm of imitators has cropped up, reaching the point where the metal press has referred to an entire school of bands under the subgenre title "Neur-Isis", referring to Isis and fellow pioneers Neurosis. The band released five studio albums and many singles and EPs; the best starting point is probably 2002's aptly titled Oceanic. Pitchfork dropped a BNM on their last album, 2009's Wavering Radiant.
Isis:
05-26 San Diego, CA - The Casbah *
05-29 Eugene, OR - WOW Hall *
05-30 Olympia, WA - Capitol Theater *
05-31 Vancouver, British Columbia - Rickshaw Theatre *
06-01 Seattle, WA - Neumo's *
06-02 Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge *
06-04 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall *
06-05 Los Angeles, CA - The Troubadour *
06-12 Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo Music Festival
06-14 Athens, GA - 40 Watt Club ^
06-16 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club ^
06-17 Philadelphia, PA - Theater of Living Arts ^
06-18 New York, NY - Webster Hall ^
06-19 Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg ^
06-20 Boston, MA - Paradise Rock Club ^
06-21 Boston, MA - Paradise Rock Club ^
06-22 Portland, ME - Port City Music Hall %
06-23 Montreal, Quebec - Club Soda %
* with Jakob, Tombs
^ with Melvins
% with Cave In
by pitchfork.
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