Isis

ALARM’s 51 Favorite Albums of 2013

Saving the best for last, we've chosen our 51 favorite albums of 2013, pulled from the acclaimed and the unsung…

Best Albums: Chino + Isis, Taiwanese symphonic metal, and a polymath poet

Palms: s/t Chthonic: Bú-Tik Dessa: Parts of Speech Bosnian Rainbows: s/t Rose Windows: The Sun Dogs Locrian: Return to Annihilation

Everything must go! Hydra Head’s Super-Power Yard Sale

Hydra Head Records is liquidating awesome stuff (as well as office furniture and anything hanging on the walls) at its…

Crow flies again: Neurot to reissue Steve Von Till’s debut solo album

Neurot Recordings, home to post-metal mainstays such as Neurosis, Isis, and Ufomammut, is reissuing the long-out-of-print album As the Crow…

Interview: Ambient-rock super-group Jodis on embracing life

With its second album of dense and melodic noise-scapes, Jodis — the long-distance collaboration between Isis’s Aaron Turner and Khanate’s…

Isis/Deftones super-group Palms confirms release of self-titled LP

Consisting of Deftones front-man Chino Moreno and 3/5 of Isis (Jeff Caxide, Aaron Harris, and Bryant Clifford Meyer), the new…

ALARM’s 50 (+5) Favorite Songs of 2012

Last month ALARM presented its 50 favorite albums of 2012, an eclectic, rock-heavy selection of discs that were in steady…

Swag fire-sale: Help maintain Hydra Head’s amazing catalog of hardcore and experimental music

Though no longer releasing new music, Hydra Head Records needs your help to keep its exceptional catalog in print. Throw…

ALARM’s 50 Favorite Albums of 2012

Another year, another torrential downpour of albums across our desks. As always, we encountered way too much amazing music, from…

Album Premiere: Jodis’s Black Curtain

Take an early listen to the new album from Jodis -- an ambient-rock super-group with members of Isis, Khanate, and…

Return of an ambient-rock super-group: Jodis reunites members of Isis, Khanate, Blind Idiot God

Three years ago, Aaron Turner of Isis and James Plotkin and Tim Wyskida of Khanate formed a haunting, melodic, ambient…

Review: Old Man Gloom’s NO

Although it has been eight years since Old Man Gloom has broken silence, the all-star noise-sludge lineup -- featuring members…