This is pretty much my first metal album ever. ("holy shit johnnyboy898, really?"). I know right? Stupid kids and their techno lOlZ!1!!!!
Anyway, I've been beginning to just scratch the surface of Post Rock (GY!BE, Sigur Ros and I really enjoy both) and I knew I needed some more music with guitars and singing in my library as 95% is electronic. One night I was looking up the post rock tag on last.fm and saw all the usual bands there, and I had a look at Post Metal too. Isis was the top artist and I thought 'this seems pretty cool happyface'.
Greygoo and I shared each other's last.fms and I noticed 'Isis' in his charts. "Hm." I thought. "I've heard of them, read good reviews, why not take a listen?". greygoo then said that this album, Oceanic, is a good place to start with Post Metal and is a turning point in the genre. "Sounds good!"
At first I didn't know what to expect (wikipedia has said things like 'atmospheric, distorted drums/vocals' etc.) but that wasn't the opener The Beginning and the End. To me and my close mindedness to metal in general it sounded pretty much like whatever else I've heard through the earbuds of a friend's iPod or a sloppily created Call of Duty montage with <500 viewers; I was starting to doubt this album's sound would be any different, but then Carry started to play. The start of this track is way different from the rest of them, and I was inclined to just stare at the spectrogram foobar was generating and absorb all the sound coming in. And that's exactly what I did. What a good track!
The album progressed on, moving through beauties like Weight, Maritime and From Sinking. The ending track Hymwas pretty interesting for me, it was like a mix of the first three tracks and the aforementioned italicised ones, and it was a perfect ending to a good album.
Rating or Recommendation: Rating: 7.5/10. A very enjoyable album, rec it to someone who doesn't listen to metal!
