Isis News: Album Review: Isis - Wavering Radiant

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One of the benefits, I think, to being an art metal band is that intellectualism in the genre is a relatively new phenomenon, and as such novelty alone often helps to smooth over certain inadequacies in the music itself. Sure, metal bands have always played smart, tackling weighty topics and attacking the status quo, but traditionally that's been done at more or less an 8th grade reading level. Musically it's been an even more pronounced evolution, for while you've always had bands like Celtic Frost and even early Metallica pushing boundaries, their efforts sound readily accessible compared to what the...

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