Love!! Obsession!! Incest!! Suicide!!
All wrapped up into one grandiose majestic masterpiece of post-ambient-shoegaze-prog-metal.
What more could you ask for!?
The second full-length album by the now defunct Isis (R.I.P.), is probably one of the most creative and original metal albums of all time. Oceanic has been cited as the album to spawn the post-metal (or ambient-metal or metal-gaze or whatever you wanna call it) genre.
Even though the album is categorized in metal genre it is far from what you would typically think of as heavy metal music. There's no cheesy guitar solos or pulse pounding double bass rhythms. Oceanic is filled with slight electronic texture, ghostly female vocals, slow paced instrumentation, and sprinkled with occasional screams and big distortion.
The concept is based on a dude that is all bummed out and fed up with life, he meets a girl and becomes obsessed with her. But, he finds out that the girl has been hooking up with her own brother. This bum's the dude out even more (understandable) and he commits suicide by drowning himself in the ocean. Oh, the drama!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanic_(Isis_album)
This album really is the coolest. If you don't own it already make this your next music purchase. But you can't just download it; you have to actually buy a physical copy of it. The artwork and the cerebral outline of the story listed inside the booklet are important to truly appreciating this business and you have to listen to it all the way through. It's art!! Serious!!
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