- Audio CD (16 Sep 2002)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: CD
- Label: Ipecac
- ASIN: B00006IQHQ
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Vinyl | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 77,530 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. The Beginning And The End |
| 2. The Other |
| 3. False Light |
| 4. Carry |
| 5. Maritime |
| 6. Weight |
| 7. From Sinking |
| 8. Hym |
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I honestly cannot think of enough superlatives to describe this album; it's that good. Each song is a sprawling soundscape which draws you in and completely hooks you. Despite the relative length of the songs, they never out stay their welcome and are a perfectly judged balance between apocalyptically heavy and beautifully mellow.
The title of this album is also very appropriate; listening to this can only conjure images of vast oceans and spectacular storms. This is backed up by the excellent photography in the inlay.
When I first heard this album, I felt that the vocalist was a peripheral figure but once I listened to it several times, I began to see how his harsh scream added to the bleak nature of the heavy parts of the song. The guitar and bass work is technically very good and pedals are used to great effect, creating a wonderful atmosphere. Basically, I own a lot of albums that I'd consider to be great, and this is up there with Relationship Of Command (and several others), being as close to perfect as possible.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
From the opening bars of 'The Beginning and the End', this album gets to you. With the ever excellent Matt Bayles (Botch, Mastodon, et al) at the controls, Isis are becoming one of the major players in heavy guitar music. The use of keyboards and more clean passages than is customary for the genre make them truly unique as a band.
A barnstorming follow up to the equally beautiful debut, Celestial, Oceanic takes the band to calmer waters(!) with perhaps a more measured approach. Fans of the first record shouldn't be disappointed with this offering as there is plenty of punch delivered throughout, but listening to the record you get a sense that the band is 'maturing', with a potent mixture of clean and heavy guitars. That isn't to say Celestial was anything other than excellent, which is what is kind of sickening about this band....
....everything about this band is and has been consistently top-notch. Like many other bands concerning themselves with body and mind (Tool and Neurosis to name but two), artwork and music tie in effortlessly to create an experience rather than a mere record. From start to finish this truly felt like a journey for me, due largely to the length of the songs, giving the band room to build and change direction at will. My outlook on writing and listening to music has been changed dramatically by this band over the last year. More a record of the heart than the mind, Oceanic will be viewed in years to come as the beginning of Isis' march to dominating this genre...
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Isis are an amazing band, they began life as one of the most brutal slow-tempo hardcore bands on the face of the planet. With each release there sound has matured, it always seemed like they were moving toward something, and this album ladies and gentleman *is* that something. With this release, Isis have gone way beyond the boundaries of metal, and music as we know it.
I'd describe Isis's sound on this album as highly textured and progressive ambient hardcore/metal. The songs build and rise through use of gentle, beautiful melodies and harmonics, before reaching a savage sonic assault, led by Aaron turners brutal, drowned out screams. 'Weight' is the best example of this, and has to be one of the greatest songs I've ever heard, Isis somehow manage to go from extreme beauty to a full on assault seamlessly, and it's a real joy to behold.
Everyone should own this amazing album, period!
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Published on 11 Jan 2010 by G. Walsh
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Published on 20 Feb 2006 by sean paul mccann
blast my head off ,would you?
a classic,a sheer fury of noise then mellow and soothing feelings return,then oh no,more screams and guitars that pierce my sides,this is the business,this is a masterpiece,get it
Published on 21 Oct 2005 by sean paul mccann
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Published on 8 Aug 2005 by T. M.
anything better is unfathomable
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Simply beautiful
An astonishing album that was quite rightly Terrorizer's album of the year. It manages to be both crushing and hypnotically beautiful at the same time. Read more
Published on 26 Sep 2003 by bjr19
A metal standpoint...
Having been a big fan of 'Celestial', I was quite surprised to hear how the Isis sound had changed on Oceanic. Read more
Published on 25 Jun 2003 by The Caretaker
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