The Los Angeles-via-Boston-based metal band Isis are one of the most popular outfits working in heavy metal's more avant-garde sectors. While some hard-rock acts would flinch at being saddled with arty descriptors and qualifiers, frontman Aaron Turner has himself referred to what the band plays as "thinking man's metal." Certainly, Isis's highly technical, concept-driven experimental sound doesn't immediately call to mind more familiar genre standard bearers. Still, the band has the requisite musical elements to keep even the most meat-and-potatoes metalheads satisfied.

Listen to Isis at Finetune.

• (2005)  Oceanic: Remixes And Reinterpretations
• (2002)  The Red Sea
• (2000)  Celestial
• (1998)  Mosquito Control

• Maritime (Mike Patton Remix, Album Version)
• The Beginning and the End (Veneitan Snares Remix, Album Version)
• Weight (Fennesz Remix, Album Version)
• Hym (JK Broadrick Remix, Album Version)
• Carry (Second Version) (Tim Hecker Remix, Album Version)

• Pelican
• Mastodon
• Mogwai
• Sigur Ros
• Old Man Gloom
• Zozobra
• Cave In
• Tortoise
• Slint
• The Sea and Cake
• Tristeza
• Labradford
• Yo La Tengo
• The Album Leaf
• Flying Saucer Attack
• Bowery Electric
• Stars of the Lid
• Psapp
• Mojave 3
• The Besnard Lakes

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• progandother on 2007-12-26 18:11:39.037:
  ...can someone please get some Isis that isn't just a crappy re-mix...it would be nice...