Posts Tagged ‘Isis’
the interview show: Thunderheist
THE END OF AN ERA!
The rumours are true. Thunderheist is over. [Insert weeping emoticons here!!!!] Red Bull sales will plummet. Clubs will be just a little less sweaty.
But Isis and Grahmzilla don’t have any time for any funerals! Both have solo projects in the works.
Isis is working on tracks for her new project Surprise Sex and Grahmzilla is remixing hype artists like Vancouver sorceresses, Fan Death, calling himself Nautiluss.
I talk to them both about the death of one of party rap’s bright lights and life after Thunderheist.
Thunderheist on the interview show
Thunderheist “Jerk It” (bootleg mix) The song that started it all.
Thunderheist “Little Booty Girl” (Alias remix) 80s remix goodness.
Fan Death “Veronica’s Veil” (Nautiluss from the deep mix) Grahmzilla’s new project.
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the interview show: Isis
Isis has been described as “the thinking man’s metal band.” Others say the band has a Tool-lite, post-metal sound. This is a pretty easy comparison—since the band are friends with Tool— and I am not sure if I would agree. However, Isis does have a sound that is hard to pin down, and their music easily defies genre conventions. The band also draws praise because it draws from literary influences like Don Quixote and philosopher Jeremy Bentham.
When I asked Clifford Meyer and Aaron Harris from the band how something in their recent life did not live up to their expectations—alluding to Quixote—both of them deftly sidestepped any personal answers and talked about music. Meyer was disappointed in the Jay-Z American Gangster record. And Harris didn’t feel that Radiohead ’s In Rainbows lived up to the hype. There is just something great thinking about the guys from Isis listening to art rock and hip hop. (Note, more true to expectations, Meyer was reading the dark 90s indie comic book The Maxx.)
Isis is celebrating 10 years in the game. Not many post-metal bands make it that far, and both of the guys were happy to share pieces of their journey.
Next week, we return with Swedish indie-electronic act Lo-Fi-Fnk!
