As you might read in the print edition of this week's Press, the experimental metal band Isis will be at the Meridian tonight. All of Isis' albums since 2002's Oceanic have explored similar territory: long, unhurried songs that blend doom-metal with the noodly, spacey guitar work characteristic of post-rock.
Isis' albums emphasize texture over riffs, and are heavily intellectual in theme; most, if not all, of them are concept albums, based around elevated concepts such as the philosophy of Benth
