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The Visionaries: Journey to the Center of Aaron Turner

Posted in Interviews, The Visionaries with tags , , , , , , , , on 12/10/2025 by Kurt Orzeck

If an ultra-prolific music maker writes and plays songs in the woods, do they really exist if no one can hear them? Not if they release the music in the form of records, one supposes. But it is kinda the case these days with Aaron Turner, the former frontman for Isis; member of Sumac, Old Man Gloom and Mammifer; collaborator of Pharaoh Overlord; father; illustrator; swimmer; and deep thinker. Join Treble for a journey into the mind of one of the most fascinating and prolific underground artists of the last 25 years.

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From the Vault: Isis’ Aaron Turner Called Revolver’s Golden Gods Awards ‘Demeaning,’ ‘Ridiculous’

Posted in Interviews with tags , , , , , , , , , on 10/17/2025 by Kurt Orzeck

[This article was originally published on Indiepit on June 18, 2009.]

Methodical. Serious. Fulfilling.

Those are three words that aptly describe Isis, one of the best things to happen to prog-metal since Maynard James Keenan first shook hands with Adam Jones in 1989. The band’s carefully calibrated, efficient – read: not a single note gone to waste – songwriting and live presentation have, over the course of their dozen-year history, graduated Isis to untouchable status. It’s gotten to the point where fans talk about Isis’ music as if it were a religion: each album an obligatory mass, each song a sermon that feeds both the mind and soul.

Coming off a string of their biggest concerts to date – and with their new album, Wavering Radiant, still sitting pretty on Pitchfork’s “Best New Music” lineup (it’s been months) – the sludge-slingers are at the top of their game. And best of all, as they’ve proven with each subsequent release, they just might find a way to top themselves the next time around too.

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