약간 뒷북이고 많은 분들이 이미 알고 계실지도 모르겠지만, Isis가 공식적으로 해체를 선언했습니다. 1997년 이후로 13년간 꾸준히 높은 수준의 음악을 들려주던 그들이였기에 이들의 해체 소식이 많은 메탈 커뮤니티 내에서도 큰 파장을 불어 일으키고 있는 것으로 보입니다.

이들의 해체 이유는 단순히 하룻밤에 결정된 것이 아니며 예전부터 계획이 되어 있던 것이라고 말하고 있습니다. 그들은 Isis의 활동을 통해서 자신들이 이루고 싶었던 모든 것들 그리고 말하고 싶었던 모든 것을 말했다고 말하며 밴드를 향한 그들의 사랑, 그들이 만들어낸 음악 그리고 그들을 후원해준 모든 팬들을 위해서 이 모든 것을 끝낸다고 말했습니다.

밴드의 공식 입장입니다. 꽤나 길이가 있는 글인데 관심이 있으신 분들은 필독하시길.

ISIS has reached an end. It's hard to try to say it in any delicate way, and it is a truth that is best spoken plainly. This end isn't something that occurred over night and it hasn't been brought about by a single cataclysmic fracture in the band. Simply put, ISIS has done everything we wanted to do, said everything we wanted to say. In the interest of preserving the love we have of this band, for each other, for the music made and for all the people who have continually supported us, it is time to bring it to a close. We've seen too many bands push past the point of a dignified death and we all promised one another early on in the life of the band that we would do our best to ensure ISIS would never fall victim to that syndrome. We've had a much longer run than we ever expected we would and accomplished a great deal more than we ever imagined possible. We never set any specific goals when the band was founded other than to make the music we wanted to hear and to play (and to stay true to that ideal), so everything else that has come along the long and winding path has been an absolute gift. As with any momentous life-changing decision (which this certainly is for the 5 of us), we feel a very dynamic range of emotions about this and cannot express all of it within the space of a few sentences, and perhaps it's best to do what we've always done in and let our music speak for us. It is and has been the truest expression of who we are as a collective and in some ways who we are as individuals for the 13 years in which we've been together. The last and perhaps most important thing we might say in relation to all this is how grateful we are for the people that have supported us over the years. It is a lengthy list that would include those who put out our records, those that played on them and put them to tape, the many bands with whom we shared the stage, all of our family, friends and companions who supported us in our individual lives and thus made it possible for us to continue on in the band, and most importantly those who truly listened to our music whether in recorded form or by coming to out to our shows (or both). It is quite true that we would never have done what we have without those people, that is many of you who are reading this. Our words can never fully express what we feel, but we hope that our music and the efforts made to bring it into being can serve as a more proper expression of gratitude for this life and for everyone in it. Thank you.

In more immediate and practical terms the tour we are about to embark upon is indeed our last. We are hoping that these final live rituals can help us bring a close to the life of this band in a celebratory and reverent way, and also provide us with a chance to say goodbye to many of those that have supported us over the years. While there is a measure of sadness that comes with the passing of this band, we hope that the final days can be joyous ones during which any and all that wish to come and join us will do so. It seems fitting that the last show of the tour and of our active existence will take place in Montreal, the site of the very first ISIS show in 1997 (though that was an unintentional move when booking the show initially). After the tour we also plan to follow through with other projects set in motion some time ago - pursuing the completion of a final EP, compiling live audio and visual material for future releases, and generally doing whatever we can to make our music available for as long as there are people who wish to hear it.

Thanks again to any and all,

ISIS, May 18, 2010

출저: http://isistheband.blogspot.com/2010/05/isis-has-reached-end_18.html

 

James Joyce