Anyway, back to Isis..
First time I heard them was back in 1999, a local record store had this comp..
http://rateyourmusic.com/release/com..._business//buy
for FREE up front. I think I bought Mindless Self Indulgence's "tight" or something ridiculous at the time and ended up getting this and taking it home and Drowningman, Cave In, The Gersch, and a few others really struck me.
But the track that really stood out was Isis' "Poison Eggs", great track, I bought Celestial when it came out next year and it just blew my mind, this is back when I was getting into Dillinger Escape Plan and all that super technical shit, and it was refreshing, because it was still quite technical -- just heavy and slower, lots of room to breathe, subtle and depressing, and INTELLIGENT. Really well-thought stuff.