Artist: ISIS
Album: OCEANIC (CD)

Release date: 2002
Media type: CD

Oceanic is the second full-length album by American post-metal band Isis, released on September 17, 2002 by Ipecac Recordings.

The album reintroduces the water and female themes of past releases the Red Sea and Celestial through a story: A man at the brink of emotional numbness finds a female counterpart who completes him ("The Beginning and the End"). However, he soon finds that she has had a long-term incestuous relationship ("False Light", "Weight") with her brother ("Hym", "The Other"). This drives him to lose all hope, and he commits suicide through drowning ("from sinking sands, he stepped into light's embrace").

The entire story is described by frontman Aaron Turner in a radio interview and in more nebulous terms in the album's booklet.

All songs written and composed by Isis.

TRACKLIST:
No. Title Length 

1. "The Beginning and the End"   8:02
2. "The Other"   7:15
3. "False Light"   7:42
4. "Carry"   6:46
5. "-"   2:06
6. "Maritime"   3:03
7. "Weight"   10:46
8. "From Sinking"   8:24
9. "Hym"   9:14

LINE-UP:

Jeff Caxide – bass guitar
Aaron Harris – drums
Michael Gallagher – guitar
Bryant Clifford Meyer – electronics, guitar, vocals on the first section of "Hym"
Aaron Turner – vocals, guitar, album art and layout