Neurot Recordings is the brain trust of fellow noise artist extremists Neurosis and following suit, Isis, first developed back in '98, has continued to progress --metamorphosis is a better word -- with each successive movement finally culminating here. Slow moving and dark, the haunting, sometimes daunting nature which thrusts the listener haphazardly into this channel of cosmic forces at play, revealing twisting, turning, usually formless pieces of sonic textures, wrapped in a storm cloud of suddenness and sometimes a state of independent flux. Only where track five enters the picture -- or 16 as presented on the disc, though only five do exist, do we hear the first echoes of human existence from the opening drum beats, slowly entering guitar chords, all engulfed in a swirling wind-like effect which soon gives way to simple guitar and drum, very subtle still, unaccompanied until a moaning voice can be heard in the background. This one, "Celestial (Signal Fills The Void)" a remix by Godflesh's Justin K. Broadrick, originally turning up an album before of the same name, is quite refreshing, nearly upbeat by mid-point where piano accompaniment, or something to that effect (with so much in the way of artificial stimuli taking place there's never total assurance) gives this one a melodious and compelling conclusion to an interesting piece of recorded art that's as difficult to describe as it is to explain.