NEW ISIS - PANOPTICON

[Snake Basket]

I only listened to their debut album Celestial and I didn't like it at all. It lacked idendity and originality. I felt it was falling to most of the clichés of the subgenre, while trying to deal with a concept without enough investment to it.

Then I almost totally drifted away from the HxC scene so well... I didn't even listenened to Oceanic. I might give it a try though considering you liked it and you seem to have some knowledge in metal.

IMHO the best attempt of HxC/atmospheric hybrid stuff lately is Textures' "Polars", I find the rest far too "superficial" and paradoxally over-pretentious too. If you get what I mean.