Isis have offered the following update on their now former members ongoing projects:

“…aaron harris has contributed drums to 3 tracks on the new album by rajas. you can check out some of aaron’s contributions on the track “rupee” currently up on the rajas website. jeff caxide has a new project called crone which has recently begun work on tracks for a future release.

mamiffer will be playing on july 9th in seattle with altar of plagues, valinas, etc and are continuing work on the next album (to be completed later this summer). the second record by clifford meyer’s taiga will be out sep 22 on conspiracy records. more news on isis related bands/projects as it becomes available.”

The groups new split 12″ with the Melvins will see a release on July 13th through Hydra Head.

Some fan-filmed footage from Isis‘ final show has surfaced online and can be found below. The performance took place last night, June 23rd, in Montreal, QC.

Despite their impending end, Isis have revealed some plans for some future releases. In a recent interview with Craveonline.com, band bassist Jeff Caxide confirmed plans for a final EP, some live recordings and a DVD.

Speaking on it, he offered the following:

“…we have some live recordings coming out and a final EP. The EP has two songs we recorded for Wavering Radiant but didn’t make it onto the record plus a couple of ambient pieces from the live show will make it on there and an acoustic version of a song from Wavering Radiant. There’s also a DVD, which should surface in a year or so of a performance in Australia and that’ll have extra stuff on it.”

As previously reported, the band will also issue a split with the Melvins on July 13th through Hydra Head.

Isis’s forthcoming 12″ split release with the Melvins has been set for a July 13th release date through Hydra Head. The effort will see Isis contribute their two “Wavering Radiant” b-sides, “Way Through Woven Branches” (previously only available on the Japanese version of “Wavering Radiant“) and “The Pliable Foe” (previously unreleased.)

Meanwhile, the Melvins will chip in with alternate versions of their new tracks “Pig House” and “I’ll Finish You Off“. Standard versions of both tracks will be featured on the bands new album, “The Bride Screamed Murder“, which is due in stores on June 01st through Ipecac.

Isis have decided to call it a day, the band have offered the following statement regarding their decision:

“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″

High definition fan-filmed footage of Isis performing in Japan last month has been posted online and can be found below:

Twilight’s upcoming new album “Monument To Time End” has been set for a tentative April 27th release date through Southern Lord. As previously reported, the groups latest incarnation sees the following line-up:

Blake Judd (Nachtmystium)
Wrest (Leviathan, Lurker of Chalice)
N. Imperial (Kreig)
Stavros Giannopolous (The Atlas Moth)
Sanford Parker (Minsk, Buried At Sea)
Aaron Turner (Isis, Old Man Gloom)

In addition, Robert Lowe of Lichens, OM also contributes guest vocals on three tracks. The track listing for “Monument To Time End” runs as follows:

01 – “The Cryptic Ascension”
02 – “Fall Behind Eternity”
03 – “8,000 Years”
04 – “Red Fields”
05 – “Convulsions in Wells of Fever”
06 – “Decaying Observer”
07 – “The Catastrophe Exhibition”
08 – “Negative Signal Omega“

Isis have been lining up a series of headlining dates for June around their shows with the Melvins, they include:

June 04th San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall
June 05th Los Angeles, CA – Troubadour
June 22nd Portland, ME – Port City Music Hall
June 23rd Montreal, QC – Club Soda (feat. Cave In)