Isis is one of those bands some of my friends have been into forever. I have heard their music countless times. A few years back I picked up “Oceanic” and began loving them myself. After a string of excellent albums the band closes out the decade with “Wavering Radiant,” officially tossing their hat in the ring for best band of the decade.

Isis wastes little time punching out a riff and barreling into the opener “Hall of the Dead,” setting a medium tempo from the start. It’s obvious the band is not going to have Turner sing as much as he did on “In the Absence of Truth,” and I think it suits the music better when he swaps between growling and showing off his vocal pipes. “Ghost Key” follows up with a floating synth riff and alternates between quiet and loud, keeping a similar pace as the opener. By the end of “Hand of the Host,” the band seems to have hit cruise control on the tempo and is trying to get the most out of it, a severe change from everything they’ve ever done.

“Radiant” is divided into two clear halves with its intermission-style title track.