Effective period / Period of releases: 2014

Atmospheric Black Metal band from Appleton, Wisconsin, USA

Ishmael is a three-piece Black Metal band from Appleton, Wisconsin that uses their music to incite gnosis through radical changes in mental states.
As a band, Ishmael focuses on bringing out the listener's subconscious by shutting down the audiences active sense through a melodious interaction of rhythm, swirling atmosphere, and sonorous blooms of volume. These changes hold value within the evolution of the human's capacity for introspective, empathetic thought.

We wish to bring about social and environmental change through the invocation of the primal instinct, of will, and of parasympathetic nervous responses.

There are so many of these sheep characters that are drawn towards it as fans. There as so many lowlifes among the crowd. There are so many there for the music and nothing else. You don't preform black metal if you're not a warrior. Black metal is a war against what everyone knows.
- Kristian Espedal

Jordan Bass
Nic Drums, Vocals
Anthony Guitars, Vocals