INTENSITY. This was a night of intensity at the Middle East featuring Isis on tour with Jesu from Birmingham England on their first US tour in support of their latest CD Conqueror and Zozobra.Zozobra started the night with an intense manic set of loud deep thundering music. The deep harmonic sound penetrated ear, brain and body with overtones with lush rattling skullcracking overtones. It was as much felt as heard. Totally awesome. A band to watch for and listen to.Jesu came out with a different kind of intensity and although downturning the genral mood added a different kind of skull-penetrating drama to the night. Expectations were well met. A very bottom heavy dense sound.Isis was Isis, and how I mean this is that their show was its usual high calibre. The band shows a growing maturity that hones their intensity. The sound mix is more refined. You can hear the intricacy in even the heaviest loudest monents. There are contrasts, highs and lows, passages of incredible quiet beauty against assaults of pure sound and fury. Chaos under control, a paradox wrapped in an enigma. Intelligent visceral music. One of my favorite bands.And one hell of a night!