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Actin' Up (2023)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
The Mountain Of Gold (2018)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
Death Atlas (2019)
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Playlist: The Very Best of Corrosion of Conformity (2010)
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Doom and post-metal band from Kildare, Ireland formed in 2022. They craft atmospheric, heavy soundscapes from the Irish countryside.
Metalcore and post-metal band from Villeveyrac in southern France, active since 2015. They blend atmospheric post-metal textures with metalcore intensity from the Languedoc region.
Doom/post-metal act from Bernried in Bavaria, Germany, crafting heavy, atmospheric compositions since 2020. Their approach merges the crushing deliberation of doom metal with the expansive, textural dynamics of post-metal.
Orlando thrash metal project from the Florida underground.
A product of a scene that fuses Anatolian mystique with Western extremity, this Istanbul-based post-metal and progressive metal act channels Opeth-school dynamics married to modern progressive sensibility. Active since 2017, their catalog reveals a band unafraid to explore the darker corners of heavy music.
Minneapolis outfit Empires have been dragging doom and sludge through post-metal's murky corridors since 2008, building suffocating walls of slow-motion riff work layered with atmospheric texture.
Born from the Jersey Shore in 2022, Empress Ephemeral craft post-metal that echoes with coastal isolation — expansive, tide-worn, and built to dissolve slowly.
Brussels-based experimental metal act active since 2017, evolving from black/death metal origins into a haunting blend of post-metal and post-punk. Their 2021 album "Vide" was conceived as a claustrophobic journey recorded in apartments, a cabin, and on a rooftop during the pandemic.
Stoner and post-metal act from Trutnov in the Bohemian mountains of Czech Republic, crafting hazy, atmospheric heaviness since 2015. Their sound merges the fuzzy warmth of stoner metal with the expansive dynamics of post-metal.
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