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The Mountain Of Gold (2018)
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Habitus is a sludge/post-metal band from Belgrade, Serbia, formed in 2012. They blend crushing sludge with post-metal's atmospheric expansiveness.
New Bedford, Massachusetts's Hadean builds sprawling, emotionally heavy music at the intersection of progressive and post-metal, where texture and dynamics matter as much as riffs. Active since 2014, they bring the bleak coastal atmosphere of the South Coast into their expansive compositions.
A relentless doom/post-metal/rock entity from France, active since 2020. Monolithic compositions and oppressive atmospheres define their crushing sound.
Phoenix's Halls of Mandos take their name from Tolkien's realm of the dead and build their sound accordingly — doom-laden, post-metal architecture with industrial undercurrents that give the music a cold, machine-like dread. An intriguing young project born in 2023.
Rooted in the gritty New Haven scene, Hang Your Cross weave together hardcore aggression, crawling sludge, and the expansive textures of post-metal into a dense, suffocating sound since 2017.
Denver's Harboured emerged in 2020 weaving atmospheric black metal into post-metal expansiveness, their sound as high and cold as the Rocky Mountain backdrop that defines the city they call home.
Salt Lake City's Harvest of Ash bend doom and post-metal into something expansive and unhurried, with the wide-open quality of Utah's landscape seemingly built into their sound. Since 2020, they've occupied the contemplative, atmosphere-heavy end of the spectrum.
Haze of Summer is a melodic black/post-metal band from Podolsk, Russia, formed in 2017. They craft atmospheric melodic black metal with sweeping melodies and emotional depth.
Boston's Head in Hand navigate the slow-motion grief of sludge/doom/post-metal, crafting music that moves at the pace of catastrophe and carries the weight to match. Since 2020 they've contributed to a New England extreme scene that has increasingly embraced heavy, meditative forms.
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