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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Thumos, active since 2018, work the intersection of progressive doom and post-metal with a measured, philosophical approach — their name drawn from the classical Greek concept of spirited passion — building expansive compositions that reward patient listening.
Eau Claire, Wisconsin's Thunderlung operate in the ambitious space between sludge, post-metal, and progressive metal, constructing layered, slow-building compositions that reward patient listening. Founded in 2018, they bring an Upper Midwest sense of space and patience to music that can shift from suffocating heaviness to expansive, textural passages within a single track.
Out of Westchester County, New York since 2017, Thunderon blend the hazy low end of stoner metal with the atmospheric reach of post-metal, crafting music that drifts between weighted groove and more expansive, effects-laden territory. Their suburban New York origin gives them a certain restless edge that keeps the music from settling too comfortably into either genre.
Austin's Tibetan Sky Burial fuse blackened savagery with the wide, contemplative sweep of post-metal, drawing on funerary imagery and drone-laden atmospherics. The project formed in 2020 and occupies the bleaker, more ritualistic corner of the Texas experimental underground.
Tidejord blend melodic doom and post-metal under a Danish name meaning 'tidal earth,' creating expansive compositions that ebb and flow like the Nordic seas since 2023. Their sound captures the vast, oceanic quality of Scandinavian post-metal.
Providence's Tides trade in atmospheric sludge and post-metal, building slow-burning compositions that favor emotional weight over brute force. Since 2014 the band has cultivated a sound rooted in dynamic tension, moving between quiet dread and dense, wall-of-sound crescendos.
Tidings from Edinburgh craft post-metal and post-rock with the news-bearing weight their herald name suggests since 2012. Over a decade of message-carrying compositions from Scotland's capital has produced atmospheric, dynamically rich music.
Brooklyn's Tombs are one of the most distinctive voices to emerge from the New York underground, layering post-metal's expansive atmosphere over black metal's bleakness since 2009 to create dense, emotionally charged records that transcend both genres.
Phoenix, Arizona's Torment of Gloom, formed in 2020, combines doom, sludge, and post-metal into slow-burning, heavy-atmosphered soundscapes. The oppressive desert heat of their city seems to seep into their thick, suffocating sonic palette.
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