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Membrane is a band from Vesoul, France, active since 2001, having evolved from post-hardcore origins into sludge and post-metal. Their two-decade creative arc traces a trajectory from angular post-hardcore toward crushing atmospheric heaviness.
Menhyr is a doom/post-metal band from Milan, Italy, formed in 2014. They blend doom metal's crushing weight with post-metal's atmospheric dynamics.
Menials is a sludge, post-metal, and hardcore band from Jyväskylä, Finland, formed in 2025. They fuse sludge metal's abrasive weight with post-metal's atmospheric dynamics.
Messah is a atmospheric sludge/post-metal band from Voronezh, Russia, formed in 2019. They blend crushing sludge with post-metal's atmospheric expansiveness.
Metide is a sludge/doom/post-metal band from Bergamo, Italy, formed in 2019. They channel crushing sludge-doom through abrasive riffs and oppressive weight.
Miasme is a post-rock (early); post-metal (later) band from Bolesławiec, Poland, formed in 2010. They craft atmospheric, dynamic post-metal compositions.
Lawrence, Kansas's Migrator work in the overlap between doom and post-metal, building slow-motion structures that expand and collapse over long stretches of time. Their sound is patient and atmospheric, the kind of music that feels shaped by the flat horizon and open sky of the Great Plains.
Milestone One is a sludge/post-metal band from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2013. They blend crushing sludge with post-metal's atmospheric expansiveness.
Formed in Peoria, Illinois in 2002, Minsk play a densely layered psychedelic metal drawing equally from sludge metal, doom, hardcore punk, ambient music, and noise. Their albums on Relapse Records — The Ritual Fires of Abandonment (2007), With Echoes in the Movement of Stone (2009), and The Crash and the Draw (2015) — are built on tribal drum patterns, thick synthesizer layers, and slowly escalating song structures that shift from meditative to crushing.
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