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Don't Hold Your Breath (2021)
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Among the Shadows (2024)
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The Battle of Cape Fear River (2022)
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Memphis sludge and post-metal outfit active since 2013, channeling the city's deep blues-doom undercurrent into slow, crushing riffs layered with introspective post-rock dynamics. Their sound carries the weight of the South without leaning into Southern rock cliché.
Indianapolis post-metal and progressive metal act Pvrenchymv — their name a deliberate obfuscation of "parenchyma," the functional tissue of organs — have been building dense, layered instrumental and vocal structures since 2008. Their approach leans toward the cerebral end of progressive metal, with heavy, textured arrangements that reward patient listening.
Brussels-based postdoom duo of Jean Pierre Mottin and Twan Landrin, formed in 2024, blending doom metal weight with post-rock atmosphere. Their releases include Solstice and Let the Silence Begin, crafting expansive, heavy soundscapes from a minimal two-piece setup.
Sludge and post-metal band from Saint Petersburg, Russia, formed in 2013, named after the mythological Welsh king of the Otherworld. Over a decade of crushing sludge from the northern capital.
Denton, Texas experimentalists Pyramids have spent over a decade dissolving the boundaries between post-metal, ambient, and shoegaze, crafting densely layered soundscapes that are as likely to drift into serene abstraction as they are to erupt into crushing noise.
Houston sludge/post-metal blending doom with 90s slowcore and noise rock.
Pittsburgh's Pyrithe work in the corrosive overlap of experimental sludge, post-metal, and noise rock, building structures that are architecturally dense and abrasive, reflecting the industrial weight of their city while pushing well past genre comfort zones since 2018.
Toledo, Ohio's Pythian stake their claim in the slow and suffocating territory where sludge, doom, and post-metal converge, crafting ponderous, emotionally weighted compositions that reflect the decay and resilience of their Great Lakes rust-belt surroundings since 2019.
Rochester, New York's Pâro work in the emotionally resonant space between progressive doom and post-metal, building slow-unfolding compositions that balance melodic introspection with immense heaviness, drawing on upstate New York's understated but consistently vital underground since 2019.
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