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Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Dance Devil Dance (Live at Sonic Temple) (2024)
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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.
Rancid Rimjob Rampage is a blackened post-metal trio from Oberhausen in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, formed in 2018 and consisting of B. on guitars and vocals, H. on drums, and U. on bass, synth noise, and vocals. Their 2023 album To Live is to Piss in the Wind was written under what they describe as 'the result of the pandemic, war and depression; personal defeats and general weltschmerz.'
Atmospheric doom/death/post-metal band from Oslo, Norway, formed in 2019. Their ambitious three-genre approach delivers immersive, atmospheric extreme metal from the Norwegian capital.
Raucous is a sludge/post-metal band from Manchester, England, active since 2016. The band delivers atmospheric sludge and post-metal from one of the UK's great music cities.
Sludge/post-metal band from the Drogheda/Ardee area of County Louth, Ireland, active since 2014. Their approach blends sludge metal's crushing heaviness with post-metal's atmospheric expansiveness from the Irish east coast.
Progressive post-metal band from Città di Castello in Umbria, Italy, formed in 2025. Their approach blends progressive complexity with post-metal's atmospheric expansiveness from the Tiber Valley.
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