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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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Brooklyn's Thera Roya traffic in heavy, slow-burning sludge and post-metal, building suffocating walls of sound from a base in New York City's underground scene since 2013. Their music favors atmosphere and weight over speed, with extended compositions that grind and drift in equal measure.
Third Island is a doom and post-metal band from Limerick, Ireland, formed in 2016. They blend the crushing heaviness of doom with post-metal's atmospheric expansiveness and dynamic builds.
Formed in New York in 2022, This Is the Last Time work in progressive and post-metal territory, building lengthy, texture-driven compositions that prioritize atmosphere and emotional weight over technical showcase.
Thrakian from Cardiff craft post-metal named after the ancient warrior civilization of Thrace since 2024. Their Welsh capital base channels ancient Balkanic warrior energy through atmospheric, dynamic compositions.
Tallahassee, Florida's Threshing occupy the slow, suffocating overlap between sludge, doom, and post-metal, constructing oppressive walls of distortion that sag under their own weight — a sound shaped as much by Southern heat as by heaviness.
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.
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