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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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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.
Torpor is a sludge/doom/post-metal band from London, active since 2015. Their music builds from the heaviest depths of sludge and doom into the atmospheric dynamics of post-metal, creating immersive and physically overwhelming sonic experiences.
Tosiro from České Budějovice traverse the boundaries between doom, sludge, post-metal, and post-hardcore, creating a genre-fluid heaviness that has evolved considerably since their 2008 formation. Their willingness to incorporate atmospheric post-metal textures alongside crushing sludge riffs makes them one of southern Bohemia's most versatile heavy acts.
Toundra is an atmospheric post-metal/rock band from Madrid, Spain, active since 2009. They craft expansive, cinematic instrumental post-metal and post-rock from the Spanish capital.
Transcomar is a sludge/post-metal band from Bochum, Germany, formed in 2023. They blend sludge metal's abrasive weight with post-metal's atmospheric expansiveness.
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