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The Best Post-Metal Album
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This is not a common album by any means neither is it your average post metal release. And that is exactly why this album is special. For a debut album, The Constant steadily breaks barriers and offers majestic melodic soundscapes and does it conveying real beauty. The prolonged riffs are enticing, melancholic and this is such an emotional journey that you simply can't refuse to take.
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Leave the world behind and let go to the pull of the cosmic drift that is Skylight. Atoma create an atmosphere like no other in this original and completely immersive debut effort. With brilliantly resonating melodies enhanced by an electronic ambience it will easily entice repeated listens.
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Cloudkicker, the productive one-man instrumental project that is Ben Sharp is back with another release after a detour into what might be labelled as acoustic territories. Distortion is now on again. However, if with Fade you're expecting complex math metal signatures, you might be a bit off. It's more mellow and ambient sounding, relying strongly on post rock structures. Nevertheless, the end result is still a Cloudkicker and an album of great beauty.
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| Adding traditional Korean instruments to their post-rock, Jambinai aren't like anything you've heard before. The quiet, introspective moments are really enhanced by geomungo or haegeum... as are the really heavy riffs and grindcore bursts of unrelenting aggression. Unexpected, and a really original listening experience! |
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What's your favourite post metal flavour from the past year? We think it might be gloomy, it might be bleak and cold, even ice cold, most probably even Icelandic. We think it's Kontinuum. This début album of theirs is a tremendously solid release. They've got great tunes, good riffs, touch of ambient, and a refined production. Most of all, though, they wouldn't be a normal band hailing out of Iceland if they didn't have that special something to separate them from the rest.
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Classic Neurosis, plain and simple. Which means, of course, stunningly crushing, deeply emotional stuff. Whatever these guys do, it always ends up a masterpiece, plain and simple. Guess what? Honor Found In Decay is no exception.
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Sprawling and expansive, Samaroid Dioramas is a blessing for those who love ebbs and flows in their heavy music. The build-ups and melodies lull you in, and before you know it, you'll be drowning in a sea of crushing riffs with soothing atmospheric undercurrents.
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Post-Metal featuring well-structured songs that build, develop and suck you in. With a twist. No, they don't RHAWEGGH! scream at you making you wish you were dead… clean, really well done vocals round this excellent album off. Like a bridge over troubled waters, cut above the bulk of post-it notes that are drowning the genre in mediocrity.
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As enjoyable as a booze cruise, The Shipwreck is an eclectic mix of doom, post, gaze, and psychedelic influences based around a nautical theme. Not sure what more words are needed… or why you are still reading. Enjoy ahoy!
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