Madison, Wisconsin band weaving black metal harshness together with post-metal's expansive, atmospheric qualities to build something both abrasive and meditative. The contrast between destruction and reflection runs through everything they create.

Kansas City doom and funeral doom band whose post-metal atmosphere stretches songs into vast, mournful landscapes. Their music moves with glacial patience and devastating emotional weight.

Expansive Atmospheric Black / Post-Metal out of Texas.

Portland doom and post-metal band building vast, slow-burn soundscapes from heavy, resonant foundations. Creaturess draws on the Pacific Northwest's atmospheric heaviness to craft music that breathes and suffocates in equal measure.

Boston's Crowfeeder channels the bleak introspection of post-metal through a sludge lens, building slow, towering structures out of distorted guitars and atmospheric tension. Their music rewards patient listening with a sense of weight that accumulates over time.

Evansville, Indiana's Crows of Odin occupy the bleak intersection of doom, sludge, and post-metal, building cavernous soundscapes from feedback, deliberate tempos, and a mythology-steeped atmosphere. Their music feels ancient and oppressively heavy.

Prolific one-man project with over fifteen full-lengths since 2013. Unpredictable, genre-bending compositions blending doom, prog, and symphonic elements.

Denver's Cult of the Lost Cause are a fully instrumental post-metal quartet who sculpt dynamic, adventurously structured songs from frigid, metallic guitar tones and commanding volume shifts. Since 2011, they've drawn comparisons to Rosetta, ISIS, and Russian Circles while staking their own territory in the Denver underground.

Seattle doom, post-metal, and sludge metal band crafting expansive, heavy soundscapes rooted in desolation and slow-building tension. Cycles of the Damned draws from the Pacific Northwest's introspective and heavy musical heritage.