r/postmetal

Imagine every post-metal album is about to disappear forever.

U can save only five albums for future generations, SO THEY CAN UNDERSTAND WHAT THIS GENRE IS ALL ABOUT.

Which five albums would you choose? Feel free to explain your reasons if you'd like.

Mine would be:

- Neurosis – Through Silver in Blood

The foundation of modern post-metal.

- Isis – Oceanic

The genre's defining masterpiece.

- Cult of Luna – Somewhere Along the Highway

Peak atmosphere and emotion.

- Amenra – Mass VI

Raw intensity and overwhelming emotional weight.

- Agalloch – The Mantle

Obviously, it's not a pure Post-Metal album, but I also think it's clear that it became a major source of inspiration for many bands in the genre thanks to its unique blend of melancholy, nature and atmosphere.

Hello. Over the past few weeks, I've found myself immersed in a search that is lately exhausting me, as I am looking for a very particular sound. It all started when I began to reevaluate Sunn O))), and from there, I discovered Nadja's early albums. Since those discoveries, I've found several excellent bands, but somehow they don't quite meet the requirements of what I’m looking for. I'll try to describe it:

• I am looking for a sonic slowness that is glacial, as if making incredibly slow dark ambient but with doom and drone instrumentation.
• The vocals should be clean, not guttural or harsh. For example, I immensely enjoyed "I Shall Die Here" by The Body, but the screaming repels me.
• Corrupted also fascinated me musically, but it was all ruined when the vocalist started singing.
• Bismuth is relatively close to what I want, but they only have two albums.
• Nadja's early albums are almost exactly what I'm looking for, but their later albums are more melodic, with more conventional compositions.
• I liked Jesu's "Heart Ache", although the vocals don't fascinate me. I would like something more whispered and ethereal or something totally instrumental.
• Someone recommended Inoha when I mentioned my search for cleaner, ethereal vocals. It's not bad, but it's like listening to a heavy version of Lycia, and that's not what I'm looking for.
• Albums that I have liked and that have come somewhat close to what I'm looking for: KTL's first album; "Unavailing" by Bismuth; "Let the Earth Be Silent" by Fvnerals; "Ceremony of Stillness" by A-Sun Amissa; "Weighing Souls with Sand" by The Angelic Process (even though it hardly resembles the sound I'm looking for at all, it's a wonderful album). And above all, my favorite album to come out of this entire search: "Touched" by Nadja.

Apologies for the wall of text and the phrasing. English is not my first language, and I am also tired from staying up late the past few days listening to records. Any help will be eternally appreciated.

I've always had the impression that, more than in most other metal subgenres, post-metal bands tends to end their albums with their most powerful, emotional or intense track.

Maybe I'm wrong, but that's how it has always felt to me.

If you had to pick just one closing track that stands above the rest, which one would it be?

Mine would be:

Cult of Luna - Dark City, Dead Man (Somewhere Along the Highway)

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Hey all,

My drummer and I recorded our first album this past winter, and have recently released it. Wanted to share it here as well.

Featuring members of Teeth Kids, and ex: Outrun the Sunlight & Ex: Rhone members, Polearm is an experimental metal band from Chicago, IL.

Engineered and Mixed by Pete Grossmann at Bricktop Recording February 2026 in Chicago.
Mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege March 2026.
Artwork commissioned by Arief Rachmad at Fezee Studio / "Nenasmint".

FFO: Russian Circles, Rosetta, Pelican, Isis, Spotlights, etc

Thanks for checking it out!

Polearm: Self-Titled 2026

Stumbled upon this video after a Sunn O))) binge. I’m enthralled by the atmosphere. Could you recommend some instrumental doom ambient albums that are similar? Thanks in advance 🫡

So I am a huge Amenra fan and I love their obvious folk influence in their music. I'm from Romania and I'm about to write an experimental album blending industrial, sludge and noise themes but I really really want to add a touch of the Romanian sound and I was wondering if you guys have recommendations of bands that implemented folk sounds in their music like Amenra did. (Doesn't have to be Romanian)

Hey everyone !

So, I'm looking for new bands to listen to. Basically, I'm looking for new bands to listen to. But here's the catch. I mostly listen to music when I'm reading, and I can't be arsed having lyrics or a voice take me out of my book, so I'm looking for stuff that is absolutely completely purely instrumental !

So far, I've listened to and loved : Russian Circles, God Is An Astronaut, Archelon (now GOZER), Caspian, Pelican, If These Trees Could Talk, Red Sparowed, Sons of Alpha Centauri (only the old albums), Toundra, We Lost The Sea.

I've listened to and didn't quite like : ANTLERS (too "Black metal" for me), Cult of Luna (great, but vocals :( ), Isis, Sunn O))))

I got a couple bands I still need to try to listen to according to an old thread I found on here, but it was 7 years old and I was wondering if any new bands made a big impact on here !

TLDR; Looking for new instrumental bands like Russian Circles and God Is An Astronaut, also please read the Stormlight Archives it's great !

EDIT : Daaaaaamn I expected to get roasted or downvoted to hell ! You guys are absolutely awesome, I will listen to everything you've sent and see if it goes in the playlist, thank you all so very very much <3

Is atmospheric sludge similar to sludge metal but with more emo/screamo chords and progressions? If not, what specifically is it and what other genres could it be compared to? and is there a genre that is closer to sludge with emo/screamo chords?

Neurosis resurrected with an awesome album, new Cult of Luna and The Ocean albums incoming. Also Russian Circles, Junius, Lost in Kiyv, and probably lots more that I cannot remember right now.

Which release are you the most excited about?