Check out Because of Ghosts - This Culture of Background Noise. They use dynamics heavily, but it's not the typical structure of swelling crescendo into loud hum and finally a fade-out. They owe much more to the Do Make Say Think camp of combining folk, jazz, and the instrumental side of bands like American Football. So it's dynamically more varied and less predictable.

Early Grails should work too, from what I remember.

I was thinking of more instrumental stuff, but these bands sound pretty interesting. I'll listen to some albums towards Summer. I was wondering where I'd heard of Our Earth is a Tomb before, turns out I've already transcribed their songs on Genius.com! Small world.


Both of these bands sound pretty nice, I think I'll enjoy them. Is there a particular Grails album you'd recommend, or should I experiment?

The Burden of Hope should be a good one to start with Grails.

It's true that I tend to use the prefix-tag "post" to describe a larger brand of bands that escape the classic formats traditionally define by the suffix-tag, to encompass original music grounds that expand on the prerequisites.

it we stick to the conventional definition of post-rock- usually instrumental, long, drawn-out song structures, often guitar-based, a constant ebb and flow, then I suggest you give Oort Cloud a listen: https://oortcloudx.bandcamp.com/album/oort-cloud . It's a magical band that always surprises you with brilliant ideas - that's quite heavy too, sometimes more Metal than Rock, with a delicious spacey vibe!

They sound great too. A good mix of post-rock and doom metal.

Looking for more post black that sounds like this:



Beautiful, serene passages and then heaviness, but not to the point of overwhelming, kind of like Alcest.

It reminds me of Funeralbloom

Been digging this band lately.

https://thehopeburden.bandcamp.com/

General rec. This band and release has really grown on me the last while.

https://ornith.bandcamp.com/

Russian Circles finally made it and is now in the Archives with their new album Gnosis. Heavier riffs than before and a great album overall.

Moeror's last two albums are the most fantastic fusion of post-rock and black metal i've ever heard. They're also pretty leftist if this matters to someone

Has any band ever come close to what Neurosis acieved with Through Silver in Blood?

I've been going through a lot of post-metal recently but nothing seems to have that kind of ferocity and weight.

As a general recommendation, Leonov has gotten very regular play from me since I discovered them some years ago. They've got two excellent albums and a third in the works.
https://leonov.bandcamp.com/album/wake

Nostra from Latvia. They have just released a second album, Sea of Fertility







Official store/site
https://nostraofficial.bandcamp.com

What Post Metal releases from this year are worth checking out?