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Australasia by Pelican (2003)
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The sadistic bursts of feedback found on the debut full length album by Godflesh make songs like “Christbait Rising” and “Devastator/Mighty Trust Krusher” vomit-inducing, feel-bad dirges from the gloomiest parts of England. Godflesh took the aggression of metal and removed the idiocy and conventionalities of it, revolutionizing industrial and post-metal music with one abrasive fracture.
Conqueror by Jesu (2007)
This debut from instrumental trio Russian Circles is all about texture. With looped guitars intertwining in a point/counterpoint exchange, the drums creating syncopated beats to work from, and the bass holding everything down, the band manages to be pretty without being sweet, delicate without crumbling, and devastating without running roughshod.
Streetcleaner by Godflesh (1989)
Using the sort of instrumentation and aggression found in metal with the atmospheric textures usually found in post-rock, bands in the post-metal genre have formed a style of music that eschews verse-chorus-verse in favor of unfolding, evolving structures and a focus on the avant-garde.
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The third album from ISIS sees them move away from the harsh sounds that earned them the nickname “NeurISIS” and allowing a more subtle density to permeate atmospheres of paranoia, reality [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and providence. The central theme of omniscience finds the band moderating a violent exorcism of ambient forces.
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After disbanding Godflesh, leader Justin Broadrick formed Jesu and began a project that is no less heavy and no less imposing. M
Tribal drums, haunting chants, and an evolving display of noises emerge from the most isolated areas of the psyche on Enemy of the Sun. Well-paced, grinding rhythms form a backdrop for the crescendos and hiccups from glass to sand, setting a new precedence for intelligent, brutal metal that wouldn’t be matched until subsequent Neurosis releases and the children that they’ve birthed.
A mass of plodding, instrumental doom, the first LP by Pelican takes elements of the stretched-out feedback anthems of their self-titled EP and turns them into sweeping epics. With three songs clocking in at over ten minutes, the band uses riffs from a celestial place to make the songs soar. This is amplifier worship with hooks.
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Enemy of the Sun by Neurosis (1993)
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Enter by Russian Circles (2006)
Panopticon by ISIS (2004)