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Blackgaze / post-black 2007
Black metal tremolo over shoegaze harmony: the same density, but the result comes out luminous instead of frozen.
- Heaviness
- 7
- Speed
- 7
- Melody
- 9
- Where from
- France / USA
- Tempo
- 120-200 bpm
- Song length
- 5-10 min
- Written about
- Memory and childhood, Beauty and grief together, Nature, Transcendence
- Vocals
- Growled or shrieked
Why this one
| You said | Blackgaze / post-black | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| There, but not the point How much weight do you want behind it? | 7 out of 10 | 80% | ×2 |
| Quick and driving What pace? | 7 out of 10 | 100% | ×2 |
| This century Does it matter when it was made? | 2007 | 100% | ×1 |
| The inside of a head What should the words be about? | Memory and childhood, Beauty and grief together, Nature, Transcendence | 100% | ×1 |
| No. Texture and force are enough. Do you want a tune you could hum afterwards? | 9 out of 10 | 20% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 83% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 5 answers you gave, weighted heaviness 2, pace 2, era 1, about 1, melody 1 out of 7. Blackgaze / post-black leads the next by 1 point. Where two genres score the same the broader one wins, because a genre with subgenres under it is somewhere to carry on from and a leaf is a full stop.
Five records, in this order
- 1Start one step outside
Darkthrone, A Blaze in the Northern Sky 1992
Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky. The production is intentional, not a flaw.
- 2The one to put on first
Deafheaven, Sunbather 2013
Deafheaven - Sunbather. It opens with nine minutes that justify the whole genre.
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5Then
The first is the entry point for Black metal, one step outside, so the second record has something to be heard against. After it come Blackgaze / post-black's essential records in the order the encyclopedia lists them. Every one of these has a page here with links out to somewhere it can be played.
If that is not it
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Progressive metalcore 81%
Metalcore with eight-string guitars, ambient passages and structures borrowed from djent.
4 steps from Blackgaze / post-black, meeting it only at Heavy metal.
The way into Progressive metalcore -
Garage rock revival 81%
A reaction to nu metal and radio pop: crisp guitars, plain production, narrow suits. It put guitar rock back on festival bills in the 2000s.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 7 steps from Blackgaze / post-black.
The way into Garage rock revival
Not simply the second and third of the ranking: those are almost always near neighbours of the first, which is three names for one suggestion. An alternate has to sit at least 4 steps through the tree from the headline and from the other alternate, which is the same floor the "sounds like this, but isn't" panel uses.
What your answers ruled out
- This century put 43 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Blues rock. Worth 1 of 7.
- The inside of a head put 88 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Black metal. Worth 1 of 7.
- No. Texture and force are enough. put 40 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Folk metal, Folk rock, Emo. Worth 1 of 7.
Counted as genres scoring 20% or less on that answer alone. A recommendation that only shows what it chose is hiding half of what it did.