Your way in
Post-metal / atmospheric sludge 1997
Sludge with post-rock logic: long songs, crescendos and instrumental passages. Neurosis invented the form.
- Heaviness
- 8
- Speed
- 3
- Melody
- 7
- Where from
- USA
- Tempo
- 60-120 bpm
- Song length
- 8-15 min
- Written about
- Ritual and myth, The sea and geology, Systems and collapse, Frequently instrumental for long stretches
- Vocals
- Sung and screamed
Why this one
| You said | Post-metal / atmospheric sludge | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shouting, but I can still hear the words When someone is singing, what should come out? | mixed | 80% | ×3 |
| There, but not the point How much weight do you want behind it? | 8 out of 10 | 70% | ×2 |
| Slow. Let it take its time. What pace? | 3 out of 10 | 80% | ×2 |
| This century Does it matter when it was made? | 1997 | 88% | ×1 |
| Anger at something real What should the words be about? | Ritual and myth, The sea and geology, Systems and collapse, Frequently instrumental for long stretches | 50% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 75% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 5 answers you gave, weighted vocals 3, heaviness 2, pace 2, era 1, about 1 out of 9. Post-metal / atmospheric sludge ties with the next, and won on being the broader of the two. 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
Eyehategod, Take as Needed for Pain 1993
Eyehategod - Take as Needed for Pain. The feedback between tracks is part of the album.
- 2The one to put on first
Isis, Oceanic 2002
Post-metal / atmospheric sludge
Isis - Oceanic. The most accessible album in the genre, and no weaker for it.
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5Then
The first is the entry point for Sludge metal, one step outside, so the second record has something to be heard against. After it come Post-metal / atmospheric sludge'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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Anarcho-punk 75%
Total political punk: collectives, self-releasing and militant pacifism. It laid down the DIY ethic the underground still runs on.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 7 steps from Post-metal / atmospheric sludge.
The way into Anarcho-punk -
Groove metal 70%
Thrash slowed to a groove that hits you in the chest: syncopated riffs, mid-tempo drums, barked vocals.
5 steps from Post-metal / atmospheric sludge, meeting it only at Heavy metal.
The way into Groove metal
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
- Slow. Let it take its time. put 22 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Hardcore punk, Black metal, Death metal. Worth 2 of 9.
- This century put 43 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Blues rock. Worth 1 of 9.
- Anger at something real put 108 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Alternative rock, Black metal, Blues rock. Worth 1 of 9.
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.