Post-metal, similar to its sonic cousins post-rock, post-hardcore, and post-punk, has always been about creating mood and atmosphere. In the early 90s, bands like...

Pink Floyd had a real knack for creating haunting, atmospheric music, particularly after the departure of lead singer Syd Barrett. Futuristic synthesizers mingled with...

I feel like atmospheric sludge went into a slump almost as soon as it started to blossom. There are groups like Isis, who can...

There have been an awful lot of post-metal bands over the last decade or so, and for every one good band there are three...

When I first received Shakhtyor's debut EP from my dear editor, we were at first struck by how much the band's name sounded like...

It's easy to think that post-metal's jumped the shark. Like post-rock before it, it almost seems to have become too formulaic. The build-climax-release formula...

I love sludge metal simply because there's so many different ways you can pull it off. There's the angular dissonance of an act like Ramesses,...