post-metal is a music genre rooted in heavy metal but exploring approaches beyond metal conventions.it emerged in the 1990s with bands such as neurosis, godflesh, and helmet, who transformed metal texture through experimental composition.in a way similar to the predecessor genres post-rock and post-hardcore, post-metal offsets the darkness and intensity of extreme metal with an emphasis on atmosphere, emotion, and even 'revelation', developing an expansive but introspective sound variously imbued with elements of ambient, noise, psychedelic, progressive, and classical music.songs are typically long, with loose and layered structures that discard the verse–chorus form in favor of crescendos and repeating themes.the sound centres on guitars (subjected to various effects) and drums, while any vocals are usually screamed or growled and resemble an additional instrument.post-metal is related to other experimental styles of metal: avant-garde metal, drone metal, progressive metal, and industrial metal.it has also been called metalgaze and art metal, highlighting its connection to shoegaze (an indie music style related to post-rock) and art music, respectively.contemporary post-metal, pioneered by diverse groups such as isis, agalloch, boris, pelican, jesu, wolves in the throne room, and russian circles, typically employs the deep heaviness of doom metal and sludge metal and/or the dark ferocity of black metal.the widespread acclaim of deafheaven, who succeeded alcest in combining black metal and shoegaze (a fusion nicknamed blackgaze), recently made this global post-metal underground scene more visible.helmet's albums meantime (1992) and betty (1994) were also significant, while tool's music was described as post-metal as early as 1993.many of these artists emerged from hardcore punk and post-punk circles but their combination of sonic violence with experimentation and eclecticism made them difficult to categorize under any one genre.as this movement swelled, bands from post-hardcore and experimental backgrounds began to incorporate its tendencies of 'ambience, offbeat experimentation, downcast melodies and psychedelia' into metal.the two genres further converged through the influence of post-rock bands such as mogwai, godspeed you!black emperor, and lift to experience who shared metal's emphasis on loudness.neurosis' third album souls at zero and godflesh's second album pure, both released in 1992, are often retrospectively considered the first post-metal records.godflesh had already pioneered 'sluggish and tortured' industrial metal of their 1989 debut streetcleaner, but pure showcased 'more expansive structures and long stretches of billowing noise', inspiring a number of subsequent bands to combine metal with 'layered washes of sound'.neurosis on the other hand were a hardcore band who embraced doom metal, post-punk and industrial influences, experimenting with texture and dynamics.they have since become recognized 'for their pioneering post-metal efforts and unwavering dedication to expanding their artistic boundaries.'in 2010, guitarist steve von till stated: we always knew there was something deep to neurosis's music, but ...i think souls at zero was when the music became something else.it was taking that material out on the road and losing ourself in the trance states induced by playing hypnotic, super-heavy loud music that we really figured out how to surrender to it.then we said, ok – this is going to take us to where we wanna go: somewhere deeper, somewhere more emotional, somewhere elemental.the band's 1996 fifth album through silver in blood was credited by terrorizer with 'effectively invent[ing] the post-metal genre' and named the best post-metal album of all time by fact.the fluctuating 12-minute song 'purify' has been described as the album's 'signature track'.neurosis' work has also contributed the development of doom metal, sludge metal, and drone metal, and these genres have been associated with post-metal since.similarly, drone metal pioneers earth have been significant to post-metal ever since their 1991 debut release extra-capsular extraction.
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