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Originally Posted by LoathsomePete
The "post" genres are always kind of hard to quantify because it doesn't seem like any one band sounds similar to the other.
When I think of post-black metal bands I immediately go to bands like Solefald, in particular their 2003 album In Harmonia Universali. It's been awhile since I've looked at the genre label though, but when I look on Last.fm I see a lot of the blackgaze bands which I never really would have associated with the label, but again we come back to how hard it is to quantify any of the "post" labels.
I understand the need to differentiate between certain sounds, because using an umbrella term like black metal just doesn't work because Mayhem doesn't sound anything like Arcturus or Sigh, but avant garde is just as murky.
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I'm not a fan, so I don't really listen to much Arcturus, but they don't seem particularly avant garde to me. I keep hearing "avant garde" metalheads saying that
La Masquerade Infernale is the best album ever, but it just sounds like goofy 70's prog metaled up, with bargain basement opera vocals thrown in to make the whole thing extra laughable.