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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