Genre
Post-Rock
17 bands in the Top 500 carry Post-Rock as a primary or secondary tag.
- 17 bands
- 2000s dominant era
- 6 countries
- #116 Mogwai
Glasgow instrumentalists central to post-rock's quiet-loud canon.
- #117 Sigur Rós
Icelandic ambient-rock band whose bowed guitars feel weather-borne.
- #118 Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Montreal collective whose orchestral crescendos define apocalyptic post-rock.
- #119 Explosions in the Sky
Texas instrumentalists whose cinematic builds soundtracked a generation.
- #120 This Will Destroy You
Texas post-rock band of patient texture and slow-burn dynamics.
- #121 Russian Circles
Chicago instrumental trio fusing post-rock dynamics with metal weight.
- #122 Pelican
Chicago instrumental band straddling post-metal and post-rock.
- #123 Isis
Boston post-metal pillar of patient builds and cathedral crescendos.
- #124 Neurosis
Oakland heavy-rock visionaries who married hardcore weight to ritualistic ambient.
- #125 Cult of Luna
Swedish post-metal stalwarts of glacial heaviness and atmosphere.
- #379 Black Country, New Road
London art-rockers of literary ambition and chamber-rock arrangement.
- #439 Slint
Louisville band whose 'Spiderland' is a foundational text for math rock and post-rock.
- #440 Don Caballero
Pittsburgh instrumental math-rockers of polyrhythmic intensity.
- #441 Battles
NYC math-rock band of looped riffs and dance-leaning experimentation.
- #442 Tortoise
Chicago instrumental band central to post-rock's American emergence.
- #443 The Sea and Cake
Chicago indie-jazz-rockers of summery groove and Sam Prekop vocals.
- #496 Mono
Tokyo instrumental post-rock band of orchestral grandeur.