UMUR wrote:
Many post-metal artists use sludge metal riffis and I must confess to being a bit confused myself on when to call someting atmospheric sludge and when to call it post-metal.
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Here's something that bothered me about the whole Post-Metal thing that only added to my own similar confusion: before RYM added a Post-Metal tag in its own right, Post-Metal was considered an AKA for Atmospheric Sludge Metal. But when Post-Metal got added to RYM many releases that had had Atmo Sludge voted down on seemed to become Post-Metal overnight even when they weren't previously tagged as anything metal. To me that sent the message that if Post-Metal is just another name for Atmo Sludge then those releases weren't actually metal, but if Post-Metal was its own thing, they were metal.