Post-metal is a mixture of post-rock and heavy metal, with elements of shoegaze, industrial metal and sludge. It is broadly characterized by distorted guitar, atmospherics, gradual evolution of song structure and a minimal emphasis on vocals. Most songs follow the format of intense crescendos on simple chord sequences but may include sections of powerful riffing. Hydra Head Records owner and Isis frontman Aaron Turner originally termed the genre "thinking man's metal", demonstrating the link with Avant-garde metal, by trying to move away from common metal conventions. "Post-metal" is the favored name for a growing genre, one also referred to as "instro-metal","postcore", art metal, metal-gaze and a great range of others [citation needed]. History: According to Turner, experimental bands such as Flying Luttenbachers, Melvins, Godflesh and Neurosis "laid the groundwork for us [...] we [Isis] [a]re part of a recognizable lineage". Although Neurosis and Godflesh appeared earlier and display elements befitting post-metal, Isis are often credited with laying down the conventions and definition of the genre in less nebulous terms, with their release of Oceanic in 2002. Helmet's albums Meantime (1992) and Betty (1994) are cited as having "eschewed the traditional concept of heavy music" and having "trademarked the drop-d power-groove in 5/4." They may be considered "definitive texts in post-metal" though are more accurately described as Alternative Metal/Post-Hardcore; not having much in common with Post-Metal beyond drop tunings. Post-Metal's history is more closely related to that of Atmospheric Sludge, though some bands are simply Post-Rock with louder guitars. [The term "post-metal" was earlier used in the UK to describe another emergent genre of metal, at which time the genre now known as "post-metal" was referred to by various other names, most commonly "industrial soundscape music" [citation needed] and "soundscape metal". The term largely fell out of use with the ri
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