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Best post-metal artists of the 2000s

The industry lost control of distribution and the music got stranger for it. Blogs did the job radio used to do. The South took the charts outright, and Kanye West began a run of reinventions that outlasted the decade he started it in.

Everyone who released a post-metal album in the 2000s, ordered by how Riffiter listeners rate their catalog.

Isis№ 1Isis13 albums here4.2Weighted score4.5 avg · 6 ratings
  1. 2Russian CirclesRussian Circles2 albums here4.04.1 avg · 6 ratings
  2. 3Toundra1 album here3.93.8 avg · 4 ratings
  3. 4Cult of LunaCult of Luna5 albums here3.83.7 avg · 3 ratings
  4. 5PelicanPelican3 albums here3.83.7 avg · 5 ratings
  5. 6The OceanThe Ocean1 album here3.83.8 avg · 16 ratings
  6. 7BorisBoris1 album here3.83.5 avg · 3 ratings
  7. 8Meniscus1 album here3.83.5 avg · 3 ratings
  8. 9Zozobra2 albums here3.63.0 avg · 3 ratings
  9. 10MogwaiMogwai1 album here3.43.1 avg · 9 ratings
  10. 11NeurosisNeurosis2 albums here2 ratings
  11. 12A Storm of Light3 albums here2 ratings
  12. 13IntronautIntronaut2 albums here1 rating
  13. 14*Shels1 album here1 rating
  14. 15Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster1 album here1 rating
  15. 16Year of No Light1 album here1 rating
  16. 17JakobJakob1 album here1 rating
  17. 18KargKarg1 album here
  18. 19AidanAidan2 albums here
  19. 20We Made GodWe Made God1 album here
  20. 21LvmenLvmen3 albums here

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