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^True, Chris. "Dirge". Allmusic. Retrieved 29 December 2011.
^"Helmet Rediscovery". X-Press Online. 28 March 2007. Archived from the original on 31 August 2007. Retrieved 29 December 2011. Albums such [as] Meantime (1992), Betty (1994) and even Aftertaste (1997) eschewed the traditional concept of heavy music, trademarked the drop-d power-groove in 5/4, and pioneered a whole new trend in music. Even now, these albums stand on their own as definitive texts in post-metal.
^Garry Sharpe-Young's "Definitive Guide to Metal", p. 379, "propagators of ambitious and supremely melodic doom death metal with heavy gothic elements"
^ abBuckley, Peter, ed. (1 November 2003). "S". The Rough Guide to Rock (3 ed.). Rough Guides. p. 908. ISBN1843531054. Retrieved 19 April 2012. ...related post-metal groups such as Main and Godflesh at that time...
^Freeman, Phil. "Review of Fluxion". Allmusic. Retrieved 14 November 2010. The Ocean, a largely Berlin-based musical collective, occupy a space right near Neurosis, Isis, and Cult of Luna in the post-metal arena.
^Ferman, Dave (30 July 1993). "At the main stage..."(fee required). Fort Worth Star-Telegram, archived by NewsBank. Retrieved 9 May 2007. Tool's vicious, post-metal attack is one of the more intense offerings of the day...
^Augusto, Troy J. (16 October 1996). "Live Performances: Tool". Variety. Retrieved 9 May 2007. The group's rhythm section, featuring new bassist Justin Chancellor, propelled the group's post-metal stylings with a twisted, near-jazz approach.
^Baca, Ricardo (8 September 2006). "Reverb, 9/01: Tool". The Denver Post. Retrieved 9 May 2007. ...Tool's bag of post-metal goodies, and it's every bit as fear-inducing as it was in 1993.
^Horsley, Jonathan (March 2011). "Kiwi death merchants destroy 'em all". Decibel (77): 32. ISSN1557-2137. What could be better than some evocatively bleak death metal while panic-buying canned goods and bottled water on the day when the chemical factory has turned the sky green and the river purple? New rager The Destroyers of All is a disorienting, desolate doozy, taking elements of weird post-metal to construct a sound that would be mother's milk to ADHDNeurosis fans.
^Freeman, Phil. "Everything Is Fire review". Allmusic. Retrieved 24 April 2011. Their music combines the brutal, downtuned riffing of traditional death metal (think Immolation or Morbid Angel) with the dissonance and shifting time signatures of Gorguts and the slow, atmospheric passages reminiscent of Isis.