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Deafheaven is an American blackgaze band formed in 2010. Originally based in San Francisco, the group began as a two-piece with singer George Clarke and guitarist Kerry McCoy, who recorded and self-released a demo album together. Following its release, Deafheaven recruited three new members and began to tour. Before the end of 2010, the band signed to Deathwish Inc. and later released their debut album Roads to Judah, in April 2011. They popularized a unique style blending black metal, shoegaze, and post-rock, among other influences, later called blackgaze by reviewers.

Fen is a post-black metal band formed in 2006 and originating in the Fens of the East of England, a region from which the band draws much of their inspiration. They have released seven full-length studio albums and two EPs, and are currently signed to German label Prophecy Productions.

Marriages was an American rock band from Los Angeles, California that formed in 2011. The band's final lineup consisted of vocalist and guitarist Emma Ruth Rundle, bassist Greg Burns and drummer Andrew Clinco.

If These Trees Could Talk is an American instrumental post-rock band from Akron, Ohio. They self-released their self-titled debut EP in 2006. Independent record label the Mylene Sheath re-issued the EP on vinyl in 2007 and went on to publish the band's debut studio album, Above the Earth, Below the Sky, on vinyl also, in 2009. The band self-released their second album, Red Forest, in March 2012, with a vinyl version coming out through Science of Silence Records. They followed it with a self-promoted tour throughout Europe in April 2012. If These Trees Could Talk issued their third album, The Bones of a Dying World, in June 2016, on Metal Blade Records. All their previous releases were subsequently re-issued in 2021 and 2022 on the same label. In February 2024, they published the single "Trail of Whispering Giants", their first new material in nearly eight years.