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 Great Annihilator is the only one I've listened to all the way through. It's hard to know where to start with them tbh. 
 I saved this from /mu/ years ago and it's a little outdated considering they've realeased a few albums since this was made but I would think those albums are more on the right side of things than anything

https://i.poastcdn.org/8d1e8896368f0b3d790312cdb3e40b9c1ceef796ef8738cc141f6304feb68bd8.jpg 
 What is post rock exactly 
 Prog rock but with SSRIs and caffeine instead of weed and LSD 
 Ah I understand 
 That is a meme way to describe it but yea that's it, but also not.
I usually go with the brain dead answer of post literally means after so post-x is whatever happened after the genre has been defined and whatever is post-x is just trying to break said genre out of that mold
When it comes to "post" it wants to create an atmosphere more than anything. Like, this isn't a song that you can really appreciate on the car ride to work, it's a song that you have to sit down, put the headphones on, get comfy, and just get lost in the soundscape that the artist is attempting to create. Daughters is Post-rock but it is way different than Swan's latest releases
youtube.com/watch?v=tSl4w6PXVbY
Moth Gatherer is a solid Post-Metal band and it doesn't really suit that idea of "prog with x instead of y"
youtube.com/watch?v=KTxfkedv7pc
My point being, post-x just wants you to get lost in a soundscape more than anything