Beschrijving: post-rock, instrumental, Sludge, Post-Metal, doom metal, metal, Progressive metal, post rock

Rising from the ashes of the band Tusk, the instrumental post-metal outfit Pelican formed in Chicago, 2001, by guitarists Trevor de Brauw and Laurent Lebec with sibling rhythm section Larry Herweg and Bryan Herweg (drums and bass, respectively). Owing a great debt to pioneering forefathers Neurosis, and often compared to Boston's Isis, and Sweden's Cult of Luna, Pelican were initially signed to Hydra Head Records (whose head, Aaron Turner, is a member of Isis).