For those who missed our last installment, We post biweekly updates covering what the staff at Heavy Blog have been spinning. Given the amount of time we spend on the site telling you about music that does not fall neatly into the confines of conventional “metal,” it should come as no surprise that many of us on staff have pretty eclectic tastes that range far outside of metal and heavy things. We can’t post about all of them at length here, but we can at least let you know what we’re actually listening to. For those that would like to participate as well (and please do) can drop a 3X3 in the comments, which can be made with tapmusic.net through your last.fm account, or create it manually with topsters.net. Also, consider these posts open threads to talk about pretty much anything music-related. We love hearing all of your thoughts on this stuff and love being able to nerd out along with all of you.
Scott Murphy
Gorguts – From Wisdom to Hate
Grouper – Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
Kayo Dot – Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue
Leon Vynehall – Rojus (Designed to Dance)
Natural Snow Buildings – Terror’s Horns
Neko Case – The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Fight, the More I Love You
Nuno Canavarro – Plux Quba
Sonny Rollins – Saxophone Colossus
White Suns – Sinews
David Aleksov
Biosphere – Dropsonde
Mick Jenkins – The Healing Component
Oureboros – Dreaming in Earth, Dissolving in Light
Esoteric – Paragon of Dissonance
Cymbals Eat Guitars – Pretty Years
Boris – Flood
Earth – The Bees Made Honey in the Lion’s Skull
Meshuggah – The Violent Sleep of Reason
Mouth of the Architect – Path of Eight
Kit Brown
George Carlin – It’s Bad For Ya
Gatecreeper – Sonoran Depravation
Wormrot – Voices
Death Grips – Bottomless Pit
Gridlink – Longhena
Nails – You Will Never Be One Of Us
Trap Them – Crown Feral
The Dillinger Escape Plan – Dissociation
Meshuggah – The Violent Sleep of Reason
Simon Handmaker
Danny Brown – Atrocity Exhibition
The Dillinger Escape Plan – Dissociation
Busdriver – Temporary Forevers
Circa Survive – Blue Sky Noise
Madvillain – Madvillainy
Pyrrhon – Growth Without End
VOLA – Inmazes
Omar Rodriguez Lopez – Blind Worms, Pious Swine
clipping. – Midcity
Ahmed Hasan
The Dillinger Escape Plan – Dissociation
GoGo Penguin – Man Made Object
Waterstrider – Nowhere Now
The Dillinger Escape Plan – Option Paralysis
Car Bomb – w^w^^w^w
The Dillinger Escape Plan – Ire Works
The Dillinger Escape Plan – Miss Machine
Meshuggah – Nothing
Meshuggah – The Violent Sleep of Reason
Colin Kauffman
Oathbreaker – Rheia
Skuggsja – A Piece For Mind and Mirror
Crowbar – Symmetry In White
The Body – No One Deserves Happiness
Leprous – The Congregation
Caligula’s Horse – The Tide, The Thief and The River’s End
Departe – Failure, Subside
Panopticon – Autumn Eternal
Thank You Scientist – Stranger Heads Prevail
Ryan Castrati
Dance Gavin Dance – Mothership
The Dillinger Escape Plan – Dissociation
Limp Bizkit – Significant Other
Gucci Mane – Woptober
Bruno Mars – 24K Magic
Danny Brown – Atrocity Exhibition
The Devil Wears Prada – Transit Blues
Knocked Loose – Laugh Tracks
Animals as Leaders – The Madness of Many
Eden Kupermintz
clipping. – Splendor & Misery
Thrawsunblat – Metachthonia
Itzamna – Chascade
Protest the Hero – Fortress
Anciients – Voice of the Void
Plini – Handmade Cities
Mountain – Evolve
Agent Fresco – Destrier
Anathema – Distant Satellites
Jimmy Mullett
The Dillinger Escape Plan – Dissociation
Wolf Eyes – Burned Mind
Beastie Boys – To The Five Boroughs
The Dead Kennedys – Give Me Convenience Or Give Me Death
Can – Tago Mago
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Safe As Milk
Madonna – Like A Prayer
Coil – The Ape of Naples
Mr. Bungle – California
Andrew Hatch
Panopticon – Kentucky
Funkadelic – Maggot Brain
Eddie Hazel – California Dreamin’
Jim Croce – The Original Albums
Borknagar – The Olden Domain
Borknagar – Borknagar
Blind Willie McTell – Atlanta Twelve String
Bathory – Bathory
Agalloch – The Mantle
Noyan Tokgozoglu
Fractal Cypher – The Human Paradox
Aborted – Retrogore
Anaal Nathrakh – The Whole of the Law
Crator – The Ones Who Create : The Ones Who Destroy
A Sense Of Gravity – Atrament
Muse – Origin of Symmetry
Job For A Cowboy – Sun Eater
Gods of Eden – From The End of Heaven
Coma Cluster Void – Mind Cemeteries