For those who missed our last installment, We post bi-weekly 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 doesn’t 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. Also, consider these posts open threads to share your own recent playlists and 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
Babeheaven – Sink Into Me (indie pop)
Black Dresses – Forget Your Own Face (digital hardcore)
Blue States – World Contact Day (downtempo)
Fly Anakin – Frank (southern hip-hop)
Holodrum – Holodrum (dance-punk)
Humanotone – A Flourishing Fall in a Grain of Sand (progressive stoner)
Walton – Maisie by the Sea (UK bass)
White Suns – Dead Time (no wave)
Without Waves – Comedian (progressive mathcore)
Eden Kupermintz
Humanotone – A Flourishing Fall in a Grain of Sand (progressive stoner metal)
Path of Might – Deep Chrome (progressive stoner metal)
The Night Flight Orchestra – Amber Galactic (retro-rock)
And So I Watch You From Afar – Jettison (post-rock)
The Dali Thundering Concept – All Might Men – Drifting Through a Prosthetic Era (progressive metalcore)
Druids – Shadow Work (progressive stoner)
Izthmi – Leaving This World, Leaving It All Behind (atmospheric black metal)
Saeva – All We’ve Lost We Carry With Us (black metal)
Falls of Rauros – Key To A Vanishing Future (atmospheric black metal)
Trent Bos
Denzel Curry – Melt My Eyez See Your Future (southern hip-hop)
Soul Glo – Diaspora Problems (hardcore punk, rap rock)
Touche Amore – Parting The Sea Between Brightness and Me (post-hardcore, screamo)
Animals As Leaders – Parrhesia (prog metal, djent)
Black Midi – Cavalcade (avant-prog, jazz rock)
death’s dynamic shroud – Faith in Persona (glitch pop, vaporwave)
a-tota-so – Lights Out (math rock, noise rock)
Chalk Hands – Don’t Think About Death (screamo, post-rock)
Helpless – Caged in Gold (mathgrind, sludgecore)
Pete Williams
Absent in Body – Plague God (industrial sludge)
Orville Peck – Bronco: Chapters 1 & 2 (country)
MWWB – The Harvest (stoner doom)
Këhkt Aräkh – Pale Swordsman (black)
Return to Forever – Romantic Warrior (fusion jazz)
Gloson – The Rift (post-sludge)
Iomair – Fishing for an Apparition (progressive metal)
The Cast Before the Break (emo, post-rock)
Neurosis – Through Silver In Blood (sludge)
Josh Bulleid
Ghost – Impera (heavy metal)
Moon Tooth – Phototroph (prog rock, prog metal)
Arkaik – Labyrinth of Hungry Ghosts (tech death)
Origin of Escape – Shapes (prog metal)
Tool – Aenima (prog metal, alt metal)
Audrey Horne – Blackout (heavy metal, hard rock)
Humanotone – A flourishing Fall in a Grain of Sand (progressive stoner metal)
Kvaen – The Great below (thrashy black metal)
Pagan’s Mind – Enigmatic Calling (prog metal
Joe Astill
Lifesick – Misanthropy (metallic hardcore)
Nilüfer Yanya – Painless (indie rock, alt rock)
Drug Church – Hygiene (alt rock, post-hardcore)
Genesis Owusu – Smiling With No Teeth (alternative R&B, hip-hop)
Phoebe Bridgers – Stranger in the Alps (indie folk, indie rock)
Soul Glo – Diaspora Problems (hardcore punk, experimental hip-hop)
Envy – All the Footprints You’ve Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead (screamo, post-hardcore)
Katie Malco – Failures (indie rock, indie folk)
Respire – Black Line (blackened screamo, post-rock)