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
Antigama – Whiteout (grindcore)
Bad Breeding – Human Capital (anarcho-punk)
black midi – Hellfire (avant-prog)
Exocrine – The Hybrid Suns (tech death)
Foals – Life Is Yours (alternative dance)
Nightlands – Moonshine (dream pop)
Scarcity – Aveilut (experimental black metal)
Touccan – Full Sentimental (math rock)
Yung Bae – Groove Continental: Side A (dance-pop)
Eden Kupermintz
Nunu – Status (pop)
Tulip – Derangement, Exquisite Tenderness (grindcore)
Ashenspire – Hostile Architecture (avant-garde black metal)
The Samuel Jackson Five – The Samuel Jackson Five (post-rock)
The Tea Club – If/when (progressive rock)
Touccan – Full Sentimental (math-rock)
Wilderun – Epigone (progressive death metal)
Anciients – Heart of Oak (progressive stoner metal)
City Girl – Neon Impasse (synth-pop)
Josh Bulleid
Fit for an Autopsy – Oh[,] What the Future Holds (progressive deathcore)
Coheed and Cambria – Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind (pop rock, prog metal)
H.E.A.T – Force Majeure (hair metal)
Greylotus– Downfall (progressive metal)
Arch Enemy – Deceivers (melodeath)
Pearl Jam – Ten (alt rock, grunge)
Charlie Griffith – Tikktaalika (thrashy prog metal)
Norma Jean – Deathrattle[,] Sing for Me
Rage Against the Machine – The Battle of Los Angeles (rap metal)
Trent Bos
Wormot – Hiss (grindcore)
Wake – Thought Form Descent (black metal, dissonant death metal)
The Wind In The Trees – Architects of Light (mathcore, screamo)
Ernia – How To Deal With Life and Fail (grindcore)
Greg Puciato – Mirrorcell (alt rock, alt metal)
Pool Kids – Pool Kids (emo, math rock)
Deathbringers – IT (groovy tech death)
Conjurer – Pathos (atmospheric sludge, blackened hardcore)
Locktender – Friedrich (screamo, post-rock)
Calder Dougherty
Wormrot – Hiss (grindcore)
Ernia – How to Deal with Life and Fail (progressive grindcore)
Ithaca – The Language of Injury (melodic metallic hardcore)
Misery Signals – Controller (progressive metalcore)
black midi – Hellfire (avant-prog, art rock)
Greylotus – Dawnfall (progressive deathcore)
Remains – Grind ‘Til Death (deathgrind, grindcore)
Aeviterne – The Ailing Facade (progressive dissodeath)
Anticreation – From the Dust of Embers (dissodeath)
Jordan Jerabek
Ammothea – Terminal Burrow (blackened doomgaze)
Cavernlight – As I Cast Ruin Upon the Lens That Reveals My Every Flaw (doom, post-metal)
Early Moods – Spellbound (heavy metal)
Lesbian – Hallucinogenesis (blackened psych-doom)
Molder – Engrossed in Decay (OSDM, crust)
Sumac – May You Be Held (post-metal, experimental)
Tulip – Derangement, Exquisite Tenderness (synth grind, calculator core)
Wake – Devouring Ruin (prog death, post-grind)
Wake – Thought Form Descent (prog death, post-grind)
Pete Williams
Telekinetic Yeti – Primordial (stoner doom)
Tami Neilson – Kingmaker (country)
Behold! The Monolith – From the Fathomless Deep (stoner doom/death doom)
Remains – Grind ‘Til Death (grindcore)
Delicate Steve – After Hours (instrumental rock)
Maul – Seraphic Punishment (OSDM)
Molder – Engrossed in Decay (OSDM)
Yin Yin – The Rabbit That Hunts Tigers (psychedelic garage rock)
Krallice – Psychagogue (black metal)
Joe Astill
The Weeknd – After Hours
Anxious – Little Green House
Totally Unicorn – High Spirits//Low Life
Phoebe Bridgers – Stranger in the Alps
Ethel Cain – Preacher’s Daughter
Drain – California Cursed
Urne – Serpent & Spirit
Wu-Lu – Loggerhead
Beach Bunny – Emotional Creature