Ah, Valentine’s Day! For some, this is a day for celebration, for basking in the warm glow of romantic love and its fabled perfumes. For others, it is a troublesome day, accentuating their loneliness with its acute forms of social ritual. For yet others it is a day marked in…
If you were to list off the first few countries that came to mind when discussing the development of metal as a genre, I’d bet you a fairly hefty amount of money that Singapore wouldn’t be among them. Scant are the big names that hail from one of the world’s…
Sometimes, an album speaks to you. Beyond just the emotions it relies, it’s like it flashes words into your mind, communicating directly with the secret parts of you. It often happens with a band you already know; your history with them, your familiarity, are like super-conductors for the themes, ideas,…
Good morning and welcome once again to the wave of progressive stoner metal which has been washing over us for several years now. This time, we are proud to premiere The Ghost Next Door’s A Feast for the Sixth Sense, a politically charged exploration of groove, riffs, and the powers they hold. The album’s centerpiece is probably the…
For stoner metal to have any kind of hold on me today, it has to have something unique, something to set it apart from the hordes of bands that are making music in the style. As Vokonis’s “Grasping Time” played in my ears for the first time, I was desperate…
by Aaron Edwards Outlander, hailing from the UK’s Birmingham, is one of those few precious bands whose material only gets better as time goes on. Up until now they’ve only released a few singles, and they’re doubling their discography with their upcoming 5-track EP with the same title as their…
It hasn’t even been two weeks since we told you to listen to Israeli post-metal fiends NÜR and yet here we are, premiering another track from their upcoming EP, ahead of its release this week. This time, we have “Water”, a track which digs even deeper than the previous one…
By now, the fruitful conjunction between Heavy Blog and A Thousand Arms should be known to all who follow our post-rock oriented content. A year and a half ago, one of the most joyous results of this conjunction came to be and that was me getting acquainted with the music of Seeress.…
Followers of the blog may have first been introduced to the chaotic hardcore of DEAD KIWIS two weeks ago through a fellow writer’s column giving a shout out to their new single, but today we’re proud to present the entire new EP, Systemic Home Run now to stream. The intro/opening…
There’s a great interview with YOB’s Mike Scheidt, courtesy of Anna Blumenthal of the Earthquaker Devices blog, where he discusses the length of his songs. Anna asks him if he “[sets] out to write long songs” or if it’s a naturally occurring phenomenon. Mike responds in a characteristically zen way:…
