We’ve been wanting to diversify for a little while and expand or focus towards more black and death metal, and with the new year coming, we want to grow and improve, so here’s the story!

When we first started out in early 2009, it was just me and my good friend Mitch (Dethcaek.) I’d focus on more -core and prog type of stuff, and he’d focus on death and black metal; that sort of thing. It was supposed to be balanced and we’d have our specialties. Over time, he started posting less and less, as he’s still in school and kinda busy. When I advertised on the site for more writers, the people who responded ended up having similar taste as me. It figures, as I posted the most and a site gets readers based on the content.

So now we have very little focus on more of the extreme side of heavy music, and we’d like to fix that. If anyone out there thinks they’re a competent enough writer and takes an interest in more death and black metal, then we’d love to have you on board! We’re a non-paying hobby site (the ads are there as to make the site self-sufficient), but writing for us does have perks. I can get try to get you access to albums before they come out (we get promos from Nuclear Blast, Century Media, Metal Blade, and Season of Mist), I can get you some interviews, and I can maybe get you press passes to some shows if we’re lucky.

You wouldn’t have to write a massive amount, just pop in a few times a week for news, editorials/opinions, and reviews. So, any takers? Just send an email (mail@heavyblogisheavy.com) with an attached review (or another similar writing sample) and a link to your last.fm account if you have one if you feel like this is something you’d like to take part in.

Thanks for your time, guys!

- JR

Limited updates, from me especially. Sorry! I have to put my efforts into passing my classes.

Take care! Hopefully some other writers can come up with some worthwhile news.

- JR

Here I am sitting at work and thinking about the state and future of Heavy Blog, and there are three things that I keep coming back to:

1. Making money off of this would be pretty awesome. Even though we’ve had ads in place, I haven’t made a dime. Maybe one day!
2. We don’t post enough. The writers are busy folk, with lives, jobs, and school outside of this hobby website, so it’s hard to find time to come up with things to write about.
3. We don’t cover a broad-enough spectrum. I’ve noticed that we rarely talk about bands without the words “progressive” “core” or “post” in their genre. That’s the type of music I enjoy personally, and so when I started up this website, I attracted people with similar taste. That’s why all the writers tend to talk about the same things. I’d like to change this a bit and have new writers that have different taste. That’s what makes our BFFs in The Number Of The Blog so good; they are pretty diverse in their coverage. Mitch is supposed to be our token “tr00 guy”, but he’s busy with others stuff.

So hopefully we can fix some of these in the next year or so and continue to grow. Thank you guys for reading and making us “semi-professional assholes” feel like we’re actually doing something worthwhile. Sometimes it seems like we’re just talking to ourselves, but looking at the site stats, that’s clearly not the case! So stick around, tell some friends, and hopefully we’ll expand with our readership!

- JR

Time to get serious for a moment. Aww shit.

In memory of the tragic suicides of bullied gay teens (and to atone for my lack of a purple t-shirt), I’ve decided to make the background of the website purple for today (hit ctrl+F5 if it doesn’t change for you).

I’m not normally one to get all white-knightish, having called my friends “faggots”  from time to time (in a non-homophobic manner, mind you) and making a joke post about how suicide is metal and all that, but I was bullied a bit growing up and it’s never funny when someone seriously decides to take their own life for any reason. Today, it just seemed appropriate to take part, and the least I can do is raise awareness by confusing people with a change of scenery.

So bullying fucking sucks, and so does homophobia. Cut that shit out and get with the times, people.

- JR

Half of them weren’t even spam at all, so if you guys posted comments which didn’t get posted, sorry! Should be there now.

Looks like I’ll have to keep checking the spam filter.

- JR