The staying power of Holy Roar Records’ current roster has only been amplified by the furious metallic hardcore of Ithaca. As you might have you seen from our review of their stunning LP The Language Of Injury, these young and boisterous noisemakers make heartache heavier than ever; their picks for…
Not everyone wants blast beats, sludgy guitars and completely detuned bass strings that vibrate more intensely than their nan’s underwear drawer. Mastiff, however, definitely want blasts, sludge, and slack, ragged bass strings; they also want to pound your face into the dirt with unfiltered malice. Mighty kind of them. The…
Yes, we’re doing this post for the second time. No, it’s not because we didn’t notice (it kinda is) and totally because Astronoid have just released a new album and it’s pretty different to their celebrated debut. Wait, that actually does make a lot of sense; Astronoid’s self-titled, sophomore release…
When it comes to watching bands play live, I have two pieces of advice that I will happily repeat well beyond the point of tedium. First and foremost, you should always wear ear protection, and I hope the reasoning for this is clear to everyone. Secondly, you should always get…
There are a few topics which we keep hammering at here at Heavy Blog, whether through the text of our posts, the musical selection which we make, on “external” channels like the podcast, and more. One of them is that music, whether we like it or not, is a business.…
While I was made aware of Ashe O’Hara through his tenure with TesseracT (Altered State is amazing, fight me) I was stoked to discover Voices from the Fuselage through this intersection. In many ways, their brighter and more atmospheric sound utilizes his ethereal timbre better, setting off other and pleasing areas of his range.…
One of the most interesting and annoying things in the world are those micro-genres of music that are incredibly hard to describe but you just know them when you hear them. There isn’t necessarily a lot that’s inherently in common between artists in this scene; if you played it to…
In celebration of their fantastic second album, Beyond Celestial Echoes, we caught up with the members of the Greek four-piece Sacral Rage to delve a bit deeper into the albums that changed their lives and which continue to play a vital role in the sound of one of modern music’s most…
The Anatomy Of feature has always been about getting under the skin of the bands we admire at Heavy Blog Is Heavy. Listening to the bands that made them pick up their instruments and start pouring out their souls becomes something new in itself. Norway’s Attan don’t sound like any…
I’m honestly warming up to the idea of using this series to introduce you to new bands; after all, what description of the band’s music could ever live up to the band themselves talking about the influences which made it be? With Bleeth, fresh of the release of their debut full length album titled Geomancer (it was released just last Friday, the 24th of August), it’s a double pleasure since I don’t just get to introduce you to a band but an excellent one at that. They deliver the kind of emotional doom/stoner/psychedelic that we’ve come to expect in 2018, replete with great riffs, moving vocals from two complementary vocalists, and an overall dedication to momentum that lies at the core of what makes this kind of music work.
