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Shout out to reader and OCTILLIAN guitarist Octobuss for being subtle about linking us his band through his name in the comments. I’m glad I randomly decided to start clicking things!

Are you the type of person who enjoys long metal songs that flow throughout several genres? You know you are. Everyone likes to hear a random latin guitar solo (complete with authentic percussion) followed by some funk. OCTILLIAN are the band that does just that. There’s also post-rock atmospheres and general experimentation with the music, never being all too consistent in their sound. In this case, it’s a cool thing.

Check out OCTILLIAN via Myspace and get lost in a soundscape or two.

- JR

I Summon You! The Readers!

Music production. Where do you start? How does one go about being a record producer? Are there schools that one can go to that don’t have ridiculous tuition costs? Do you learn it yourself then contact people in the music biz?

If anyone knows anything about music production as a career, please share!

-MK

A bunch of new music (Iron Maiden, oh shit) and three Slayer DVDs this week. Why anyone would need three of them, I’ll never know.

Adversarial – All Idols Fall Before The Hammer (Dark Descent)
Antagonist – World In Decline (Prosthetic)
Boris and Ian Astbury – BXI EP (Southern Lord)
The Burial – The Winepress (Strike First/Facedown)
Downspirit – Point Of Origin (Metalville)
Filter – The Trouble With Angels (Rocket Science)
Iron Maiden – The Final Frontier (Columbia/Legacy)
King of Asgard – Fi’mbulvintr (Metal Blade)
Knights Of The Abyss – The Culling Of Wolves (Ferret Music)
The Last Felony – Too Many Humans (Lifeforce)
Miss May I – Monument (Rise)
Night Horse – Perdition Hymns (Tee Pee)
Noctis Imperium – Nihil (Abyss)
Orbs – Asleep Next To Science (Equal Vision)
Return To Earth – Automata (Metal Blade)
Riotgod – Riotgod (Metalville)
Slayer – Live Intrusion DVD (Columbia)
Slayer – Still Reigning DVD (Columbia)
Slayer – War At The Warfield DVD (Columbia)
Valkyrie – A Man Of Two Visions (Meteor City)

Have a good week guys.

- JR

Those Swedish dudes in the band Soilwork recently posted a blog thing describing what it’s like every day touring. If you’re like me and aren’t touring then this post might be a bit insightful to those who are curious. It’s not the most elaborate thing in the world, but you have to give respect to those who put up with the seemingly mind-numbing tasks for the sake of our entertainment. I’d probably kill myself. Nevertheless, it’s a short, interesting read. You can read it here.

-MK

A Post Made of Babies

Upon being shown this band, Made Out of Babies, I made the quickest attempt to check out more from them after hearing the track “Cooker” on the album The Ruiner. Nary a band comes by that is metal with a female vocalist, let alone one as jarring, and worthwhile as Julie Christmas. For an overall atmosphere, this group carries an atmosludge feel similar to Neurosis or Harvey Milk, but with occasional dissonant guitar jangles and other nuances that set them so far apart from the aforementioned groups. So far the group has three releases, Trophy, Coward, and The Ruiner. If those other two are as good as The Ruiner is, I’d suggest checking them out for sure. You can also catch a few of their tracks on We Reach: The Music of the Melvins and Triad, a split with some post-sludge bands.

-MW

Go listen to CHON.

The drummer in my band recently discovered this group from California, and although they are unsigned, their music is so great that I couldn’t help but share them with you guys. If you like Scale The Summit or An Endless Sporadic, then you’ll probably dig this. I personally like CHON‘s music better than that of both those bands, and that’s saying a lot. They play really happy sounding instrumental metal, and it’s all very tight and technical with some catchy stuff thrown in too.

You can check the band out on their myspace or better yet, head over to their purevolume page where you can download all of their music for free! What’s better than legally free happy music?

-PM

I’ve talked about this song enough, I think, but I still thought this was worth sharing. I love it when metal songs are transferred to piano. It’s a sign of good songwriting when a song transfers well across instruments, and this is just beautiful. Spot on performance, lilcurryman. This is great.

The original song, if you’ve somehow haven’t heard it, is after the jump.

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Temple of Darkness Records has finally released Ihsahn‘s third solo album After on vinyl, and as you can see above, it’s a gatefold double white marble LP, limited to 500 copies. If you enjoyed this album (as you should have) you should totally hit this up before it’s too late. It goes for roughly $21 (from 17 Euros), but with the overseas postage, it’ll cost you about $42.42 (holy shit).

To get it, send an email at tod(at)templeofdarknessrecords(dot)com with your order, country, and preferred method of payment. Paypal is your best bet here.

So excuse me while I go broke for Ihsahn.

- JR

Fuck yeah, Trent knows how to please the fans.

The much talked about How To Destroy Angels project featuring Trent Reznor, his wife Mariqueen Maandig, and Atticus Ross have a release date for their debut EP: Next week, June 1st. And not only that, in recent Reznor standard, there will be a free downloadable version available

Via HTDA’s Store:

We’re releasing our debut 6-track EP as a FREE download on June 1st. Pre-order now and get one track, “The Believers,” immediately. You’ll then be automatically emailed on June 1st as soon as the full EP download is ready. The EP will be delivered as high-quality DRM-free MP3s.

For $2, you can pre-order the HD package, which adds options for lossless audio (24-bit 44.1kHz WAV and 16-bit FLAC and Apple Lossless) and the music video for “The Space in Between” in 1080p Quicktime.

There are other packages available, including limited shirts and physical releases. The store is currently experiencing some high traffic loads, so as of the time of me writing this post, the page only loads about half the time, with the other half being just text and an audio player where you can stream “The Believers.” Also, according to the HTDA Twitter, vinyl will be available at some point, with a date to be announced. I’m going to be hitting that up for sure.

Here’s the track list for the EP:

01 – “The Space In Between
02 – “Parasite
03 – “Fur-Lined
04 – “BBB
05 – “The Believers
06 – “A Drowning

Again, free download of the EP next week, with the physical CD release available July 6th on Null Records. I can’t wait!

- JR

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US!

Today, one year ago (5/16/09), Heavy Blog Is Heavy made its way online.

In the past year, we’ve had:

  • Three major design changes
  • Almost 600 comments
  • Around 450 posts (average of 1 1/4 posts a day)
  • Broken 1000 page views a day four times.
  • Six writers (with one only posting once, and a new one that hasn’t posted yet)
  • One professional musician tell us to “keep suckin that P P, buddy”

We’ve done some other stuff in between, but those are some highlights. I had a blast this year, and I we hope to be around for a few more, at least. Thank you guys for reading and making this worthwhile. I love you guys <33

- JR

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