Each month, we always seem to come to the same conclusion when it comes to our Editors’ Picks column: Friday release days open the floodgates and unleash a seemingly endless stream of quality new music. But while some of our Editors and Contributors sit down gleefully each week to dive into this newly stocked treasure trove, others find themselves drawing a blank at the end of the month due to the…
Don’t Touch The Outside, Between the Buried and Me frontman Tommy Rogers’ fourth proper full-length under the moniker Thomas Giles, takes the retrowave and electronic influences on previous outing Velcro Kid (2016) and imbues those new wave vibes with some of the wilder experimentation and genre diversity which made Pulse (2011) and Modern Noise (2014) so incredible.
This gritty little ditty was released in January of this year but, for some reason, hadn’t made its way across my feed until much more recently. Given that it’s a ten-minute grind/core release, some will make the point that it doesn’t deserve a full review nearly twelve months later. Those…
I’ve often written about the joys of simply opening an email and discovering fantastic music. Reformat was another example of this rare pleasure and an even more special one to boot; since the group makes a very special and unique type of post-rock which I love, hearing their music for the first…
There are plenty of fantastic bands that toil in the margins of relative obscurity. Some eventually find a wider audience and catapult themselves to various levels of fame, while others never reach that coveted status of instantly recognizable. It’s fitting, then, that Pennsylvania upstarts Veilburner signed with the aptly named juggernaut that is Transcending Obscurity Records for the release of their fourth full-length record, A Sire to the Ghouls of Lunacy. It’s a masterful album that I cannot wait to write more about, but today we’re pleased to bring you a morsel from its confines, “Upstream and Parallel”, a scintillating…
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This week we have a guest, Tom “Fountainhead” Geldschläger of many talents, including being the guitarist of Amogh Symphony. First we talk about his upcoming projects, like Augmented Reality, but we end up talking a lot about what makes musicians tick, how to survive in the current paradigm of music distribution, and what drives inspiration. Enjoy!
Coming to the end of a year that has been bursting at the seams with grindcore releases (many of which…
Welcome, once more, to Death’s Door. Wipe your feet on the mat, and be thorough about it. The year is far from done. That’s right, it’s already November. That time when music takes its multi-month hibernation in preparation for the spring release season. Or at least that’s what is supposed to happen, according to all the end of year lists that came out last month. It’s a damned shame really, as quality death metal in 2018 has proven itself subservient to no such calendar-based restrictions. November gave birth to some of the best records released this year, and anyone making…
For those who missed our last installment, We post bi-weekly updates covering what the staff at Heavy Blog have been…
Each month, we always seem to come to the same conclusion when it comes to our Editors’ Picks column: Friday release days open…
Doom? Check. Death? I’m in. Stoner doom? Hell yes, gimme that. Psychedelic stoner death doom? Wait, wha? Such is the nature of metal bands sometimes. So frequently, we want bands to fit into boxes and check off things on our lists. Sure, it helps us writers explain to others what a band sounds like, but it’s way better to just experience the complexities and subtleties of a band as you listen to a record. Such is the “trouble” I had with Tombtoker. I don’t mean trouble in a bad way at all! Just simply describing that Tombtoker has a lot…
Look, no matter how hard I try and no matter the fact that a “proper” end of year post is…
God, I love blackened thrash. Thrash metal always seems like it could be so evil. Just take Slayer to a…
For me, a good band or record usually boils down to one of two things. It’s either a band that is a master of one thing or it’s a record that scratches a lot of itches. The latter usually means there is something great happening. It means an artist or collective of musicians is putting together a lot of influences and originality in order to make something we haven’t heard before. If Psychonaut doesn’t do that for you, I’m not sure what to say to you to convince you otherwise. The collective trio from Belgium make some very unique tunes.…
