The quintessential difficult decision is almost always a “lesser of two evils” situation. In music, this typically manifests in an artist’s path forward; do they forge ahead along the charted path, or divert into untrodden territory? We can look at bands like Opeth, Kayo Dot and Ulver as examples of bands who changed course from an established, acclaimed sound, to differing choruses of praise and jeers. This is where this…
There’s a lot happening in the music world, and we here at Heavy Blog try our very best to keep up with it! Like the vast majority of heavy music fans, our tastes are incredibly vast, with our 3X3s in each Playlist Update typically covering numerous genres and sometimes a…
Photo by Mette Tegtmeier Olsen I know what you’re thinking and yes, this is yet another post about Town Portal. When will it stop? Probably never; we’ve been waiting for music for so long from these guys that we are still all giddy from receiving the excellent Of Violence. Out…
ArcTanGent is coming up soon and I couldn’t be more exciting to attend. Beyond the incredible line-up this year, I’ve heard so much about the festival’s atmosphere and unique air of artistic expression and I can’t wait to sample it for myself. The new EP from Only Echoes Remain (which…
For those who missed our last installment, We post bi-weekly updates covering what the staff at Heavy Blog have been spinning. Given the amount of time we spend on the site telling you about music that doesn’t fall neatly into the confines of conventional “metal,” it should come as no surprise that many of us on staff have pretty eclectic tastes that range far outside of metal and heavy things. We can’t post about all of them at length here, but we can at least let you know what we’re actually listening to. For those that would like to participate…
Each month, we always seem to come to the same conclusion when it comes to our Editors’ Picks column: Friday release days open…
The Chicago-based post-metal/djent act HARM LESS is the brainchild of multi-instrumentalist Bryan Kingsley, who released his first album under this…
10 years after the release of their debut album, symphonic death metallers Fleshgod Apocalypse are back with Veleno, their fifth full-length. The veterans have done a lot in that time, from the technical death metal of Oracles and Mafia, to the over-the-top insanity of Agony, and most recently to the finely balanced symphonic death metal of King. With such a smorgasbord of stylings rotating around a uniquely Fleshgod core, it begged the question of which direction Veleno would take. Adding to this curiosity was two key lineup changes prior to recording, with guitarists/vocalists Cristiano Trionfera and Tommaso Riccardi both departing…
When I say grunge or post-punk, I bet the first adjective that pops into your head isn’t “fun”, right? Sure,…
So here we are with the second installment of this month’s cavalcade of punk music in just about every style…
This post has been a long time coming. We’ve been dropping hints here and there for years now about the growing underground scene in Israel, a scene which I, as a native of Tel Aviv, am well poised to explore. Interestingly enough, this has become less and less obvious as the punk, grindcore, hardcore, and powerviolence scene here has expanded well beyond the borders of Israel’s cultural capital and established footholds in Haifa to north and even Jerusalem, to an extent. The music made here is rapidly getting heavier, more pissed off, more incessant on a refusal to obey, to…
If ever awards were given for the most appropriate album name, British hardcore quintet Employed To Serve would be a dead cert…
With us now officially being into May, we’ve fully rounded the corner of the first quarter of 2019 into the…
The Viterbo, Italy trio The Chasing Monster came out of the gate on their 2017 debut LP Tales with an exciting blend of dramatic post-rock and narrative storytelling, surveying the conversations held between the last two people on Earth before life is blinked out. The strength of their debut landed them on the dunk!festival main stage that same year, and now they’re returning with their anticipated second full-length Errant, releasing on Antigony Records this coming Friday, May 10th. The band leaves the narrative structure behind on Errant, opting instead to explore big ideas on a fully instrumental canvas, which serves…
