The Load-In Good lord, it’s been a big month. It’s not necessarily been a high-volume month in terms of the quantity of shows, but the quality has been incredibly high. Some special, one-off sets and a pair of outstanding album release shows mean that I have a lot to say.…
Heavy Pod Is Heavy Cast! Eden is finally back, but this time I’m derailing. We talk about new music or videos from Trivium, Vale of Pnath, Shokran, Slipknot, Immortal Guardian, Disentomb, Conjurer, Iron Maiden, and maybe Amaran. Then, cool people time with A Plague Tale: Innocence, What We Do In The Shadows, Sekiro, and Under the Silver Lake. Enjoy!
Heavy Bloggers rejoice, your first taste of new music today comes in the form of genre-melding, skin melting proto-sludge metal that hits hard, riffs hard, and basks in the doom and gloom of life. From one of the minds behind Heavy favourites Fawn Limbs and Infinite Nomad, Mireplaner’s debut LP…
I walked into Moe’s Original BBQ just before 6. The show didn’t start until 8, but bands were scattered throughout the restaurant and music venue, checking the soundboard during mic checks and setting up merch tables. I had arranged a 6 PM interview with Conjurer through their PR guy but…
Blackened sludge quartet Conjurer are hitting the road, so we thought it would be a perfect time to ask them about what makes them tick. It’s not often you get to hear this kind of plodding doom with the kind of songcraft the quartet performs. It’s not just big and…
The Load-In January is, by and large, a miserable time. I think we can all agree with that, even if we’re not being frozen solid like Chicago. With the excesses of Christmas rapidly becoming a distant memory, we are left with long, dark, cold nights, and largely empty bank accounts. …
Hello, and welcome to the final post we will have about 2018! Yes, it’s late January. And yes, this is coming out much later than in previous years. After several years of completely burning myself out assembling these industry lists, I made the decision early on in planning out our…
There are bands that catch like fire, spreading from one social circle to the next as their music consumes the attention of everyone who touches them. You first see their names crop up here and there on the edges, among members who are most well versed in new music being…
You’ve seen it. You’ve debated it. You’ve cried over it. But what’s done is done: Our list of the best albums of the year is behind us, and there is much rejoicing. But what about the albums we loved that didn’t make the final cut?
Four years ago, I started to keep a complete list of every band I saw. Three years ago, I began kicking myself for not starting that childishly simple task sooner. Never mind. At least I can tell you exactly what I got up to this year – with one important caveat. A…
