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Whilst we like to think we have all the best ideas, we do like to give credit where credit’s due – and when our bro in metal Quigs from The Number of the Blog told me about this idea, I was pretty excited.

The concept was this: once a month he’ll have four different musicians ‘sitting down’ over Skype to discuss various issues to do with music. Rather than the old blogcasts that tended to get lengthy and we weren’t even sure anyone was listening to them, this has focus, meaning, and a lot of potential.

The first episode was recorded last weekend, and after many mind-boggling hours editing, is now available for your listening pleasure.

The first batch features a couple of Heavy Blog favourites in Justin Gosnell of Vestascension and Steven Henningsgard of Iron Thrones, as well as Sacha Laskow of Enditol, Divinity and Walk As Chaos, and the ever hilarious Brent Petrie, a solo musician with a funny remark for everything.

You can get the inaugural episode from TNOTB right here, and make sure to leave any comments or potential questions for the next batch in their comments section!

- CG

We’ve kicked around the idea of releasing a Heavy Comp Is Heavy download in the past, but a mixture of laziness and not having enough time or patience to bring such a project to fruition pulled that train of thought to a halt. We might still do it one day though—who knows?!

But you know who does have the time and patience to bring such a project to fruition? Our good friends at The Number Of The Blog, who compiled a whopping 18 tracks from various bands for your listening pleasure! Let’s see what we’ve got here:

1 – Cormorant – ‘Scavengers Feast’
2 – Returning We Hear The Larks – ‘Uprising’
3 – Enditol – ‘Monoculture’
4 – Tre Watson – ‘Spack Jarrow’ (previously unreleased)
5 – Iron Thrones – ‘Against The Grain’
6 – Robots Pulling Levers – ‘Sumati II’ (previously unreleased) (featuring George Richman of Hypnorock)
7 – A Walk With The Wicked – ‘Architects Of Sadism’
8 – Cloudkicker – ‘We’re Goin’ In. We’re Going Down.’
9 – Shades Of Devastation – ‘Art Of Agony’ (previously unreleased)
10 – Amogh Symphony – ‘Osiris 1′
11 – Giant Of The Mountain – ‘Awakening’ (previously unreleased)
12 – Keith Merrow – ‘Heart Of The Sea Nymph’ (featuring Jeff Loomis of Nevermore)
13 – Shaidar Logoth – ‘Mashiara Shai’tan’
14 – I’ll Eat Your Face – ‘Dr. Pancake’s Luxurious Ratskin Housecoat’
15 – Soul Cycle – ‘Rising Defiant’
16 – Cut Your Teeth – ‘T.W.H.W.Y.T.B.’
17 – Assimilated Mind Phase – ‘Breeding Insanity 2.0′ (previously unreleased remix)
18 – Brent A. Petrie – ‘Collapse/Conquer’ (previously unreleased)

Holy tits! That’s a lot of quality packed into one sampler. You can download/donate at bandcamp or get it on mediafire (which I would recommend if you don’t want to donate, as to not use up their bandcamp allowance of free downloads).

- JR

Number Blog Is Heavy!

In case some of you guys out there didn’t know, when I’m not busy with stuff over here, I also write from time to time for our bros at The Number Of The Blog. It appears that this weekend though, I’m all up in that shit. Here’s what went down:

On Friday, I joined EvilivE and DemiGodRaven again on The Number Of The Blogcast. We were short on news and it was just the three of us (with Spna15 in the chat), so the podcast ended up being the shortest so far, at just under an hour. Here was the playlist:

  1. Black Sabbath: Neon Knights
  2. Kiuas: Kiuassault
  3. Misery Index: You Lose
  4. Devin Townsend: (shhhh; it’s a surprise)
  5. Cyclamen: It’s There

Listen here: The Number Of The Blogcast (Episode 6)

I also filled in for Grover on Shitty Music Saturday. I listened to Breathe Carolina, and it wasn’t pretty.

I recently took over the Sumeriancore Sunday columns after ECDEU left. Last week, for the inaugural re-birth, I defined my idea of Sumeriancore and featured Painted In Exile. This weekend, I elaborated on my mission and featured I, Your Liege. So if you’re into bands like Veil of Maya, Born of Osiris, The Faceless, and Between The Buried And Me, there’s your place to be for new music.

So that’s what I’ve been up to this weekend. Go check some of that shit out! Thanks to the guys at The Number Of The Blog for being rad dudes and having me!

- JR

My Fate Is In Your Hands

If you are somehow unaware, each week, The Number Of The Blog‘s GroverXIII listens to some of the worst music out there, and writes his thoughts on it in a series called Shitty Music Saturday. Here’s how it works: every Tuesday, two choices are given and the worst of the worst is selected by readers in a poll. Grover then listens to whatever won the poll (or lost, as it were).

However, Grover recently had a baby, so he’s too busy being a new daddy. Who will be doing Shitty Music Saturday in his absence this week? None other than Yours Truly, and I’ll be subjected to some terrible, terrible autotuned scene bullshit.

Choose wisely. My sanity depends on it.

- JR

Special thanks to the guys over at The Number Of The Blog for bringing us back on for their podcast, The Number Of The Blogcast again! Same as before, we basically bullshit about metal (and other things) and pick a few songs.

Here’s the playlist for the affair:

Coffinworm- Spitting In Infinity’s Asshole
Aurelius – Hemlock (Download at their PureVolume page)
Nachtmystium – Addicts  (Download at Metalsucks.net)
Entombed – I For An Eye
Archons – Wandering The Burning Land (Download At Last.fm)

The Number Of The Blogcast (Episode 5)

- JR

The Number Of The Blogcast Is Heavy

Artist's Rendition

On Friday, Mitch and I joined our brothers-in-heavy Scott (EvilivE) from Hook in Mouth, DemiGodRaven, and Desee (who showed up in the last segment) from The Number Of The Blog on The Number Of The Blogcast. As Chris would say, you get to hear our “dulcet tones.” So, if you have an hour to listen to some bloggers talk about stuff and hear some select tunes, here’s your lucky day!

The Number Of The Blogcast (Episode 4)

Here’s the playlist, woven between spouts of us shooting the shit:

Hour Of Penance – Paradogma

Firewind – The Essence

Electric Wizard - Vinum Sabbathi

The Crinn – Lucid Dream Field

It was a real pleasure being on the podcast, and I hope we can be back on in the future. I don’t think I’ve ever had so much fun being told to go fuck myself.

- JR

Sup guys! I’m Tyler or mostly known as ECDEU! I will be helping out with posting here at HBIB until I begin to notice what type of a dump I am in and come to my senses and leave to my home. No, seriously, I just wanted to help out these guys because they had put on the side of the website that they were looking for contributors and I was bored. But since I already post about metal at my main blog with GroverXIII, spna15, and demigodraven, I decided to do something a bit different here: post about anything other than metal. I am honestly just running with this as I type but I decided to be on the lookout for non-metal things that are partly interesting and to give you guys my two cents on them. No matter if you care or not. Also, have you heard of my other blog?????

Enough with the pointless plugs (but seriously), now onto my first topic here: Reality Shows.

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