For those who missed our last installment, We post biweekly 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 does not 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.
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Scott Murphy
Blasphemy – Fallen Angel of Doom
Dust – Agony Planet
Église – Église
Gas – Pop
Lord Mantis – Pervertor
Menomena – Moms
New Order – Power, Corruption & Lies
Silver Jews – American Water
Ulver – ATGCLVLSSCAP
Kit Brown
Dave Attell – Skanks For The Memories
Bill Burr – Why Do I Do This?
After the Burial – Dig Deep
Rihanna – Anti
The Game – The Documentary 2
Ulver – ATGCLVLSSCAP
Architects – Hollow Crown
Misery Signals – Controller
Windir – 1184
Simon Handmaker
Black Tusk – Pillars of Ash
Xibalba – Tierra Y Libertad
The Dillinger Escape Plan – Ire Works
Eidola – Degeneraterra
Meshuggah – Koloss
I Am A Lake Of Burning Orchids – Summer In My Veins
Hollow Tongue – Godsnakes
Toothgrinder – Nocturnal Masquerade
Textures – Phenotype
Matt MacLennan
WRVTH – WRVTH
Cursed Earth – Enslaved By The Insignificant
White Fire – Burned In Effigy
Seven Sisters Of Sleep – Ezekiel’s Hags
Wake – Sowing The Seeds Of A Worthless Tomorrow
Corrupt Moral Altar – Mechanical Tides
Cult Leader – Lightless Walk (ey Simon)
Four Year Strong – Four Year Strong
Harm’s Way – Rust
Jake Tiernan
Drug Church – Swelll
Capitalist Casualties – Years in Ruin
Despise You – West Side Horizons
Drug Church – Paul Walker
Young and in the Way – When Life Comes to Death
Graf Orlock – Destination Time: Yesterday
Make Me – 4 Song Demo
Boy Problems – Summer Tour Songs
Drug Church – Hit Your Head
David Aleksov
Massive Attack – Ritual Spirit
Ntogn – Bardo Thodol
Palms Trax – Equation EP
Andy Stott – Merciless
Thom Yorke – Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes
Radiohead – In rainbows
Lumisokea – Transmissions From Revarsavr
Answer Code Request – Code
Skee Mask – Shred
Eden Kupermintz
GoGoPenguin – Man Made Object
Árstíðir – Hvel
sleepmakeswaves – …and so we destroyed everything
Sleeping Bear – Sleeping Bear
Cyborg Octopus – Learning to Breathe
Spires of the Lunar Sphere – Pangaea Ultima
Lo’ There Do I See My Brother – Northern Shore
yndi halda – Enjoy Eternal Bliss
Sleeping Bear – Parinae
Ahmed Hasan
The DIllinger Escape Plan – Option Paralysis
The Dillinger Escape Plan – One of Us Is the Killer
Mandroid Echostar – Coral Throne
Obscura – Akroasis
Makaya McCraven – In The Moment
The Dillinger Escape Plan – Ire Works
Wormed – Exodromos
Rodrigo y Gabriela – 11:11
The Black Queen – Fever Daydream
Dan Wieten
Angelcorpse – Exterminate
Morbid Angel – Illud Divinum Insanus
Lychgate – An Antidote For the Glass Pill
Theory In Practice – Evolving Transhumanism
Obscura – Akroasis
Einherjer – AV Oss, For Oss
Fear Factory – Demanufacture
Prong – Rude Awakening
Akhlys – The Dreaming I
Gunnar Ratliff
Vildhjarta – Masstaden
Iron and Wine – The Shepherd’s Dog
Ellie Goulding – Delirium
Prince & The Revolution – Purple Rain
The Human Abstract – Digital Veil
Frontierer – Orange Mathematics
Starset – Transmissions
Seidr – Ginnungagap
Exotic Animal Petting Zoo – Tree of Tongues
Mark Valentino
High On Fire – Luminiferous
Caspian – Tertia
Cult Leader – Lightless Walk
Zao – Where Blood And Fire Bring Rest
Moon Tooth – Chromaparagon
Caspian – The Four Trees
Vattnet Viskar – Settler
Snapcase – Designs For Automotion
Elder – Lore
Karlo Doroc
Obscura – Cosmogenesis
Obscura – Omnivium
Obscura – Akroasis
Gods of Eden – From the End of Heaven
The Black Queen – Fever Daydream
A Sense of Gravity – Travail
Fleshgod Apocalypse – King
Leprous – The Congregation
Teramaze – Her Halo
Jimmy Mullet
Billy Joel – 52nd Street
Porcupine Tree – In Absentia
Madonna – Like a Virgin
Chthe’ilist – Le Dernier Crépuscule
Daughters – Daughters
Tom Waits – Bone Machine
Swans – The Seer
Charles Mingus – Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
Alice Coltrane – Universal Consciousness
Ryan Castrati
Future – Evol
Moon Tooth – Chromaparagon
The Cars – Heartbeat City
St. Lucia – Matter
Periphery: Juggernaut: Omega
Anderson .Paak – Malibu
Tame Impala – Currents
Drake – Hotline Bling
Majid Jordan – Majid Jordan
Nick Cusworth
GoGo Penguin – Man Made Object
Moon Tooth – Chromaparagon
Xanthochroid – Blessed He With Boils
A Sense of Gravity – Travail
GoGo Penguin – v2.0
Portico Quartet – Portico Quartet
Black Mountain – In The Future
Skalpel – Konfusion
Xanthochroid – Incultus