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. For those that would like to participate as well (and please do) can drop a 3X3 in the comments, which can be made withtapmusic.netthrough your last.fm account, or create it manually with topsters.net. Also, consider these posts open threads to talk about pretty much anything music-related. We love hearing all of your thoughts on this stuff and love being able to nerd out along with all of you.
Scott Murphy
Anohni – Hopelessness
Black Flag – Family Man
Grace Jones – Warm Leatherette
Minor Threat – First Two 7”s
Morbid Angel – Covenant
Pat Metheny/Ornette Coleman – Song X
PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
St. Vincent – Marry Me
Woods of Desolation – As the Stars
Kit Brown
Defeated Sanity – Disposal of the Dead/Dharmata
Sikth – The Trees Are Dead And Dried Out
Periphery – Periphery 3: Select Difficulty
The Haarp Machine – Disclosure
Morbid Angel – Formulas Fatal to the Flesh
Sikth – Opacities
Abysmal Torment – Omnicide
Sikth – Dead of a Dead Day
Pathology – The Time of Great Purification
Simon Handmaker
The Mountain Goats – All Hail West Texas
Iron Reagan – Tyranny of Will
Full of Hell – Roots of Earth Are Consuming My Home
TTNG – Disappointment Island
Pig Destroyer – Phantom Limb
Kylesa – Static Tensions
Horseback – Dead Ringers
The Ocean – Aeolian
Nothing – Tired of Tomorrow
Jimmy Mullett
Florence & the Machine – Lungs
John Zorn – The Classic Guide To Strategy
Billy Joel – Storm Front
Antipop Consortium – Arrhythmia
Chthe’ilist – Le Dernier Crépuscule
Bill Evans Trio – Moon Beams
Converge – You Fail Me Redux
Pink Floyd – The Wall
Aesop Rock – Labor Days
Eden Kupermintz
Devin Townsend Project – Transcendence
Thank You Scientist – Stranger Heads Prevail
Vektor – Terminal Redux
65daysofstatic – Music For An Infinite Universe
The Pineapple Thief – Your Wilderness
Caligula’s Horse – The Tide, The Thief & The River’s End
SubRosa – For This We Fought the Battle of Ages
Mizmor – Yodh
Oak Pantheon – In Pieces
Colin Kauffman
Vhol – Deeper Than The Sky
Ihsahn – Arktis
Dimmu Borgir – Death Cult Armageddon
Diablo Swing Orchestra – Pandora’s Pinata
Nile – Ithyphallic
Nile – What Should Not Be Unearthed
Despised Icon – Beast
Faith No More – Sol Invictus
Dust Moth – Scale
Karlo Doroc
The Ocean – Pelagial
The Ocean – Pelagial
The Ocean – Pelagial
The Ocean – Pelagial
The Ocean – Pelagial
The Ocean – Pelagial
The Ocean – Pelagial
The Ocean – Pelagial
The Ocean – Pelagial
Andrew Hatch
Wishbone Ash – Argus
Maury Muehleisen – Gingerbreadd
Veldes – Ember Breather
The Lord Weird Slough Feg – Down Among the Deadmen
Iron Reagan – The Tyranny of Will
Iron Maiden – Iron Maiden
Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited
Jethro Tull – Thick As A Brick
Marduk – Opus Nocturne