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 with tapmusic.net through 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
Laurie Anderson – Big Science
Albert Ayler – Love Cry/The Last Album
Bestia Arcana – Holókauston
Deafheaven – Sunbather
Discordance Axis – The Inalienable Dreamless
Gas – Narkopop
Kornél Kovács – The Bells
Joni Mitchell – Blue
Lou Reed – Berlin
Jonathan Adams
Artificial Brain – Infrared Horizon
Succumb – S/T
Bestia Arcana – Holókauston
Nightbringer – Terra Damnata
Kendrick Lamar – Damn.
SATURNDUST – RLC
Craven Idol – The Shackles of Mammon
Dreadnought – Bridging Realms
Endon – Mama
Jimmy Mullett
Laurie Anderson—Big Science
Dälek—Absence
Deftones—Saturday Night Wrist
Incubus—8
Billy Joel—The Nylon Curtain
Mike Patton—Pranzo Oltranzista
Tool—Ænima
Ken Vandermark—Momentum: Stone One
John Zorn—50th Birthday Celebration, Vol. 12: Painkiller
Mark Valentino
Caspian – Tertia
Stars Of The Lid – The Tired Sounds Of Stars Of The Lid
Drawing Last Breath – Final Sacrifice
Carnivore – Retaliation
Hexis – Tando Ashanti
Trap Them – Crown Feral
Wormrot – Voices
Lack Of Interest – Trapped Inside
Weekend Nachos – Worthless
Simon Handmaker
Full of Hell – Trumpeting Ecstasy
sleepmakeswaves – Made of Breath Only
Full of Hell – Rudiments of Mutilation
Defeated Sanity – Passages into Deformity
Bolt Thrower – Those Once Loyal
Harms Way – Isolation
Russian Circles – Geneva
Tera Melos – Drugs to the Dear Youth
Novembers Doom – Hamartia
Matt MacLennan
Scarlet – Cult Classic
Napalm Death – Utilitarian
Rendered Helpless – Entities Of Transdimensional Emergence
Analepsy – Atrocities From Beyond
Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes – Modern Ruin
The Heads Are Zeros – S/T
Prisoner – Beyond The Infinite
Emmure – Look At Yourself
Piss Vortex – Future Cancer
Bill Fetty
Oxbow – Thin Black Duke
Body Count – Bloodlust
Baroness – Purple
Metallica – Hard-Wired to Self-Destruct
POS – Chill, dummy
Ghastly Sound – S/T EP
Ulver – The Assassination of Julius Caesar
Pallbearer – Heartless
An Ocean Above Us – Shed the Archetype
Brandon Klemets
sleepmakeswaves – Made of Breath Only
Persefone – Aathma
Katatonia – Viva Emptiness
Sithu Aye – Set Course for Andromeda
Gojira – The Way Of All Flesh
Above & Beyond – Group Therapy
Astronoid – Air
Ulver – The Assassination of Julius Caesar
Haken – Affinity
Jake Tiernan
Kendrick Lamar – Damn.
A Tribe Called Quest – We Got it From Here…Thank You 4 Your Service
Prince Daddy & the Hyena – I Thought You Didn’t Even Like Leaving
Wildspeaker – Survey The Wreckage
Wormrot – Voices
Power Trip – Nightmare Logic
La Quiete – La Fine Non È La Fine
Daitro – Y
Calculator – This Too Will Come To Pass
David Aleksov
Actress – AZD
Kendrick Lamar – DAMN
Hiroshi Yoshimura – Music for Nine Postcards
Fennesz – Venice
Danny Brown – Atrocity Exhibition
Ryuichi Sakamoto – Async
Varg – Nordic Flora pt.3: Gore-Tex City
Boris – Boris at Last -feedbacker-
Joey Bada$$ – All-Amerikkkan Bada$$
Nick Cusworth
Bent Knee – Land Animal
Arms of Tripoli – Daughters
Ulver – The Assassination of Julius Caesar
Mark de Clive-Lowe – Church
Bent Knee – Shiny Eyed Babies
Artificial Brain – Infrared Horizon
Alfa Mist – Antiphon
Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld – Never were the way she was
The Physics House Band – Horizons/Rapture
Eden Kupermintz
Bent Knee – Land Animal
Anathema – The Optimist
Shabazz Palaces – Quazarz: Born on a Gangster Star
Ingurgitating Oblivion – Vision Wallows In Symphonies Of Light
SikTh – The Future In Whose Eyes
Toby Driver – Madonnawhore
White Ward – Futility Report
Hubris. – Apocryphal Gravity
Covet – Currents
Andrew Hatch
Zud – The Good, the Bad, and the Damned
Terrifier – Weapons of Thrash Destruction
Scorpions – Taken by Force
Scorpions – In Trance
Philip Lewan – Am I Really Here All Alone?
Overlorde – Medieval Metal
Gratzug – Offenbarung
Dark Age – Dark Age
Craven Idol – The Shackles of Mammon