For those who missed our last installment, We post bi-weekly 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 doesn’t 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. Also, consider these posts open threads to share your own recent playlists and 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
Abandoncy – Pastel//Anguish (noise rock, post-hardcore)
Blood Incantation – Timewave Zero (dark ambient, progressive electronic)
Deathbell – A Nocturnal Crossing (stoner-doom, occult rock)
Immolation – Acts of God (death metal)
Jyocho – Let’s Promise to Be Happy (math rock, progressive folk)
Zela Margossian – The Road (world fusion, Armenian jazz)
SASAMI – Squeeze (indie pop, alt-metal)
Vorga – Striving Toward Oblivion (melodic black metal)
Immanuel Wilkins – The 7th Hand (post-bop, spiritual jazz)
Josh Bulleid
Underoath – Voyeurist (post hardcore, melodic metalcore)
The Weeknd – Dawn FM (RnB, funk pop)
Allegaeon – Damnum (progressive melodeath, tech groove)
Dr Dre – Compton (hip hop)
2Pac – Makaveli – Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory (hip hop)
Eminem – Recovery (hip hop)
Years and Years – Night Call (dance pop)
Bryan Adams – So Far, So Good (pop rock)
Pink Floyd – The Division Bell (prog rock)
Eden Kupermintz
Moon Tooth – Phototroph (progressive metal)
Redshift Pilots – Moonlight Synthesis (post-metal, progressive metal)
Dunsmuir – Dunsmuir (heavy metal)
Elbow – Flying Dream 1 (brit-rock/pop)
Messa – Close (doom, stoner, psycehdelic)
Persefone – Metanoia (progressive death metal)
Toundra – Hex (post-metal, post-rock)
Baldocaster – War Rig (synthwave)
felperc – entropy (post-metal, post-rock)
Joe Astill
Immolation – Acts Of God (death metal)
Rolo Tomassi – Where Myth Becomes Memory (progressive post-hardcore)
Every Time I Die – The Big Dirty (southern hardcore)
Venom Prison – Erebos (melodeath, deathcore)
Modern Life Is War – Witness (melodic hardcore)
Misanthropæ – Untitled (blackened deathgrind)
Opeth – Still Life (progressive death metal)
Raum – Daughter (ambient)
State Faults – Clairvoyant (screamo, post-hardcore)