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  • Best of 2019
    Featured

    • Heavy Blog’s Top 50 Albums of 2019

      Heavy Blog
      December 17, 2019
      Best of 2019
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    • Metal Journalism’s Top 50 Albums of 2019

      Nick Cusworth
      February 18, 2020

    • Heavy Blog Yearbook // Our Favourite Articles of 2019

      Karlo Doroc
      December 26, 2019

    • A Gift To Artwork // 2019 In Review

      Karlo Doroc
      December 24, 2019

    • Disco Loadout: 2019 In Review

      Simon Clark
      December 23, 2019

    • Heavy Blog Guest List – Bent Knee

      Nick Cusworth
      December 23, 2019

    • Discoveries // 2019

      Simon Handmaker
      December 20, 2019
  • Monthly Missive
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    • Monthly Missive // September 2020

      Heavy Blog
      September 2, 2020
      Monthly Missive
    Recent

    • Monthly Missive // October 2020

      Heavy Blog
      October 5, 2020
  • Columns

    Recent

    • Kvlt Kolvmn // October 2020

      Jonathan Adams
      October 5, 2020
      Columns, Kvlt Kolvmn

    • Into the Pit // Q3 2020

      Joshua Bulleid
      October 5, 2020
      Into the Pit

    • Cool People Column // October 2020

      Jonathan Adams
      October 5, 2020
      Columns, Cool People Column

    • Rotten to the Core // October 2020

      Calder Dougherty
      October 5, 2020
      Rotten to the Core

    • Unmetal Monthly // October 2020

      Jonathan Adams
      October 5, 2020
      Unmetal Monthly

    • Doomsday // October 2020

      Pete Williams
      October 5, 2020
      Doomsday
    • A Gift to Artwork
    • Cool People Column
    • Death’s Door
    • Doomsday
    • Editors’ Picks
    • Grind My Gears
    • Into the Pit
    • Kvlt Kolvmn
    • Post Rock Post
    • Rotten to the Core
    • Unmetal Monthly
  • Genres
    • Metal
      • Black Metal
      • Death Metal
      • Doom Metal
      • Grindcore
      • Metalcore
      • Post-Metal
      • Progressive Metal
      • Stoner Metal
      • Sludge Metal
      • Thrash Metal
      • Trad Metal
    • Rock
      • Art Rock
      • Hardcore
      • Indie Rock
      • Math Rock
      • Post-Rock
      • Progressive Rock
      • Psych Rock
      • Punk
      • Shoegaze
      • Stoner Rock
      • Synthwave
    • Classical
    • Electronic
    • Folk
    • Hip-Hop
    • Jazz
    • Pop
    • R&B
  • Reviews
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    • Atramentus - Stygian

      Simon Handmaker
      September 2, 2020
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    • Clipping. – Visions of Bodies Being Burned

      Eden Kupermintz
      October 19, 2020

    • Anaal Nathrakh – Endarkenment

      Jonathan Adams
      October 5, 2020

    • Pallbearer – Forgotten Days

      Pete Williams
      October 5, 2020

    • Enslaved – Utgard

      Joshua Bulleid
      October 5, 2020

    • Svalbard – When I Die, Will I Get Better?

      Eden Kupermintz
      October 5, 2020

    • Deftones – Ohms

      Jimmy Rowe
      September 23, 2020
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    • Hey! Listen to Let Us Prey!

      Joshua Bulleid
      July 28, 2020
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    • Release Day Roundup – 10/23/20

      Scott Murphy
      October 23, 2020

    • Hey! Listen to Mountain Caller!

      Eden Kupermintz
      October 20, 2020

    • What We’re Really Listening To – 10/16/20

      Scott Murphy
      October 16, 2020

    • Release Day Roundup – 10/16/20

      Scott Murphy
      October 16, 2020

    • Hey! Listen to BleakHeart!

      Eden Kupermintz
      October 12, 2020

    • Release Day Roundup – 10/9/20

      Scott Murphy
      October 9, 2020
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Monthly Missive // October 2020

Heavy Blog
October 5, 2020
Monthly Missive
This time around, I'm not going to talk about anything negative. But, I'm not going to be talking about anything positive as well. I'm going to follow my own recommendations from a talk I recently gave and try... Read More...

Monthly Missive // September 2020

Heavy Blog
September 2, 2020
Monthly Missive
So! Here we are. Heavy Blog 3.0. Writing this intro makes me remember the famous, and cliche, adage: wherever you go, there you are. Yes, it’s 2020. And yes, this is the third iteration of Heavy Blog, once aga... Read More...

Editors’ Picks – August 2020

Heavy Blog
September 2, 2020
Columns, Editors' Picks
As you might have guessed already, the Monthly Missive's intro will be taking much of the spotlight away from this intro. But the Editors' Picks intro is something I've been writing for years now, ever since w... Read More...

PSA: Heavy Blog Will Be Down August 15-31

Heavy Blog
August 13, 2020
News
For the first time since 2016, Heavy Blog will be going under some major reconstruction, both in the look of the site itself and the content we're posting. Editor-in-chief Eden Kupermintz walks through what to... Read More...

Editors’ Picks – July 2020

Heavy Blog
August 7, 2020
Editors' Picks
We're still doing this, huh? We're still pretending as if this is as worse as it gets, as if it this is rough, sure, but we can do this, we got this? For me, July (and August) are when everything gets even wor... Read More...

Heavy Blog’s Top 25 Albums of 2020 (So Far)

Heavy Blog
July 24, 2020
Lists!
I have spent most of my considerable number of intros in 2020 to talk about how the world is falling apart. No one can blame me; the world is falling apart and we haven't seen anything yet. We're in the prelud... Read More...

Editors’ Picks – May 2020

Heavy Blog
June 5, 2020
Editors' Picks
As I am writing to you today, the world burns. Melodramatic, right? But, if we're being honest, I could open this post with these words every month. Hell, I could open every single post like this because every... Read More...

Editors’ Picks – April 2020

Heavy Blog
May 8, 2020
Editors' Picks
On the last episode of our podcast, Noyan challenged me with a question: is "The Golden Age of Metal" over? I had made the point that we're living in the Golden Age of Metal back in 2016, although the idea was... Read More...

Editors’ Picks – March 2020

Heavy Blog
April 3, 2020
Editors' Picks
This is the first Editors' Picks introduction that I'm writing from quarantine. Will it also be the last? No one really knows but the odds are heavily against it. Sure, it seems like we in Israel have a better... Read More...

Editors’ Picks – February 2020

Heavy Blog
March 6, 2020
Editors' Picks
February! Last year, I called it "The Bastard Month" and I stand by that. This year though, this transitory month was chock full of amazing releases. It triggered my "oh my god there is so much music" mode man... Read More...
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