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Breaking Cages: An interview with Venom Prison’s Larissa Stupar

February 3, 2022

Photo credit: Andy Ford Venom Prison are one of those bands that seems like they should be a way fucking bigger deal than most folks make them out to be. They have a spotless track record with some incredib... Read More...

EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Devour Every Bit of the Fresh Sounds of Antiquity

Jordan Jerabek

December 1, 2021

Premieres

One of my favorite things about reading Heavy Blog is how there’s no knowing what you can stumble into. The possibilities are truly endless, there’s not really any genre we *don’t* cover, and with all the cros... Read More...

EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Manipulator Got Nothing to Hide on “Naked and Open”

Jordan Jerabek

June 14, 2021

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For me, the true beauty in grind is in its power, density, directness, and brevity. It’s not the place for savoring anything other than the lasting burn of getting completely scorched for 10 minutes, like the ... Read More...

Body Void – Bury Me Beneath This Rotting Earth

Jordan Jerabek

April 5, 2021

Reviews

Body Void have all-but settled in as one of extreme music’s elite with their benchmark-setting heaviness, unloading a similar combination of formidable tone, power, and structure as genre heavyweights Primitiv... Read More...

EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Dirge Magnify The Cure’s “A Short Term Effect”

Jordan Jerabek

March 17, 2021

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I love it when bands are able to call it quits with a little parting gift, a nice little “thank you” for the support over the years. Who isn’t partial to the leave-no-stone-unturned-and-unload-everything drop... Read More...

EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Get Lifted and Float in Dust Moth’s Dreamy Rising // Sailing

Jordan Jerabek

March 10, 2021

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Sometimes, when you know, you know; you know? From 0:01 of Dust Moth’s Rising // Sailing, I knew. The guitar slide, the giant bwowww from the bass, it was all-but guaranteed this record was destined for some s... Read More...

Playlist Swap // 11/30/20

Jordan Jerabek

November 30, 2020

Playlist Swap

Even a cursory glance of our biweekly playlist updates will reveal that there is a great deal of variety among our staff’s musical tastes. Due to this, we brainstormed the idea of Playlist Swap, wher... Read More...

Doomsday // November 2020

Jordan Jerabek

November 9, 2020

Doomsday

Welcome to November to all ye doomy and gloomy who enter here. Since Pete was out of the Doomsday office doing important shit like, oh, I don’t know, promoting democracy in the states by making sure people wer... Read More...

All Them Witches – Nothing as the Ideal

Jordan Jerabek

September 8, 2020

Reviews

All Them Witches have certainly made a name for themselves as a psych-rock staple over the last decade. Their blues-inflected brand of heavy psych has taken on a variety of forms across their studio releases, ... Read More...

Zombi – 2020

Jordan Jerabek

July 31, 2020

Reviews

As synthwave hit its stride over the past few years, it’s largely been a flood of the club-friendly, dancy variety. Acts like GosT, Carpenter Brut, Com Truise, Dan Terminus, and many, many others have carried ... Read More...

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