When I was in my senior year of high school, I was really Going Through It. Due to a combination…
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Nightfear – Apocalypse
Recently, I’ve been handed a term by a friend and I’ve found myself using it a lot. That term is…
Fluisteraars – Bloem
It’s been unseasonably warm and bright in Chicago recently. Not every day, of course, but over the past few weeks…
Discoveries // 2019
This old song and dance. Every time, this is my personal favorite column of ours to be part of our…
Heavy Blog Guest List – Dylan Walker of Full of Hell
Full of Hell, baby. You know ’em, you love ’em. We do too: they’ve appeared a handful of times on…
Legendry – The Wizard and the Tower Keep
The prospect of revivalism, as we’ve discussed on the site many, many times before, is a double-edged sword. With every…
Hey! Listen to Antichrist Siege Machine!
You probably don’t need to read this article. I don’t mean that in a pejorative way towards Richmond duo Antichrist…
Boris – LOVE & EVOL
Writing about a band as foundational to their genre and as monolithic in the landscape of post-Y2K metal as the…
Atlantean Kodex – The Course of Empire
The sound of epic doom has fallen by the wayside a bit. Scores of upcoming bands heed the clarion call…
Xoth – Interdimensional Invocations
As a band, Xoth represent a specific challenge to review: it feels impossible to concoct the right combination of words…