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Death’s Door // June 2021

June 14, 2021

Welcome once more unto Death's Door, ye mortals. Grab a goblet and perch upon a bone throne. June releases are upon us, and the blood floweth ever red. Seriously, though. What a month. Though, as you will c... Read More...

Death’s Door // May 2021

Heavy Blog

May 10, 2021

Death's Door

Welcome, as always, to Death’s Door. Good infernal underlords, what a month for death metal. April was not unkind to me in the death metal department, with bands old and new coming out swinging with some of th... Read More...

Death’s Door // April 2021

Scott Murphy

April 5, 2021

Death's Door

Welcome to Death’s Door, gang. Not gonna lie, not the loudest or most epic death metal month for me when it comes to breadth of listening. Nevertheless, we’ve got some absolute hitters to share with you that a... Read More...

Death’s Door // March 2021

Scott Murphy

March 1, 2021

Death's Door

We have returned, fellow heathens! Fill your favorite chalice and pull up a bone throne; it’s good to be back. While conventional wisdom says that new releases slow down come December and pick back up in the s... Read More...

Death’s Door // 2020 In Review

Jonathan Adams

January 25, 2021

Best of 2020, Death's Door

We’ve come down to it. After an absolutely batshit year, we’ve compiled our favorite releases in the wonderful world of death metal in the year of shit 2020. As is the custom, usual suspect Scott and myself wi... Read More...

Death’s Door // January 2021

Scott Murphy

January 4, 2021

Death's Door

Quick! Bone throne, chalice, death metal. You know the drill. We’ve finally trudged through the last bit of the nightmare that was 2020, and we’re looking forward to recapping the gruesome, brutal death metal ... Read More...

Death’s Door – December 2020

Scott Murphy

December 7, 2020

Death's Door

It’s been a bad year. We’re in a collective bad mood. There’s little that soothes a soul in tumult like bad music. You know the kind of “bad” I’m referring to. The type that rips your face from your body, that... Read More...

Death’s Door // November 2020

Jonathan Adams

November 9, 2020

Columns, Death's Door

I’m hard pressed to think of a better time for death metal ruination than during an election cycle. Tensions run insanely high, anger seethes, and the need for healthy outlets for explosions of emotion and pri... Read More...

Death’s Door // October 2020

Scott Murphy

October 5, 2020

Death's Door

Welcome, fellow disciples of depravity! Grab a chalice and pull up a bone throne; we have a LOT to cover this month. The year may be winding down, but the quality death metal keeps on flowing like...well, an e... Read More...

Death’s Door // September 2020

Jonathan Adams

September 2, 2020

Death's Door

Welcome, friends, to the new and improved Death’s Door! As you have probably noticed by now, things look a little different around these parts as of late. Our retooling and reconfiguring of Heavy Blog to a mon... Read More...

Boss Keloid – Family The Smiling Thrush

Eden Kupermintz

June 14, 2021

Looking back on the career of Boss Keloid is an interesting exercise, in more ways than one. The obvious angle is their... Read More...
VOLA – Witness

Eden Kupermintz

June 14, 2021

What a lovely phrase “return to form” is and how lovely it is to speak it in the same sentence as VOLA. Don’t get me wr... Read More...
STÖNER – Stoners Rule

Pete Williams

June 14, 2021

It’s once again summer time, friends. To me, summer is usually a little odd in that it feels very strange to listen to ... Read More...
Gojira – Fortitude

Joshua Bulleid

June 14, 2021

In many ways, Fortitude would have made for a more logical step between L’Enfant Sauvage and Magma. There are moments when it feels like the culmination of everything Gojira have done before, but just as many, if not more, where they feel like they’re rehashing ideas they’ve expressed more effectively in the past, or else are held back by what came immediately before; existing in the shadow of Magma’s template, rather than naturally pushing forward.