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...
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...
Editors’ Picks – June 2020 Scott Murphy July 3, 2020 Editors' Picks I can't tell you how many times I've thought of closing down the blog. It's kind of a secret but not really; I've spoken about it in Facebook groups before but I don't think I've ever written about it on the b... 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...
Editors’ Picks – January 2020 Heavy Blog January 31, 2020 Editors' Picks You know that feeling you get right before you're sick? I'm talking the day or night before; you feel your bones start to ache, a sort of cloud descending upon you. It's like standing in the first few seconds ... Read More...
Editors’ Picks – November 2019 Heavy Blog December 3, 2019 Editors' Picks November! I love November. That's when it starts to really get cold in Israel. November is also when music starts to slow down as people prepare for the Big Freeze (both in temperatures and in social presence)... Read More...
Editors’ Picks – October 2019 Heavy Blog November 1, 2019 Editors' Picks If it seems like I always mention how much good music has been released during the previous month that's because that's probably correct. The fact is that we've been enjoying an insane outpouring of music for ... Read More...
