Editors' Picks

Editors’ Picks // January 2021

January 4, 2021

Well. I must say that I have spent all of my “intro juice” (a horrible phrase which I shall never use again, I’m sorry) on writing this month’s Missive, the upcoming end of year Missive, and the Year in Review... Read More...

Editors’ Picks – December 2020

Scott Murphy

December 7, 2020

Editors' Picks

Hello everyone and welcome to November's music, the final month of the year! What's that? I'm being told in my earphone here that November is in fact not the final month of the year? What do you know, I always... Read More...

Editors’ Picks // November 2020

Scott Murphy

November 9, 2020

Editors' Picks

The last few weeks have been, to say the least, quite stressful for a lot of us at the blog. When you look at the list of albums that we chose to run for this month’s Editors’ Picks, it might be tempting to pa... Read More...

Editors’ Picks // October 2020

Eden Kupermintz

October 5, 2020

Editors' Picks

In 2019, I made the point that Autumn is a season where we prepare for the great dark of Winter. We start to prepare for the tough season, wherever we are, even in warmer parts of the world. This year, this se... 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...

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...

Dawnwalker – Ages

Eden Kupermintz

January 4, 2021

Here's an age-old truth: fragile beauty is something that is aesthetically magnetic. The idea of the weakness, the flee... Read More...
Deftones – Black Stallion

Joshua Bulleid

December 16, 2020

White Pony (2000) was the record that first introduced electronics into Deftones's sound. It is therefore suitable that ... Read More...
Wytch Hazel – III: Pentecost

Pete Williams

December 7, 2020

With the continuing wave of traditional heavy metal just plowing us all over, I’ve come to realize there’s a kind of an... Read More...
Tombs – Under Sullen Skies

Pete Williams

December 7, 2020

When we get band promos, we typically receive a few things. Of course we get the album, but we also get a lot of promot... Read More...