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Foul Deth: The Sacred Son Interview

May 13, 2022

Sacred Son started off by making waves in the metal community for all the wrong reasons. I won't bore you, once again, with the details but suffice it to say that there are people out there, especially in the ... Read More...

Heavy Buys // May 2022

Jimmy Rowe

May 5, 2022

Heavy Buys

Welcome back once again to another edition of Heavy Buys, the column where we play show-and-tell with recent purchases, with a focus on vinyl and physical media.

The Anatomy Of – Lament Cityscape

Eden Kupermintz

May 5, 2022

The Anatomy Of

You know the drill: if a track I listen to makes me go "holy shit" within the first minute, I am obligated by the gods and foul spirits of metal to write about it. And so, here we are, seeing as Lament Citysca... Read More...

Denmark Desert: Talking Call Down the Sun, Recording During COVID, and Being a Beginner Musician with Konvent’s Rikke Emilie List

Pete Williams

April 7, 2022

Interviews

As we tell readers all the time on this blog, we really are living in a golden era for extreme underground music. It’s not just because of all the good records that are coming out these days, though that is in... Read More...

Heavy Buys // April 2022

Jimmy Rowe

April 7, 2022

Heavy Buys

Welcome to Heavy Buys, a monthly column where Heavy Blog contributors review their recent music and music-related purchases. This space was designed to be a catch-all for relevant physical merchandise, but nat... Read More...

Heavy Buys // March 2022

Jimmy Rowe

March 3, 2022

Heavy Buys

It's a brand new year, yet with it come the same issues we faced last year insofar as the vinyl situation is concerned. We're just now getting some of the records in the mail we ordered last year, and records ... Read More...

The Anatomy Of Messa

Eden Kupermintz

March 3, 2022

The Anatomy Of

Elsewhere in this Missive, you will find a review of Messa's latest album, Close. In it, I point out how the album pushes the band's sounds into new territories, building further and deeper into their doom fou... Read More...

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

Jordan Jerabek

February 3, 2022

Interviews

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...

Yearly Missive // 2021

Eden Kupermintz

January 17, 2022

Best of 2021, Monthly Missive

Hey! It's time to, once again, summarize the year. To be honest, I wrote most of my "big" thoughts in my Year in Review. Makes sense, right? The point of this post then is to help you orient yourself around al... Read More...

Heavy Blog’s Superlative List for 2021

Eden Kupermintz

January 17, 2022

Best of 2021, Lists!

Well. Here we are again. Another year ends and the insatiable urge within us to look back and to summarize kicks in. But, like last year, we have chosen to resist this urge somewhat by doing away with having a... Read More...

Moon Tooth – Phototroph

Eden Kupermintz

May 5, 2022

By now, Moon Tooth have garnered themselves quite a following in the progressive metal spaces. This is no accident; the scene is hungry for the kind of upbeat and unrestrained music that Moon Tooth is creating. Good news then: Phototroph is by far the band’s most energetic and “poppy” release, and I mean that in the best way possible.
Path of Might – Deep Chrome

Eden Kupermintz

May 5, 2022

Back in 2016, I first heard Path of Might's "Mountain of Flowers & Fruit", from their self-titled release, and I wa... Read More...
Atoll – Prepuce

Bridget Hughes

May 5, 2022

A friend recently asked me a baffling question: Is Nicolas Cage a good actor? It’s a seemingly simple inquiry, right... Read More...
Eight Bells – Legacy of Ruin

Eden Kupermintz

April 7, 2022

Legacy of Ruin very much continues Eight Bells' style of ethereal, haunting doom but splices it with more dynamic and muscular riffs, drums, and vocals for a new, and markedly improved, version of the band's sound. It is still an album to sink into to be sure, but it also affords the listener with more footholds on their way down.