From the first time I listened to Caustic Casanova’s God How I Envy the Deaf (from which we premiered a track recently), I knew I wanted to run an Anatomy Of segment with them. The album is a veritable smorgasbord of influences, styles, and approaches, all culminating in a fast,…
A Gift to Artwork, taken from the Caligula’s Horse song “A Gift to Afterthought”, breaks down and analyses your favourite album artwork. The first time an album’s name appears, it will link to a large and (where possible) high-resolution image of the cover so that you can take a closer…
SiXforNine have released the standout heavy metal album of the year so far with their second album Parallel Universe. The band perfectly blend elements of classic and progressive metal with alternative and hard rock to come up with a sound that is all their own. You can read more about…
It’s always a little bit special when a UK band perfects a sound that Euros and North Americans have been in-charge of for x amount of time. That’s the case on Geist’s new release, Swarming Season. The Northern outfit have hit the dark, crusty hardcore nail so perfectly on the…
The Producer’s Chair “The production on this is fantastic – it sounds so good!” “Nah, this sounds too produced for me, I prefer the old stuff, it was more raw!” “Sick production, bro!” “I think I’m passing on this one, the production kinda sucks.”RandomDudeOnYouTube42069 Reading comments like these on YouTube…
To those who follow Heavy Blog’s monthly Post-Rock Post column, it’s no secret that we like to bring attention to a wide range of acts within the genre not only in sound but in geography. Today we’re proud to be featuring one that ticks both of those boxes. Aswekeepsearching are…
Photo (From Left): Trent Bos, Eden Kupermintz, and Simon Clark at ArcTanGent 2019. I’ve been to many a festival in my “career” as a metalhead. Hellfest, Brutal Assault, Download, Graspop and more have all been graced by my frowns, interrupted sleep, and abhorrent amounts of alcohol. What I’ve learned over…
Crashdïet have had a hard time since spear-heading the Swedish sleaze rock revival in the early 2000s. With five studio albums, and nearly as many lead singers, under their belt since 2005, it hasn’t been easy for the band to stay atop of the scene they helped define – and…
Welcome back to our series of posts looking at the musical influences which make bands tick. This time around, we have black metal veterans Imperium Dekadenz. I was especially excited to host this post since Imperium’s type of black metal always seemed to me to draw on various eras, styles,…
One of the most exciting releases of the year, Detach The Island’s The Burden To Become Fact is one of the sleeper-hits of the year, blending the magical mayhem of chaotic post-violence with the stuttering, savage rhythmic battery of math metal. I’ve helped premiere music from the record and written…
