As a certified, card-carrying vegan, sometimes I just need some avant-garde chamber music about vegetables. I know, that’s quite a genre niche, but thankfully Helen Svoboda is here to deliver. You might remember her from The Biology of Plants, and specifically their fantastic album Vol. 2 from last year. In…
Who’s atomic majesty? My Atomic Majesty! Seriously though, My Atomic Majesty is a new project blending the minds of one Tom “Fountainhead” Geldschläger (who’s name you should already be very familiar with if you follow this blog) and multi-instrumentalist Andrey Sazonov, which is a name we would all do well…
For those who missed our last installment, We post bi-weekly updates covering what the staff at Heavy Blog have been spinning. Given the amount of time we spend on the site telling you about music that doesn’t fall neatly into the confines of conventional “metal,” it should come as no…
Editor’s Note: Longtime reader Remi VL is a regular guest contributor to our Release Day Roundup posts! He submitted several of the albums listed below. Join his Facebook group for more recommendations. Each month, we always seem to come to the same conclusion when it comes to our Editors’ Picks column: Friday release days open the floodgates and…
When exactly do we make two “Hey! Listen to This!” posts? It’s usually when an artist or band have grown a lot since the last time we’ve spoken about them. We want you to give them a fresh listen, because things are either very different than last time or represent…
There’s a lot happening in the music world, and we here at Heavy Blog try our very best to keep up with it! Like the vast majority of heavy music fans, our tastes are incredibly vast, with our 3X3s in each Playlist Update typically covering numerous genres and sometimes a…
Editor’s Note: Longtime reader Remi VL is a regular guest contributor to our Release Day Roundup posts! He submitted several of the albums listed below. Join his Facebook group for more recommendations. Each month, we always seem to come to the same conclusion when it comes to our Editors’ Picks column: Friday release days open the floodgates and…
Have you ever listened to City Girl (from one of my many mentions of the project on the blog, probably) and thought “OK, this is great but what if it was even more spacey?” Well, if you’ve ever asked this very specific and unlikely question, then I have good news…
When I first hit play on Dessiderium (thanks, Josh!) I had no idea that it was the side/one man project of Alex Hadad, who also plays in the excellent Nullingroots. But what I did know is that I loved it from the very first second. Dessiderium’s Shadow Burn sounds like…
A slow and low greetings to you all, Heaviest of Bloggers! Is everybody still doing alright? I know I usually start these columns off with whatever random thoughts I’m having, but a recent conversation with a good friend of mine reminded me that we really need to do a lot…
