Love Letter

Love Letter – Karnivool

July 9, 2020

Karnivool are not just a blog favourite, but a personal one too - comfortably sitting within my top five favourite bands of all time. For someone who routinely listens to hundreds of different records a year t... Read More...

Love Letter – Elbow’s The Seldom Seen Kid

Eden Kupermintz

May 20, 2020

Love Letter

Note: As far as this writer is concerned, the live version of this album, performed with the BBC Concert Orchestra, is the superior version of the album. All references to the album in this post refer to this ... Read More...

Love Letter – Angra’s Temple of Shadows

Eden Kupermintz

January 21, 2020

Love Letter

Angra is one of those bands that I always mention when speaking about other bands or when describing their genre in general. There's a reason for that and it's mostly Temple of Shadows, their 2004 release. Whi... Read More...

Love Letter – Dream Theater’s A Change of Seasons

Eden Kupermintz

January 16, 2020

Love Letter

"Dream Theater is a good band" is not exactly a hot take, although, depending on which kind of circles you move in and their level of jaded cynicism, it might be. Still, as we stand at the foot of one of the m... Read More...

Love Letter to Neil Peart and Rush

Bill Fetty

January 13, 2020

Love Letter

Between the Buried and Me. Dillinger Escape Plan. Periphery. Death. Dream Theater. Opeth. Tool. Mastodon. Meshuggah. Protest the Hero. Cynic. Voivod. And so, so, so many others. I could go on ad nauseum but... Read More...

Love Letter – Transatlantic

Eden Kupermintz

January 6, 2020

Love Letter

Look, supergroups are usually bad; this is known. It's not hard to figure out why either. There's nothing in their circumstances which would make them good. They are usually created ad-hoc, meaning that first ... Read More...

Love Letter // Adam Clayton’s Bass Tone on The Joshua Tree

Joshua Bulleid

November 21, 2019

Love Letter

Adam Clayton is one of the most distinctive bass players in rock n' roll history. Although most of U2's media attention is focused around Bono and The Edge, it's Clayton who is the centerpiece of many of the ba... Read More...

Love Letter – Caspian

Eden Kupermintz

August 21, 2019

Love Letter

The idea of a "musical high" is a cliche by now and for good reason; music has an undeniably physical, unmediated, and immediate effect on us. It can lift the spirit or send it tumbling down, make you feel lik... Read More...

Love Letter to A Twisted Christmas

Pete Williams

December 24, 2018

Love Letter

I know what I’m about to say might be seen as lame on Heavy Blog but I’m not ashamed to admit it: I love Christmas. There is such a special feeling in the air in the days leading up to it. Now I’m not a crazy ... Read More...

Love Letter // Purity Ring – Another Eternity

Colin Kauffman

August 2, 2018

Love Letter

When Purity Ring's sophomore album Another Eternity dropped in 2015, I was unsure of what to think. It was compositionally and sonically different than their debut, Shrines, and I wasn't sure if I liked it or not. I put it on the backburner and decided to revisit it later to see if my opinion would change.

Year of No Light – Consolamentum

Eden Kupermintz

July 12, 2021

As much as Year of No Light are rated in underground circles, they are still underrated. Their name deserves to be up there with bands like ISIS or The Ocean in the annals of post-metal and doom. Consolamentum, twenty years into their career, is one of the best things they’ve made and one of the best things made in the genre, period. Holy fuck.
Azure – Of Brine and Angel’s Beaks

Eden Kupermintz

July 12, 2021

The same band we've come to love (and boy, do I love Azure) is still there, their optimistic, hopeful, powerful heart still beating underneath the added musical layers. And that's what makes all of those additions work; in other works, they'd come off as extraneous or forced, the mark of a band trying too hard to be something they're not. But here, the extra tones, the contrasts, the counterpoints, and the overall structure of the album work so well because they are in constant communication with Azure's style and their artistic direction.
Cerebral Rot – Excretion of Mortality

Jimmy Rowe

July 12, 2021

Truth be told, Cerebral Rot have found themselves in a bit of a sophomore slump with Excretion of Mortality. Even at faster paces, the songs feel robbed of urgency, and the whole affair just feels labored. Those aching for a slab of pungent death metal will surely have a good time regardless, and the music is every bit as disgusting as one would hope based on the grotesque cover art.
Anthropophagus Depravity – Apocalypto

Bridget Hughes

July 12, 2021

Even by metal standards, brutal death metal is a controversial topic. Plenty of longtime metal fans can’t stand the ove... Read More...