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.

Astronoid – Radiant Bloom

Jimmy Rowe

May 27, 2022

Established in 2012, Massachusetts-based at Astronoid built a cult following within a pocket of the prog metal communit... 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...