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.

Dvne – Etemen Ænka

Eden Kupermintz

April 5, 2021

I swear that, out of the myriad of things that I love about music, watching a band grow is still my favorite. There's s... Read More...
Body Void – Bury Me Beneath This Rotting Earth

Jordan Jerabek

April 5, 2021

Body Void have all-but settled in as one of extreme music’s elite with their benchmark-setting heaviness, unloading a s... Read More...
Oryx – Lamenting A Dead World

Pete Williams

April 5, 2021

Ho hum. Another year, another release from the incredible Denver metal scene. Don’t you all get just as bored with thes... Read More...
Sanguisugabogg – Tortured Whole

Jimmy Rowe

April 5, 2021

Columbus, Ohio's Sanguisugabogg are among one of the most hyped up-and-coming death metal bands of the moment. Their demo Pornographic Seizures, released in 2019, was acclaimed in underground death metal circles and moved units quickly, landing them on the Century Media roster for their debut album Tortured Whole. It would seem that The 'Bogg has found themselves an early formula for success as a rising act to watch in death metal.