Just in case, for some reason, you were worried that the traditional heavy metal revival wouldn’t make it into 2020, I’m here to assuage your concerns. Your balm comes in the form of Infirmos and their debut, demo release from last week, simply titled 2020. On it, the Idaho native…
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 a bunch of musicians are friends and then they try to have ideas strong enough to…
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: I’m glad to welcome longtime reader Remi VL as 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. Well, here we are: another year full of new releases. In lieu of our weekly Release Day…
Look at that date baby. Hell yeah. Here we go. Even a cursory glance of our biweekly playlist updates will reveal that there is a great deal of variety among our staff’s musical tastes. Due to this, we brainstormed the idea of Playlist Swap, where two of our contributors pick their favorite…
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…
It’s that time again folks, time to recommend an amazing post-rock band from Australia! Now, I was going to wait with this post for our main Post Rock Post for January but I’ve decided to not that simply because I cannot stop listening to this album and wouldn’t want to…
Check, check, is this thing on? It’s the end of December so it feels like the plug has been pulled while I’m still on stage, the lights slowly dimming. But hey, it sounds as if the proverbial center-stage microphone is on so I’m going to use it to recommend more…
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: I’m glad to welcome longtime reader Remi VL as 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. -Scott Murphy Each month, we always seem to come to the same conclusion when it comes to…
