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…
I’ve been playing guitar for 21 years now, and I’ve recently decided that I need a refresher. I’ve fallen out of regular practice, so my skills have fallen off a bit. But all musicians will relate to this feeling: I just need more gear, and I can justify it to…
Etherius are for everyone who claims to love Dream Theater but whinges about James LaBrie. Instrumental music has grown in popularity since the rise of the tech-metal scene. Yet, rather than the dexterous whiddlings of Animals as Leaders or Polyphia , this New Jersey quartet throw back to the classic progressive…
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…
Rotten To The Core has always been a home for math and metalcore that doesn’t reek of HM-2 and blast beats, that’s what Grind My Gears is for. That doesn’t mean that anything included in this feature can’t hit just as hard, if not harder, than the grind and violence…
Like everybody else in the world with a lick of sense, I was hanging out at home the other day and just flipping through Bandcamp. I’ve gotten this new habit of poking through the new releases and top sellers and just listening to a song or two if I like…
Icelandic black metal is an unstoppable force that has yet to meet an immovable object. Over the past decade, bands like Svartidauði, Misþyrming, Zhrine, Sinmara, and a host of others have catapulted the vibrant scene of this small Scandinavian Island into a rarely achieved stratosphere of respect and reverence in…
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…
