I think it’s obvious to anyone who is paying attention that we’ve crossed the threshold in terms of the public discourse on climate change. Sure, there are deniers still out there and some of them are in prominent positions (AKA, the President of the United States, you know, that country…
September ends and with it, Summer fully dies. Especially where I’m presently at, the East Coast of the United States, the first brushes of Autumn are being felt. To be honest, there’s no better time of the year for metal; sure, Winter is black metal’s eternal domain but Autumn lends…
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…
You can expect a lot of the post-rock bands, especially those who were already in-tune with tragedy and the world around them, to take dark turns in the next few years. This is simply due to the fact that, you know, things are about to get much, much worse for…
Remember the first time you heard an album that made you think and feel as if something epic, cinematic even, was unfolding right in front of you? Welcome to that feeling again. Today we have the privilege of premiering the newest album from Lost in Kiev, Persona. I went into…
Parisian post-rockers, Lost in Kiev, present their third full-length, Persona, through the welcoming arms of record label, Pelagic, which will, if there is any justice, crack open the band’s exposure to an entirely new and larger audience. This album hurtles through all types of different dimensions while exploring and examining…
Doot doot, haha it’s Nick Cusworth here, just like usual, writing the intro to this installment of Post Rock Post! Jazz is good and uuhhhh, other stuff that Nick says. Seriously though folks, Eden here (you fell for my clever ruse, did you not?) writing this intro to what can…
Post-rock is dead! Post-rock is dying! Post-rock never happened! You’ve probably heard all three of these things (OK, probably not the last one) over the past few years. In a way, those are accurate statements but only if you have a very narrow definition of what post-rock is.
The thing about a year as good for music as 2018 has been is that it’s easy to forget albums, even the better ones out there. It’s not just a case of quantity alone; it’s what it does to the mind. It makes the year feel longer and thus, even…
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…
