• Best of 2020
  • Monthly Missive
  • Columns
    • A Gift to Artwork
    • Cool People Column
    • Death’s Door
    • Doomsday
    • Editors’ Picks
    • Genre Genesis
    • Grind My Gears
    • Into the Pit
    • Kvlt Kolvmn
    • Post Rock Post
    • Rotten to the Core
    • Unmetal Monthly
  • Genres
    • Metal
      • Black Metal
      • Death Metal
      • Doom Metal
      • Grindcore
      • Metalcore
      • Post-Metal
      • Progressive Metal
      • Stoner Metal
      • Sludge Metal
      • Thrash Metal
      • Trad Metal
    • Rock
      • Art Rock
      • Hardcore
      • Indie Rock
      • Math Rock
      • Post-Rock
      • Progressive Rock
      • Psych Rock
      • Punk
      • Shoegaze
      • Stoner Rock
      • Synthwave
    • Classical
    • Electronic
    • Folk
    • Hip-Hop
    • Jazz
    • Pop
    • R&B
  • Reviews
  • Listen To This!
  • Podcast
  • Store
  • Contact
Search
Heavy Blog Is Heavy logo
  • Best of 2020
    Random

    • Rotten to the Core // 2020 In Review

      Calder Dougherty
      January 25, 2021
      Best of 2020, Rotten to the Core
    Recent

    • Music Journalism’s Top 50 Metal Albums of 2020

      Nick Cusworth
      February 9, 2021

    • Yearly Missive // 2020

      Eden Kupermintz
      January 25, 2021

    • Heavy Blog’s Favorite Albums of 2020

      Heavy Blog
      January 25, 2021

    • Unmetal Monthly // 2020 In Review

      Jonathan Adams
      January 25, 2021

    • Heavy Blog Guest List – Peripheral Cortex

      Eden Kupermintz
      January 25, 2021

    • Kvlt Kolvmn // 2020 In Review

      Jonathan Adams
      January 25, 2021
  • Monthly Missive
    Random

    • Monthly Missive // June 2021

      Eden Kupermintz
      June 14, 2021
      Monthly Missive
    Recent

    • Yearly Missive // 2021

      Eden Kupermintz
      January 17, 2022

    • Monthly Missive // December 2021

      Eden Kupermintz
      December 7, 2021

    • Monthly Missive // November 2021

      Eden Kupermintz
      November 10, 2021

    • Monthly Missive // October 2021

      Heavy Blog
      October 5, 2021

    • Monthly Missive // September 2021

      Heavy Blog
      September 8, 2021

    • Monthly Missive // August 2021

      Eden Kupermintz
      August 4, 2021
  • Columns

    Recent

    • Into the Pit // Q4 2021

      Joshua Bulleid
      January 17, 2022
      Into the Pit

    • Post Rock Post // 2021 In Review

      Nick Cusworth
      January 17, 2022
      Best of 2021, Post Rock Post

    • Unmetal Monthly // 2021 In Review

      Calder Dougherty
      January 17, 2022
      Best of 2021, Unmetal Monthly

    • Rotten to the Core // 2021 In Review

      Calder Dougherty
      January 17, 2022
      Best of 2021, Rotten to the Core

    • A Gift To Artwork // 2021 In Review

      Karlo Doroc
      January 17, 2022
      A Gift to Artwork, Columns, Features

    • Doomsday - 2021 In Review

      Pete Williams
      January 17, 2022
      Best of 2021, Doomsday
    • A Gift to Artwork
    • Cool People Column
    • Death’s Door
    • Doomsday
    • Editors’ Picks
    • Genre Genesis
    • Grind My Gears
    • Into the Pit
    • Kvlt Kolvmn
    • Post Rock Post
    • Rotten to the Core
    • Unmetal Monthly
  • Genres
    • Metal
      • Black Metal
      • Death Metal
      • Doom Metal
      • Grindcore
      • Metalcore
      • Post-Metal
      • Progressive Metal
      • Stoner Metal
      • Sludge Metal
      • Thrash Metal
      • Trad Metal
    • Rock
      • Art Rock
      • Hardcore
      • Indie Rock
      • Math Rock
      • Post-Rock
      • Progressive Rock
      • Psych Rock
      • Punk
      • Shoegaze
      • Stoner Rock
      • Synthwave
    • Classical
    • Electronic
    • Folk
    • Hip-Hop
    • Jazz
    • Pop
    • R&B
  • Reviews
    Featured

    • Dvne - Etemen Ænka

      Eden Kupermintz
      April 5, 2021
      Reviews
    Recent

    • Wilderun – Epigone

      Eden Kupermintz
      January 24, 2022

    • Fit For An Autopsy – Oh What the Future Holds

      Calder Dougherty
      January 21, 2022

    • SOM – The Shape Of Everything

      Jimmy Rowe
      January 21, 2022

    • SEED – Dun Pageant

      Eden Kupermintz
      December 7, 2021

    • Plebeian Grandstand – Rien ne suffit

      Jimmy Rowe
      December 7, 2021

    • Devin Townsend – The Puzzle / Snuggles

      Jimmy Rowe
      December 7, 2021
  • Listen To This!
    Featured

    • Hey! Listen to Let Us Prey!

      Joshua Bulleid
      July 28, 2020
      Listen To This!
    Recent

    • What We’re Really Listening To – 1/21/22

      Scott Murphy
      January 21, 2022

    • Release Day Roundup – 1/21/21

      Scott Murphy
      January 21, 2022

    • Release Day Roundup – 1/14/21

      Scott Murphy
      January 14, 2022

    • Release Day Roundup – 12/31/21 & 1/7/22

      Scott Murphy
      January 7, 2022

    • Release Day Roundup – 12/24/21

      Scott Murphy
      December 24, 2021

    • Release Day Roundup – 12/17/21

      Scott Murphy
      December 17, 2021
  • Podcast
  • Store
  • Contact

Tagged Acrania

Home
Acrania

Hey! Listen To Vulvodynia!

Matt MacLennan
May 15, 2015
Listen To This!
South Africa and brutal death metal don't normally fit together in the same sentence but one young band is about to change that forever. Vulvodynia (don't look up the meaning of the word, for serious) play some... Read More...
article placeholder

Hey! Listen To The Northern!

Simon Handmaker
January 9, 2015
Listen To This!
Deathcore bands are a dime a dozen these days, and it takes some incredibly strong talent and songwriting skills to stand apart from the crowd. Whether bands do this by bringing an element of progressive song... Read More...
article placeholder

Ne Obliviscaris Edges Out Fallujah in 2014 Heavy Blog is Heavy Reader’s Poll

Heavy Blog
December 18, 2014
Lists!, News
All this week we've been posting the results of our staff poll of the best releases of 2014. Find out your choices for Album of the Year and an aggregated Top 25 of Reader choices after the jump. ... Read More...
article placeholder

What Your Heavy Blog Staff is (Really) Listening To: Part One A-L

Heavy Blog
November 2, 2014
News
It's been a great month of a great year for music and those of us privileged to write for Heavy Blog is Heavy have had our players working overtime.  But what have we really been listening to since the start of... Read More...
article placeholder

What Greg Hampton of The Zenith Passage is (Really) Listening To

Heavy Blog
September 28, 2014
News
We say it all the time, the Scrobbler doesn't lie. So what will we find Greg Hampton of up and coming Tech Death band The Zenith Passage is (really) listening to after the jump? ... Read More...
article placeholder

Acrania – Totalitarian Dystopia

Matt MacLennan
September 18, 2014
News
Brutal death metal at its very core should be, well, brutal. Without naming names, there are a plethora of bands out there doing brutal as it should be done. Contrarily, there are bands that try to stick sl... Read More...
article placeholder

Farewell, 2012: Tentaclesworth’s Top 10 Albums of 2012

Heavy Blog
December 20, 2012
Lists!
What a year. Here is a summary of my most pleasurable listening experiences. Quick shout outs to Gaza, Eldrimner, Acrania (Mexico), Disfiguring the Goddess, Gods of Eden, Trash Talk, Xibalba and TesseracT who ... Read More...

Patreon

Ko-fi

Podcast

All the Heavy Lifting

Latest Reviews

  • Wilderun – Epigone

    Eden Kupermintz
    January 24, 2022
    Looking back on Wilderun's discography is a very interesting exercise. Both Olden Tales & Deathly Trails and Sleep ... Read More...

  • Fit For An Autopsy – Oh What the Future Holds

    Calder Dougherty
    January 21, 2022
    Oh What the Future Holds finds Fit For An Autopsy with a little more patience, finally hitting their veteran stride in their sixth studio album. Tracks are given ample space to come alive in the pensive, bestial way only Fit can paradoxically achieve, instead of constantly clobbering you with The Big Riffs. It’s a commanding, inspired outing, far removed from the languor of their prior work. So what does the future hold for their direction after Beasts, exactly? 

  • SOM – The Shape Of Everything

    Jimmy Rowe
    January 21, 2022
    Shoegaze act SOM arrived in 2018 and melted hearts with their debut album The Fall, then blew us away from the stage at POST. Festival the following year. The act (featuring members of Junius, Constants, and Caspian) has been described as "doom pop," which isn't inaccurate; the baseline SOM modus operandi consists of colossal low-end, lush guitar layers, and airy vocal hooks delivered through a wash of delay and reverb, without pretense or complication.

  • SEED – Dun Pageant

    Eden Kupermintz
    December 7, 2021
    It has been a while since I pointed out the underappreciated and subtle art of album or track names. It's an often over... Read More...