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Rotten to the Core // March 2022

March 3, 2022

Let's start fresh, shall we? As the first official drop of the 2022 musical calendar, we have a lot to cover and only so much of your attention span. We appreciate you taking time out of dying on stream playin... Read More...

Sleep Token – This Place Will Become Your Tomb

Calder Dougherty

September 8, 2021

Reviews

Sleep Token are a puzzle shrouded in mystery wrapped in an enigma, or so the UK outfit would have you believe. The gimmick of anonymity is nothing new or even particularly noteworthy, but the cloaked, masked g... Read More...

Rotten to the Core // July 2021

Calder Dougherty

July 12, 2021

Columns, Rotten to the Core

Look, we KNOW it’s the mid-year review drop, but there was so much good new -core to cover from the past month, we just couldn’t help ourselves. Hope you’re ready for a jam-packed column full of June’s biggest... Read More...

Rotten to the Core // March 2021

Calder Dougherty

March 1, 2021

Columns, Rotten to the Core

It’s been a year since we last spoke. January and February felt like a full year, right? The last thing I remember was spending a week holed up writing blurbs about bands like END and Clown Core and now we’re ... Read More...

Genre Genesis // Zeal & Ardor – “Tuskegee”

Nick Cusworth

December 7, 2020

Genre Genesis

Genre Genesis is our monthly column dedicated to the hardworking and endlessly patient partners of Heavy Blog editors and writers, who are, shall we say, not nearly as invested in heavier music as we tend to b... Read More...

Rotten to the Core // November 2020

Calder Dougherty

November 9, 2020

Columns, Rotten to the Core

As I write this, the US Senate has just confirmed Amy Coney Barrett, Trump’s third Supreme Court justice, a mere week before he is expected to lose reelection. The only thing remotely ‘supreme’ about Barrett i... Read More...

Love Letter – Karnivool

Karlo Doroc

July 9, 2020

Love Letter

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...

Hum – Inlet

Scott Murphy

July 1, 2020

Reviews

This has been a notable year for veteran artists dropping excellent albums with barely any notice. Fiona Apple pushed up the release of her boldest album yet, X brought the band back together for their first a... Read More...

Refused – War Music

Simon Clark

October 17, 2019

Reviews

Surely everyone who has ever picked up a guitar, microphone, or drumstick has fantasised about creating an album revered as a bona fide, epoch-defining classic. The dream of having a collection of songs that a... Read More...

Disco Loadout – August 2019: Battles & ArcTanGent

Simon Clark

September 4, 2019

Disco Loadout

The Load In August may have been a relatively quiet month in terms of the volume of events I attended, but there can be no doubt that the quality has been exceptionally high. Having already spoken at ... Read More...

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