Hum – Inlet

Scott Murphy
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
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...

Bring Me The Horizon – amo

Jimmy Rowe
Reviews
t's not often that we put our cart before the horse with our Editor's Picks and run a pick before we've had a chance to go more in-depth in a review, but SPOILERS: British rock act Bring Me The Horizon's latest record amo (sixth overall) wound up as my pick for January 2019, and as we never received a promo copy, we haven't had much of a chance to dissect it and let its diverse sounds sink in at the point of publication in order to dedicate a formal review. At the time, I just knew that I liked it. A lot. Now, going on two weeks since release and the album spinning nearly nonstop, it has had the opportunity to sink its hooks in deeper.

Visitors – Crest

Simon Clark
Reviews
Layering one's music is, fundamentally, a balancing act. Especially now that technology has developed to the point that a laptop carrying a backing track can be comfortably carried on stage and their operation ... Read More...

Rotten to the Core – devthbed, Justice for the Damned & Vein

Matt MacLennan
Rotten to the Core
We're at a point where a hot shit, flavour of the month band can become old hat moments after they are touted as the next big thing. It's so easy to lose track of who's who, what's hot and not and generally what the hell is happening in music and it's always gonna be impossible to hear everything good out there. That's where Heavy Blog, and others like us, come in. We have our core features focusing on specific genres—what's up Grind My Gears fans?!—but today I'm lumping together bands who's only similarity is their shared suffix. They're all "core" in some form or another. To make things more digestible, I've even added a strapline for each, covering their sound in one fantastically humorous sentence. Please, enjoy and rock responsibly.