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Architects – For Those Who Wish to Exist

March 1, 2021

Architects are well overdue a shake-up at this point. Holy Hell is a much stronger record than I first gave it credit for, but it still feel like a slightly less-potent rehash of the two (admittedly outstandin... 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...

Release Day Roundup – 2/26/21

Scott Murphy

February 26, 2021

Release Day Roundup

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 recommen... Read More...

Into the Pit // The Best (And Worst) Years for Thrash Metal

Joshua Bulleid

January 25, 2021

Best of 2020, Into the Pit

Howdy Headbangers, Dropping another top ten list seemed a tad redundant, given that I've picked out a "Big Four" for each quarter of the year. Put those together and you effectively have a "Top 16" of 2020.... Read More...

Rapidfire Roundup – Bleed From Within, Currents, and Ebonivory

Joshua Bulleid

June 2, 2020

Reviews

Bleed From Within - Fracture Bleed From Within really hit their stride with their previous record, Era (2018) – returning after an almost-five year absence with an album that stripped away a lot of their death... Read More...

Playlist Swap // 5/6/2020

Nate Johnson

May 6, 2020

Playlist Swap

Even a cursory glance of our biweekly playlist updates will reveal that there is a great deal of variety among our staff’s musical tastes. Due to this, we brainstormed the idea of Playlist Swap, wher... Read More...

Polaris – The Death of Me

Joshua Bulleid

February 14, 2020

Reviews

Polaris's debut record, The Mortal Coil (2017) was the first album I ever reviewed for Heavy Blog. While my life remains largely unchanged since then, a lot of has happened for the band in the interim. At the t... Read More...

Sylosis – Cycle of Suffering

Joshua Bulleid

February 10, 2020

Reviews

Do you like riffs? Josh Middleton likes riffs, and he and Sylosis have a truck-load of killer riffs (and some sad piano) to throw at you on their colossal comeback record Cycle of Suffering. ... Read More...

Hey! Listen to Antagonist A.D.!

Joshua Bulleid

January 23, 2020

Listen To This!

New Zealand's Anatgonist A.D. (or simply Antagonist, as they were known then) were among the many semi-local hardcore bands my friends and I would make public transport pilgrimages to see every other weekend, d... Read More...

Norma Jean – All Hail

Joshua Bulleid

November 6, 2019

Reviews

Norma Jean have been putting out awesome singles for the better part of 2019. Beginning with the awesome Polar Similar b-side "Children of the Dead" all the way back in January, followed by a steady stream of o... Read More...

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