Sunless – Ylem
The wellspring that is dissonant, experimental death metal has continued to deliver in past years, from the output of long-standing legends like Gorguts to that of comparatively newer faces such as Ulcerate an... Read More...
AMA (Ask Metal Anything) // May 2021
AMA is Heavy Blog’s monthly community Q&A column, where readers ask questions across the gamut, and we are legally required by the universal laws of “AMA” to answer them! These are edited and excerpted tra... Read More...
EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Feculent – Weaponisation of the Amygdala: Endless Warfare
Australia's metal scene has no shortage of titanic acts contained within its shores, and their collective death metal lineage speaks for itself. Those familiar with the scene may recognize names such as Snorlax and Resin Tomb, or perhaps others such as Shackles, Descent, Siberian Hell Sounds and Idle Ruin if you're more intimately familiar.
Death’s Door // September 2020
Welcome, friends, to the new and improved Death’s Door! As you have probably noticed by now, things look a little different around these parts as of late. Our retooling and reconfiguring of Heavy Blog to a mon... Read More...
Protosequence – A Blunt Description of Something Obscene
It's funny how experimental, extreme, and essentially subversive genres become just as susceptible to tropes and cliches as any other genre out there. It probably has something to do with how creativity works,... Read More...
EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Xpus conjure old school death metal mastery in “Of Purity, Chastity and Temptation”
Over the past several years, death metal has experienced a renaissance of epic proportions, fueled by movements of radical innovation (propelled by bands such as Ingurgitating Oblivion, Pyrrhon, Alkaloid, Arti... Read More...
Afterbirth – Four Dimensional Flesh
Brutal death metal, especially in its more technical manifestations, has been experiencing something of a renaissance as of late. Devourment, Wormed, Organectomy, Infant Annihilator, Unfathomable Ruination, Di... Read More...
Grind My Gears – Order Now At 666-555-6969
We're going to do something a bit different today - I've been joined by Janice from Heavy Blog HR. She'll be monitoring the content I'm contributing and, if we're lucky, she might pipe in with her sanitary, mil... Read More...
EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Chaos Motion unleash insanity with “The Sound of Specter”
The world is a crazy place that calls for crazy music. Enter technical death metal, one of extreme music’s most slippery and indecipherable subgenres. From the space-aged weirdness of Artificial Brain to the e... Read More...
Wormed – Metaportal
Tech death is a weird branch of the metal tree. Focused primarily on performative fireworks as opposed to standard songwriting structures, the music can at times come across as highly robotic. This isn’t neces... Read More...