Atramentus – Stygian
In a recent interview with Invisible Oranges, Atramentus mastermind Phil Tougas (a metalhead’s metalhead by any account, as he also plays in Chthe’ilist, First Fragment, Cosmic Atrophy, Funebrarum, and Eternit... Read More...
A Gift To Artwork – Mariusz Lewandowski
A Gift to Artwork, taken from the Caligula’s Horse song “A Gift to Afterthought”, breaks down and analyses your favourite album artwork. The first time an album’s name appears, it will link to a large and (whe... Read More...
Playlist Swap – 1/2/2020
Look at that date baby. Hell yeah. Here we go. 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 brains... Read More...
Heavy Issues – How Do You Decide Your Album of the Year List?
We here at Heavy Blog like to ponder the big questions: Who are we? Why are we here? What makes one album “better” than another? You know, the big stuff. In order to better address such pressing matters, we bri... Read More...
Atlantean Kodex – The Course of Empire
The sound of epic doom has fallen by the wayside a bit. Scores of upcoming bands heed the clarion call of 80's/90's revivalism within metal and new groups are churning out excellent death metal, speed metal, a... Read More...
Editors’ Picks – September 2019
September ends and with it, Summer fully dies. Especially where I’m presently at, the East Coast of the United States, the first brushes of Autumn are being felt. To be honest, there’s no better time of the ye... Read More...
Release Day Roundup – 9/13/19
Editor's Note: I'm glad to welcome longtime reader Remi VL as a regular guest contributor to our Release Day Roundup posts! He submitted several of the albums listed below. Join his Facebook group for more rec... Read More...
Gatekeeper – East of Sun
Metal in general, but trad metal especially, is a divisive style of music, which, if I had to guess, comes from how unabashedly itself it is. It is a genre completely lacking in subtlety or nuance; when it come... Read More...
Far From Light – The Taxonomy of The Traditional Metal Revival
Welcome back to our Taxonomy series, where we break down umbrella genres like progressive metal, post rock and doom metal and outline all of the progressions and sub-genres that have matriculated over the past ... Read More...