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Heavy Blog Guest List – Peripheral Cortex

Eden Kupermintz
January 25, 2021
Best of 2020, Lists!
If there was one album which made me ask "what the fuck?" this year, it was Peripheral Cortex's God Kaiser Hell. As I wrote elsewhere on the blog, it's not "just" a weird album; it's an album that's weird in a... Read More...

We Asked, You Decided: Heavy Blog Readers’ Top Albums of 2020

Nick Cusworth
January 25, 2021
Best of 2020, Lists!
In all the years I've been a part of this site and helping out with our end of year coverage, I have wanted to conduct a readers' poll. Alas, we never had the bandwidth to do so given the timing and timeframe ... Read More...

Death’s Door // September 2020

Jonathan Adams
September 2, 2020
Death's Door
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...

Heavy Blog’s Top 25 Albums of 2020 (So Far)

Heavy Blog
July 24, 2020
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I have spent most of my considerable number of intros in 2020 to talk about how the world is falling apart. No one can blame me; the world is falling apart and we haven't seen anything yet. We're in the prelud... Read More...

Aversions Crown – Hell Will Come For Us All

Jonathan Adams
June 11, 2020
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Deathcore isn’t dead. You may wish it was, but if the much-maligned subgenre’s output over the past few years has been any indication, deathcore on every level is alive, well, and thriving. Staples like Fit Fo... Read More...

Protosequence – A Blunt Description of Something Obscene

Eden Kupermintz
May 13, 2020
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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...

PREMIERE/INTERVIEW: Gain Some Perspicacity into the Tech Death Wizardry of Aronious

Scott Murphy
March 10, 2020
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I'm on a roll with recommending new tech death this week, what with a rapidfire review for new EPs from Sutrah and Svengahli and now a full stream of the excellent debut from Aronious. As you'll hear for yours... Read More...

Editors’ Picks – February 2020

Heavy Blog
March 6, 2020
Editors' Picks
February! Last year, I called it "The Bastard Month" and I stand by that. This year though, this transitory month was chock full of amazing releases. It triggered my "oh my god there is so much music" mode man... Read More...

Release Day Roundup – 2/28/20

Scott Murphy
February 28, 2020
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...

Beneath The Massacre – Fearmonger

Matt MacLennan
February 19, 2020
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For eight years, the Canadian tech-death Megazord of Beneath The Massacre have watched their countrymen and neighbours hit the (relative) mainstream in metal with varying degrees of success. It's a hot product.... Read More...
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