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Heavy Blog’s Superlative List for 2021

January 17, 2022

Best of 2021, Lists!

Well. Here we are again. Another year ends and the insatiable urge within us to look back and to summarize kicks in. But, like last year, we have chosen to resist this urge somewhat by doing away with having a... Read More...

Kvlt Kolvmn // October 2021

Heavy Blog

October 5, 2021

Columns, Kvlt Kolvmn

The leaves have begun to fall from the trees surrounding our home. The morning and evening chill has become a permanent fixture. Night falls faster, morning breaks more slowly. It’s the season of PSL, pumpkins... Read More...

Kvlt Kolvmn // 2020 In Review

Jonathan Adams

January 25, 2021

Best of 2020, Kvlt Kolvmn

2020 felt in many ways like a perpetual winter of the soul. Thus far, 2021 feels little different. But time is a lie and black metal is forever. What a delightful truth that is. Below you will find our coll... Read More...

Fighting Fire with Fire, Part II – Metal and Transgressive Love

Eden Kupermintz

December 7, 2020

Deep Dive

Chrome marks "transgressive" as a spelling mistake. Or at least it did, I think I've since added it to its dictionary. This is a good indication that a term only seems "correct" to me because I picked it up du... Read More...

Kvlt Kolvmn // November 2020

Jonathan Adams

November 9, 2020

Columns, Kvlt Kolvmn

Greetings, frost-bitten hoard! Welcome to another edition of Kvlt Kolvmn. Much has transpired since we last entered the ice walls of black metal’s highest quality tundra, so let’s get right to it. Out... Read More...

Editors’ Picks // November 2020

Scott Murphy

November 9, 2020

Editors' Picks

The last few weeks have been, to say the least, quite stressful for a lot of us at the blog. When you look at the list of albums that we chose to run for this month’s Editors’ Picks, it might be tempting to pa... Read More...

Release Day Roundup – 10/30/20

Scott Murphy

October 30, 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...

EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE + INTERVIEW: Botanist’s New Release Unfurls Its Leaves With “Bacteria”

Eden Kupermintz

September 29, 2020

Premieres

That's right folks, it's a two-for-one! When I found out I was getting the chance to interview Otrebor, the mind behind the genre-bending, experimental black metal group Botanist, I was a little bit excited. O... Read More...

Amidst the Madness of Bandcamp Fridays, Botanist Release “Ecosystem Version B”

Eden Kupermintz

August 12, 2020

Listen To This!

Let me be straight with you: while I love Bandcamp Fridays and all that they do for our communities, it's also a pretty harrowing day for me. I buy all my music from Bandcamp and as a result, I'm subscribed to... Read More...

Hey! Listen to Synthvvitch!

Eden Kupermintz

July 28, 2020

Listen To This!

I'll be honest with you: post black metal hasn't really been doing it for me lately. It might be that the genres which the sub-genre draws from to modify black metal, namely shoegaze and emo, aren't really my ... Read More...

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