Since 2017, we’ve been wrapping up our end-of-year coverage with a Yearbook encompassing our favourite articles from the year; pieces we can be proud of and look back on in the years to come as the very best of what Heavy Blog has to offer. We love sharing things with…
There’s a lot happening in the music world, and we here at Heavy Blog try our very best to keep up with it! Like the vast majority of heavy music fans, our tastes are incredibly vast, with our 3X3s in each Playlist Update typically covering numerous genres and sometimes a…
Guess who’s back in the house (of straw)! Bury Your Dead might not have much of a profile these days, but they were easily one of the most acts of the early 2000s. The Boston hardcore crew are as much to thank/blame as The Acacia Strain, for the bouncy, beatdown-focussed…
t’s not often that we put our cart before the horse with our Editor’s Picks and run a pick before we’ve had a chance to go more in-depth in a review, but SPOILERS: British rock act Bring Me The Horizon’s latest record amo (sixth overall) wound up as my pick for January 2019, and as we never received a promo copy, we haven’t had much of a chance to dissect it and let its diverse sounds sink in at the point of publication in order to dedicate a formal review. At the time, I just knew that I liked it. A lot. Now, going on two weeks since release and the album spinning nearly nonstop, it has had the opportunity to sink its hooks in deeper.
January is like a box of chocolates; you never know exactly what you’re going to get. That’s how the famous saying goes, right? In any case, the start of the year does tend to be an unexpected affair. December sees many of us going into relative hibernation, as PR and…
Each month, we always seem to come to the same conclusion when it comes to our Editors’ Picks column: Friday release days open the floodgates and unleash a seemingly endless stream of quality new music. But while some of our Editors and Contributors sit down gleefully each week to dive into this newly stocked treasure…
Originally, this post started out as a Stepping Stone, after I bought a cheap used copy of Slipknot at a local record store and proceeded to tumble down the nostalgia rabbit hole. But given that this year marks the album’s 20th anniversary, I felt like it deserved the proper Heavy…
Heavy Pod Is Heavy Cast!
Slow news week, but we have stuff to talk anyway. Mainly new Thy Art Is Murder, Tom “Fountainhead” Geldschläger’s new instructional package, new Unearth album, new Venom single, Within the Ruins’s instrumental album, Nekrogoblikon’s motivational book, Bring Me The Horizon’s deathcore medley, and Dream Theater’s studio video (and this video on Mangini vs. Portnoy). Them on cool people time we discuss Cam again, then talk about the new She-Ra series and Tetris Effect. Enjoy!
Heavy Pod Is Heavy Cast! This week we are back on track! Bringing that beat back! We had a good time discussing the not-so-real nu-metal revival (thanks to a new Bring Me The Horizon song), the controversy about Michael Jackson’s posthumous music, Hellenic black metal, Rivers of Nihil’s Apple Music exclusive…
Comeback albums can be a dubious affair. Their momentous release can often lead to unfair expectations being leveled against them, and they also see bands tasked with the difficult balancing act of recapturing what made people excited about them in the first pace and proving their relevance beyond their bygone…
