New Primals – Horse Girl Energy Scott Murphy March 12, 2020 Reviews I'm still not sure what "Horse Girl Energy" is, but it certainly has New Primals more hyped up than any other rock band I've heard this year. Across a tight but raucous half-hour run time, the Minneapolis-base... Read More...
EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: D.C.’s Sideshow Cinema Deliver A Double Dose Of Frenzied Post-Hardcore With New Singles David Zeidler December 2, 2019 Premieres Flesh & Bone Records, based out of Chicago, is an indie label that should be on the radar of anyone interested in ambitious, creative heavy music. This year alone we have already debuted tracks ranging fro... Read More...
Couch Slut – Contempt Jordan Jerabek July 17, 2017 Reviews Brooklyn’s Couch Slut is a band who is very deliberate when it comes to word choice. How else would you end up with that band name? It certainly doesn’t make finding them on Facebook easy. There’s never an autocomplete suggestion given for their name, even as you get to the second “U”. Zuckerberg & Co. would rather assume we’re trying to get to the personal page of Couch Slug (a seemingly inactive account) instead of insinuating that it’s users would actually seek out something with the word slut in it. It’s not rocket science. It’s an off-putting word. It’s an unsavory word. It makes people uncomfortable. I admittedly had a brief pause about liking their page because I’d imagined how this would come across my family’s newsfeed (sorry for any confusion, Aunt Mel!). So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Couch Slut create hideous music. They cover topics like substance abuse, sexual assault, and a shitshow of the other headfucking kinds of disrespect that humans endure from one another with the instrumentation to back it up.
What Heavy Blog Is Really Listening To – 5/26/17 Scott Murphy May 26, 2017 What We're Really Listening To For those who missed our last installment, We post biweekly updates covering what the staff at Heavy Blog have been spinning. Given the amount of time we spend on the site telling you about music that does not fall neatly into the confines of conventional “metal,” it should come as no surprise that many of us on staff have pretty eclectic tastes that range far outside of metal and heavy things. We can’t post about all of them at length here, but we can at least let you know what we’re actually listening to. For those that would like to participate as well (and please do) can drop a 3X3 in the comments, which can be made with tapmusic.net through your last.fm account, or create it manually with topsters.net. Also, consider these posts open threads to talk about pretty much anything music-related. We love hearing all of your thoughts on this stuff and love being able to nerd out along with all of you.
Grind My Tears: Portrayal of Guilt Jake Tiernan May 17, 2017 News It is in this new generation of emotionally charged, horrendously heavy music where we find Portrayal of Guilt. The band, hailing from Texas, does not play in the more direct style of thrash and emo, however. Instead they opt to play a far more brutal combination, blending the hectic, crazed pace of screamo with harsh black metal. It is a frightening combination, one that draws on the emotional torment inherent in both genres, and mixes them together into a truly pained form of musical catharsis. Add to that a little bit of 90's metalcore in the vein of Coalesce and Converge, and you have one truly hectic blend of music.
ALBUM STREAM: Stuntman – Incorporate The Excess Jimmy Rowe January 13, 2014 Features With all of the bands making a name for themselves out of the burgeoning French metal scene, it's a shame that the name Stuntman doesn't ring a bell. Today, January 13th, marks the release of little-known Fre... Read More...
Helveticore: The Art of Ox Heavy Blog February 11, 2011 News First I would like to apologize for leaving such a long time between posts. My head has been floating in a world of Wordpress templates and Objective C for weeks. Second, before I get to my main thesis ... Read More...
New Music Coming From Coalesce And Russian Circles Heavy Blog January 14, 2011 News Not that these two bands really occupy similar spheres of existence, but news dropped about the same time, so... First up: an update from Coalesce “Hey, quick update on what’s going in over here in the ... Read More...
Axe to Fall U.S. Tour Heavy Blog February 8, 2010 News Metalcore giants Converge are launching a U.S. tour for their newly released album "Axe to Fall" for the year 2010. It will feature Coalesce, Gaza, Lewd Acts, Black Breath, and Harvey Milk all juggling around... Read More...
Coalesce. Ox. Listen. Now. Jimmy Rowe June 2, 2009 News Influential hardcore/mathcore band Coalesce's long-awaited new album OX is currently streaming over at Lambgoat.com. It's their first album in like ten years and they are back in great form. OX comes out in No... Read More...
