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Music Journalism’s Top 50 Metal Albums of 2020

February 9, 2021

Best of 2020, Lists!

Hello, and welcome back to the article about the previous year that always comes long after the previous year has ended! Joking aside, based on the number of comments and messages I received asking if we were ... Read More...

Heavy Blog’s Favorite Albums of 2020

Heavy Blog

January 25, 2021

Best of 2020

So...our AOTY list looks a little different this year. Ok, a LOT different. You’ve probably noticed how much we’ve diversified our coverage over the last few years. As we started pulling together our collectiv... 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...

Rotten to the Core // 2020 In Review

Calder Dougherty

January 25, 2021

Best of 2020, Rotten to the Core

It’s been a hell of a year, and we’ve needed every ounce of good music to get us through. 2020 saw a huge resurgence of insane mathcore, traditional metalcore revival, crossover hardcore, and much of the djent... Read More...

Heavy Blog Staff’s Top 25 Albums of 2020

Heavy Blog

January 25, 2021

Best of 2020

We may have taken a different direction with our overall AOTY list this year, but we still wanted to share what everyone on staff thought were the best releases of the year! Comment with your own top 25, album... Read More...

AMA (Ask Metal Anything) // November 2020

Nick Cusworth

November 9, 2020

AMA

AMA is Heavy Blog’s monthly community Q&A column, where readers ask questions across the gamut, and we are legally required by the universal laws of “AMA” to answer them! These are edited and excerpted tra... Read More...

AMA (Ask Metal Anything) // October 2020

Nick Cusworth

October 5, 2020

AMA

AMA is Heavy Blog’s monthly community Q&A column, where readers ask questions across the gamut, and we are legally required by the universal laws of “AMA” to answer them! These are edited and excerpted tra... Read More...

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

Heavy Blog

July 24, 2020

Lists!

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...

Hey! Listen to Mindforce!

Nate Johnson

May 20, 2020

Listen To This!

When asked to name classic heavy metal bands, the ones that come to mind are Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Cirith Ungol, Mercyful Fate and Mindforce right? Wait, Mindforce the hardcore band? Ok, maybe not in the... Read More...

Xibalba – Años En Infierno

Joshua Bulleid

May 19, 2020

Reviews

Xibalba first made a name for themselves based on the sheer power of their particular blend of crushing hardcore and brutal death metal. Although few, if any, have matched the intensity of their output, the in... Read More...

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