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Heavy Blog’s Favorite Albums of 2020

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...

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...

Incantation – Sect of Vile Divinities

Jonathan Adams

August 11, 2020

Reviews

The old guard of death metal has a progressively steeper hill to climb when it comes to maintaining relevance. The current state of death metal is bursting at the seams with up-and-coming talent, with bands li... 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...

Editors’ Picks – May 2020

Heavy Blog

June 5, 2020

Editors' Picks

As I am writing to you today, the world burns. Melodramatic, right? But, if we're being honest, I could open this post with these words every month. Hell, I could open every single post like this because every... Read More...

Death’s Door – May 2020

Jonathan Adams

June 4, 2020

Death's Door

Welcome once more to Death’s Door. Wipe your feet on the mat and pull up a bone throne. It’s ugly out there. I can’t think of a time in recent memory where I’ve listened to so much death metal over a sustai... Read More...

Release Day Roundup – 5/8/20

Scott Murphy

May 8, 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...

Playlist Swap – 4/17/20

Joshua Bulleid

April 17, 2020

Playlist Swap

Even a cursory glance of our biweekly playlist updates will reveal that there is a great deal of variety among our staff’s musical tastes. Due to this, we brainstormed the idea of Playlist Swap, where two of ou... Read More...

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