Release Day Roundup – 9/16/22
Another ridiculous Release Day featuring eagerly anticipated from Clutch, Rina Sawayama, Sumerlands and The Mars Volta in addition to our top picks.
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Destrage – SO MUCH. too much.
The last we heard from the eccentric Italian progressive metal band Destrage was in 2019, with the brief but well-crafted The Chosen One hitting shelves partway through that year. Of course, lots has changed s... Read More...
Editors’ Picks – May 2019
Ah, May! What a heady month, as Spring makes itself known in most of our circles. It’s probably my favorite time of the year to listen to music; something about the combination between the weather, the symbolo... Read More...
Release Day Roundup – 5/24/19
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 w... Read More...
165 – Djestures
Heavy Pod Is Heavy Cast! Eden is finally back, but this time I'm derailing. We talk about new music from Dreadnaught, Inanimate Existence, Babymetal, Warforged, Xenobiotic, Flub, and Destrage. Then we talk about the Threatin lawsuit, Mayhem signing with Century Media, and Demons & Wizards coming back. Also some philosophy, cool people time with Detective Pikachu, Chernobyl, Charles Stross's Laundry files, Hannu Rajaniemi's Summerland and Re:publica. Enjoy!
Destrage – The Chosen One
All of us have expectations. Whether it’s for your personal
life, professional life, or as simple as going to the movies, you have a
certain expectation for any given thing. Sometimes you have very high
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Ernia – Ernia
Coming to the end of a year that has been bursting at the seams with grindcore releases (many of which can be found on Heavy Blog Is Heavy, just saying), there were always going to be a clutch of records that a... Read More...
Weeping Skulls – Weeping Skulls
Don't ever try and argue with someone that grindcore is music. It really isn't. The genre is forever teetering on being one tin can snare from sounding like a washing machine full of cutlery. The "anti-music" l... Read More...
Heavy Blog’s Top 25 Albums of 2018 (So Far)
Midpoint. Half in, half out. Shadow. A divide. Balance. The semantic milieu surrounding stuff that's divided 50/50 is incredibly rich; it opens some of the greatest cultural creations of all time ("Midway upon ... Read More...
Heavy Blog Staff’s Top Ten Albums of 2016
With our general list for 2016 out of the way, we can now shift the focus from our aggregate opinion to individual ones. Both outlooks have their own merit; the former provides us with an overview of our year in music. However, the latter shines a light on something we're extremely proud of and that's the varied and eclectic nature of our staff these days. We used to have a very certain type of music associated with Heavy Blog and while we still have a long way to go, we feel like we've done a good job at expanding our palettes and the representation of different kinds of music and metal in our staff. The lists below reflect that; you'll find black metal, avant-garde, technical thrash metal, hip hop, rap, noise, ambiance, post metal and rock, melodic death metal and much more throughout these lists.