Hey there headbangers,
No end of year lists again this year. Once more, given that I pick out a "Big Four" each quarter and that we only had a "Big One" last round, you've already got yourself a rough ... Read More...
Howdy Headbangers,
Dropping another top ten list seemed a tad redundant, given that I've picked out a "Big Four" for each quarter of the year. Put those together and you effectively have a "Top 16" of 2020.... Read More...
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...
We're at a point where a hot shit, flavour of the month band can become old hat moments after they are touted as the next big thing. It's so easy to lose track of who's who, what's hot and not and generally what the hell is happening in music and it's always gonna be impossible to hear everything good out there. That's where Heavy Blog, and others like us, come in. We have our core features focusing on specific genres—what's up Grind My Gears fans?!—but today I'm lumping together bands who's only similarity is their shared suffix. They're all "core" in some form or another. To make things more digestible, I've even added a strapline for each, covering their sound in one fantastically humorous sentence. Please, enjoy and rock responsibly.
If a poster was created of famous devil-worshippers then Aleister Crowley’s face would no doubt be near the front and center. Despite not actually being a Satanist, Crowley’s “wicked’’ deeds placed him in league with the Dark Lord in the eye’s of the public back in his heyday. However, he was a practitioner of Thelema, a spiritual philosophy of self-empowerment that’s often lumped in with the glorification of evil much like Satanism has been throughout the years. And like old Beelzebub, Crowley and heavy metal fit together like a hand in glove, and his influence in heavy music can be traced all the way back to the genre’s earliest years.
Back in 2016 after a three year break, their longest spell between albums to date, DevilDriver released Trust No One on 13 May 2016. The record marks their return from hiatus and the first recorded appearances ... Read More...
This week we (mostly I) run a terrible pun to the ground, just like deathcore bands have run breakdowns to the ground. You'll see what I mean. Or hear. New music: Black Crown Initiate, Kamelot, Perturbator, Within the Ruins, Inter Arma, Devildriver, Vektor, The Fall of Troy, If These Trees Could Talk, Downfall of Gaia, Slaughter to Prevail and... Death Grips. Then we talk about negative reviews, what a review should be and how one should respond to reviews; then we talk about, yes, breakdowns. Then it all breaks down.
Whitechapel has been among the best, if not the best, deathcore bands since the style was developed in the early years of the new millennium. However, they have always been missing one thing, and that was to re... Read More...
Summer Slaughter Tour has succeeded at both enlisting some of the biggest names in death metal and its off-shoot genres as well as conjure a flurry of quarreling comments about whether the lineup adheres to wha... Read More...
Revocation are easily one of the site's favorite bands collectively. Many of these writers listed their self titled record from last year in their "Best Of 2013" list, and one writer even cites Chaos Of Fo... Read More...