Release Day Roundup – 9/17/21
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Each month, we always seem to come to the same conclusion when it comes to our Editors’ Picks column: Friday ... Read More...
The Anatomy Of – Employed to Serve (Plus, A Review!)
I think it’s important for people to look outside their comfort zone for music as well as most other things in life, and it’s something I practice myself. Close readers know I’m the doom guy around here, and I... Read More...
Metal Journalism’s Top 50 Albums of 2019
We may have already posted every list imaginable for the year of 2019, and we may have turned the corner well into our coverage of 2020 and all of the goodness it has to offer, but there is still one order... Read More...
Disco Loadout: 2019 In Review
The Load-In
As I sit down to start writing these words, my gigging year is not quite done, but the end is in sight. Beyond it lies the desolate wasteland of early January, but we'll worry about that when I ... Read More...
Outliers // 2019
You’ve seen it. You’ve debated it. You’ve cried over it. But what’s done is done: Our list of the best albums of the year is behind us, and there is much rejoicing. But what about the albums we loved that didn... Read More...
Heavy Blog’s Top 50 Albums of 2019
This is one of those years where you're writing your end of year summary every day. It's a year which inundated all of us with so much music, and from so many angles and genres, that it almost begged to consta... Read More...
Earth Moves – Human Intricacy
Fresh off a short UK tour with rising formidable heavy weights Conjurer and LLNN, Earth Moves are back with a gripping and powerful sophomore release of emotive post-metal, Human Intricacy. Their debut The Tru... Read More...
Disco Loadout – August 2019: Battles & ArcTanGent
The Load In
August may have been a relatively quiet month in terms of the volume of events I attended, but there can be no doubt that the quality has been exceptionally high. Having already spoken at ... Read More...
Heart of a Coward – The Disconnect
There aren't many better illustrations of how interconnected the UK tech-metal scene is than a glance at Heart of a Coward's family tree. Before their inception, drummer Christopher Mansbridge was part of djent... 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...