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    • Heavy Blog's Superlative List for 2021

      Eden Kupermintz
      January 17, 2022
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    • Yearly Missive // 2021

      Eden Kupermintz
      January 17, 2022

    • Finding Meaning In Meaninglessness: A 2021 Survivor’s Guide

      Nick Cusworth
      January 17, 2022

    • Heavy Blog’s Top 50 Albums of 2021

      Heavy Blog
      January 17, 2022

    • A World In Which Music Exists – 2021 In Review

      Eden Kupermintz
      January 17, 2022

    • Kvlt Kolvmn // 2021 In Review

      Scott Murphy
      January 17, 2022

    • The Prog-nosis // 2021 In Review

      Eden Kupermintz
      January 17, 2022
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      June 13, 2022

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      June 13, 2022
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      June 13, 2022
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      Jimmy Rowe
      May 27, 2022

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Doomsday // November 2020

Jordan Jerabek
November 9, 2020
Doomsday
Welcome to November to all ye doomy and gloomy who enter here. Since Pete was out of the Doomsday office doing important shit like, oh, I don’t know, promoting democracy in the states by making sure people wer... Read More...

Editors’ Picks // November 2020

Scott Murphy
November 9, 2020
Editors' Picks
The last few weeks have been, to say the least, quite stressful for a lot of us at the blog. When you look at the list of albums that we chose to run for this month’s Editors’ Picks, it might be tempting to pa... Read More...

EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: The “Scorpio Moon” Looms With Empress’ New Single

Eden Kupermintz
November 5, 2020
Premieres
Another day, another great from Australia. But this time, in contrast to the bright, ecstatic trappings of our recently premiered tracks from the island continent, we have something more sinister. Brisbane's E... Read More...

Release Day Roundup – 10/9/20

Scott Murphy
October 9, 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...

Release Day Roundup – 2/16/18

Scott Murphy
February 16, 2018
Release Day Roundup
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 whi... Read More...

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    By now, Moon Tooth have garnered themselves quite a following in the progressive metal spaces. This is no accident; the scene is hungry for the kind of upbeat and unrestrained music that Moon Tooth is creating. Good news then: Phototroph is by far the band’s most energetic and “poppy” release, and I mean that in the best way possible.