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We Asked, You Decided: Heavy Blog Readers’ Top Albums of 2020

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...

Hey! Listen to Machine Music’s Milim Kashot!

Eden Kupermintz

June 8, 2020

News

I probably need to explain that title, don't I? No worries! First, Machine Music is an insanely great metal blog run by Ron Ben-Tovim, a fellow Israeli and one of the most serious and thoughtful music journali... 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 – 5/22/20

Scott Murphy

May 22, 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...

Serpent Column – Mirror in Darkness

Jonathan Adams

September 25, 2019

Reviews

Serpent Column is a project that has been waiting to burst onto the larger metal scene for some time. Over the past few years, sole continual member Theophonos has conjured adventurous, meticulously crafted mu... Read More...

Editors’ Picks – May 2019

Heavy Blog

June 5, 2019

Editors' Picks

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...

Kvlt Kolvmn – May 2019

Jonathan Adams

June 5, 2019

Kvlt Kolvmn

Welcome to Kvlt Kolvmn, D R A M A Edition. Whoa boy. Yeah. It’s been a month. Not only were we gifted some absolutely incredible black metal releases in what’s already been a banner year, but we also get enoug... Read More...

Release Day Roundup – 5/24/19

Scott Murphy

May 24, 2019

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 w... Read More...

Kvlt Kolvmn // February 2018

Jonathan Adams

March 7, 2018

Kvlt Kolvmn

Welcome to Kvlt Kolvmn, “Is This Even Black Metal?!” Edition. We hope you’ve had a frosty, satan-blessed month. But, I mean, let’s be real. Such exclamations are couched in the traditional, stereotypical norms ... Read More...

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