On the last episode of our podcast, Noyan challenged me with a question: is “The Golden Age of Metal” over? I had made the point that we’re living in the Golden Age of Metal back in 2016, although the idea was boiling around in Heavy Blog circles since at least…
Honestly, there’d be more to this weeks Grind My Gears if I could be fucked but I’m losing my marbles and all sense of productivity. Isn’t it just as well that there’s at least one record released in the last week that merits a full look? Bandcamp’s grind tags haven’t…
Welcome, Hellions, to our last Death’s Door installment of the decade! Wipe your feet on the mat and pull up a bone throne. We’re about to embark on a journey through another fairly amazing year of music. Oh yeah, baby. Let’s go. This year was, for myself at least, a…
Look, you guys know by now what my deal is with death metal. I love that shit. Cannot get enough, ever. In many ways, it’s the perfect genre of metal: unusually tight stylistic constraints in terms of instrumentation, vocal style, production, and theme come together to form a musical, tonal,…
Welcome to Death’s Door, Hellions. Pop a squat on a bone throne and get comfy. There’s plenty of premium content to be had in the world of death metal, and Scott and I are here to deliver unto thee the goods. I’ve been doing quite a bit of complaining about…
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 while some of our Editors and Contributors sit down gleefully each week to dive into this newly stocked…
