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      Heavy Blog
      December 17, 2019
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      Nick Cusworth
      February 18, 2020

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      Karlo Doroc
      December 26, 2019

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      Karlo Doroc
      December 24, 2019

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      Simon Clark
      December 23, 2019

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Kvlt Kolvmn // September 2020

Jonathan Adams
September 2, 2020
Kvlt Kolvmn
Greetings, fellow pagans! Ave Satanas, and all that jazz. Fall is creeping its way onto the scene in my neck of the woods, which provides the perfect backdrop for fantastic black metal and the awesome changes ... Read More...

Editors’ Picks – July 2020

Heavy Blog
August 7, 2020
Editors' Picks
We're still doing this, huh? We're still pretending as if this is as worse as it gets, as if it this is rough, sure, but we can do this, we got this? For me, July (and August) are when everything gets even wor... Read More...

Kvlt Kolvmn – July 2020

Jonathan Adams
August 5, 2020
Kvlt Kolvmn
Another month, another addition of the frostiest column on the planet. Kvlt Kolvmn has been having a field day in 2020, with some of the most trying circumstances globally being met with some thoroughly amazin... Read More...

Release Day Roundup – 7/24/20

Scott Murphy
July 24, 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...

Mora Prokaza – By Chance

Calder Dougherty
July 15, 2020
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Growing up, it was exceedingly rare to experience something so bizarre it became a liminal event, especially in a small Southern town. When reality remains untouched by the world at large, rural suburbia becom... Read More...

EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Colosso Offer a Lot More Feast than “Famine” in New Track

Jonathan Adams
January 29, 2020
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January is, historically speaking, not a great month for new music. If anything, the first quarter of the year often feels like the music industry’s expulsion of its unwanted end-of-year leftovers, cleaning th... Read More...

EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Oak construct a sonic monolith in “Sculptures”

Jonathan Adams
December 5, 2019
News
Last year, Portugal’s Gaerea blew me away with one of the more expansive and adventurous black metal records I’d heard in a good while in Unsettling Whispers. When I heard that members of the band had formed a... Read More...

Exclusive Premiere: Temple Koludra soar to dizzying heights with memorable “Vertigo”

Jonathan Adams
June 12, 2019
Premieres
Since its inception, metal has been a genre of music that never lacked a flair for the dramatic. Even Black Sabbath’s earliest records were stuffed with stories intended to shock and disturb, and metal’s traje... Read More...

Kvlt Kolvmn – 2018 in Review

Jonathan Adams
December 14, 2018
Best of 2018
Welcome once more to Kvlt Kolvmn. It’s that time again. The year has shed its final layer, curling itself into a corner and awaiting its imminent demise. Though, thankfully, not without plenty of bite left. It... Read More...

Kunal Choksi of Transcending Obscurity Records: The Heavy Blog Is Heavy Interview

Jonathan Adams
August 2, 2018
Interviews, What's In A Label?
It's difficult to have a discussion about underground extreme metal without mentioning Transcending Obscurity Records. Joining the ranks of labels like Dark Descent, Blood Harvest, and I, Voidhanger as one of t... Read More...
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