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Kvlt Kolvmn // 2020 In Review

Jonathan Adams
January 25, 2021
Best of 2020, Kvlt Kolvmn
2020 felt in many ways like a perpetual winter of the soul. Thus far, 2021 feels little different. But time is a lie and black metal is forever. What a delightful truth that is. Below you will find our coll... Read More...

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

Nick Cusworth
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...

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
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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

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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
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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”

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June 12, 2019
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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...
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