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Kvlt Kolvmn // 2020 In Review

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

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

Reviews

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

News

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...

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