STÖNER – Stoners Rule
It’s once again summer time, friends. To me, summer is usually a little odd in that it feels very strange to listen to metal of any kind. Metal always feels like a fall and winter thing. You know what I mean. ... Read More...
Doomsday // June 2021
A monolithic greeting unto thee, Heaviest of All Bloggers! It is unbelievably good to be writing to you all again. I know I do this every month, but this month feels very different for me. My wife and I are fu... Read More...
All Them Witches – Nothing as the Ideal
All Them Witches have certainly made a name for themselves as a psych-rock staple over the last decade. Their blues-inflected brand of heavy psych has taken on a variety of forms across their studio releases, ... Read More...
Bask – III
As I get older and write more and more for Heavy Blog Is
Heavy, the thing that keeps me motivated is to hear how music is changing. As a
30-something dude, it’s really cool to hear how bands that were huge to ... Read More...
Ecstatic Vision – For the Masses
Last October I went to the Days of Darkness festival in Baltimore, MD to see Blue Oyster Cult play alongside a number of esteemed metal, industrial, and hard rock acts. Among the other bands on the lineup were... Read More...
Boris – LOVE & EVOL
Writing about a band as foundational to their genre and as monolithic in the landscape of post-Y2K metal as the Japanese amplifier cult known as Boris is tough. Trying to wear the hats of both fan and critic f... Read More...
Hippie Death Cult – 111
What I like best about getting my paws on a debut record is experiencing the twofoldness of the statement that is made on this introduction. The record simultaneously says “this is definitively us” and “this i... Read More...
Baroness – Gold & Grey
It’s always a tricky thing when an established group puts
out a new record. You don’t want to get your hopes up necessarily, but you’re
just really looking forward to hearing it. Especially if that artist is o... Read More...
Stone From the Sky – Break a Leg
I still remember the first time I played Fuck the Sun, Stone From the Sky's previous album (yes, that's actually what it's called). What I don't quite remember is what I was expecting but it wasn't an expansiv... Read More...
Heavy Delinquency – Motorpscyho’s The Crucible
Motorpsycho are a hard band to grapple with; their career, as we have told you before, stretches all the way back to the end of the 80's. They've also ping ponged between numerous genres, always fixated upon p... Read More...