Kvlt Kolvmn // 2021 In Review
Welcome to Kvlt Kolvmn’s Best of 2021 bonanza. Another difficult year has drawn to a close. Let’s recap:
Everything fucking sucked.
Now that that’s out of the way, the good news: Black metal ruled ... Read More...
Editors’ Picks // December 2021
Every year it's the same damn thing: the year is over, proclaim the magazines and the blogs! Time to summarize! Time to rank! Time to make order and sense of this thing called music, an art form that, while re... Read More...
Release Day Roundup – 11/26/21
Editor’s Note: Do you think we “missed” an album this week? Click here.
Each month, we always seem to come to the same conclusion when it comes to our Editors’ Picks column: Friday ... Read More...
Kvlt Kolvmn – August 2019
Welcome, friends, to another installment of Kvlt Kolvmn. As has been the custom as of late, our cup runner over with quality black metal releases, with August being another titanic month for the genre. It’s ab... Read More...
Release Day Roundup – 8/30/19
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 ... Read More...
Hope Drone – Void Lustre
It’s been a long four years since the sophomore release from Australian post-black metal outfit Hope Drone. Cloak of Ash, released July 2015 through Relapse Records, was the group’s shot at a breakout, and it ... Read More...
The Evolution of Australia’s Heavy Music Scene
The Australian music scene. Having been oft-forgotten in other parts of the world for many a decade, over the past dozen years or so we’ve seen this country’s musical output burst from the underground and make ... Read More...
An Ode to Spring – Metal, Thematics and Politics
Since the vast majority of Heavy Blog contributors fall on the left side of the map (shocking, we know), focusing on the latter seems like the way to go. Criticizing the other side of the political map is easy enough; taking a hard look at your own camp is where things get tricky. Thus, let us turn our eyes on one of the most typical leftist refusals to engage: the retreat. There are few places in the cultural world where this retreat is more obvious than in music and, more specifically, in metal. Even more specifically, the current throes which are black metal is undergoing are even more lucrative for our needs. There, leftist retreat is alive and happening right now, both because of the virility of the claims on the other side (read: the amount of black metal that's truly awful) and because the themes of black metal have already been declared by the larger, more abstract "left" as anathema in the past.
Heavy Blog’s Interview with Michael Gagen (hazards of swimming naked, Echotide, ex-Arcane)
Today we're joined by none other than Michael Gagen, guitarist extraordinaire at bands you may have heard of, like hazards of swimming naked and (ex-) Arcane, and bands you've probably never heard of, like Echo... Read More...
PHOTOS: Hope Drone, Sanzu, Eternal Rest, Expulsed —December 3rd, 2015 @ The New Globe Theatre, AUS
If you combine TCSoL-era Rivers of Nihil with Gojira's The Way of All Flesh, you'd have a pretty accurate representation of what Sanzu is. The band have nailed the perfect balance between paying homage to their... Read More...