Heavy Buys // April 2021
The latest vinyl purchases reviewed by Heavy Blog staff, including Humanity's Last Breath, Genghis Tron, Periphery, War From A Harlot's Mouth, and more!
AMA (Ask Metal Anything) // March 2021
AMA is Heavy Blog’s monthly community Q&A column, where readers ask questions across the gamut, and we are legally required by the universal laws of “AMA” to answer them! These are edited and excerpted tra... Read More...
Music Journalism’s Top 50 Metal Albums of 2020
Hello, and welcome back to the article about the previous year that always comes long after the previous year has ended! Joking aside, based on the number of comments and messages I received asking if we were ... Read More...
Heavy Blog Yearbook // Our Favourite Articles of 2020
Since 2017 we’ve been wrapping up our end-of-year coverage with a Yearbook encompassing our favourite articles from the year, pieces we can be proud of and look back on in the years to come as very best of wha... Read More...
Heavy Blog Staff’s Top 25 Albums of 2020
We may have taken a different direction with our overall AOTY list this year, but we still wanted to share what everyone on staff thought were the best releases of the year! Comment with your own top 25, album... Read More...
A Gift To Artwork // 2020 In Review
A Gift to Artwork, taken from the Caligula’s Horse song “A Gift to Afterthought”, breaks down and analyses your favourite album artwork. The first time an album’s name appears, it will link to a large and (whe... Read More...
Death’s Door // 2020 In Review
We’ve come down to it. After an absolutely batshit year, we’ve compiled our favorite releases in the wonderful world of death metal in the year of shit 2020. As is the custom, usual suspect Scott and myself wi... Read More...
We Asked, You Decided: Heavy Blog Readers’ Top Albums of 2020
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...
Krallice – Mass Cathexis
It’s been written numerous times over the past several months, but more than at any other point in time it bears repeating here: Colin Marston is absolutely owning 2020. His recording and production aesthetics... Read More...
Editors’ Picks – July 2020
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...