When it comes to watching bands play live, I have two pieces of advice that I will happily repeat well beyond the point of tedium. First and foremost, you should always wear ear protection, and I hope the reasoning for this is clear to everyone. Secondly, you should always get…
While I was made aware of Ashe O’Hara through his tenure with TesseracT (Altered State is amazing, fight me) I was stoked to discover Voices from the Fuselage through this intersection. In many ways, their brighter and more atmospheric sound utilizes his ethereal timbre better, setting off other and pleasing areas of his range.…
For those who missed our last installment, We post biweekly updates covering what the staff at Heavy Blog have been spinning. Given the amount of time we spend on the site telling you about music that does not fall neatly into the confines of conventional “metal,” it should come as no surprise that many of us on staff have pretty eclectic tastes that range far outside of metal and heavy things. We can’t post about all of them at length here, but we can at least let you know what we’re actually listening to. For those that would like to participate as well (and please do) can drop a 3X3 in the comments, which can be made with tapmusic.net through your last.fm account, or create it manually with topsters.net. Also, consider these posts open threads to talk about pretty much anything music-related. We love hearing all of your thoughts on this stuff and love being able to nerd out along with all of you.
Deftones have probably my most-anticipated album of the year in the works. The now-untitled upcoming release is sure to be great, because, let’s be honest, the band are extremely consistent in their music. Even when they decide to switch things up a bit, they still put out killer music. Anyways,…
You can’t throw a delay pedal without hitting a fan of Deftones in the Heavy Blog camp. The same can be said for Incubus, those starry eyed kids with the great hair that everyone saw on MTV. So you can imagine that some heads started spinning when the news broke…
During his time as weekend editor here, one of the consistently most popular features Brian Shields would run was the What We’re Really Listening To column, which would ask either Heavy Blog staff or musicians to share the music they’ve been jamming the most recently. We’ve decided that it was too fun…
We’ve been going on and on about the merits and products of the Australian scene over here at Heavy Blog and with good reason. It appears the international metal community is slowly waking up to the fact, these past few years. Nothing points more in that direction that the growth…
Sticky, sodden, stinking and sinking — Mire is not the most pleasant or imaginative of words to use to name your band and yet where once there was none, now we have two fighting to disentangle themselves; waving to grab our attention.
That would be Ben Kenney, bassist of Incubus, and Thomas Erak, formerly of defunct post-hardcore legends The Fall Of Troy. Right then. It’s a damn fine track too. Entitled ‘I.D.F.A.R.’ (no idea, sorry), it came about simply by Kenney, who plays drums on the track, Erak, and Ashley Mendel jamming…
[youtube= Chris has called upon you guys to check out newer Basick Records signees Circles once before, but I felt it appropriate to remind you that their debut EP is coming down the pike this spring. Here’s a brilliant description straight from the PR blurbs: Set for release via BASICK…
