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Rotten to the Core // July 2021

July 12, 2021

Look, we KNOW it’s the mid-year review drop, but there was so much good new -core to cover from the past month, we just couldn’t help ourselves. Hope you’re ready for a jam-packed column full of June’s biggest... Read More...

EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Oxx Rock Out With Some Seriously Unstable Hardcore On “Screwdriver Hymn”

Matt MacLennan

August 5, 2019

Premieres

If you haven't been paying attention, you'll have missed our championing of the wild underground scene in Denmark. Well, pay attention, idiot. Kicking off your week the right way, we have a savage premiere from... Read More...

Rotten To The Core – Plugged In and Pissed Off

Matt MacLennan

June 5, 2019

Listen To This!, Rotten to the Core

It's time to spin that cap forwards, plug in the HM-2, and pour one out for all the guys in their 40's still playing pop-punk to crowds of people twenty-five years their younger. They should know better. Yes, i... Read More...

Heavy Blog Staff’s Top 10 Albums of 2018

Heavy Blog

December 18, 2018

Best of 2018, Lists!

As is the case every year we do this, the exact makeup and composition of the fine (and not so fine) people who build our ranks here at Heavy Blog shifts and changes with every passing year. In a way it's inev... Read More...

Release Day Roundup – 8/31/18

Scott Murphy

August 31, 2018

Release Day Roundup

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 quality new music. But whi... Read More...

Bummer – Holy Terror

Jordan Jerabek

August 20, 2018

Reviews

I don’t want to jinx anything, so I’m not going to claim that we’re amidst a “noise rock renaissance.” What I will say, though, is that we have been getting a ton of great noise and noise-adjacent records over ... Read More...

KEN mode – Loved

Matt MacLennan

August 17, 2018

Reviews

Anyone dead set on having bands ready to sit in a specific pigeonhole concerning their genre must absolutely hate KEN mode. The Canadians have made music that spits, soothes, seduces and sets things on fire and... Read More...

Unmetal Monday // 3/12/2018

Jonathan Adams

March 12, 2018

Unmetal Monthly

There’s a lot happening in the music world, and we here at Heavy Blog try our very best to keep up with it! Like the vast majority of heavy music fans, our tastes are incredibly vast, with our 3X3s in each Play... Read More...

Centuries – The Lights of this Earth are Blinding

Cody Dilullo

February 15, 2018

Reviews

One of the biggest selling points in modern metal and heavy music is the culmination of influences. As a community we often find ourselves seeking a band that marries the sounds of two or three other things we ... Read More...

Hey! Listen to Fashion Week!

Eden Kupermintz

July 11, 2017

Listen To This!

Is there anything quite like noise rock? The way my windows are vibrating right now says no; something about the merge of super fuzzy guitars, a huge groove section and melodious singing hits just right, setting our hearts aflame. Torche, KEN mode, Floor and their ilk have all brought melody creeping more and more into this genre. However, I'm here today to talk about neither of those. Rather, allow me to present you with the more wide eyed, hair askew, irreverent partner in crime of the above, Fashion Week. Fresh off of their 2017 release, So Last Season, Fashion Week are set to kindle a spark in your eyes with their high-octane and somewhat heavier take on melody, fuzz, aggression and messaging.

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