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!
EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Listen to Swamp Hawk Unveil Their “Monster In Color”
There's a joke going around the Heavy Blog HQ (AKA, our Slack group) that I'm addicted to premiering music. OK, maybe it's not so much "going around" as much as I've been saying it myself. But it's true! One o... Read 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...
Ritual King – Ritual King
As I spend more time with the genre, and grow more disillusioned with it, I find myself asking what exactly draws me to stoner metal, rock, blues, and, most of all, their current iterations. After all, the las... Read More...
Hey! Listen to Isaak!
Another day, another excellent find in the treasure troves that is Small Stone Recordings backlog. This time, I stumbled upon Genova's Isaak based on the artwork for their 2015 release, Sermonize. By the time ... Read More...
Editors’ Picks – May 2019
Ah, May! What a heady month, as Spring makes itself known in most of our circles. It’s probably my favorite time of the year to listen to music; something about the combination between the weather, the symbolo... Read More...
Release Day Roundup – 5/17/19
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 quality new music. But wh... Read More...
Hey! Listen to Akula!
Last week, a few of us at Heavy Blog geeked at the announcement of a new Lo-Pan record. It’s exciting news as we’ve been awaiting a follow up to 2017’s fantastic In Tensions, but this also jogged my memory, le... Read More...
We Hunt Buffalo – Head Smashed In
It takes all of about .01 seconds to deduce that We Hunt Buffalo are riff purveyors of the big, fat and ugly tonal variety. With a name like that, you can’t go around peddling post-punk or tinny garage rock. I... Read More...
Hey! Listen to Dead Now!
OK, how many times do you think you've heard bands being compared to Mastodon or Torche at this point in your life? Probably hundreds and, to be honest, it's with good reason; both of those bands helped forge a... Read More...