Following our mailbag post last week, Pete and I thought we’d get further antiquated with a good old-fashioned Heavy Blog is Heavy playlist swap. We each put together a list of the songs that we thought best defined our personal thrash metal tastes and where we think the genre is…
Hello fellow pit-sters! This month, I thought we could do something a little different. You all know I’ve been playing fast and loose with the schedule of this column, and August will be no different! Fellow thrash Josh Bulleid and I thought we’d introduce ourselves to you all a little…
No, not the last Ne Obliviscaris album or the Finnish black thrash band who have an album coming out next month; they’re both just “Urn”. No, not the blackened hardcore band from Melbourne who just kind of disappeared, that’s “Urns”. This Urne hail from London, spell their name with an…
Killswitch Engage have had a bit of a rough go of it over the last decade. The once trailblazing popularisers and perfecters of modern metalcore have maintained both a steady output and flawless live reputation since the first broke through with now-legendary albums like Alive or Just Breathing (2002) and…
We here at Heavy Blog like to ponder the big questions: Who are we? Why are we here? What’s your favourite album from 1989? You know, the big stuff. In order to better address such pressing matters, we bring you Heavy Issues: a bi-weekly column by which we plan to…
It seems as if the dubiously titled nu-prog has been slowing down over the past two to three years, at least when compared to the onslaught from the genre that we experienced in 2014-2016. However, the collective imagination around the sound still seems to be there. Something about the unabashed…
So far on this column, I’ve referred to a lot of the heavy hitters of the subgenre. I personally have a lot more thoughts about them because there’s just a lot more material to go through with them. It’s the same for people who are really into Shakespeare. There’s just…
There’s nothing particularly original about what London’s Puppy are serving up on their debut record The Goat. Yet, there’s no denying that the power trio’s particular blend of influences is certainly idiosyncratic. The peculiar mixture of alternative, indie rock and occult-tinged heavy metal displayed on their two existing EPs has…
Sometimes, a group comes to your attention so early in their existence that they still have that ‘New Band Smell’. You might still find the occasional polystyrene packing chip caught in a fold, and a few little plastic screen protectors waiting to be peeled off here and there. And this…
I’m extremely proud of this episode title, honestly. Anyway, this week we’re discussing a bunch of stuff. Machine Head falling apart, Sigh collaborating with an unsavory character, Spotify wanting your DNA, Siriusm XM wanting Pandora (and Eden wanting Sirius XM’s CEO, apparently), new stuff by Unearth, Promethean, Darkaeon, Abstract Void, “Germany’s Latest Black Metal Rapper” Grafi (thanks Axl), and the 10th anniversary of what is objectively the greatest album of all time, Trivium’s Shogun. Then, cool people time with Cultist Simulator, Maniac, and Mandy (both of those previous titles would apply to Mandy as well, by the way). Enjoy!
