Horrified – Sentinel
Show me a band that fuses melodic riffing with a hard-hitting death metal core and you’ll garner my interest. Show me a band that pulls from Death and Horrendous while throwing in shades of the best fantasy se... Read More...
Necropanther – The Doomed City
While I don’t want to hold it against any particular artist, some subgenres have a tendency to sound a bit stale over time. In order to fit into some kind of description, you have to walk down a fairly narrow ... Read More...
The Anatomy Of – Wilderun
Sometimes, a lead single can all but guarantee you'll love an album, which was very much the case after I heard "Far from Where Dreams Unfurl." As I outlined in my review, Wilderun have crafted my favorite pro... Read More...
Wilderun – Veil of Imagination
"The passion caused by the great and the sublime in nature, when those causes operate most powerfully, is Astonishment; and astonishment is that state of the soul, in which all its motions are suspended, with ... Read More...
Fit For An Autopsy – The Sea of Tragic Beasts
With their last few releases, Fit for an Autopsy have been on a hot streak to say the very least. To count them among some of the top heavy bands operating would be a pretty understandable and wise decision at... Read More...
Hey! Listen to This Summer is Going to Kill You!
I often think about how we’re always talking about serious music on Heavy Blog Is Heavy. You want to take metal seriously, but I think we frequently forget that metal is music and music can often just be fun.... Read More...
EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE – Atlas Entity Are “Scorned By the Snow”
We recently mused on the failures of, and potential remaining hope for, melodic death metal. Briefly, we said that while the genre is on the ropes, there's still good music to be made within it, either by "own... Read More...
Archaic Decapitator – The Apothecary
Melodic death metal is not exactly the genre to watch these days. It seems the heyday of it came and went rather quickly; if you ask some folks on the Internet, that golden age never came. That seems a bit har... Read More...
Soilwork – Verkligheten
Soilwork have long been one the most consistent acts in melodic death metal. Although they've rarely received the same amount of critical recognition as formative bands like In Flames, Dark Tranquility or At t... Read More...
Sulphur Aeon – The Scythe of Cosmic Chaos
There are few literary universes that have been plundered as deeply by metal bands as that of H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos. While there are many other fictional worlds that have received their fair share of... Read More...