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Rotten to the Core // November 2020

November 9, 2020

As I write this, the US Senate has just confirmed Amy Coney Barrett, Trump’s third Supreme Court justice, a mere week before he is expected to lose reelection. The only thing remotely ‘supreme’ about Barrett i... Read More...

156/Silence – Irrational Pull

Matt MacLennan

June 1, 2020

Reviews

The choice to leave the label system and release a new LP on their own is one that 156/Silence made without hesitation; taking their future firmly in their own hands and making sure that new LP Irrational Pull ... Read More...

Rotten To The Core – Add Several Heaped Spoons of Hate (Season Liberally)

Matt MacLennan

February 21, 2020

Rotten to the Core

Food and kitchen analogies are pretty rife in metal journalism and I'm definitely guilty of slopping cheap comparisons onto thinly sliced metaphors. Writing this now I'm just realising that the fucking title of... Read More...

Vatican – Sole Impulse

Scott Murphy

December 3, 2019

Reviews

Over the past few years (and specifically in 2018), I've been taken aback by the critical affinity with metalcore. It's not just because of the music itself, though I'll admit that I'm not particularly fond of... Read More...

Earth Moves – Human Intricacy

Trent Bos

November 26, 2019

Reviews

Fresh off a short UK tour with rising formidable heavy weights Conjurer and LLNN, Earth Moves are back with a gripping and powerful sophomore release of emotive post-metal, Human Intricacy. Their debut The Tru... Read More...

Hey! Listen to Not Your Friends!

Scott Murphy

September 19, 2019

Listen To This!

Short bursts of off-kilter aggression have yet to go out of style for me. As much as I've gravitated toward longer and more complex music, I still periodically revisit my high school affinity for the '00s math... Read More...

Disco Loadout – August 2019: Battles & ArcTanGent

Simon Clark

September 4, 2019

Disco Loadout

The Load In August may have been a relatively quiet month in terms of the volume of events I attended, but there can be no doubt that the quality has been exceptionally high. Having already spoken at ... Read More...

Friendship – Undercurrent

Matt MacLennan

June 12, 2019

Reviews

2017's Hatred came and went with little to no fanfare, and that itself is a crime against music. We didn't cover it here, so more fool us. Not this time though. Undercurrent, the new record from Japanese hardco... Read More...

(Un)holy Land – Notes from Israel’s Corrosive Music Scene

Matt MacLennan

May 9, 2019

Grind My Gears, Listen To This!

This post has been a long time coming. We've been dropping hints here and there for years now about the growing underground scene in Israel, a scene which I, as a native of Tel Aviv, am well poised to explore. ... Read More...

OLAM – I Will Guide Thy Hand

Claire Qiu

May 2, 2019

Reviews

I Will Guide Thy Hand, the debut LP of Indianapolis-based OLAM, is uncompromisingly ferocious hardcore, recalling Botch or the harder edges of Converge; the album is propelled by galloping drums, sharp shrieks... Read More...

Heavy Blog’s Top 50 Albums of 2019

Metal Journalism’s Top 50 Albums of 2019

Heavy Blog Yearbook // Our Favourite Articles of 2019

A Gift To Artwork // 2019 In Review

Disco Loadout: 2019 In Review

Heavy Blog Guest List – Bent Knee

Discoveries // 2019

Monthly Missive // November 2020

Monthly Missive // October 2020

Monthly Missive // September 2020

Rotten to the Core // November 2020

Doomsday // November 2020

Unmetal Monthly // November 2020

Death's Door // November 2020

Kvlt Kolvmn // November 2020

Editors’ Picks // November 2020

Atramentus - Stygian

Bring Me The Horizon – POST HUMAN: SURVIVAL HORROR

Of Feather and Bone – Sulfuric Disintegration

Countless Skies – Glow

Dark Tranquillity – Moment

Clipping. – Visions of Bodies Being Burned

Anaal Nathrakh – Endarkenment

Hey! Listen to Let Us Prey!

What We’re Really Listening To – 11/27/20

Release Day Roundup – 11/27/20

Release Day Roundup – 11/20/20

8-Track / Playlist Swap – Kylie Minogue

What We’re Really Listening To – 11/13/20

Release Day Roundup – 11/13/20

Rotten to the Core // November 2020

156/Silence – Irrational Pull

Rotten To The Core – Add Several Heaped Spoons of Hate (Season Liberally)

Vatican – Sole Impulse

Earth Moves – Human Intricacy

Hey! Listen to Not Your Friends!

Disco Loadout – August 2019: Battles & ArcTanGent

Friendship – Undercurrent

(Un)holy Land – Notes from Israel’s Corrosive Music Scene

OLAM – I Will Guide Thy Hand

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