Skeleton – Skeleton
As I progress through this weird journey that is metal fandom, I’ve increasingly found my enthusiasm for lengthy records fading. Sure, every once in a while a two hour behemoth of an album will keep me enthral... Read More...
Cannabis Corpse – Nug So Vile
I don’t know exactly why, but metal is so ripe for parody sometimes. Maybe it’s because it’s pretty easy to make fun of metal at times, and there’s such a uniform style that it’s just easy to ape. It can also ... 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...
Release Day Roundup – 10/11/19
Editor’s Note: I’m glad to welcome longtime reader Remi VL as a regular guest contributor to our Release Day Roundup posts! He submitted several of the albums listed below. Join his Facebook group&nb... Read More...
Municipal Waste – The Last Rager
During last week’s review of the latest Toxic Holocaust record, I got to thinking a lot about the newest wave of thrash bands that came out around the same time. They all share some characteristics. There’s a ... Read More...
Into The Pit – Playlist Swap
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 de... Read More...
Into the Pit: Thrash Metal Mailbag
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 t... Read More...
Into the Pit – Iron Reagan and the Sound of Oncoming Thrash
I may have bemoaned the decline of thrash in previous columns. If you have been keeping up with me, you would think that there’s really no such thing as modern thrash. “Huh, that’s too bad. It must’ve died in 1... Read More...
Trappist – Ancient Brewing Tactics
Can there ever be enough theme bands? We run into them every day. There’s the marijuana-themed death metal Cannabis Corpse. Power metal is rife with theme bands on topics like magic, Vikings, knights, or any nu... Read More...
Hey! Listen to Angelus Apatrida!
Angelus Apatrida have been one of the most consistently impressive thrash bands of the modern era. They've managed to establish a strong cult following, but the Spanish quartet have hardly received the kind of ... Read More...