Lesoir – Mosaic
Among the small pleasures of listening to music, it's satisfying when an album title perfectly encapsulates the narrative played out in the track list. Such is the case with Lesoir's fifth album Mosaic, a coll... Read More...
Victorius – Space Ninjas From Hell
Victorius's previous offering, the six-track EP DIsnosaur Warfare: Legend of the Power Saurus (2008), is one of the best power metal releases of recent years. Although fluorescent '80s nostalgia had long been ... Read More...
SIBIIR – Ropes
After a debut full of harsh, twisting, blackened hardcore sounds comes Oslo's SIBIIR with their sophomore full-length, Ropes. From the darkest, dankest reaches of Norway's icy tundras, and with a more focused t... Read More...
Port Noir – The New Routine
By the time a band reaches their third album, it is not unreasonable to have a certain set of expectations about what it will deliver. Sometimes, the band will stumble and fail to meet them. Others will rise t... Read More...
What’s Up Punks? – April 2019
March turned out to be a massive month for solid releases all over the punk spectrum so let’s just dive in, first with the albums that need checking out and then the singles and EPs that have been spinning her... Read More...
Heavy Issues – Which Classic Album Can’t You Get Into?
We here at Heavy Blog like to ponder the big questions: Who are we? Why are we here? Is viking metal even a thing? You know, the big stuff. In order to better address such pressing matters, we bring you Heavy ... Read More...
Heavy Blog Guest List – Night Verses
There are albums which leave such an impression on you when you first hear them that it echoes out and influences all future plays of the album. It's usually not just the music but a combination of presentatio... Read More...
Release Day Roundup – 11/9/18
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 whi... Read More...
The Anatomy Of – Voices from the Fuselage
While I was made aware of Ashe O'Hara through his tenure with TesseracT (Altered State is amazing, fight me) I was stoked to discover Voices from the Fuselage through this intersection. In many ways, their brig... Read More...
Bent Knee Are Good At Naming Obscure Land Animals, Want You To Take Them On Tour
Of the many bands I became familiar with and wrote about in 2017, few meant more to me than the Boston art-rock/prog rock/whatever you want to call it collective Bent Knee. I've written about them several times this year, including a lengthy interview and profile of the band with frontwoman Courtney Swain. Frankly, by the time we were ready to roll out our album of the year list (where they ranked #17) I didn't think I would be writing about them again for a while. But they were stopping through Brooklyn again in December, this time with the always amazing prog force that is Thank You Scientist, and I knew I had to come out and see them.