• Best of 2021
  • Monthly Missive
  • Columns
    • A Gift to Artwork
    • Cool People Column
    • Death’s Door
    • Doomsday
    • Editors’ Picks
    • Genre Genesis
    • Grind My Gears
    • Into the Pit
    • Kvlt Kolvmn
    • Post Rock Post
    • Rotten to the Core
    • Unmetal Monthly
  • Genres
    • Metal
      • Black Metal
      • Death Metal
      • Doom Metal
      • Grindcore
      • Metalcore
      • Post-Metal
      • Progressive Metal
      • Stoner Metal
      • Sludge Metal
      • Thrash Metal
      • Trad Metal
    • Rock
      • Art Rock
      • Hardcore
      • Indie Rock
      • Math Rock
      • Post-Rock
      • Progressive Rock
      • Psych Rock
      • Punk
      • Shoegaze
      • Stoner Rock
      • Synthwave
    • Classical
    • Electronic
    • Folk
    • Hip-Hop
    • Jazz
    • Pop
    • R&B
  • Reviews
  • Listen To This!
  • Podcast
  • Store
  • Contact
Search
Heavy Blog Is Heavy logo
  • Best of 2021
    Featured
    • Heavy Blog's Superlative List for 2021

      Eden Kupermintz
      January 17, 2022
      Best of 2021, Lists!
    Recent
    • Yearly Missive // 2021

      Eden Kupermintz
      January 17, 2022
    • Finding Meaning In Meaninglessness: A 2021 Survivor’s Guide

      Nick Cusworth
      January 17, 2022
    • Heavy Blog’s Top 50 Albums of 2021

      Heavy Blog
      January 17, 2022
    • A World In Which Music Exists – 2021 In Review

      Eden Kupermintz
      January 17, 2022
    • Heavy Blog Guest List // Terminus

      Eden Kupermintz
      January 17, 2022
    • Heavy Blog Guest List // Fierce Deity

      Eden Kupermintz
      January 17, 2022
  • Monthly Missive
    Random
    • Monthly Missive // May 2022

      Heavy Blog
      May 5, 2022
      Monthly Missive
    Recent
    • Monthly Missive // April 2022

      Heavy Blog
      April 7, 2022
    • Monthly Missive // March 2022

      Heavy Blog
      March 3, 2022
    • Yearly Missive // 2021

      Eden Kupermintz
      January 17, 2022
    • Monthly Missive // December 2021

      Eden Kupermintz
      December 7, 2021
    • Monthly Missive // November 2021

      Eden Kupermintz
      November 10, 2021
    • Monthly Missive // October 2021

      Heavy Blog
      October 5, 2021
  • Columns

    Recent

    • A Gift to Artwork // May 2022

      Karlo Doroc
      May 5, 2022
      A Gift to Artwork, Columns
    • Kvlt Kolvmn // May 2022

      Jonathan Adams
      May 5, 2022
      Columns, Kvlt Kolvmn
    • Unmetal Monthly // May 2022

      Calder Dougherty
      May 5, 2022
      Unmetal Monthly
    • Rotten to the Core // May 2022

      Calder Dougherty
      May 5, 2022
      Rotten to the Core
    • Death's Door // May 2022

      Jonathan Adams
      May 5, 2022
      Columns, Death's Door
    • Post Rock Post // May 2022

      Eden Kupermintz
      May 5, 2022
      Post Rock Post
    • A Gift to Artwork
    • Cool People Column
    • Death’s Door
    • Doomsday
    • Editors’ Picks
    • Genre Genesis
    • Grind My Gears
    • Into the Pit
    • Kvlt Kolvmn
    • Post Rock Post
    • Rotten to the Core
    • Unmetal Monthly
  • Genres
    • Metal
      • Black Metal
      • Death Metal
      • Doom Metal
      • Grindcore
      • Metalcore
      • Post-Metal
      • Progressive Metal
      • Stoner Metal
      • Sludge Metal
      • Thrash Metal
      • Trad Metal
    • Rock
      • Art Rock
      • Hardcore
      • Indie Rock
      • Math Rock
      • Post-Rock
      • Progressive Rock
      • Psych Rock
      • Punk
      • Shoegaze
      • Stoner Rock
      • Synthwave
    • Classical
    • Electronic
    • Folk
    • Hip-Hop
    • Jazz
    • Pop
    • R&B
  • Reviews
    Random
    • Shvpes - Greater Than

      Joshua Bulleid
      November 14, 2018
      Reviews
    Recent
    • Moon Tooth – Phototroph

      Eden Kupermintz
      May 5, 2022
    • Path of Might – Deep Chrome

      Eden Kupermintz
      May 5, 2022
    • Atoll – Prepuce

      Bridget Hughes
      May 5, 2022
    • Eight Bells – Legacy of Ruin

      Eden Kupermintz
      April 7, 2022
    • Concert Review: YOB, Marquis Theater, Denver, CO, 3/24/22

      Pete Williams
      April 7, 2022
    • Undeath – It’s Time… To Rise From The Grave

      Jimmy Rowe
      April 7, 2022
  • Listen To This!
    Featured
    • Hey! Listen to Let Us Prey!

      Joshua Bulleid
      July 28, 2020
      Listen To This!
    Recent
    • Release Day Roundup – 5/20/22

      Scott Murphy
      May 20, 2022
    • What We’re Really Listening To – 5/13/22

      Scott Murphy
      May 13, 2022
    • Release Day Roundup – 5/13/22

      Scott Murphy
      May 13, 2022
    • Release Day Roundup – 5/6/22

      Scott Murphy
      May 6, 2022
    • What We’re Really Listening To – 5/2/22

      Scott Murphy
      May 2, 2022
    • Release Day Roundup – 4/29/22

      Scott Murphy
      April 29, 2022
  • Podcast
  • Store
  • Contact

Tagged Mystras

Home
Mystras

Heavy Blog’s Superlative List for 2021

Eden Kupermintz
January 17, 2022
Best of 2021, Lists!
Well. Here we are again. Another year ends and the insatiable urge within us to look back and to summarize kicks in. But, like last year, we have chosen to resist this urge somewhat by doing away with having a... Read More...

Kvlt Kolvmn // 2021 In Review

Scott Murphy
January 17, 2022
Best of 2021, Kvlt Kolvmn
Welcome to Kvlt Kolvmn’s Best of 2021 bonanza. Another difficult year has drawn to a close. Let’s recap: Everything fucking sucked.  Now that that’s out of the way, the good news: Black metal ruled ... Read More...

Kvlt Kolvmn // November 2021

Heavy Blog
November 10, 2021
Kvlt Kolvmn
Quality over quantity. It’s true in most all contexts, and especially so in this month’s edition of Kvlt Kolvmn. Life often facilitates a more judicious approach to what we are able to consume in a given month... Read More...

EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Mystras Is Back With The Monolithic “The Fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem

Eden Kupermintz
October 8, 2021
News
Back in April of last year, when I premiered a track and then reviewed an excellent album from Mystras, I didn't expect the project would be back so soon. However, such ended up being the case: Mystras, led by... Read More...

Kvlt Kolvmn // April 2021

Scott Murphy
April 5, 2021
Kvlt Kolvmn
What a month. What a lovely month! Cue Fury Road soundtrack, but make it black metal. That’s the sound of March blazing in with a righteous, unholy fury in the world of black metal. What a month it was. There’... Read More...

Kvlt Kolvmn // 2020 In Review

Jonathan Adams
January 25, 2021
Best of 2020, Kvlt Kolvmn
2020 felt in many ways like a perpetual winter of the soul. Thus far, 2021 feels little different. But time is a lie and black metal is forever. What a delightful truth that is. Below you will find our coll... Read More...

Heavy Blog Yearbook // Our Favourite Articles of 2020

Karlo Doroc
January 25, 2021
Best of 2020
Since 2017 we’ve been wrapping up our end-of-year coverage with a Yearbook encompassing our favourite articles from the year, pieces we can be proud of and look back on in the years to come as very best of wha... Read More...

Fighting Fire with Fire, Part II – Metal and Transgressive Love

Eden Kupermintz
December 7, 2020
Deep Dive
Chrome marks "transgressive" as a spelling mistake. Or at least it did, I think I've since added it to its dictionary. This is a good indication that a term only seems "correct" to me because I picked it up du... Read More...

Kvlt Kolvmn // November 2020

Jonathan Adams
November 9, 2020
Columns, Kvlt Kolvmn
Greetings, frost-bitten hoard! Welcome to another edition of Kvlt Kolvmn. Much has transpired since we last entered the ice walls of black metal’s highest quality tundra, so let’s get right to it.  Out... Read More...

Kvlt Kolvmn // October 2020

Jonathan Adams
October 5, 2020
Columns, Kvlt Kolvmn
Greetings, frost-bitten hoard! Welcome to another edition of Kvlt Kolvmn. The weather is beginning to turn, leaves are falling in droves and the first pricks of cold are seeping into the air. It’s finally here... Read More...
  • 1
  • 2

Patreon

Ko-fi

Podcast

All the Heavy Lifting

Latest Reviews

  • Moon Tooth – Phototroph

    Eden Kupermintz
    May 5, 2022
    By now, Moon Tooth have garnered themselves quite a following in the progressive metal spaces. This is no accident; the scene is hungry for the kind of upbeat and unrestrained music that Moon Tooth is creating. Good news then: Phototroph is by far the band’s most energetic and “poppy” release, and I mean that in the best way possible.
  • Path of Might – Deep Chrome

    Eden Kupermintz
    May 5, 2022
    Back in 2016, I first heard Path of Might's "Mountain of Flowers & Fruit", from their self-titled release, and I wa... Read More...
  • Atoll – Prepuce

    Bridget Hughes
    May 5, 2022
    A friend recently asked me a baffling question: Is Nicolas Cage a good actor? It’s a seemingly simple inquiry, right... Read More...
  • Eight Bells – Legacy of Ruin

    Eden Kupermintz
    April 7, 2022
    Legacy of Ruin very much continues Eight Bells' style of ethereal, haunting doom but splices it with more dynamic and muscular riffs, drums, and vocals for a new, and markedly improved, version of the band's sound. It is still an album to sink into to be sure, but it also affords the listener with more footholds on their way down.