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 while some of our Editors and Contributors sit down gleefully each week to dive into this newly stocked treasure…
Ah, NAMM. It’s one of the biggest trade shows in existence, a veritable mecca for music and gear nerds. We at Heavy Blog would, of course, love nothing more than to send a few of our staffers out there to cover the event and bring back exciting news and interviews from the whole thing. Sadly, none of us lives remotely close to southern CA, and we don’t exactly have the money in the Heavy Blog bank to cover airfare and lodging for people. So we had pretty much resigned ourselves to completely missing out on the event when the beautiful lads over in Seattle’s A Sense of Gravity came to us with a proposition. Watch them carry the mantle for us as they catch up with esteemed bands and artists including Arkaik, Angel Vivaldi, Alaya, Painted In Exile, Nekrogoblikon, Xanthocroid, Aliases, Ola Englund, Per Nilsson, and others to find out what they’ve been up to and to ask the important questions like how they prefer their eggs.
Just like football players, there are countless musicians who blossom through setting roots and letting them grow and there are those who only thrive on constant change. The Stockholm-based death metal project Feared has evolved over the past eight years to become a creative outlet for two musicians who never…
The Haunted’s comeback is consistently impressive for me. They meandered for a while and got a bit less heavy, but with the return of vocalist Marco Aro and drummer Adrian Erlandsson; and joining of guitarist/Youtube legend Ola Englund, they’re fresher than ever. Don’t believe me? They just put out a…
Yes, you read it right! Swedish thrash/melodeath legends The Haunted have been on hiatus since most of the members left last October, but now they’re back, and stronger than ever! The new lineup includes old vocalist Marco Aro (who was on the phenomenal albums Made Me Do It and One…
