It’s always a bit of a treat to see bands that have been around for years keep churning out new material. Sometimes these bands can still make great records well into their second, third, and even fourth decade of operation. Avid readers of Heavy Blog will remember our love for…
I will never tired of the Nordic obsession with heavy metal; just this year, we’ve covered so many bands from Scandinavia who walk in the path of Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, and their ilk. The thing is, they somehow manage to make it feel effortless and, most importantly, interesting. We’ve all heard…
As I mentioned a few days ago, one of the best things to come from the traditional metal revival, at least for me, is the resurgence of what’s often called “proto-doom”, that kind of slow, thick heavy metal that ruled supreme in the days before the doom genre fully crystallized.…
Whenever your band starts with the longtime bassist of Napalm Death (Shane Embury) and the vocalist from Brutal Truth (Kevin Sharp) it’s a fairly safe bet that you’re in for some serious grindcore. Add a drummer who has worked with Cradle of Filth and Dimmu Borgir (Nick Barker), stir with a heaping helping of guitar from Chile’s Pentagram and Criminal (Anton Reisenegger) and you have the latest incarnation of grind supergroup, Lock Up. This crew brings us their latest onslaught, Demonization.
What’s old is new again; or it wants to be, at least. Over the past decade or so, there’e been an influx of bands that look to the forefathers of heavy metal and classic rock as the blueprint for the type of music they want to play. Bands such as Black Sabbath,…
If you’re in the northern hemisphere like most of you who read this site, then you’re no doubt enjoying the benefits of natural seasonal changes as the nightmare that was winter 2015 has given way to a beautiful spring. And if you’re in the southern hemisphere — particularly if you’re…
Sweden’s Cult of Luna may have announced just over a year ago that they’d be going on hiatus, but they left things pretty open-ended. In their December 2013 statement, they stated that “Maybe we’ll release another album next year or maybe in a decade we honestly don’t know. Sooner or…
When black metal was only a twinkle in the eye of the public, Darkthrone were… well, playing death metal under the name Black Death at the time. But in 1991, they changed their name and created the music we all know and love them for. With the release of their…
Apparently Southern Lord did a festival last year out west that I didn’t know about, which makes sense, because I don’t live out there. I can only keep tabs on things I have a snowball’s chance in hell of catching! While it’s highly unlikely I’ll be able to attend the…
Mar de Grises Streams Inwards 01. Starmaker 02. Shining Human Skin 03. The Bell and the Solar Gust 04. Spectral Ocean 05. Sensing the New Orbit 06. Catatonic North 07. Knotted Delirium 08. A Sea of Dead Comets 09. Aphelion Aura [bonus track] [Season of Mist | 9/14/10] There are…
