Here is one of the indelible facts of music: as time moves on, that which is considered heavy, experimental, ground breaking, or any other choice of adjective which is used to denote the “novel”, will wear thin its welcome. Progressive and psychedelic rock is a fantastic example. There were days…
When we last left off Chicago doom-prog prodigies Flesh of the Stars, in early 2017, they had just released Anhilla. Anhilla is a glorious piece of work: a high-minded concept album that blended gloomy, introspective doom metal with the spacey and climactic synthesizer theatrics of David Bowie and Pink Floyd,…
That’s right folks, we’ve got a double treat for you to open up the day. Duel join the already illustrious ranks of stoner/psychedelic rock releasing this year with Valley of Shadows. It’s an album which benefits heavily from an un-resistible air of nostalgia but also plenty of unique atmosphere, making…
We here at Heavy Blog like to ponder the big questions: Who are we? Why are we here? Y’all wanna single? You know, the big stuff. In order to better address such pressing matters, we bring you Heavy Issues: a bi-weekly column by which we plan to get to the…
In tomorrow’s Editors’ Picks column (spoiler), I muse about the values of retrospectives and here I am, afforded again with the opportunity to discuss a posture or perspective that seems to inherently contradict our idea of how music is made. We’d like to think that music is this unmediated thing,…
Heavy Blog is Heavy is ten years old. When Jimmy Rowe first started this blog, I doubt he imagined that it would become what it is today; I doubt anybody around back then imagined it. It was special for music journalism; right at the cusp of the mass migration of…
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 Issues: a bi-weekly column by which we plan to…
Obsession can be an ugly beast; consuming something over and over again, whether it be just through observation or through a more “active” kind of consumption, can be detrimental to your health. But, like many things, when enjoyed moderately, it can also be a great deal of fun. Musical obsession…
You’ve seen it. You’ve debated it. You’ve cried over it. But what’s done is done: Our list of the best albums of the year is behind us, and there is much rejoicing. But what about the albums we loved that didn’t make the final cut?
*prognotes breaks down and analyses your favourite metal and progressive concept albums lyrically and musically. Read other entries in this series here. The last few years have yielded an incredible bounty of fantastic new music and 2016 was chief among them. Schammasch’s tremendous triple album, Triangle, was no exception as…
