Heavy Blog has the privilege of being a partner in this live-stream performance from Moloken; Swedish post-metal juggernauts. Their January release Unveilance of Dark Matter was a sneaky behemoth of sombre sludge metal, one which I found incredibly uplifting; surprising, considering the crushing and bleak nature of their music. Today…
Few things beat big sounds to me. An artist’s ability to fill your ears with a wall of sound gives the music a unique presence that’s wholly its own. All music has some kind of presence of course, but you can’t ignore it if it’s swallowing you whole. It’s the…
As we deepen our exploration of different genres, expectations form alongside our opinions. This allows us to better curate and analyze music within a constant, torrential downpour of new releases. With bands like Bolt Gun in the broader “post-metal” landscape, we expect powerful themes with a cinematic delivery, something the…
Entering the early days of the decade with a record loud enough to wake up their hometown neighbours in Cult of Luna is Moloken – Umeå, Sweden’s angrier stepchild hiding in the garage playing with fire while the favourite entertains guests in the lounge. Operating in almost similar circles, Moloken’s…
Fresh off a short UK tour with rising formidable heavy weights Conjurer and LLNN, Earth Moves are back with a gripping and powerful sophomore release of emotive post-metal, Human Intricacy. Their debut The Truth In Our Bodies caught my attention in 2016, ranking among my top albums of that year.…
Remember a few years ago when every major outlet was running articles about how post-metal stagnation was the final signal that the genre was denying? Most of them were gleeful, fueled by a complete misunderstanding of how widely varied and versatile the genre really was. The reality was that, often…
Foscor exist in a space among metal that I have a lot of time for. Their music feels both modern and nostalgic at the same time. Like it could be from the early 00s, yet with the veneer of modern needle-pushing metal. This expression is often used for music that…
In their much anticipated follow-up to Mariner, the band returned to their core writing mode free of outside collaborators for their Metal Blade debut A Dawn To Fear, and have simplified their songwriting process to eschew a full-album concept, instead offering a collection of independent songs without preconceptions in the writing process. The result of this experiment is a record that is massive, plodding, expansive, and pensive, if not daunting and exhausting for those who aren’t too keen on The Big Slow™
The Load In August may have been a relatively quiet month in terms of the volume of events I attended, but there can be no doubt that the quality has been exceptionally high. Having already spoken at length about Radar festival in my last column, I only have three more…
Throw a quick glance over Holy Roar’s active roster right now and you’ll find some truly heavy shit in there, scrapping with jagged nails and even sharper distortion. Riffs, spills, beatdowns, and blackened blasting – if it’s dark and packed full of angry decibels, they’ve got it. It’s not all…
