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Xazraug – Unsympathetic Empyrean

June 10, 2020

Metal has a penchant for the transcendent. As an avid music consumer, it’s a rare occurrence for a record to stop me dead in my tracks and demand my complete, undivided attention. No working. No multitasking. ... Read More...

The Anatomy Of – Sojourner

Eden Kupermintz

April 7, 2020

Features, The Anatomy Of

Atmospheric black metal has been doing a lot of things in the last five years or so. Beyond "just" an explosion in release numbers, atmospheric black metal also seems to be undergoing another (re)negotiation o... Read More...

Spectral Lore & Mare Cognitum – Wanderers: Astrology of the Nine

Simon Handmaker

March 20, 2020

Reviews

When I was in my senior year of high school, I was really Going Through It. Due to a combination of factors - a couple years' worth of personal events with peers that I still don't really talk about much, seei... Read More...

Heavy Blog’s Top 50 Albums of 2019

Heavy Blog

December 17, 2019

Best of 2019

This is one of those years where you're writing your end of year summary every day. It's a year which inundated all of us with so much music, and from so many angles and genres, that it almost begged to consta... Read More...

Kvlt Kolvmn // 2019 in Review

Jonathan Adams

December 17, 2019

Best of 2019, Kvlt Kolvmn

Welcome, friends, to the final installment of Kvlt Kolvmn in the year of our infernal overlords 2019. What a year it’s been. From releases by foolproof genre legends like Mayhem, Blut Aus Nord, and Abbath to s... Read More...

Abigail Williams – Walk Beyond the Dark

Jonathan Adams

November 26, 2019

Reviews

Sometimes, as a lover and critic of music, one has to admit that they’re wrong. Egregiously so, even. Thus is the case with my relationship with, and belief in, the music of Ken Sorceron’s Abigail Williams. I ... Read More...

Obsequiae – The Palms of Sorrowed Kings

Jonathan Adams

November 22, 2019

Reviews

Metal means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. Always has, and always will. In all of its inherent juxtapositions and contradictions, a key battle within the heart of the genre is the push... Read More...

Arctos – Beyond the Grasp of Mortal Hands

Simon Handmaker

August 7, 2019

Reviews

Other than the blackest, darkest depths of winter, I find that summer’s zenith is when I listen to black metal the most. The genre’s obsession with every manner of the frigid, frostbitten, grim pastoralia one... Read More...

Heavy Blog’s Top 25 Albums of 2019 (So Far)

Heavy Blog

July 23, 2019

Lists!

2019 is a big year in more ways than one. For starters, it's one year before the the big 2020, where our collective minds lose themselves (there's a joke on one of the album titles in here) over a round number... Read More...

Abbath – Outstrider

Tommy Wild

June 14, 2019

Reviews

Writing about a new Abbath album without mentioning Immortal would be tantamount to writing about Bruce Dickinson’s solo albums (The Chemical Wedding still holds up!) without mentioning Iron Maiden. It's simpl... Read More...

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