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Post Rock Post // October 2020

October 5, 2020

The day this post publishes will be the same day one year ago that I found myself in Indianapolis for the first time in my life. I traveled from Boston by myself and was only there for a little under 48 hours.... Read More...

Editors’ Picks – July 2020

Heavy Blog

August 7, 2020

Editors' Picks

We're still doing this, huh? We're still pretending as if this is as worse as it gets, as if it this is rough, sure, but we can do this, we got this? For me, July (and August) are when everything gets even wor... Read More...

Rotten To The Core – Add Several Heaped Spoons of Hate (Season Liberally)

Matt MacLennan

February 21, 2020

Rotten to the Core

Food and kitchen analogies are pretty rife in metal journalism and I'm definitely guilty of slopping cheap comparisons onto thinly sliced metaphors. Writing this now I'm just realising that the fucking title of... Read More...

Earth Moves – Human Intricacy

Trent Bos

November 26, 2019

Reviews

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 Tru... Read More...

meth. – Mother of Red Light

Matt MacLennan

August 9, 2019

Reviews

With Pure Noise Records snapping up just about every decent band playing some variant of early 2000s metalcore, Prosthetic Records stepped up to the plate and signed their very own turn of the century nostalgia... Read More...

Wristmeetrazor – Misery Never Forgets

Simon Handmaker

January 3, 2019

Reviews

(I don't really feel comfortable starting this review off without a disclaimer about this band's name, so here goes: there are many people, myself included, who have struggled in some form with self-harm and/o... Read More...

Hey! Listen to Blind Girls!

Simon Handmaker

November 15, 2018

Listen To This!

Given that they're a band that's been active since 2013, the fact that it's taken Aussie screamo upstarts Blind Girls five years of making music to materialize a full-length debut - and that this debut, Residue... Read More...

Portrayal of Guilt – Let Pain Be Your Guide

Claire Qiu

November 6, 2018

Reviews

My initial impressions of portrayal of guilt, mostly based off their self-titled EP, were that the band bore compelling similarities to You Fail Me-era Converge. Holistically, both releases invoke the sense of... Read More...

Hey! Listen to We Are Among Storms!

Claire Qiu

October 10, 2018

Listen To This!

Denmark is home to a particular scene of hardcore-meets-sludge that contains heavy-hitters such as The Psyke Project (sadly no longer), Hexis, and LLNN. I was very pleased to discover that We Are Among Storms,... Read More...

Vein – errorzone

Matt MacLennan

July 9, 2018

Reviews

Growing up in the late '90s and early '00s meant being exposed to some of the greatest examples of bad metal. Like, genuinely really bad metal. Some of it was great though, of course. Everyone loved it at the t... Read More...

Heavy Blog’s Top 50 Albums of 2019

Metal Journalism’s Top 50 Albums of 2019

Heavy Blog Yearbook // Our Favourite Articles of 2019

A Gift To Artwork // 2019 In Review

Disco Loadout: 2019 In Review

Heavy Blog Guest List – Bent Knee

Discoveries // 2019

Monthly Missive // September 2020

Monthly Missive // November 2020

Monthly Missive // October 2020

Rotten to the Core // November 2020

Doomsday // November 2020

Unmetal Monthly // November 2020

Death's Door // November 2020

Kvlt Kolvmn // November 2020

Editors’ Picks // November 2020

Atramentus - Stygian

Bring Me The Horizon – POST HUMAN: SURVIVAL HORROR

Of Feather and Bone – Sulfuric Disintegration

Countless Skies – Glow

Dark Tranquillity – Moment

Clipping. – Visions of Bodies Being Burned

Anaal Nathrakh – Endarkenment

Hey! Listen to Let Us Prey!

What We’re Really Listening To – 11/27/20

Release Day Roundup – 11/27/20

Release Day Roundup – 11/20/20

8-Track / Playlist Swap – Kylie Minogue

What We’re Really Listening To – 11/13/20

Release Day Roundup – 11/13/20

Post Rock Post // October 2020

Editors’ Picks – July 2020

Rotten To The Core – Add Several Heaped Spoons of Hate (Season Liberally)

Earth Moves – Human Intricacy

meth. – Mother of Red Light

Wristmeetrazor – Misery Never Forgets

Hey! Listen to Blind Girls!

Portrayal of Guilt – Let Pain Be Your Guide

Hey! Listen to We Are Among Storms!

Vein – errorzone

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