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Editors’ Picks // April 2021

Heavy Blog
April 5, 2021
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This is honestly one of the strongest Editors’ Picks I can remember. While there’s some discussion to be had about the quantity of releases in March 2021 (a slowdown in relation to Jan/Feb can definitely be ob... Read More...

Kvlt Kolvmn // April 2021

Scott Murphy
April 5, 2021
Kvlt Kolvmn
What a month. What a lovely month! Cue Fury Road soundtrack, but make it black metal. That’s the sound of March blazing in with a righteous, unholy fury in the world of black metal. What a month it was. There’... Read More...

We Asked, You Decided: Heavy Blog Readers’ Top Albums of 2020

Nick Cusworth
January 25, 2021
Best of 2020, Lists!
In all the years I've been a part of this site and helping out with our end of year coverage, I have wanted to conduct a readers' poll. Alas, we never had the bandwidth to do so given the timing and timeframe ... Read More...

Fighting Fire with Fire, Part II – Metal and Transgressive Love

Eden Kupermintz
December 7, 2020
Deep Dive
Chrome marks "transgressive" as a spelling mistake. Or at least it did, I think I've since added it to its dictionary. This is a good indication that a term only seems "correct" to me because I picked it up du... Read More...

Kvlt Kolvmn // November 2020

Jonathan Adams
November 9, 2020
Columns, Kvlt Kolvmn
Greetings, frost-bitten hoard! Welcome to another edition of Kvlt Kolvmn. Much has transpired since we last entered the ice walls of black metal’s highest quality tundra, so let’s get right to it.  Out... Read More...

Kvlt Kolvmn // October 2020

Jonathan Adams
October 5, 2020
Columns, Kvlt Kolvmn
Greetings, frost-bitten hoard! Welcome to another edition of Kvlt Kolvmn. The weather is beginning to turn, leaves are falling in droves and the first pricks of cold are seeping into the air. It’s finally here... Read More...

Mystras – Castles Conquered and Reclaimed

Eden Kupermintz
July 2, 2020
Reviews
Why use lo-fi production today? Sure, back in the day when black metal was starting out, lo-fi was less of an intentional thing and just a sign of the times and the means by which the people making the music m... Read More...

Hey! Listen to Machine Music’s Milim Kashot!

Eden Kupermintz
June 8, 2020
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I probably need to explain that title, don't I? No worries! First, Machine Music is an insanely great metal blog run by Ron Ben-Tovim, a fellow Israeli and one of the most serious and thoughtful music journali... Read More...

Hey! Listen to Yovel!

Eden Kupermintz
April 23, 2020
Listen To This!
The Hellenic black metal scene (AKA black metal from Greece) is known for many things. Chief amongst those is probably Rotting Christ or, if you run in Heavy Blog circles, Spectral Lore. As far as sound goes, ... Read More...

Kvlt Kolvmn // March 2020

Jonathan Adams
April 1, 2020
Kvlt Kolvmn
Welcome, once more, to Kvlt Kolvmn. It’s… I mean, the world is the fucking worst right now. If a global pandemic of unprecedented modern proportions wasn’t enough, widespread unemployment, looming global econo... Read More...
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