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EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Mystras Is Back With The Monolithic “The Fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem

October 8, 2021

Back in April of last year, when I premiered a track and then reviewed an excellent album from Mystras, I didn't expect the project would be back so soon. However, such ended up being the case: Mystras, led by... Read More...

Kvlt Kolvmn // July 2021

Jonathan Adams

July 12, 2021

Columns, Kvlt Kolvmn

Welcome to our half-year coverage of the black metal world, Kvlt Kolvmn faithful! It's pretty shocking to think that half of the year has already passed us by. We approach the months of primordial frostiness, ... Read More...

Editors’ Picks // May 2021

Heavy Blog

May 10, 2021

Editors' Picks

What a month! May was arguably the most stacked month of the year thus far, and as you’ll see from the picks below, incredibly well-rounded as well. Our top picks include everything from The Armed’s noise-pop-... Read More...

Kvlt Kolvmn // May 2021

Scott Murphy

May 10, 2021

Kvlt Kolvmn

We don’t have time to let your corpse paint dry this month; there’s a LOT of kvltish activities to be done in the wilderness this month. After Jonathan takes a look at long-form narratives in black metal, he s... Read More...

Release Day Roundup – 4/23/21

Scott Murphy

April 23, 2021

Release Day Roundup

Editor’s Note: Longtime reader Remi VL is a regular guest contributor to our Release Day Roundup posts! He submitted several of the albums listed below. Join his Facebook group for more recommen... Read More...

Editors’ Picks // April 2021

Heavy Blog

April 5, 2021

Editors' Picks

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...

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