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Heavy Blog’s Top 50 Albums of 2021

January 17, 2022

Best of 2021, Lists!

Last year, we didn't run a traditional "Best Of" list like the rest of the online music community likes to do. Deep into the pandemic, values changed, and the year-end push to create retrospective content summ... Read More...

Into the Pit // Q2 2021

Joshua Bulleid

August 4, 2021

Into the Pit

Hey there headbangers! Bit of a mixed bag this round, although the Big Four is solid as always. I'm sticking with the quarterly format for now, but if thrash bands could try and space their albums out more a... Read More...

Heavy Blog’s Top 25 Albums of 2021 (So Far)

Heavy Blog

July 12, 2021

Lists!

I know Eden already made this comment in his Missive into, but...seriously? July already? Maybe it’s because 2020 felt like a time void and the universe is playing catch up (or something like that). As is our ... Read More...

Flash of the Blade // July 2021

Eden Kupermintz

July 12, 2021

Flash of the Blade

Greetings duelists and welcome back to Flash of the Blade! It’s the middle of 2021! Time continues to inexorably move towards the heat death of the universe. Everything is different and yet, the absolute fucki... 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...

Flash of the Blade // April 2021

Eden Kupermintz

April 5, 2021

Flash of the Blade

Greetings duelists and welcome back to Flash of the Blade! It's 2021! Everything is different and yet, the absolute fucking same. A monster looms and that monster is called capitalism and if we don't get out o... Read More...

Release Day Roundup – 4/2/21

Scott Murphy

April 2, 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...

Flash of the Blade // November 2020

Eden Kupermintz

November 9, 2020

Columns, Flash of the Blade

Greetings duelists and welcome back to Flash of the Blade! Don’t remember what this column is about? Luckily, it’s easy to remind you: this column is about short releases that go hard. Also, swearing. Which ge... Read More...

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