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Editors’ Picks // June 2022

June 13, 2022

What a month! May had a lot to offer: the latest hip-hop opus from Kendrick Lamar, progressive black metal from Luminous Vault and Tómarúm, the core of Radiohead stepping out on their own as The Smile, an wort... Read More...

Heavy Blog Readers’ Top Albums of 2021

Nick Cusworth

January 17, 2022

Best of 2021, Lists!

After the success of last year's poll, I decided it was worth the time and immense pain of doing this again! Once again and always, I am a glutton for pain. But enough about me! This post is all about you! Wel... Read More...

A Gift To Artwork // 2021 In Review

Karlo Doroc

January 17, 2022

A Gift to Artwork, Columns, Features

A Gift to Artwork, taken from the Caligula’s Horse song “A Gift to Afterthought”, breaks down and analyses your favourite album artwork. The first time an album’s name appears, it will link to a large and (whe... Read More...

Death’s Door // 2021 In Review

Scott Murphy

January 17, 2022

Best of 2021, Death's Door, Lists!

It’s time. Welcome, most beloved Hellions, to Death’s Door: End of Year Edition. Below you will find our collective’s individual favorite records of the year, as well as some thoughts about the genre’s current... 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...

Death’s Door // July 2021

Jonathan Adams

July 12, 2021

Columns, Death's Door

How is it July already? Please, someone explain this to me. What the hell happened to 2021? Perhaps this is what being stuck in your neighborhood for 18 months does to you... either way, the mid-year lists are... Read More...

AMA (Ask Metal Anything) // May 2021

Nick Cusworth

May 10, 2021

AMA

AMA is Heavy Blog’s monthly community Q&A column, where readers ask questions across the gamut, and we are legally required by the universal laws of “AMA” to answer them! These are edited and excerpted tra... 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...

The Prog-nosis // April 2021

Eden Kupermintz

April 5, 2021

The Prog-nosis

It took exactly one issue for this column to break down into meta discussions of what is or isn't progressive music, huh? Well, that's the nature of the beast I guess: if you take a bunch of music nerds (inter... Read More...

Release Day Roundup – 3/12/21

Scott Murphy

March 12, 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...

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