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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...

Unmetal Monthly // October 2020

Jonathan Adams
October 5, 2020
Unmetal Monthly
Fall is upon us. The leaves on the aspen trees in Colorado began to turn this week, filling the horizon with deep and rich hues of pink and red. I took a step out my front door, inhaled deeply, and coughed bec... Read More...

Release Day Roundup – 9/25/20

Scott Murphy
September 25, 2020
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...

Unmetal Monday // 6/29/2020

Jonathan Adams
June 29, 2020
Unmetal Monthly
There’s a lot happening in the music world, and we here at Heavy Blog try our very best to keep up with it! Like the vast majority of heavy music fans, our tastes are incredibly vast, with our 3X3s in each Pla... Read More...

Editors’ Picks – May 2020

Heavy Blog
June 5, 2020
Editors' Picks
As I am writing to you today, the world burns. Melodramatic, right? But, if we're being honest, I could open this post with these words every month. Hell, I could open every single post like this because every... Read More...

Unmetal Monday // 6/1/2020

Jonathan Adams
June 1, 2020
Unmetal Monthly
There’s a lot happening in the music world, and we here at Heavy Blog try our very best to keep up with it! Like the vast majority of heavy music fans, our tastes are incredibly vast, with our 3X3s in each Pla... Read More...

PREMIERE: Bring Some Necessary Sunlight Into Your Quarantine With Two Tracks Off Of Beach Comber’s (ASIWYFA) Parting Cuts

Nick Cusworth
April 22, 2020
Premieres
Here are two things that are undeniably true. 1) Belfast's instrumental post-math rock juggernauts And So I Watch You From Afar goddamn rule. 2) COVID-19 fucking sucks and is absolutely destroying the lives an... Read More...

Release Day Roundup – 3/27/20

Scott Murphy
March 27, 2020
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...

“The Kurt Cobain of Memes”: Bent Knee Talk New Album, Tour Mishaps, and the Future of Music

Nick Cusworth
October 21, 2019
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There are certain privileges and challenges that come when you get to interview a band multiple times. On the one hand, building a relationship and rapport with bands and artists breeds a certain familiarity a... Read More...

Release Day Roundup – 10/18/19

Scott Murphy
October 18, 2019
Release Day Roundup
Editor’s Note: I’m glad to welcome longtime reader Remi VL as a regular guest contributor to our Release Day Roundup posts! He submitted several of the albums listed below. Join his Facebook group&nb... Read More...
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