Hey! Listen to Sarin! Eden Kupermintz July 28, 2017 Listen To This! For people who have lamented the fall of post metal countless of times, we seem to be writing about plenty of good stuff from that front. It's probably just bias, as the mountains of repetitive post metal that we hear gets expunged from our perception in favor of the things we like. Whatever the case, it's a pleasure when the genre clicks and boy does it click for Sarin. The somewhat veteran group, laying stake to 2012 as their year of genesis, just released D A R K E R L A K E S this week (hereby known as Lakes) and it is a celebration of everything post metal is still capable of in 2017. Its dark compositions work beautifully with the deep guitar and synth tones, reminding use of acts like Minsk, The Mire (RIP), Mouth of the Architect and many more.
Heretoir – The Circle Jimmy Rowe March 31, 2017 Reviews Is it possible for a post-black metal artist to sit still? Not that we would ever want them to, mind you, but it's worth pointing out that many of the artists responsible for the creation and popularization of ... Read More...
Hey, Listen to Wet Teeth! Jimmy Rowe April 7, 2016 Listen To This! Columbus-cum-New York sludge multi-instrumentalist Dan Wilburn has a fairly stacked resume despite being a dude whose name doesn't immediately ring many bells (yet): following a stint playing with post-metal acolytes Mouth of the Architect, he's been a gun-for-hire running sound for some of our favorite bands, including Cynic and Intronaut. If you're reading this site at all and make it out to shows, then there's a solid shot you've been in the same room as Mr. Wilburn and not even realize it.
What Heavy Blog Is Really Listening To – 11/28/15 Scott Murphy November 28, 2015 Features, Listen To This!, What We're Really Listening To For those who missed our last installment, We post biweekly updates covering what the staff at Heavy Blog have been spinning. Given the amount of time we spend on the site telling you about music that does not ... Read More...
The Mire’s Robin Urbino Speaks On Vice Regalia And The Band’s Dissolution Jimmy Rowe November 16, 2015 Features, Interviews, News When Brighton, UK post-metal act The Mire released their initial offerings Vol. I and Vol. II in 2009 and 2010 respectively, they earned the fandom of not just the Heavy Blog is Heavy staff, but they turned hea... Read More...
Not With A Whimper, But With A Bang – Heavy Blog Is Heavy’s Albums Of The Year 2014 – Part I Heavy Blog December 15, 2014 Features, Lists! Welcome, one and all, to the Heavy Blog Is Heavy Album of the Year list! This year, we did something a bit different. Instead of running staff members' top 25 or top 10 lists, we went all sophisticated and ... Read More...
The Sun Never Set – The Sun Never Set Matt MacLennan August 1, 2014 Reviews Britain has for a long time been the spiritual home for reflective, melancholic post-metal. With The Mire releasing one of the albums of the year already, and Devil Sold His Soul maintaining their stance as... Read More...
Mire – Inward/Outward Heavy Blog March 27, 2014 Reviews Sticky, sodden, stinking and sinking --- Mire is not the most pleasant or imaginative of words to use to name your band and yet where once there was none, now we have two fighting to disentangle themselves; waving to grab our attention.
The Mire – Glass Cathedrals Jimmy Rowe February 24, 2014 Reviews Post-metal and sludge as we know it are generally associated with meandering and complicated song structures, ever evolving in tone and atmosphere with little in the way with repeating segments. That was until 2009, when Brighton, UK based group The Mire --- who were born out of the brief dissolution of Bossk --- took the genre's melancholic atmosphere and massive riffs and made them work in the context of condensed pop-inspired song structures and vocal hooks with their EP Volume I, beating The Ocean's 2010 game-changer Heliocentric to the punch. 4-minute tracks with cleanly-sung refrains were nearly unheard of in the genre, and to no surprise, the formula works; The Mire strive to bring emotion, soul, and immediacy into a genre that has all the potential to be deeply resonant with not just the mind, but the heart as well.
Stream Junius’ Days Of The Fallen In Full Heavy Blog February 12, 2014 News A discussion came up the other day in the Heavy Blog group about how the new album from The Mire is the first great post-metal record of 2014, which is a fair point to make. However, we were quickly reminded ... Read More...
