We here at Heavy Blog like to ponder the big questions: Who are we? Why are we here? Why is the bass so low in the mix? You know, the big stuff. In order to better address such pressing matters, we bring you Heavy Issues: a bi-weekly column by which…
The world will end. The world will end. The world will end. Not with a whimper but a long, drawn-out, human-inflicted death rattle. …Or so Anthrocene, the fifth-full length from ex-Neurosis visual artist Josh Graham’s A Storm of Light, will have you believe. While I’m to understand that Graham never…
Man, I have been ready to love SUMAC for a while. This three-piece – Aaron Turner of ISIS, Old Man Gloom, Mamiffer, and a plethora of others; Nick Yacyshyn of Baptists; and Brian Cook of Botch, These Arms Are Snakes, and Russian Circles – has members of multiple all-time favorite bands of mine and comprises such a potent cocktail of talent…
The explosive end to Botch seemed to have some volatile effects on the bands that spawned from their ashes. Forever intertwining and collapsing on themselves, the timeline pretty much looks like a Hofstadter butterfly now. But, how does that relate to Dust Moth? Well, I’ll try and explain it. Dust Moth is…
Kurt Ballou gets around. When he’s not blazing a trail with Converge, he’s hunkered down in his own studio at God City, working the sound-desk for various noise-making machines who’ve all requested his producing expertise. This is where he could be found during the months of April and August 2011, twiddling the knobs for Boston, MA’s Phantom Glue. The result of those sessions has taken two whole years to see the light of day, but now Black Market Activities have stepped in to save A War Of Light Cones from staying buried from view.
I’m not overly familiar with All Pigs Must Die, so I won’t pretend to know, but if I were you I’d be super excited about Narrows heading your way if you live in any of the places on the below list. Fronted by ex-Botch frontman Dave Verellen, and including ex-These…
Russian Circles on record are good, but Russian Circles live are something else, and so the following video of the band performing a brand new track in Bolanzo, Italy is making me a little weak in the knees. good job I’m sitting down, eh? The track will be released on…
Could it be…metal Santa? So. Bands break up. It sucks, but that’s the way of things. For most of them, the reason is pure and simple; on some level, they suck. Whether it’s only a little, or harder than a $20 hooker, it doesn’t matter; the world doesn’t lose a…
Survived two fucking plane crashes. ‘Ard. So. Bands break up. It sucks, but that’s the way of things. For most of them, the reason is pure and simple; on some level, they suck. Whether it’s only a little, or harder than a $20 hooker, it doesn’t matter; the world doesn’t…
Wednesday May 5th marked the end of my academic career. It was a busy day to say the least, but lacked the appropriate fanfare I felt it deserved. Where were the fireworks? The champagne? The cheering crowd to carry me on their shoulders? I pretty much anticipated this though. My…
