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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...

Doomsday // May 2022

Pete Williams

May 5, 2022

Doomsday

Green tidings and smoky greetings unto you, O Heaviest of All Bloggers! I hope you are all in high spirits after a bit of the leafy green this month. Y’all know I’m legally obligated to make weed jokes here, r... Read More...

Music Journalism’s Top 50 Metal Albums of 2020

Nick Cusworth

February 9, 2021

Best of 2020, Lists!

Hello, and welcome back to the article about the previous year that always comes long after the previous year has ended! Joking aside, based on the number of comments and messages I received asking if we were ... Read More...

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...

Heavy Blog Guest List – Dawnwalker

Eden Kupermintz

January 25, 2021

Best of 2020, Lists!

Honestly, I will never get tired of writing about Dawnwalker even though I've done so so many times now, especially in 2020. This was a banner year for the group; they released Crestfallen, a great EP which li... Read More...

Doomsday – 2020 In Review

Pete Williams

January 25, 2021

Best of 2020, Doomsday

IT. IS. DONE. I mean, sort of. All you Heaviest of Bloggers made it through to 2021. We’re not quite out of the woods yet (I guess the pandemic and President Orange Assburger didn’t quite get the memo about kn... Read More...

Release Day Roundup – 1/15/21

Scott Murphy

January 15, 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...

Post Rock Post // December 2020

Nick Cusworth

December 7, 2020

Post Rock Post

Good. Lord. Listen, 2020 has been a very good year for music in general, post- included. That goes doubly so when you take Covid into account. However, I don't think any of us were mentally prepared for the... Read More...

Doomsday // November 2020

Jordan Jerabek

November 9, 2020

Doomsday

Welcome to November to all ye doomy and gloomy who enter here. Since Pete was out of the Doomsday office doing important shit like, oh, I don’t know, promoting democracy in the states by making sure people wer... Read More...

Editors’ Picks // November 2020

Scott Murphy

November 9, 2020

Editors' Picks

The last few weeks have been, to say the least, quite stressful for a lot of us at the blog. When you look at the list of albums that we chose to run for this month’s Editors’ Picks, it might be tempting to pa... Read More...

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