Into the Pit // Q1, 2021
Hey there Headbangers!
Has it been a stacked few months for thrash metal, or what! The thrash train kept right on rolling through Christmas and into the new year, with absolutely no sign of slowing down. On ... Read More...
Into the Pit // The Best (And Worst) Years for Thrash Metal
Howdy Headbangers,
Dropping another top ten list seemed a tad redundant, given that I've picked out a "Big Four" for each quarter of the year. Put those together and you effectively have a "Top 16" of 2020.... Read More...
Flash of the Blade // November 2020
Greetings duelists and welcome back to Flash of the Blade! Don’t remember what this column is about? Luckily, it’s easy to remind you: this column is about short releases that go hard. Also, swearing. Which ge... Read More...
Into the Pit – 2019 Wrap-Up And Playlist Swap
Happy holidays, fellow moshers! Once again, we find ourselves at the end of the year. A calendar is about to get thrown out just to be replaced by another one with a new number on it. But what a year it was! 20... Read More...
Hey! Listen to This Summer is Going to Kill You!
I often think about how we’re always talking about serious music on Heavy Blog Is Heavy. You want to take metal seriously, but I think we frequently forget that metal is music and music can often just be fun.... Read More...
Xoth – Interdimensional Invocations
As a band, Xoth represent a specific challenge to review: it feels impossible to concoct the right combination of words that both accurately describes the band and makes them sound as appealing as I’d like. M... Read More...
Toxic Holocaust – Primal Future: 2019
What is it about straight genre bands that we love so much?
We may all try to stay as objective as possible, but everybody has a favorite.
Old school death metal, second wave black metal, grindcore, the list c... Read More...
High Command – Beyond the Wall of Desolation
Is there anything better than finding exactly what you’ve been looking for? Not in the “I lost my keys and I need to drop everything to track them down before I totally lose my mind” sense, but rather the fort... Read More...
Wizard Rifle – Self-titled
Even if you took a group of the most scholarly sludge punks and fed them a steady diet of Lightning Bolt, Neurosis, and Sonic Youth for years and years, it’s not likely they’d produce anything as unconventiona... Read More...
Into The Pit – Playlist Swap
Following our mailbag post last week, Pete and I thought we'd get further antiquated with a good old-fashioned Heavy Blog is Heavy playlist swap. We each put together a list of the songs that we thought best de... Read More...