It’s easy to overlook the fact that Stray From The Path have been releasing music for nearly two decades. Their Long Island hardcore roots might seem a million miles away from their globally-approved, for the most part, rapped metal attack, but they’ve honestly never ahem strayed too far from their…
A Gift to Artwork, taken from the Caligula’s Horse song “A Gift to Afterthought”, breaks down and analyses your favourite album artwork. The first time an album’s name appears, it will link to a large and (where possible) high-resolution image of the cover so that you can take a closer…
Thy Art Is Murder are extremely good at what they do. With each album, they effortlessly prove that they have the consistency and skill to strike with absolute precision while adding just a little bit more to the formula to keep them from getting complacent atop their duly earned throne.…
Hello fellow pit-sters! This month, I thought we could do something a little different. You all know I’ve been playing fast and loose with the schedule of this column, and August will be no different! Fellow thrash Josh Bulleid and I thought we’d introduce ourselves to you all a little…
Each month, we always seem to come to the same conclusion when it comes to our Editors’ Picks column: Friday release days open the floodgates and unleash a seemingly endless stream of quality new music. But while some of our Editors and Contributors sit down gleefully each week to dive into this newly stocked treasure…
Editor’s note: in 2017, I came across Iapetus, a promising progressive death metal which had just released their debut full length album, The Long Road Home. The album was excellent but, like most other people I sent its way, the production was clearly executed by the musicians itself and was,…
We here at Heavy Blog like to ponder the big questions: Who are we? Why are we here? What even is a polyrhythm? You know, the big stuff. In order to better address such pressing matters, we bring you Heavy Issues: a bi-weekly column by which we plan to get…
Following on from the inaugural 2017 edition, we’re back in 2018 with the Heavy Blog Yearbook, a look back at some of the articles from last year that we’re most proud of. We love sharing things with our readers, and we’d hate for people to have slept on one of…
Unearth sound like Thy Art is Murder now. That’s the big takeaway from their brand spanking new seventh album, the coyly titled Extinction(s). Yet just because its ultimate evaluation, along with the album itself, is overly reductive doesn’t mean it’s not still a fierce slab of hyper-aggressive metalcore, with plenty…
Heavy Pod Is Heavy Cast!
Slow news week, but we have stuff to talk anyway. Mainly new Thy Art Is Murder, Tom “Fountainhead” Geldschläger’s new instructional package, new Unearth album, new Venom single, Within the Ruins’s instrumental album, Nekrogoblikon’s motivational book, Bring Me The Horizon’s deathcore medley, and Dream Theater’s studio video (and this video on Mangini vs. Portnoy). Them on cool people time we discuss Cam again, then talk about the new She-Ra series and Tetris Effect. Enjoy!
