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Rotten to the Core // September 2021

September 8, 2021

What a month. Gulch just announced a farewell tour at the height of their popularity (guess the dildos couldn’t keep the lights on?), someone shit in the Turnstile pit, and Nick Hipa decided to finally quit As... Read More...

Rotten to the Core // June 2021

Calder Dougherty

June 14, 2021

Rotten to the Core

There was so much good broad spectrum -core that came out in May, it was difficult to try and cover it all. So we didn’t. Sorry folks. Check the Circle Pit for links to the releases that definitely deserved a ... Read More...

Architects – For Those Who Wish to Exist

Joshua Bulleid

March 1, 2021

Reviews

Architects are well overdue a shake-up at this point. Holy Hell is a much stronger record than I first gave it credit for, but it still feel like a slightly less-potent rehash of the two (admittedly outstandin... Read More...

Rotten to the Core // November 2020

Calder Dougherty

November 9, 2020

Columns, Rotten to the Core

As I write this, the US Senate has just confirmed Amy Coney Barrett, Trump’s third Supreme Court justice, a mere week before he is expected to lose reelection. The only thing remotely ‘supreme’ about Barrett i... Read More...

Death’s Door // September 2020

Jonathan Adams

September 2, 2020

Death's Door

Welcome, friends, to the new and improved Death’s Door! As you have probably noticed by now, things look a little different around these parts as of late. Our retooling and reconfiguring of Heavy Blog to a mon... Read More...

Aversions Crown – Hell Will Come For Us All

Jonathan Adams

June 11, 2020

Reviews

Deathcore isn’t dead. You may wish it was, but if the much-maligned subgenre’s output over the past few years has been any indication, deathcore on every level is alive, well, and thriving. Staples like Fit Fo... Read More...

Hey! Listen to Codex Obscura!

Joshua Bulleid

May 21, 2020

Listen To This!

Extreme metal is already a niche unto itself, laden with sub-genres upon sub-genres. Yet, even by extreme metal's obscure standards, depressive deathcore solo projects by transgender artists, is probably about ... Read More...

Into the Pit // Q1 2020

Joshua Bulleid

March 31, 2020

Into the Pit

Howdy headbangers! Josh here, I'm officially taking over Into the Pit while Pete's off trying to make the world a better place and whatnot. This means two things: a) it's gonna get a whole lot groovier around h... Read More...

The Amity Affliction – Everyone Loves You …Once You Leave Them

Joshua Bulleid

February 17, 2020

Reviews

Letting go is always hard but It can be almost impossible in the digital age. Time once was when it was too difficult or expensive to keep up with once loved bands whose sound had diverged from what once made t... Read More...

Hey! Listen to Antagonist A.D.!

Joshua Bulleid

January 23, 2020

Listen To This!

New Zealand's Anatgonist A.D. (or simply Antagonist, as they were known then) were among the many semi-local hardcore bands my friends and I would make public transport pilgrimages to see every other weekend, d... Read More...

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