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...
Editor’s Note: I’m glad to welcome longtime reader Remi VL as a regular guest contributor to our Release Day Roundup posts! He submitted several of the albums listed below. Join his Facebook group&nb... Read More...
For those who missed our last installment, We post biweekly updates covering what the staff at Heavy Blog have been spinning. Given the amount of time we spend on the site telling you about music that does not fall neatly into the confines of conventional “metal,” it should come as no surprise that many of us on staff have pretty eclectic tastes that range far outside of metal and heavy things. We can’t post about all of them at length here, but we can at least let you know what we’re actually listening to. For those that would like to participate as well (and please do) can drop a 3X3 in the comments, which can be made with tapmusic.net through your last.fm account, or create it manually with topsters.net. Also, consider these posts open threads to talk about pretty much anything music-related. We love hearing all of your thoughts on this stuff and love being able to nerd out along with all of you.
If there was ever a type of music to earn an award for being unconventional and far reaching, noise rock would take it home time and time again, spreading its roots everywhere from the base genre itself to eve... Read More...
It's been a while since we did one of these, but...for those who missed our last installment, We post biweekly updates covering what the staff at Heavy Blog have been spinning. Given the amount of time we spend... Read More...
Anytime our reviewers give a record a 4/5 or better score, you can bet it's worth listening to. Well this week 4/5 of our reviews are at least 4/5 horns. Summaries of all 5/5 after the jump.
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Hello, hello and welcome to the seventh (!!!) part in our ongoing series of Heavy Blog Is Heavy’s "Best Of" selections where we explore a genre of music and each of our dedicated authors picks a favorite al... Read More...
Grind, sludge and noise rock are three genres that do actually tend to describe the musical content of the bands they encompass. Piss Vortex, with their self titled debut album, find the point whe... Read More...
SLC noisemakers GAZA have unveiled the cover art for their upcoming wrecking ball of an album No Absolutes In Human Suffering. Done by artist Mike Wohlberg (Trap Them, Tombs, Today Is the Day, etc), the art w... Read More...
GROAN. I'm sorry, I couldn't help that one - it was just too easy!
So yeah, it's been four years since we've heard from Nashville noise-merchants Today Is The Day with their last effort Axis of Eden, but... Read More...