Heavy Buys // April 2021
The latest vinyl purchases reviewed by Heavy Blog staff, including Humanity's Last Breath, Genghis Tron, Periphery, War From A Harlot's Mouth, and more!
Hey! Listen to ZILF!
There's a specific sub-group of bands that I listen to when I want something can only be categorized as "chaotic". Think SikTh in their wilder mode, Psykup, Freighter or, hell, Frontierer when you really want... Read More...
Elephant Tree – Habits
Few things beat big sounds to me. An artist’s ability to fill your ears with a wall of sound gives the music a unique presence that’s wholly its own. All music has some kind of presence of course, but you can’... Read More...
Playlist Swap // 5/6/2020
Even a cursory glance of our biweekly playlist updates will reveal that there is a great deal of variety among our staff’s musical tastes. Due to this, we brainstormed the idea of Playlist Swap, wher... Read More...
AMA (Ask Metal Anything) – April 2020
AMA is Heavy Blog's monthly community Q&A column, where readers ask questions across the gamut, and we are legally required by the universal laws of "AMA" to answer them! These are edited and excerpted tra... Read More...
Heavy Blog’s Top 50 Albums of 2019
This is one of those years where you're writing your end of year summary every day. It's a year which inundated all of us with so much music, and from so many angles and genres, that it almost begged to consta... Read More...
Doomsday – Best of 2019
My word, heaviest of all bloggers! It’s the ending of
another year. The death of time is inevitable, as is all of our impending doom.
Let us commemorate another year with a climactic post.
As I was pulling ... Read More...
Year of the Cobra – Ash and Dust
The premise of a two-piece rock band can present some concerns. Just for lack of sheer people power, duos always have some hurdles to overcome and preconceptions to defy. Will they sound “full” or do they come... Read More...
Hey! Listen to Isaak!
Another day, another excellent find in the treasure troves that is Small Stone Recordings backlog. This time, I stumbled upon Genova's Isaak based on the artwork for their 2015 release, Sermonize. By the time ... Read More...
Old Man and the Fest
Finally, at long last, I was back in Florida. Sweating bullets and worrying over configurations of various manners of problems that might waylay my efforts to get from Orlando to Gainesville for the first time... Read More...