Ufomammut – XX
Twenty years is a long time. A decades-spanning career is a dream most bands fail to actualize, so celebrations are certainly in order for Italian psychedelic doom masterminds Ufomammut. You simply can’t last ... Read More...
Behind (and in front of) the scenes at dunk!festival 2019
Anyone who has been lucky enough to make the trip to the sleepy East Flanders town of Zottegem, Belgium for dunk!festival knows that for three days every Spring this picturesque hamlet takes on the weighty and... Read More...
Doomsday // September 2017
Greetings, heaviest of Heavy Bloggers! Welcome back to Doomsday, our monthly effort to highlight some noteworthy but potentially overlooked releases in this month’s wide world of doom. September has been truly... Read More...
Release Day Roundup – 9/22/17
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 trove, others find themselves drawing a blank at the end of the month due to the breakneck pace needed to keep up to date with what’s been released. Which brings us to this Heavy Blog PSA: a weekly roundup of new albums which pares down the the week’s releases to only our highest recommendations. Here you’ll find full album/single streams, pre-order links and, most importantly, a collection of albums that could very well earn a spot on your year end list. Enjoy!
Ufomammut – 8
Ufomammut are a strange band. Let’s just get this out of the way right off the bat. The Italian trio of metallers moonlight as professional graphic artists in the Malleus art collective, and also have an expansive back catalog of albums that plunder elements of psychedelic, stoner, and sludge-infused doom with reckless abandon. Given this mix of styles, the band are fairly difficult to pigeon hole into any specific subgenre niche in metal. Which is simultaneously both one of the best things about their music and one of the worst aspects of it when trying to explain how they sound in a review. But bravely shall I endure for the cause.
Get Sucked Into Demon Lung’s New Album
Sometimes, you don’t want something complex. While a fancy, flavorful dish bursting with spice and variety is well and good, there are times when you just need a damn cheeseburger. And musically, nothing is cl... Read More...
What Heavy Blog Is Really Listening To – 5/16/15
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 ... Read More...
Ufomammut – Ecate
Italy's premier sludge metal band, Ufomammut, have been one of the most prolific artists in the genre ever since they first came onto the scene in 1999. It's hard to imagine that the band is actually about to... Read More...
Ufomammut Travel Through the Underworld on New Track “Plouton”
Last week we reported on Italy's psychedelic sludge connoisseurs Ufomammut's first North American tour, with support from blog favorites Usnea. An effort to generate excitement in their seventh full-length pr... Read More...
Brace Your Ears: UFOMAMMUT And Usnea Join Forces
In case you don't know, Usnea released one of my favorite albums of 2014. It came in a year I had already dubbed The Doom Revival™ and further cemented that idea. The album is relentless, uncompromisingly hea... Read More...