MONARCH! – The Heavy Blog is Heavy Interview

Scott Murphy
News
Writing a standout doom metal album is a difficult task nowadays. This isn't due to an overall lack of quality within the genre's modern progenitors, but because of the antithesis; more and more excellent doom metal albums seem to enter the running for our year ends lists with each passing year. MONARCH! (Monarch from here on out) has never struggled with this  endeavor over the course of their 15-year career, particularly when it comes to their recent output with the eminent Profound Lore Records. Yet, while Sabbracadaver was certainly a doom highlight in 2014, Never Forever sees the band returning this year with their most colossal and grandiose album to date, presenting a masterful synthesis of drone metal with doom's more macabre characteristics. We sat down with the band to discuss the process of writing their latest epic, as well as a handful of other topics related to their past, present and future within the shifting landscape of modern doom. 

What Heavy Blog Is Really Listening To – 9/1/17

Scott Murphy
What We're Really Listening To
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.
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Antigama – Meteor

Heavy Blog
Reviews
Lying somewhere between sheer visceral intensity and unbridled instrumental prowess sit Polish grinders Antigama. With over ten years of experience under their belt, including 6 full length albums and a whole collections of splits, they are a band that clearly know what they mean to achieve with their music and, more importantly, the most direct route of going about it.
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Rediscovering an Autopsy

Heavy Blog
Editorials
A long time ago Cameron "Big Chocolate" Argon did the Legacy of Blood tour over in Europe. One of the bands billed was a small little act known as Annotations of an Autopsy. Throughout the tour videos Big Cho... Read More...