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Kvlt Kolvmn // October 2020

October 5, 2020

Greetings, frost-bitten hoard! Welcome to another edition of Kvlt Kolvmn. The weather is beginning to turn, leaves are falling in droves and the first pricks of cold are seeping into the air. It’s finally here... Read More...

Imperial Triumphant – Alphaville

Jordan Jerabek

July 24, 2020

Reviews

When an artist breaks the mold such as Imperial Triumphant have, there’s often a ripple effect. Yet in the wake of 2018’s Vile Luxury, few bands have achieved the grandeur and scale of Imperial Triumphant’s au... Read More...

Xazraug – Unsympathetic Empyrean

Jonathan Adams

June 10, 2020

Reviews

Metal has a penchant for the transcendent. As an avid music consumer, it’s a rare occurrence for a record to stop me dead in my tracks and demand my complete, undivided attention. No working. No multitasking. ... Read More...

The Anatomy Of – Sojourner

Eden Kupermintz

April 7, 2020

Features, The Anatomy Of

Atmospheric black metal has been doing a lot of things in the last five years or so. Beyond "just" an explosion in release numbers, atmospheric black metal also seems to be undergoing another (re)negotiation o... Read More...

Unreqvited – Mosaic II: la déteste et la détresse

Jonathan Adams

January 7, 2020

Reviews

Hailing from the perpetually sunny, oftentimes snowy state of Colorado comes with its fair share of outdoor rituals. One of these, found deep in the throes of deepest winter, manifests itself as shoveling stup... Read More...

Heavy Issues – How Do You Decide Your Album of the Year List?

Joshua Bulleid

January 2, 2020

Heavy Issues

We here at Heavy Blog like to ponder the big questions: Who are we? Why are we here? What makes one album “better” than another? You know, the big stuff. In order to better address such pressing matters, we bri... Read More...

Heavy Blog’s Top 50 Albums of 2019

Heavy Blog

December 17, 2019

Best 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...

Kvlt Kolvmn // 2019 in Review

Jonathan Adams

December 17, 2019

Best of 2019, Kvlt Kolvmn

Welcome, friends, to the final installment of Kvlt Kolvmn in the year of our infernal overlords 2019. What a year it’s been. From releases by foolproof genre legends like Mayhem, Blut Aus Nord, and Abbath to s... Read More...

Heavy Blog Guest List – Iapetus

Eden Kupermintz

December 16, 2019

Best of 2019, Lists!

I've spilled many a digital word on describing just what Iapetus' album from this year, The Body Cosmic, makes me feel so it was a no-brainer to reach out to Matthew and Jordan as our first guest list. At the... Read More...

Perihelion – Agg

Eden Kupermintz

November 27, 2019

Reviews

We all know where post-black metal is coming from, black metal of course, but where is it going to? As the sub-genre draws close to double digit age, what is the purpose of post-black? The initial infatuation ... Read More...

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