Vukari - Abrasive Hallucinations (Reality Hemorrhaging)
No Clean SingingFollow “(This year we were joined by a Seattle-based writer who goes by the nickname Gonzo. He has contributed both lively…” on Dec 30th, 2019 →
SIBIIR - For The Few
Heavy Blog Is HeavyFollow “After a debut full of harsh, twisting, blackened hardcore sounds comes Oslo’s SIBIIR with their sophomore full-length, Ropes. From the…” on Sep 24th, 2019 →
Northlane - Details Matter
Heavy Blog Is HeavyFollow “Northlane have been rising through the progressive metalcore ranks with each album they’ve released since 2011. Once they acquired multi-faceted…” on Sep 26th, 2019 →
portrayal of guilt - Daymare
Decibel MagazineFollow “You’ve been listening to people talk about their New Year’s resolutions and goals for the last week and tomorrow you’ll…” on Dec 31st, 2018 →
UADA - Snakes & Vultures
BrooklynVeganFollow “That is a killer triple bill for black metal fans. Continue reading…” on Sep 18th, 2019 →
DIRGE - Lost Empyrean
Decibel MagazineFollow “French sludge practitioners Dirge are shooting to make Lost Empyrean, their seventh album since 1998, their most epic and grandiose.…” on Dec 12th, 2018 →
Hydra Head Records - Human Error
BrooklynVeganFollow “The album comes out on Hydra Head this Friday. Continue reading…” on Oct 16th, 2018 →
Obituary - Sentence Day
BeatRoute MagazineFollow “By Clint Anderson Relapse Records Originally released in March of last year, Obituary’s 10th studio album is their strongest since…” on Sep 23rd, 2018 →
Cancer - Wehe Mir
Heavy Blog Is HeavyFollow “We here at Heavy Blog are proud to have been saying “what the hell is in Australia’s water?” for at…” on Aug 7th, 2018 →
Entry - Secrets
BrooklynVeganFollow “LA hardcore band Entry started as the duo of ferocious screamer Sara Gregory and her partner Clayton Stevens (who plays…” on Jul 31st, 2018 →
Acid Bath - The Blue - When The Kite String Pops
Heavy Blog Is HeavyFollow “Sometimes, writing introduction paragraphs is a silly exercise; this is one of those times. Surely no one needs me to…” on Jul 31st, 2018 →
PrimitiveWeapons - Keep The Lights On
BrooklynVeganFollow “Errortype:11's first hometown show in six years is a full bill of veteran New York post-hardcore acts. Continue reading…” on Jul 25th, 2018 →
Victus - Singularity
Heavy Blog Is HeavyFollow “Greetings, heaviest of Heavy Bloggers! Welcome to Doomsday, our monthly roundup of all new and noteworthy in the world of…” on Jul 25th, 2018 →
Sahon - At The Edge Of Cliff
Heavy Blog Is HeavyFollow “You just have to love the underground scene. It’s such a joy to find these small bands and hear what…” on Jul 23rd, 2018 →
Defiatory - In Hell
Heavy Blog Is HeavyFollow “Editor’s Note: Pete has a simple goal with this column – keep thrash metal alive. He’ll explore key bands. albums…” on Jul 18th, 2018 →
Violent Life Violent Death - Come, Heavy Breath
Heavy Blog Is HeavyFollow “North Carolina’s Violent Life, Violent Death released an outstanding slab of metallic hardcore last month in Come, Heavy Breath. The…” on Jul 17th, 2018 →
GAEREA - Absent
Echoes and DustFollow “Unsettling Whispers is multi-dimensional and multi-generational black metal at its pinnacle of wonder. Flawless.” on Aug 20th, 2018 →
Dumal - Fane of the Clandestine
Invisible OrangesFollow “Last Friday ripped us to shreds: the big riffs of Sonja, the sawing rawness of Dumal, and the outright savagery…” on Aug 12th, 2019 →
Night Verses - Vice Wave
Heavy Blog Is HeavyFollow “When a band loses a vocalist, there are times where it signals the end of that band. For better or…” on Jun 28th, 2018 →
Agonia Records - Ouroboros Dweller (The Dweller of Barathrum)
Bandcamp DailyFollow “It’s a bit trite to say that 2018 was a good year for metal; every year is a good year…” on Dec 17th, 2018 →
Blood Harvest - Impending Peril
Heavy Blog Is HeavyFollow “It’s a very good time to be a fan of old school death metal. The past few years in particular…” on Jun 20th, 2018 →
The Sound That Ends Creation - Unfortunately, The Tide Pod Hysteria Is Driven More By Politics Than Science
Heavy Blog Is HeavyFollow “One of my most dearly missed niche phase of extreme music was that “weird” phase of mathcore that brought us…” on Jun 15th, 2018 →
ASG - Survive Sunrise
The QuietusFollow “Stoner rock, screaming pits of rage and sore tonsils: your guide to midsummer metal with Orange Goblin, ASG, Yob, Hoth…” on Jul 2nd, 2018 →
Nervosa - Kill The Silence
Heavy Blog Is HeavyFollow “Some people strongly bemoan the downfall of thrash metal. Once it was the juggernaut of the underground scene, but it…” on Jun 13th, 2018 →
Wayfarer - The Dreaming Plain
Heavy Blog Is HeavyFollow ““World’s Blood is black metal of the American West.” Thus begins the description of this album by Profound Lore records,…” on Jun 13th, 2018 →
Hoth - Vengeance
Heavy Blog Is HeavyFollow “Concept albums are such a hard thing to follow up. An artist spends so much time developing a universe and…” on May 24th, 2018 →
Unique Leader Records - Invidious
No Clean SingingFollow “(Andy Synn again compiles reviews of new records from the British Isles.) Just as I said in my previous column…” on Nov 2nd, 2018 →
King Goat - Doldrum Sentinels
No Clean SingingFollow “(Andy Synn continues his occasional series in which he devotes attention to new releases by UK bands, here presenting a…” on Apr 25th, 2018 →
Afsky - Jeg bærer deres lig
No Clean SingingFollow “Recommended for fans of: (early) Ulver, Panopticon, Wolves In The Throne Room Well, I promised you two Synn Reports this…” on Mar 31st, 2023 →
Giver - No World To Come
Heavy Blog Is HeavyFollow “With the company I keep, I’m always inundated with music suggestions from friends far and wide. Friends of all genres,…” on Mar 15th, 2018 →
Harakiri for the Sky - Fire, Walk With Me
Invisible OrangesFollow “There's no better season for black metal, really—drawing from the last decade or so, here's some picks for black metal…” on Dec 31st, 2021 →
Rivers of Nihil - A Home
Invisible OrangesFollow “Our analysis of the death metal quintet's highly anticipated upcoming third full-length album Continue reading…” on Mar 13th, 2018 →
Messa - Blood
Heavy Blog Is HeavyFollow “Doom and stoner metal, the match made in heaven! It’s easy to see why, as both genres grew from out…” on Feb 27th, 2018 →
Conjurer - The Mire
Heavy Blog Is HeavyFollow “I walked into Moe’s Original BBQ just before 6. The show didn’t start until 8, but bands were scattered throughout…” on Apr 10th, 2019 →
TANK86 - Gilgamesh
Heavy PlanetFollow “Tank86 - Obey Instrumental music is an incredibly difficult genre to master, with many bands finding themselves stuck between self-indulgent…” on Feb 5th, 2015 →
Mutoid Man - Melt Your Mind
Heavy PlanetFollow “As per usual 2017 had it’s fair share of amazing releases. These are the ones that I listened to the…” on Feb 4th, 2018 →
ORYX - Stolen Absolution
No Clean SingingFollow “Recommended for fans of: Primitive Man, Body Void, Iron Monkey Variety, or so they say, is the spice of life.…” on Jul 30th, 2021 →
Revenger - We Want Blood
Heavy Blog Is HeavyFollow “In the age of the internet and worldwide access to information, we are inundated with loads of new bands, artists,…” on Feb 9th, 2018 →
The Atlas Moth - Coma Noir
I Thought I Heard A SoundFollow “Named for the enormous but short-lived Southeast Asian Lepidoptera, Chicago’s sludgy post-metal pioneers spread their powerful wings and take flight…” on Feb 26th, 2025 →
Cavalera Conspiracy - Insane
Heavy Blog Is HeavyFollow “Psychosis has come out during a period when it seems the Cavalera name is more visible and relevant to the…” on Nov 22nd, 2017 →
Converge - A Single Tear
BrooklynVeganFollow “Our latest exclusive vinyl variant is a deluxe ”Black in Clear” pressing of Converge’s 2017 album ’The Dusk In Us,’…” on Jun 27th, 2023 →
Converge - Broken by Light
Heavy Blog Is HeavyFollow “In retrospect, it seems like Converge have always released albums in pairs. Conceding that 1994’s Halo in a Haystack and…” on Nov 7th, 2017 →
Watchcries - Ashen
Heavy Blog Is HeavyFollow “Another year draws to a close and here we are again, telling you about yet another superlative release from the…” on Nov 8th, 2017 →
Surfbort - HIPPIE VOMIT INHALER
Bandcamp DailyFollow “Photo by Brian Shanley “Releasing such a long single in ‘Bela Lugosi’s Dead’ broke the rules, and inspired the kind…” on Nov 19th, 2018 →
Cloak - Beyond the Veil
BrooklynVeganFollow “Khemmis released their third album, the acclaimed Desolation, and now they will be delivering more doom on tour. Continue reading…” on Apr 1st, 2019 →
BATUSHKA - Yekteniya 1
Heavy Blog Is HeavyFollow “The fatal flaw, to me, of end-of-year music journalism content, is that lists discussing stuff from the past year often…” on Dec 20th, 2018 →
Kardashev - Between Sea and Sky
Heavy Blog Is HeavyFollow “Welcome to Death’s Door, nerds. We’re freshly past Our Lord and Infernal Master’s designated holiday, and I’m so hopped up…” on Nov 3rd, 2017 →
Ah Ciliz - Cascadia
No Clean SingingFollow “As the seasons change, and the colors of autumn leaves briefly flare like blood and fire, only to be sapped…” on Nov 2nd, 2017 →
Trap Them - Every Walk a Quarantine
Heavy Blog Is HeavyFollow “Four years ago I was a proud member of the #defendentombedcore movement, hailing every band to use the HM-2 pedal…” on Nov 2nd, 2017 →
Hero In Error - Hollow Truth
Heavy Blog Is HeavyFollow “It’s been a long time since I’ve watched They Live but I’m sure Rowdy Roddy Piper’s character would have proudly…” on Oct 31st, 2017 →