Sigur Rós Debut Video for ‘Fjögur Píanó,’ featuring Shia LaBeouf’s Junk
Sigur Rós have become one of my favorite Post-Rock bands. They truly do create beautiful music. Their most recent release, Valtari, is definitely making my “Best Of” list at the end of the year, and...
View ArticleFarewell, 2012: Hayato Imanishi Of Cyclamen & Withyouathome’s Top 10 Albums...
For our year end best-of retrospectives, we reached out to a few friends of the site who were active bands in 2012 to contribute their personal lists and rundowns of what they enjoyed throughout the...
View ArticleSigur Rós To Release A New Album This June
Sigur Rós are one of my favorite post-rock bands, and Valtari, released last year, was one of my favorite post-rock releases from 2012. However, a little over a year after being released, the band are...
View ArticleFallujah – Nomadic
Fallujah Nomadic 01. The Dead Sea 02. Silent 03. Venom Upon The Blade [04/02/13] [Unique Leader Records] Californian death metallers Fallujah had a sleeper hit on their hands in 2011 with their debut...
View ArticleEchoes of Yul — Finally, Some Doom/Drone I Can Get Into
When it comes to genre tags, I tend to avoid bands that are described as being both drone and doom. While there are highlights from both genres proof that they co-exist with desirable results, the...
View ArticleSigur Ros Announce US Headlining Tour
Few bands in post-rock are as widely acclaimed and as influential as Sigur Ros. The band’s massive ambient soundscapes are adventurous and whimsical, and their music comes to life tenfold during the...
View ArticleRapidfire Reviews — Topshelf Records Edition: The Saddest Landscape & The...
The Saddest Landscape – Exit Wounded [06/11/13] [Topshelf Records] It seems that the term “emo” has become something of a derogatory word as it applies to underground or extreme music thanks to MySpace...
View ArticleNew Alcest Record Shelter Due In February
Apparently the new Alcest record was completed and announced way back in July, but I’m only just now hearing about it! Following the nearly black metal-free 2012 album Les Voyages de l’Âme, it comes...
View ArticleAlcest – Shelter
Alcest Shelter 01. Wings 02. Opale 03. La Nuit Marche avec Moi 04. Voix Sereines 05. L’Éveil des Muses 06. Shelter 07. Away 08. Délivrance [01/17/13] [Prophecy Productions] Let’s get the obvious and...
View ArticleThe Contortionist – Language
The Contortionist are one of many bands in the progressive metal realm that just refuses to stand still. Once a band admired for their intelligent and atmospheric twist on the brutal groove of the...
View ArticleWhat Mark Holcomb of Periphery is (Really) Listening To
The members of Periphery are just back from of Japan. So while he was travelling what was guitarist Mark Holcomb (really) listening to? The answer after the break. Since 2011, guitarist Mark Holcomb...
View ArticleWhat Heavy Blog Is Really Listening To – 3/1/15
During his time as weekend editor here, one of the consistently most popular features Brian Shields would run was the What We’re Really Listening To column, which would ask either Heavy Blog staff or...
View ArticleCrystal Shipsss – I Will See No Moon No Sky
To stumble upon I Will See No Moon No Sky is to be presented with a mystery, one that Danish group Crystal Shipsss only muddy further as the album is further delved into. On the surface, their name...
View ArticleHey! Listen to Misþyrming!
I absolutely love black metal. Ever since I got into it a few years back, it’s been damn near impossible for me to stop finding new and exciting releases within the genre. I was recently searching on...
View ArticlePil & Bue – Forget the Past, Let’s Worry About the Future
Like it or hate it, one has to give credit to the music scene of Scandinavia. The sheer variety that has entered itself into the consciousness of popular metal and rock music is overwhelming, from...
View ArticleHeavy Blog Is Heavy’s Editors’ Picks for February 2016
Welcome to our monthly post, Editors’ Picks! In the recent two years, our editorial body has grown quite a bit: from basically two guys running everything, we now have around seven people managing the...
View ArticleBossk – Audio Noir
Often, when faced with modern art, people comment that it simply seems like paint thrown against the canvas, a form of art with no definitive shape, and therefore not emotionally connecting as there is...
View ArticleRïcïnn – Lïan
For better or worse, Lïan is the kind of album which takes just one track to illuminate the entirety of what it has to offer. The album’s collection of “dark neobaroque” compositions is the latest...
View ArticleThe Anatomy Of: Astronoid
Welcome to Heavy Blog is Heavy’s feature, “The Anatomy Of.” Taken from the Between The Buried And Me album of the same name, in which the band pays tribute to artists/bands that they feel have most...
View ArticleWhat Heavy Blog Is Really Listening To – 7/1/16
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...
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