Wolves In The Throne Room – Thrice Woven
Although they put out two demo albums beforehand, the career of Wolves In The Throne Room begins in earnest in 2006, with the release of atmospheric black metal triumph Diadem of 12 Stars. To say this...
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What Heavy Blog Is Really Listening To // Playlist Swap – 9/8/17
Even a cursory glance of our biweekly playlist updates will reveal that there is a great deal of variety among our staff’s musical tastes. Due to this, we brainstormed the idea of Playlist Swap, where...
View ArticleGenre Genesis 9/12/17 – Wolves in the Throne Room, “Angrboda”
Welcome back to Genre Genesis. For newcomers, here’s a brief overview of how this works. Three of the other editors – Nick, Scott, and Eden – have partners who are, shall we say, not nearly as invested...
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What Heavy Blog Is Really Listening To – 9/15/17
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...
View ArticleRelease 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...
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What Heavy Blog Is Really Listening To – 9/29/17
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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Editors’ Picks – September 2017
At this point, it must seem like we’re long past beating a dead horse when it comes to using this space atop our Editors’ Picks column to reiterate the mantra of “there’s just too much music!” But as...
View ArticleKvlt Kolvmn – September 2017
Black metal. What does it even mean anymore? The internet kerfuffle over Sacred Son’s album artwork for his eponymous debut once again presents the age old question of what is and isn’t “trve”. For...
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Verlies – Le Domaine Des Hommes
Atmospheric black metal is a genre known for a fairly specific style: shrieking vocals, clean leads soaking in reverb, and guitar riffs that create crushing walls of noise. Giants in the genre, like...
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What Heavy Blog Is Really Listening To – 10/13/17
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...
View ArticleHey! Listen to Arctos!
Folks, up here in the U-S-of-A, it’s finally starting to get cold again, and for me, that means a few things: one, wearing black jeans all the time instead of black jean cutoffs, replacing my...
View ArticleWave // Breaker – Ethereal Delusions
Jon Thomson, an Oregon based musician who performs under the stage name of Ethereal Delusions, is a prime example of an artist who is constantly honing their craft and is therefore always moving...
View ArticleYellow Eyes – Immersion Trench Reverie
Yellow Eyes came to the metal world’s collective attention primarily through their outstanding third album Sick With Bloom. With this release, the band sought to meld the cold, overwhelmingly bleak...
View ArticleKvlt Kolvmn // October 2017
Happy Halloween, 2017, from your nefarious friends at Kvlt Kolvmn! Hard to imagine a better day for this column to land near, what with all the ghouls, spirits, demogorgons and Eleven’s traipsing...
View ArticleBolt Gun – Man Is Wolf to Man
“What is it, a temple? What’s it called?” “Nothing. It’s by the village, behind the reservation.” “Will they let me in?” “No.” “What do I need to do to get in?” “You have to pray.” “Knock on the wall?”...
View ArticleNullingroots – Into the Grey
It has been a fantastic year for black metal. Releases from all over the black metal spectrum have been hitting listeners left and right. From the return of legends like Wolves In the Throne Room to...
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What Heavy Blog Is Really Listening To // Playlist Swap – 12/7/17
Even a cursory glance of our biweekly playlist updates will reveal that there is a great deal of variety among our staff’s musical tastes. Due to this, we brainstormed the idea of Playlist Swap, where...
View ArticleKvlt Kolvmn 2017 // Black Metal’s Year in Review
It’s pretty incredible to reflect on how much Kvlt Kolvmn has grown over the last couple years, especially when it comes to how consequential it’s been for Heavy Blog’s coverage of the vast web of...
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Heavy Blog Staff’s Top Ten Albums of 2017
Our staff has shifted quite a bit since we posted our first aggregate AOTY list back in 2014. From refocusing our content to implementing The Brooklyn Plan to publishing our 2017 AOTY list, our roster...
View ArticleMusic Journalism’s Top 25 Metal Albums of 2017
Lists. People love them and love to hate them. There is always going to be a bunch of things to criticize end-of-year lists about, and many of those criticisms will always have merit. Placing any sort...
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