Posts Tagged ‘Reviews’

Yes, We’re Going To Share Every New Sockweb Song For Great Justice

In case you have short term memory loss, Sockweb is the incredibly awesome and touchingly adorable grindcore project by friend of the site Adam Young and his six-year-old daughter Joanie. ...


Heavy Blog’s Primer For 2013 — Part Four: Leprous, Vintersorg, God of Atheists, Wintersun, Dark Tranquillity, Trivium

I had pretty much zero expectations from 2012, but it turned out to be an awesome year. This time, I have quite a bit of expectations from 2013, so it ...


Reel Metal: Touche Amore – Gravity, Metaphorically

Well folks, it’s 2013 and I’m long overdue in returning my ear to the ground for metal music videos. There were a lot of awesome videos that made away clean ...


Caspian Set To Tour North America

With Junius: 02/16 Chapel Hill, NC – Local 506 02/18 St Petersburg, FL – The Local 662 02/19 Orlando, FL – The Social 02/20 Atlanta, GA – Masquerade 02/21 New ...


2012 Australian Rapidfire Wrap-Up (Part 1): In Trenches, Breaking Orbit, Over-reactor

In Trenches – Sol Obscura (EP) [03/02/12] [Self Released] With the demise in 2012 of Thrice, Alexisonfire and Underoath, it would be understandable to conclude that the post-hardcore movement has ...


Introducing Sockweb, A Grindcore Band Fronted By A 6 Year Old Girl

Whether you know it or not, you may already be familiar with Adam “Blackula” Young and his various endeavors and hijinks. He’s the fellow whose forearm went near-viral after he ...


Why Worshiping Satan Is For Losers

Eek! A mutant fern growth! Nobody has really bothered to scribble about this topic, even though it is a pretty well known and widely acknowledged phenomenon, so Happy Metal Guy ...


New Wormed = You’re Slamming (In Space)

Spain’s death metal oddballs Wormed have taken an age to put out their sophomore full-length album. Their celebrated debut Planisphaerium came out in 2005 — almost eight years ago! Obviously, ...


Heavy Blog’s Primer for 2013 — Part Three: Kvelertak, The Black Dahlia Murder, ORBS, Son of Aurelius, and Coheed and Cambria

2012 was no doubt an amazing year for music in general. Indeed, it was without question my best year when it came to new releases and in terms of introducing ...


New Kvelertak Single Available On BBC Radio One For Limited Time

This morning we gave highlight to the much anticipated Kvelertak sophomore release Meir. Their blend of party-starting hardcore, rock and roll, and black metal is intoxicating, for the lack of ...