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God Alone - The Beep Test

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Heavy Blog is Heavy @heavyblog.bsky.social · 20h

If you are looking for an album that will go toe to toe with you, that refuses to settle for one thing and insists on doing all the things - then look no further.

Read our full review for God Alone's The Beep Test!

https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/10/08/god-alone-the-beep-test/

If you are looking for an album that will go toe to toe with you, that refuses to settle for one thing and insists on doing all the things, and if you want that album to be played by proficient and prolific music nerds - then look no further.

In the oppressive darkness I have returned home to one of my oldest flame, one of my oldest friends: doom

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Heavy Blog is Heavy @heavyblog.bsky.social · 1d

bbrrrrmmmmm with Doomsday and Elder, November's Doom, Gawthrop and more!

https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/10/07/doomsday-october-2025/

Doomsday // October 2025

Release Day Roundup: 10/3/25

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Heavy Blog is Heavy @heavyblog.bsky.social · 5d

Rounding up new releases from AFI, Cathedral, Thrice, Today is the Day, Lite, Orbit Culture, Author & Punisher, Agriculture, Alpha Male Tea Party, 50 Lions, Raphael Weinroth-Browne, Wode, Yowie, and a tired-ass showgirl.

https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/10/03/release-day-roundup-10-3-25/

Rounding up new releases from AFI, Hooded Menace, Cathedral, Thrice, Today is the Day, Lite, Orbit Culture, Author & Punisher, Agriculture, Alpha Male Tea Party, 50 Lions, Raphael Weinroth-Browne, Kirk Windstein, Feast of Corpses, Constrict, Plague Pit, Wode, Yowie, and a tired-ass showgirl.

Song premiere: Last rites with The Prophet

Heavy Blog is Heavy @heavyblog.bsky.social · 6d

Scandinavian folk and black metal form a haunted ode to despair on the new song from Monograf.

https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/10/02/song-premiere-last-rites-with-the-prophet/

Scandinavian folk and black metal form a haunted ode to despair on the new song from Monograf.

Release Day Roundup: 9/26/25

Heavy Blog is Heavy @heavyblog.bsky.social · 12d

Revocation, Mors Principium Est, Amorphis, Rage, Elder, Dying Wish, The Vintage Caravan, Peeling Flesh, Paradox, After Earth, Wounds of Recollection, Korypheus, Irk, Lightchapter, Sundrowned and a lot of djethcore.

https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/09/26/release-day-roundup-9-26-25/

Revocation, Mors Principium Est, Amorphis, Rage, Elder, Dying Wish, The Vintage Caravan, Peeling Flesh, Paradox, After Earth, Wounds of Recollection, Korypheus, Irk, Lightchapter, Sundrowned and a lot of djethcore.

After Earth - Dark Night of the Soul

Heavy Blog is Heavy @heavyblog.bsky.social · 13d

After Earth’s Dark Night of the Soul is a good but rarely great platter of melodic death metal, saved from the muddy mess of mediocrity by a great production job and a few standout tracks.

https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/09/25/after-earth-dark-night-of-the-soul/

After Earth’s Dark Night of the Soul is a good but rarely great platter of melodic death metal, saved from the muddy mess of mediocrity by a great production job and a few standout tracks.

EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Dawnwalker Tease The Between With New Excerpt

Heavy Blog is Heavy @heavyblog.bsky.social · 13d

At this point, we live in the spaces between the times in which we get to premiere new music from Dawnwalker. They have a new, one track, thirty plus minutes release coming next month.

https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/09/25/exclusive-premiere-dawnwalker-tease-the-between-with-new-excerpt/

At this point, I live in the spaces between the times in which I get to premiere new music from Dawnwalker.

Doomsday // September 2025

Heavy Blog is Heavy @heavyblog.bsky.social · 14d

Doomsday bestday

Animal Man @animalman.bsky.social · 14d

Quite a write up from @heavyblog.bsky.social on Thumos “The Trial of Socrates”
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Doom! And gloom! This is both a weather forecast for the next few weeks and the forecast for this very post.

Irk's weird identity remains at the forefront on sophomore record The Seeing House, which is bound to garner a lot of skepticism but might also be one to careen pessimists, sending seismic shock waves down their spinal cords in the process.

Heavy Blog is Heavy @heavyblog.bsky.social · 15d

Irk's "weird" identity remains at the forefront on sophomore record The Seeing House, which is bound to garner a lot of skepticism but might also be one to careen pessimists, sending seismic shock waves down their spinal cords.

https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/09/23/irk-the-seeing-house/

Irk – The Seeing House

Wounds of Recollection - I Found the Love I Was Looking For

Heavy Blog is Heavy @heavyblog.bsky.social · 16d

Wounds of Recollection's newest release is the ideal post-black metal soundtrack for autumnal reflections, whether regretful or triumphant.

https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/09/22/wounds-of-recollection-i-found-the-love-i-was-looking-for/

Wounds of Recollection's newest release is the ideal post-black metal soundtrack for autumnal reflections, whether regretful or triumphant.

ALBUM PREMIERE: Viile - A Bottomless Curse, A Bottomless Sea

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Heavy Blog is Heavy @heavyblog.bsky.social · 16d

If you're nostalgic for that older wave of progressive deathcore influenced by the likes of early The Contortionist and Between the Buried and Me, this is just the album premiere for you.

https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/09/18/album-premiere-viile-a-bottomless-curse-a-bottomless-sea-2/

If you're nostalgic for that older wave of progressive deathcore influenced by the likes of early The Contortionist and Between the Buried and Me, this is just the album premiere for you.

Kvlt Kolvmn // September 2025

Heavy Blog is Heavy @heavyblog.bsky.social · 20d

Ah. FINALLY. The summer fades. Leaves wither and die. The morning dew turns to a light dusting of frost. The cold beckons.

It’s black metal season.

https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/09/16/kvlt-kolvmn-september-2025/

Ah. FINALLY. The summer fades. Leaves wither and die. The morning dew turns to a light dusting of frost. The wind becomes chill, its previously warm embrace now a cool warning of things to come. The cold beckons. It’s black metal season. Been a minute since our last entry

EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Asira Return To Cauterize

Heavy Blog is Heavy @heavyblog.bsky.social · 20d

Asira are back with a foray into the darker, more aggressive side of post-black metal.

https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/09/17/exclusive-premiere-asira-return-to-cauterize/

Asira are back with a foray into the darker, more aggressive side of post-black metal.

While this might seem like mainman Gautier Serre is moving in a familiar direction to longtime Igorrr fans, Amen sees him wholeheartedly pushing his work to its absolute maximum in an incredibly ambitious way.

Heavy Blog is Heavy @heavyblog.bsky.social · 22d

While this might seem like main man Gautier Serre is moving in a familiar direction to longtime Igorrr fans, Amen sees him wholeheartedly pushing his work to its absolute maximum in an incredibly ambitious way.

https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/09/16/igorrr-amen/

Igorrr - Amen

Brotthogg - Ved Veis Ende

Heavy Blog is Heavy @heavyblog.bsky.social · 23d

Brotthogg offer exactly the right amount of surprise in their compositions to elicit exclamations of delight, while remaining firmly rooted in a familiar soundscape of black metal’s frosty forests.

https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/09/15/brotthogg-ved-veis-ende/

Brotthogg offer exactly the right amount of surprise in their compositions to elicit exclamations of delight, while remaining firmly rooted in a familiar soundscape of black metal’s frosty forests.

Release Day Roundup: 9/12/25

Heavy Blog is Heavy @heavyblog.bsky.social · 26d

Rounding up new releases from Maruja, Lorna Shore, Nicolas Cage Fighter, Crippling Alcoholism, Ho99o9, NecroticGoreBeast, Der Weg Einer Freiheit, Gnaw Their Tongues, Intercourse, Silverstein, Heruvim, Unaligned and more.

https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/09/12/release-day-roundup-9-12-25/

Rounding Up new releases from Maruja, Between the Buried and Me, Lorna Shore, Nicolas Cage Fighter, Crippling Alcoholism, Ho99o9, NecroticGoreBeast, Der Weg Einer Freiheit, Gnaw Their Tongues, Intercourse, Silverstein, Heruvim, Unaligned and more.

Between the Buried and Me – The Blue Nowhere

Heavy Blog is Heavy @heavyblog.bsky.social · 29d

"The last decade has left Between the Buried and Me and The Blue Nowhere with a lot to prove. Unfortunately, the album only goes to show that the band's current incarnation no longer lives up to their legacy."

https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/09/09/between-the-buried-and-me-the-blue-nowhere/

The last decade has left Between the Buried and Me and The Blue Nowhere with a lot to prove. Unfortunately, the album only goes to show that the band's current incarnation no longer lives up to their lofty legacy.

Song Premiere: Mather proves Modder is madder than ever

Heavy Blog is Heavy @heavyblog.bsky.social · Sep 8

Sludge takes a hallucinatory trip through industrial harshness in the new single from Modder.

https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/09/08/song-premiere-mather-proves-modder-is-madder-than-ever/

Sludge takes a hallucinatory trip through industrial harshness in the new single from Modder.

Falling Leaves - The Silence That Binds Us

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Heavy Blog is Heavy @heavyblog.bsky.social · Sep 4

The atmosphere Falling Leaves conjure is an unexpectedly frigid one, drawing comparisons to other bands inspired by unforgiving winters and offering about as much light or hope as an arctic tundra.

https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/09/04/falling-leaves-the-silence-that-binds-us/

The atmosphere Falling Leaves conjure is an unexpectedly frigid one, drawing comparisons to other bands inspired by unforgiving winters and offering about as much light or hope as an arctic tundra.

EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Stream Alicia Cordisco's The Burden of I

Heavy Blog is Heavy @heavyblog.bsky.social · Sep 4

Alicia Cordisco (ex-Judicator, Transgressive) teams up with blog favorite Vanessa Funke to craft a moving, somber, and hopeful work of excellent melodic black metal!

https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/09/04/exclusive-premiere-stream-alicia-cordiscos-the-burden-of-i/

Alicia Cordisco is probably one of the most veteran, and prolific, musicians you should know more about and I am here to help with that.

Aural Kombat: the Unexpected success and Enduring Impact of Mortal Kombat's Soundtrack

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Heavy Blog is Heavy @heavyblog.bsky.social · Sep 1

With the thirtieth anniversary of the release of the original Mortal Kombat movie, contributor Dylan Taylor-Lehman reflects on the enduring power of its master-class soundtrack.

https://loom.ly/JIZQLds

With the thirtieth anniversary of the release of the original Mortal Kombat movie, contributor Dylan Taylor-Lehman reflects on the enduring power of its master-class soundtrack.

If what I'm in the mood is the same vibe of heavy metal but through a mirror darkly then VOID is exactly what I'll go for.

Heavy Blog is Heavy @heavyblog.bsky.social · Aug 29

"If what I'm in the mood is the same, good ol' vibe of heavy metal but through a mirror darkly then VOID is exactly what I'll go for."

Read our full review of VOID's Forbidden Morals!

https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/08/29/void-forbidden-morals/

VOID - Forbidden Morals

Rapidfire Reviews - Screamo/Hardcore Edition: Hundreds of Au & Death Goals

Heavy Blog is Heavy @heavyblog.bsky.social · Aug 29

Two rapidfire reviews on the docket today: Hundreds of Au's powerful blend of melodic hardcore and screamo, and Death Goals brandishing a fierce message wrapped in chaos and passion.

https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/08/29/rapidfire-reviews-screamo-hardcore-edition-hundreds-of-au-death-goals/

Two rapidfire reviews on the docket today, starting with Hundreds of Au's powerful blend of melodic hardcore and screamo, and the UK's Death Goals brandishing a fierce message wrapped in chaos and passion.

Release Day Roundup: 8/29/25

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Heavy Blog is Heavy @heavyblog.bsky.social · Aug 29

Rounding up lots of great new releases from Hexrot, Trudger, In Mourning, The Hives, Birth and Loss, Manegarm, No Apologies, Slow Crush, Pyrexia, Suotana, Lowheaven, Void, Death Goals and also the new Helloween album!

https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/08/29/release-day-roundup-8-29-25/

Rounding up lots of great new releases from Hexrot, Trudger, In Mourning, The Hives, Birth and Loss, Manegarm, No Apologies, Slow Crush, Uboa/Whitehorse, Spire of Lazarus, Pyrexia, Suotana, Lowheaven, Zatokrev, Void, Death Goals and also the new Helloween album!