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/

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/

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/

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/

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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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

"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/

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/

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/

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/

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

"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/

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/

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/

The newest single from Sundrowned melds dreamy melodies and harsh fury in perfect balance. https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/08/27/exclusive-premiere-sundrowned-blossoms-with-ilex/

Behold a somewhat thematically incongruous rapid-fire, from folk metal stalwarts, to melodic death metal darlings and a heavy helping of Swiss post-metal mystery. https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/08/26/rapidfire-reviews-manegarm-suotana-zatokrev/

Two of Australia's most formidable forces, Uboa and Whitehorse converge to create a raw, visceral purging of dread. https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/08/26/album-premiere-uboa-whitehorse-the-dissolution-of-eternity/

I can't believe that I get to write these words: The Isosceles Project are back. Click on through for some excellently tasty and groovy instrumental progressive metal! https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/08/28/exclusive-premiere-the-isosceles-project-are-back-with-division-helment/

"Those grind freaks among us who are still feeling teased after Gridlink’s brief reunion will find much to appreciate here on one of the best grindcore releases of the year so far." Read our review of Birth and Loss' "Untitled"! https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/08/25/birth-and-loss-untitled/

When we receive an email that says "FFO: Mastodon, Converge, Tomb Mold, Portrayal Of Guilt, Trap Them [and] Gorguts" while describing themselves as "neo-crust sci-fi death sludge", you know we're opening it https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/08/25/album-premiere-trudger-void-quest/

New releases from Visitant, Deftones, Malevich, Arcaedea, Farseer, Hundreds of Au, Fate's Messenger, The World is A Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid to Die and a bunch of others we no longer have the characters for. https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/08/22/release-day-roundup-8-22-25/

The Exodus of Gravity is very good at being ambidextrous and, most of the time, walks the tight rope between groove, progressiveness, and impact exceptionally well. https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/08/21/arcadea-the-exodus-of-gravity/

Farseer approaches, slithering and undulating out of their chasm, ambushing the mind of their unsuspecting listener with a dizzying array or progressive, psychedelic and somewhat blackened doom metal. https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/08/20/farseer-portal-to-cosmic-womb/

It's time for some more new music with Morke's "castle metal", black metal turned fantastic! https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/08/20/take-in-coup-doeil-with-morke/

We absolutely adore Malevich's new release, Under a Gilded Sun, which we're proud to be premiering here today. Read on through for excellent post-black with lots of different elements from screamo and doom. https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/08/20/bask-with-malevich-under-a-gilded-sun/

Private Music is the Koi No Yokan to the Diamond Eyes of Ohms. Yet, while it might not be as immediate as its predecessor, given a bit of time and adjustment, it once again proves why Deftones remain utterly unmatched. https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/08/19/deftones-private-music/

The Armed are back doing what they've always done best, bringing over the pop sensibilities from Perfect Saviours and scraping off the confrontational filth from These Are Lights. https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/08/18/the-armed-the-future-is-here-and-everything-needs-to-be-destroyed/

"Finally, we get to hear this assault in all of its glory and bask in the power of one of the greatest acts in the history of grindcore." Read our full review of Gridlink's sort of re-release, Perfect Amber! https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/08/15/gridlink-perfect-amber/

Progressive metal you can spin-kick to with Solshade's new single! https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/08/15/exclusive-premiere-11/

Falling Leaves envelope the listener in a warm blanket of comfortable sulk and suffocation, on “We Are Alone”—the lead single from their forthcoming album The Silence That Binds Us. https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/08/15/exclusive-premiere-bathe-in-woe-with-falling-leaves-on-we-are-alone/

Rounding up new releases from Broken by the Scream, Chevelle, Joey Valance and Brae, Panopticon, Justice for the Damned, Haunt, Surfaced, Unleashed King Yosef, Good Teal, Advancer, Phosphorus, Fell Omen and more! https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/08/15/release-day-roundup-8-15-25/

Post-metal and trip-hop blend into an introspective journey on the latest single from Orsak:Oslo. https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/08/13/exclusive-premiere-drift-away-with-orsak-oslo/

Pray For Sound have collaborated with Chris King, of This Will Destroy You fame, to conjure up an eerie and engrossing video for "Nightswimming". https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/08/12/exclusive-premiere-pray-for-sound-go-nightswimming-again/

Kentucky bands really understand what it means to write a breakdown, which is especially true for soon-to-be local legends Surfaced and their new six-track EP. https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/08/11/surfaced-where-angels-fear-to-tread/

Melpomene’s new album, A Body Is A Suggestion, just premiered on @heavyblog.bsky.social if you missed last night’s listening party ✨ www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/08/07/e...

Rounding up new releases from Asunojokei, Melpomene, Paralysis, Sinsaenum, Dreamwake, Firstborne, Anamanaguchi, and a cool metalcore compilation benefiting the Randolph County Animal Shelter. https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/08/08/release-d-2/

It takes a lot for us to listen to instrumental progressive or extreme metal these days and Melpomene has what it takes and more. https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/08/07/exclusive-premiere-10/

Black metal sickos rejoice, for Eden has a treat for you today: a new track by a project called Fell Omen, a sort of lo-fi, insanely groovy black metal effort from Spider of Pnyx. https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/08/06/exclusive-premiere-its-time-to-get-elden-with-fell-omen/

Boy do we have a black metal premiere for you tomorrow. It's a scorcher.

Check out our top picks of the year thus far, from mosh-worthy hardcore, the grimiest of sludge, the manic chaos of mathcore and noise rock, the catharsis of screamo, walls of grind, and everything in between. https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/08/05/rotten-to-the-core-the-best-of-2025-so-far/

A quick rapidfire review of two new 3-track EPs from an established yet underrated progressive metal/metalcore group, and a refreshing new face in the mathcore scene with Cryptodira and Luxury Problems! https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/08/04/mathcore-prog-rapidfire-cryptodira-luxury-problems/

We heard you like death metal, so we're rounding up releases from Plasmodulated, Centuries of Decay, To the Grave, Harvested, Victim of Fire, Sallow Moth and Vertebra, along with The Armed, Car Bomb, Creatvre, and more. https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/08/01/release-day-roundup-8-1-25/

Jon muses on his weird 2025 and the virtues of listening to less music, more deeply, as a result. https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/07/30/sometimes-less-is-more-the-best-music-of-2025-so-far/