Current obsession: Dispirited Spirits - Winds Wept (2025) Midwest Emo, Art Rock Post-Hardcore, Math Rock, Post-Rock Impressive poetically introspective Portuguese solo project. Good balance and dynamic shifts between spacey atmospherics, twinkly math and progressive song-writing.

Rounding up new releases from Møl, Urne, Hanabie., Nightmarer, Stabbing, Blackwater Holylight, Eximperitus, Fili Bibiano’s Fortress, Krateros, Invictus, The Buzzcocks, Gorrch, Anal Trump and more. https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2026/01/30/release-roundup-1-30-26/

In which I talk more about my favourite violent release of the year (Crossed - Realismo Ausente). But also lists! and Highlights! And sub-genres!

new favourite detroit red wings themed band

Japanese math rock stays hitting groovin' bass, fun electronic bits paranoid void - Action (2026) ssm.lnk.to/action

Exxon Valdez Nuts

It’s time we had more movies about submarines and I’m sick and fucking tired of having to say this obvious truth!

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/

Enjoying this new Hexrot quite a bit. Also shoutout Death Goals - have a little review for that coming out later today (along with a write-up of last week's awesome Hundred's of Au album). And don't sleep on Trudger if you need a bit of a Dvne fix. #metalsky

blackened hardcore continues to be an undefeated combination. Cool new shit here from Argentina #metalsky noctefall.bandcamp.com/album/nightc...

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/

wrote about some of my favourite post-things this year

Ba’al manage to rise above the throngs of mediocrity on their sophomore album, remaining firmly rooted in post-black, but diverging into doom-metal, post-metal and even some death-adjacent riffing. https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/07/15/baal-the-fine-line-between-heaven-and-here/

Suppose I will live up to my stupid bsky handle and post my new balatro highscore. Solid trib run with all red sealed polychrome glass.

I am listening to [good modern, melodic swedish hm-2] death metal. #metalsky gruesomerecords.bandcamp.com/album/at-the...

Rounds up and releases, oh my! Outergods, Byzantine, Fallujah, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Agabas, Dolven, fromjoy, Tupperwave, new takes on old classics from Sigh, letlive. and more! https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/06/13/release-d/

Using "poggers" specifically to refer to things that remind you of @portrayalofguilt.bsky.social

Covered a stacked month of May in the worlds of metalcore, mathcore, screamo, post-hardcore, noise rock, deathcore, grind etc, including The Callous Daoboys, Halfmass, @fallfiftyfeet.bsky.social, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, TELOS, Othiel, and more:) www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/06/06/r...

Certainly going to be a contender for my Album of the Year

Hey, HBIH is now on bsky!

Banger track to go out on. One of the best modern metalcore bands, will be missed. ithacauk.bandcamp.com/track/ithaca

this band deserves a lot more attention, great mathy post-hardcore/prog rock stuff. FFO Good Tiger, Closure in Moscow, Sea in the Sky. Apparently they're doing a release 1-track per month thing from this album and there's 7 tracks out now on streaming (no bc yet). www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdeG...

Collection of (mostly) new releases I've been listening to lately. Shoutout @eyeshxc.bsky.social @kardashevband.bsky.social #metalsky #screamo #postrock

"9th Heaven" -> "Dissociation" -> "History of Violence" is the best 3 track run on a hip-hop album I've heard in a long time. Thank you @backxwash.bsky.social backxwash.bandcamp.com/track/histor...

wonder how the creator of Severance feels about Tuvix

Planning for Burial – It’s Closeness, It’s Easy out May 30, 2025. Listen to the first single "A Flowing Field of Green" now: 🎧 youtu.be/UUPqYBPRu-A @planningforburial.bsky.social

Daveed Digg's experimental rap group @clppng.bsky.social dropping a new album was actually the second coolest thing to happen to him today, the first of course being the character he voices in Star Trek: Prodigy earning the acclaimed Barnus Frank award on the latest @greatesttrek.bsky.social podcast

The Saddest Amia Venera Landscape

some saturday dizzy-death avantgardemusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-su...

ffo angry music metallic/beatdown hardcore from the UK. vicious vocals boundxbyxmodernxage.bandcamp.com/album/endles...

Don't go sleeping on this now. This will be one of 2025's best albums, in progressive death metal or out of it. www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/02/18/e...

exceptionally good death metal. total love letter to millennium death metal, but really heavily leans into formulas/gateways-era morbid angel. highest recommendation. continuumofxul.bandcamp.com/album/voratore

Hello bluesky, here's some of my favourite new releases from January in no particular order. I will try to make this a monthly thing on top of usual Heavy Blog content. I'll break this into multiple replies with the list/descriptions. #metalsky #blackgaze #mathcore #screamo #deathmetal #bandcamp

None of the Jurassic Park sequels have brought back Mr DNA in any capacity afaik and I think that’s the real problem.

I blame this guy old.reddit.com/r/tifu/comme...

feel like shit, just want Cstvt/Castevet to come back. One of my favourite midwest emo/post-rock albums of all time cstvt.bandcamp.com/album/summer...

You MUST listen to this new track I shared. There's some really good stuff happening in the Athens prog-stoner scene and this is probably one of the best tracks I've heard from there. DELICIOUS. #metalsky www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/01/30/e...

Missed that these guys have put out 2 singles ahead of an upcoming LP that has rocketed to the top of my most-anticipated 2025 albums. Haunting atmospheric blackened sludge with a mix of snarly hardcore vocals. ffo Portrayal of Guilt, Altar of Plagues #metalsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoXB...

POST ROCK POST. In which Eden and I wrap up what stood out to us in the genre~ (some post-metal and math rock included) from 2024. www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/01/28/p...

2024 marked my first full-year as editor of Heavy Blog's -core column, and damn was it a good one. To wrap up the year we broke down our top 10s for post-hardcore/screamo, metalcore/mathcore, grindcore, noise rock/sludge, and deathcore. Enjoy: www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/01/24/r...

this is #1 on RYM for a good reason. Sounds like a dissonant death metal band making punk, or vice versa.

A great Heavy Blog single premiere for an intriguing March release here from a new project with members of Persefone and Wormed, progressive death metal meets post-metal. www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/01/22/e...

Gonna make a NOSferatu car decal in Gran Turismo.

Good start to the year for #mathcore too. Think Ion Dissonance + Meshuggah. #metalsky vertexmetal.bandcamp.com/album/the-pu...

For a genre that's getting increasingly hard to standout in, it's been a very good start to the year for blackgaze between the new Pale, Tanpopo Crisis and this new Blood Howl album. Good mix of blackened hardcore/crust/screamo going on in this too. bloodhowlmetal.bandcamp.com/album/join-t...

One of my most anticipated albums right now. It's like True Detective-intro-core (gothic country/americana meets post-rock?) www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLDf...

I can't be bothered to start a Bluesky account for Heavy Blog is Heavy but we used to do this thing on Twitter where we gave $100 to trans, non-binary, and queer artists. I'm going to do it from this profile. So, if you're a trans, queer, or non-binary artist, post your link. I will buy your album