Abrams - Loon Instead of doing what so many bands do by maturing and aiming for a lighter sound, Abrams double down on the more violent parts of the band. This results in a heavy hitting and massively fun album, more sludge than pop and all the better for it.

On their new release, Abrams double down on the more violent parts of the band. This results in a heavy hitting and massively fun album, more sludge than pop and all the better for it.

www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2026/04/21/abrams-loon/

Editors' Picks // April 2026 What the heck is going on with this month's list? I really couldn't tell you.

What the heck is going on with this month's list? I really couldn't tell you but we have Neurosis, Party Cannon, The Silver, Growth, and so much more besides.

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Failure - Location Lost On their fourth reunion album, cult alt-rock legends Failure find the sound they have been searching for since first reuniting thirteen years ago.

On their fourth reunion album, cult alt-rock legends Failure find the sound they have been searching for since first reuniting thirteen years ago.

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Rounding up new releases from Only Sons, Nine Inch Noize, Abrams, Crimson Glory, Victorius, Crippled Black Phoenix, .gif from God, Ignobleth, Ordh, Reeking Aura, Lividus, Sleep Throne and more.

www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2026/04/17/release-round...

Track Premiere: Musth Unleash Their Disposable Feelings Norwegian alt-metal/noise rock/musical dramatists Musth reveal the first glimpse of their upcoming EP with lurching grooves and a maniacal whirlwind of emotions.

Norwegian alt-metal/noise rock/musical dramatists Musth reveal the first glimpse of their upcoming EP with lurching grooves and a maniacal whirlwind of emotions.

www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2026/04/15/track-premier...

Much love to Sugar Horse for making such excellent music!

Gears of Eden #1 - Foundations This is not a productivity column but rather a place for me to tell you how to get away with more, how to enjoy more music and do more things you love, by showing you how I do it myself. First up - music players and auto-playlists!

Gotta thank @tallesteden.bsky.social of @heavyblog.bsky.social for improving my daily life. I've been using MusicBee the last week & it's a great listening experience. Prior to MB I used WinAmp which is good but MB packs more customization. Eden only scratches the surface here. Windows only tho.

Release Roundup: 4/10/26 Rounding up new releases from Immolation, Dir en Grey, Spirit Adrift, Archspire, The Melvins / Napalm Death, Sugar Horse, Squarepusher, Melechesh, Inferi, Bodysnatcher, Vomitory, Metal Church, Octo, Poly-Math, Throwing Bricks / Ontaard, Witch Ripper, Enter Shikari, Bilmuri and more.

Rounding up new releases from Immolation, Dir en Grey, Spirit Adrift, Archspire, Sugar Horse, Squarepusher, Melechesh, Inferi, Bodysnatcher, Vomitory, Metal Church, Octo, Poly-Math, Witch Ripper, Enter Shikari, Bilmuri and more.

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Sugar Horse - Not A Sound In Heaven Like basically every new Sugar Horse release of the last few years, Not A Sound In Heaven has become my favorite work by them.

There's incredible cohesiveness to the album, hardwired to that thumping, industrial, heavy riff that seems to shudder throughout it. Like basically every new Sugar Horse release of the last few years, Not A Sound In Heaven has become my favorite work by them.

https://loom.ly/8kOpxDg

Archspire – Too Fast to Die Gotta go fast?

Newcomers to the band will no doubt continue to be blown away by the speed and technicality of this album's compositions. Those already familiar will have a hard time shaking the feeling that they haven't already heard it all before.

https://loom.ly/s30S8-g

Release Roundup: 4/3/26 Rounding up new releases from Nervosa, Corrosion of Conformity, Sunn O))), Lantlos, SolNegre, Void of Light, Green Carnation, Apolaustic, Ultha and more.

Rounding up new releases from Nervosa, Corrosion of Conformity, Sunn O))), Lantlos, SolNegre, Void of Light, Green Carnation, Apolaustic, Ultha and more.

www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2026/04/03/release-round...

Antropoceno - No Ritmo da Terra In an age where all art is political has become a throw-away phrase, Anthropoceno shows us one way in which it truly is so, a vehicle through which to not only imagine a different future but to manifest it in the present.

In an age where "all art is political" has become a throw-away phrase, Anthropoceno shows us one way in which it truly is so, a vehicle through which to not only imagine a different future but to manifest it in the present.

www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2026/04/03/antropoceno-n...

Exclusive Premiere: Question everything, see nothing with Void of Light Void of Light channels riff-ridden intensity into post-metal epics on their first full-length, out Friday, April 3rd. Stream the full album now.

Void of Light channels riff-ridden intensity into post-metal epics on their first full-length, out Friday, April 3rd. Stream the full album now.

www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2026/04/01/exclusive-pre...

Kvlt Kolvmn//January/February 2026 Hello, frosty folks. It’s been a good while. But our long hibernation ends. It’s time to permeate the earth once more with the icy tones of black metal. Kvlt Kolvmn returns with a vengeance. In similar fashion to our other genre columns, we decided to let this year

Hello frosty folks. It’s been a good while. But our long hibernation ends. It’s time to permeate the earth once more with the icy tones of black metal. Kvlt Kolvmn returns with a vengeance with Worm, Petrale and Domhain!

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Bekor Qilish - Consecrated Abysses of Dread Girdle your loins my friends and keep your courage at hand as you dive into the maelstrom that is Consecrated Abysses of Dread. Like me, you won't regret it.

At the core of this release, there is Bekor Qilish, the unrelenting, unparalleled conjurer of chaotic and yet oddly enticing technical thrash metal.

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Release Roundup: 3/27/26 Rounding up new albums from Don Broco, Black Label Society, Robyn, Myrath, Hellripper, Bekor Qilish, Kal-El, Slayyyter, Threat Signal, Zerre, Power Paladin, Party Cannon, Chez Kane and lots of other sexy new releases.

Rounding up new albums from Don Broco, Black Label Society, Robyn, Myrath, Hellripper, Bekor Qilish, Kal-El, Slayyyter, Threat Signal, Zerre, Power Paladin, Party Cannon, Chez Kane and lots of other sexy new releases.

www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2026/03/27/release-round...

Through Zero, by Elder 6 track album

*weeping with joy, tears streaming down my face, heart beating a million times per minute* new Elder single is good

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EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Defect Designer Are Here To Feed You Your Daily Dose of Gloom when I got the chance to premiere a new track from their upcoming release, I knew I was essentially reaching into a bag full of all sorts of surprises. Luckily for me, I got grindcore.

When I got the chance to premiere a new track from their upcoming release, I knew I was essentially reaching into a bag full of all sorts of surprises. Luckily for me, I got grindcore. Check out Defect Designer's new single right here!

https://loom.ly/90Cp42Q

Carpenter Brut - Leather Temple Editor's note: this review was written by Anthony DiGiacomo, long time friend and contributor to Heavy Blog! Carpenter Brut, to me and maybe to many others, is one of the pioneers of the synthwave genre. His album Trilogy still stands above most releases in the genre in the decade plus

This album proves one thing that I had thought for many years: Carpenter Brut is one of the stand out artists of synthwave as a whole.

www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2026/03/25/carpenter-bru...

Editors' Picks // March 2026 Insert excuse here for why this post is late this month. Let's jot it down to too much fucking music, if that's alright with you.

Insert excuse here for why this post is late this month. Let's jot it down to too much fucking music, if that's alright with you and get on with talking about Worm, Converge, Cryptic Shift, Deadtrees and more!

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Looking Glass Hymnal Blue, by The Silver 8 track album

It's hard to overstate how good this album is. I'll be trying to do that in a post soon but for now...listen to this album.

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Death's Door//January/February 2026 Friends. Haters of nobles. Fine folk one and all. Death’s Door is back. Oh yeah, baby. We appreciate your patience for this latest installment, our first of 2026. As is often the case, newer quality releases tend to be a bit scarcer in the opening months of the year.

Friends. Haters of nobles. Fine folk one and all. Death’s Door is back. With Stabbing, Brainblast, Mors Verum and Syrictus!

www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2026/03/18/deaths-door-j...

The Dear Hunter - Sunya It doesn't feel as natural or as seamlessly put together as Antimai. Its highs are not as high and its grooves are not as groovy. And yet, it is a good album, perhaps even very good. And, most importantly perhaps, it is not an echo.

It doesn't feel as natural or as seamlessly put together as Antimai. Its highs are not as high and its grooves are not as groovy. And yet, it is a good album, perhaps even very good. And, most importantly perhaps, it is not an echo.

www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2026/03/20/the-dear-hunt...

Rounding up new releases from Poison the Well, Exodus, The Dear Hunter, Gaerea, Tangled Thoughts of Leaving, wthAura, Mclusky, The SIlver, Hanging Garden, Warsenal, Gutvoid, Mizery, Lord of Confusion, Necrogore, Bong-Ra and more.

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Operating in the vein of energetic, momentum driven post-rock that I love so much, Dutch Elm makes music that lends firmly in that good sleepamakeswaves / And So I Watch You From Afar territory.

https://loom.ly/5tA0p74

Exodus – Goliath Rob Dukes' return falls flat on the weakest Exodus album since he first joined the band over two decades ago.

Rob Dukes' return falls flat on the weakest Exodus album since he first joined the band over two decades ago.

www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2026/03/19/exodus-goliat...

Poison the Well - Peace in Place Is it that time simply makes the heart grow fonder? Or is Peace in Place one of those rare comeback records that actually stands on its own merit?

Is it that time simply makes the heart grow fonder? Or is Peace in Place one of those rare comeback records that actually stands on its own merit?

www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2026/03/19/poison-the-we...

EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Watch Nequient's Stop-Motion Horror On Christofascist Zombie Brigade What if I told that we're premiering a sick video in the tradition of early 2000 stop motion vidoes today? Set to some absolutely killer grind? And the track is anti-fascist to boot? Too good to be true, you might say. Well it just so happens to be true!

What if I told that we're premiering a sick video in the tradition of 2000s stop motion videos today? Set to some absolutely killer grind? And the track is anti-fascist to boot? Too good to be true, you might say. Well it just so happens to be true!

https://loom.ly/uAyCQQM

Instead of a premiere we have something broader for you today - a deep dive into what makes Growth tick. When I say "broader", I mean much broader.

www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2026/03/16/the-anatomy-o...

Miami Lice: Season Four, by Lice (Aesop Rock & Homeboy Sandman) 8 track album

Homeboy Sandman is always annoying (it's kind of his thing) but the question on every release is is he annoying in an annoying way or annoying in a charismatic way. Anyway, on this release it's the latter. Aesop Rock is always great, full stop.

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