♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Death Cab for Cutie (24) Rolo Tomassi (23) Choir Boy (17) Cassus (13) Growth (13). #myweekcounted 323 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lastfm.blue
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♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: WU LYF (33) Inferi (17) Cassus (13) Growth (13) Racing Mount Pleasant (11). #myweekcounted 308 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lastfm.blue
♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Cassus (24) Racing Mount Pleasant (14) Hikes (13) Ronker (12) Lantlôs (11). #myweekcounted 488 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lastfm.blue
♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Hikes (40) Chamber (36) Chalk Hands (33) Rolo Tomassi (19) Barn (14). #myweekcounted 623 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lastfm.blue
♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Poison the Well (20) Neurosis (16) Dark Tranquillity (15) The Wind in the Trees (14) Frail Body (11). #myweekcounted 360 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lastfm.blue
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. https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2026/03/25/carpenter-brut-leather-temple/
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
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♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Hemiptera (15) deadtrees (13) LICE (13) Catbeats (12) Ronker (12). #myweekcounted 383 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lastfm.blue
♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Dispirited Spirits (43) Eyelet (17) Joey Valence & Brae (16) Trophy Scars (16) I Am Alaska (15). #myweekcounted 434 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lastfm.blue
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/
Release Roundup: 1/30/26
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.
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In which I talk more about my favourite violent release of the year (Crossed - Realismo Ausente). But also lists! and Highlights! And sub-genres!
Heavy Blog is Heavy@heavyblog.bsky.social · 7mo agoA belated but detailed recap of our favorite 2025 releases, including top 10s sorted into grindcore, metalcore/mathcore, post-hardcore/screamo, noise rock/sludge, and deathcore. https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2026/01/21/rotten-to-the-core-2025-in-review/
Japanese math rock stays hitting groovin' bass, fun electronic bits paranoid void - Action (2026) ssm.lnk.to/action
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/
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.
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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
Heavy Blog is Heavy@heavyblog.bsky.social · 11mo agoRounding 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/
blackened hardcore continues to be an undefeated combination. Cool new shit here from Argentina #metalsky noctefall.bandcamp.com/album/nightc...
Nightcrawler, by Noctefall
5 track album
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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/
ALBUM PREMIERE: Trudger – Void Quest
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 I'm opening it, and it's even better when the band can back it up.
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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/
Release Day Roundup: 8/22/25
Rounding up new releases from Visitant, Deftones, Malevich, Arcaedea, Dinosaur Pile-Up, Farseer, Hundreds of Au, Donella Drive, Unholy Alter, Fate's Messenger, The World is A Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid to Die and bunch of other bands I no longer have the character-count for.
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wrote about some of my favourite post-things this year
Heavy Blog is Heavy@heavyblog.bsky.social · last yr.It's time for Post Rock Post! there have been a lot of great releases in the "post" spaces this year, with albinobeach, Kjjjjjjjjj, We Lost the Sea, Athletics, BRUIT ≤, Myriad Drone, and more! https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2025/07/30/post-rock-post-the-best-of-2025-so-far/
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/
Ba'al - The Fine Line Between Heaven and Here
British upstarts Ba’al manage to rise above the throngs of mediocrity on their sophomore album The Fine Line Between Heaven and Here, remaining firmly rooted in post-black, but diverging into doom-metal, post-metal and even some death-adjacent riffing.
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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...
At the Pyres of Sin, by For The Pyres
10 track album
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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/
Release Day Roundup: 6/13/25
Rounding up new releases from Outergods, Byzantine, Fallujah, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Agabas, Dolven, fromjoy, Dark Matter Secret, Disgustingest, Byonoisegenerator, Iron Mind, Standover, Avkrvst, Tupperwave, new takes on old classics from Sigh, letlive. and more!
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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...
Rotten to the Core // June 2025
New releases stretching the boundaries of noise rock, metalcore, mathcore, screamo, grind, deathcore, and a few bands showing why “blackened” is one of my favourite -core prefixes. Featuring The Call...
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Certainly going to be a contender for my Album of the Year
Bandcamp@bandcamp.com · last yr.The phenomenal new record from Planning for Burial is our Album of the Day.