HEAVY BLOG IS HEAVY Brings You A New Song By ODDLAND – “Flooding Light”

After spending many months working on their highly anticipated debut full-length, progressive atmospheric metallers ODDLAND will finally be unleashing their new album, The Treachery Of Senses, upon Europe on April 30th and North America on May 8th (as a digital release only). In anticipation of this release, the band is now premiering a second single, “Flooding Light“. To listen to the track, head over to Heavy Blog Is Heavy.

This is some great groovy progressive stuff maaaaaannnn……

The Treachery Of Senses track-listing:
1. Above And Beyond
2. Flooding Light
3. In The Eyes Of The Mourning
4. Aisle Of Array
5. Past The Gates
6. Still The Spirit Stays
7. In Endless Endeavour
8. Sewers
9. Lines Of Silver Blood
10. Ire

A Very Cool Video Featuring HANNES GROSSMANN, Drummer For Obscura & Blotted Science

Album Review! IF THESE TREES COULD TALK – Red Forest

First off, I have to say that this album is great. I really enjoy this album listen after listen. It’s truly compelling and constructed really well. There is a blend of influences coming together to make the particular sound come out of If These Trees Could Talk, and it’s very recognizable. From start to finish, there is a lovely blend of post-metal, post-rock, ambient acoustic/clean channel guitars and smooth bass grooves that work together to form these amazing works of art. The styles are very familiar to other bands if you’ve been listening to this kind of music for sometime. ITTCT have a rhythmic sense about them and their powerful grooves and riffs are similar to something Junius and Russian Circles have done. Their sense of  melody and tremolo work is similar to Alcest and Falloch, those long winded chords that they do along the fretboard; there is no denying that their influence is similar to these other bands. I hate comparing bands to one another in my reviews but I couldn’t help but think of how much certain parts of Red Forest sounds like previously released material from other artists. ITTCT have created a remarkable album, don’t get me wrong…it’s just that I felt like I’ve already heard this before.

The Human Abstract – Complex Terms (Music Video)

Album Review! Exotic Animal Petting Zoo – Tree of Tongues

The name itself, Exotic Animal Petting Zoo, is enough to spark interest in many things. Especially if it’s a rock band, with a name like that you HAVE to see what they are about. I think it’s an incredible strategy because it immediately makes you want to read about the band, listen to the band and see what they have to offer. Well, once the music starts, Exotic Animal Petting Zoo come in and give us exactly what we should expect for the rest of their new album, “Tree of Tongues“. It’s a forceful impact of energy and just a huge wall of sound that isn’t like what I usually listen to. I’m usually the death, black, grind and doom kind of guy. With a few exceptions of course so when I saw that EAPZ was compared to bands like Deftones and Dillinger Escape Plan I was like “Yeah, fucking right. That’s some ballsy shit saying your sound is similar to their sound.” Well, they are pretty fucking close and so much more. Exotic Animal Petting Zoo’s “Tree of Tongues” is new, fun, fresh and really really really good. It’s an entirely new genre of music, due to the fact they have no barriers. The sound on Tree of Tongues is a unique sound and I am literally blown away after each and every listen.

Holy Shit Monkey Balls: MASTODON, OPETH & GHOST To Tour Together?! SWEET!

Yes, I jacked the photo from Metal Injection. It’s a cool fucking photo. No tour dates or details as of yet but get excited because this is one amazing lineup! Now if they can just fit Last Chance To Reason on the bill….

Fretboard Friday on a Saturday morning! BLOTTED SCIENCE & SCALE THE SUMMIT

Here is the great track “Cretaceous Chasm” played by Ron Jarzombek from Blotted Science entirely with some awesome information on how systematically this track is played.

Next up are the gentlemen from Scale The Summit playing their track “The Levitated“.