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@tallesteden.bsky.social
Metal, science fiction, history.
Editor-in-Chief Heavy Blog is Heavy, co-host on AnarchySF and Death // Sentence. Contributor at Ancillary Review of Books.
Fëanor was right. Aurë entuluva!
Editor-in-Chief Heavy Blog is Heavy, co-host on AnarchySF and Death // Sentence. Contributor at Ancillary Review of Books.
Fëanor was right. Aurë entuluva!
I tend to buy albums with a few weeks delay because of how I listen to music but this album is a certified Banger. Got that good melodeath "whoosh" to it with plenty of meat on the bone. @wraithstormmetal.bsky.social more like....riffstorm. Gottem.
wraithstorm.bandcamp.com/album/revenant
wraithstorm.bandcamp.com/album/revenant
Revenant, by Wraithstorm
11 track album
wraithstorm.bandcamp.com
October 2, 2026 at 1:55 PM
I tend to buy albums with a few weeks delay because of how I listen to music but this album is a certified Banger. Got that good melodeath "whoosh" to it with plenty of meat on the bone. @wraithstormmetal.bsky.social more like....riffstorm. Gottem.
wraithstorm.bandcamp.com/album/revenant
wraithstorm.bandcamp.com/album/revenant
when the music releases
Rounding up new releases from To the Grave, Brymir, Amon Amarth, From First To Last, Imminence, Hippotraktor, Dissimulator, Frozen Crown, Haunt, Miss May I, Hekatoxen, Temic, Convulsif, Haywire, Pabllo Vittar and more.
https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2026/10/02/release-roundup-10-2-26/
https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2026/10/02/release-roundup-10-2-26/
Release Roundup: 10/2/26
Rounding up new releases from To the Grave, Brymir, Amon Amarth, From First To Last, Imminence, Hippotraktor, Dissimulator, Frozen Crown, Lustmord Lombardo, Haunt, Miss May I, Hekatoxen, Temic, Convulsif, Firtan, Sgàile, Endspace, Haywire, Pabllo Vittar and more.
www.heavyblogisheavy.com
October 2, 2026 at 1:54 PM
when the music releases
Bandcamp Friday moment
October 2, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Bandcamp Friday moment
Reminder that this one of the best progressive metal albums of the last 20 years or so
aviations.bandcamp.com/album/the-li...
aviations.bandcamp.com/album/the-li...
The Light Years, by Aviations
9 track album
aviations.bandcamp.com
October 2, 2026 at 3:44 AM
Reminder that this one of the best progressive metal albums of the last 20 years or so
aviations.bandcamp.com/album/the-li...
aviations.bandcamp.com/album/the-li...
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Randomly re-sharing one of the most crushing pieces of music that I know of. Not heavy, not metal, but will still unwind you like a kite's string and leave you drifting in a sea of melancholy. Just....impossibly beautiful. Warmth as a weapon.
deafcenter.bandcamp.com/album/recount
deafcenter.bandcamp.com/album/recount
Recount, by Deaf Center
2 track album
deafcenter.bandcamp.com
October 1, 2026 at 1:33 PM
Randomly re-sharing one of the most crushing pieces of music that I know of. Not heavy, not metal, but will still unwind you like a kite's string and leave you drifting in a sea of melancholy. Just....impossibly beautiful. Warmth as a weapon.
deafcenter.bandcamp.com/album/recount
deafcenter.bandcamp.com/album/recount
I try to be the bigger man but sometimes I just can't help allowing myself some schadenfreude.
Me: "user needs X!"
PM: "no way they need X"
go talk to the user together, the FIRST thing they say is "we really really need X, please give us X"
STOP DOUBTING ME, I KNOW WHAT I'M DOING UNLIKE YOU
Me: "user needs X!"
PM: "no way they need X"
go talk to the user together, the FIRST thing they say is "we really really need X, please give us X"
STOP DOUBTING ME, I KNOW WHAT I'M DOING UNLIKE YOU
September 30, 2026 at 5:29 PM
I try to be the bigger man but sometimes I just can't help allowing myself some schadenfreude.
Me: "user needs X!"
PM: "no way they need X"
go talk to the user together, the FIRST thing they say is "we really really need X, please give us X"
STOP DOUBTING ME, I KNOW WHAT I'M DOING UNLIKE YOU
Me: "user needs X!"
PM: "no way they need X"
go talk to the user together, the FIRST thing they say is "we really really need X, please give us X"
STOP DOUBTING ME, I KNOW WHAT I'M DOING UNLIKE YOU
Sometimes I wake up and I physically can't bring myself to open my inbox because I know there's so much stress and work waiting in there. This is healthy, right?
September 30, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Sometimes I wake up and I physically can't bring myself to open my inbox because I know there's so much stress and work waiting in there. This is healthy, right?
Reposted by undiminished somewhere 🌕
i had a blast but can you please not invite basho next time? his vivid depictions of the change of seasons make me painfully aware of my own transience
September 29, 2026 at 9:37 PM
i had a blast but can you please not invite basho next time? his vivid depictions of the change of seasons make me painfully aware of my own transience
Reading John M. Ford's The Last Hot Time and it's just Shadowrun but written well? Hell yeah
September 29, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Reading John M. Ford's The Last Hot Time and it's just Shadowrun but written well? Hell yeah
Following up from @allieinchains.bsky.social's list, here's my list of Midnight Lightning Steel Power Metal And Also A Bunch Of Prog Power
September 29, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Following up from @allieinchains.bsky.social's list, here's my list of Midnight Lightning Steel Power Metal And Also A Bunch Of Prog Power
Banger list. Pure midnight lightning steel.
My Top 30 Power Metal albums of any era, style, region or genre overlap. Just fucking power metal as a whole.
30 albums I'd die for
30 albums to test if you really "don't like power metal" or if you just heard some BS meme band that doesn't even sound like real power metal
Genre tags in alt text
30 albums I'd die for
30 albums to test if you really "don't like power metal" or if you just heard some BS meme band that doesn't even sound like real power metal
Genre tags in alt text
September 29, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Banger list. Pure midnight lightning steel.
Mortal Shell 2 is a deeply unserious game (complimentary)
September 29, 2026 at 3:11 AM
Mortal Shell 2 is a deeply unserious game (complimentary)
Me
September 28, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Me
I am absolutely insane and stupid to keep Heavy Blog alive but I will continue doing so until my fingers fall off
September 28, 2026 at 2:20 AM
I am absolutely insane and stupid to keep Heavy Blog alive but I will continue doing so until my fingers fall off
One of the most underrated bands I know. If you ever want to get a kind of exquisite, scintillating sort of sad, with just enough light in there to make it hurt that much more, these are the guys for you. Exceptional.
towersofjupiter.bandcamp.com/album/echus-...
towersofjupiter.bandcamp.com/album/echus-...
Echus Chasma, by Towers Of Jupiter - Echus Chasma
4 track album
towersofjupiter.bandcamp.com
September 28, 2026 at 1:21 AM
One of the most underrated bands I know. If you ever want to get a kind of exquisite, scintillating sort of sad, with just enough light in there to make it hurt that much more, these are the guys for you. Exceptional.
towersofjupiter.bandcamp.com/album/echus-...
towersofjupiter.bandcamp.com/album/echus-...
Happens to be one of my favorite essays I've written! And since I've written it, I've found more and more examples of works working against the underlying privileging of "center" over "periphery.
My favorite essays are the ones that continue to generate discussion long after they've been published. This piece, by @tallesteden.bsky.social, was published in May of last year and is currently #1 on the site.
www.typebarmagazine.com/weirding-the...
www.typebarmagazine.com/weirding-the...
Weirding the Periphery: How Imperialism Infiltrated Our Imagination Through Fantasy
So much of foundational fantasy is about the (often imperial) core versus outside territories.
www.typebarmagazine.com
September 27, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Happens to be one of my favorite essays I've written! And since I've written it, I've found more and more examples of works working against the underlying privileging of "center" over "periphery.
Not finishing novels you don't enjoy is the sign of a mature, discerning and healthy reader, actually. If you feel even a little bit of guilt over it - do not.
September 27, 2026 at 3:02 AM
Not finishing novels you don't enjoy is the sign of a mature, discerning and healthy reader, actually. If you feel even a little bit of guilt over it - do not.
God I am just LIVING for the M. John Harrison Renaissance, truly. I remember rambling about Light and Viriconium to anyone who would listen and just being incoherently enthused when I first read Nova Swing. And now everyone is singing his praises alongside me, it feels so good.
September 26, 2026 at 3:51 AM
God I am just LIVING for the M. John Harrison Renaissance, truly. I remember rambling about Light and Viriconium to anyone who would listen and just being incoherently enthused when I first read Nova Swing. And now everyone is singing his praises alongside me, it feels so good.
The faster you learn that philosophical ideas are tools to be combined rather than proof-complete closed systems, you can actually start using philosophy properly.
September 25, 2026 at 10:20 PM
The faster you learn that philosophical ideas are tools to be combined rather than proof-complete closed systems, you can actually start using philosophy properly.
Nor'easter? I hardly know 'er!
September 25, 2026 at 9:53 PM
Nor'easter? I hardly know 'er!
I've heard enough: new Boss Keloid is AOTY.
September 25, 2026 at 5:09 PM
I've heard enough: new Boss Keloid is AOTY.
20 years since we lost one of the best and most underrated writers of SFF and beyond. Still CRIMINALLY underread. Go read Growing Up Weightless, PLEASE
I've been quoting bits of John M. Ford, who died twenty years ago this morning.
blog.zarfhome.com/2026/09/twen...
“There's not the time to stand still in the corridor / waiting for life to make sense after all.”
blog.zarfhome.com/2026/09/twen...
“There's not the time to stand still in the corridor / waiting for life to make sense after all.”
Twenty years without a Christmas card
I wasn't blogging in 2006, but I was a regular commenter on the Nielsen Haydens' blog Making Light in the year and on the morning that I read "Mike Ford is gone." I found the comment which I posted tw...
blog.zarfhome.com
September 25, 2026 at 3:21 PM
20 years since we lost one of the best and most underrated writers of SFF and beyond. Still CRIMINALLY underread. Go read Growing Up Weightless, PLEASE
I was so skeptical and hesitant coming into this release but The Ocean still have the juice. The lineup change was the best thing they could have done and Lane Shi is such an amazing vocalist.
It all builds up to something much more exciting than just a retread. Rather, it's a rethink, an approach to the band's past that insists not just on regurgitation but a reprocessing.
https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2026/09/25/the-ocean-solaris/
https://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/2026/09/25/the-ocean-solaris/
The Ocean - Solaris
It all builds up to something much more exciting than just a retread. Rather, it's a rethink, an approach to the band's past that insists not just on regurgitation but a reprocessing that results in a new approach towards the same goal and sound.
www.heavyblogisheavy.com
September 25, 2026 at 2:22 PM
I was so skeptical and hesitant coming into this release but The Ocean still have the juice. The lineup change was the best thing they could have done and Lane Shi is such an amazing vocalist.