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Method

I'm going to listen to Bong's recordings in chronological order, as identified by the Encyclopaedia Metallum : Bethmoora (2008, remaster from 2014) Bong (2008) Novum Castellum (live box set) (2008-2009) Gilgamesh Lives (live) (2009) Split with Quittinirpaaq (2009) Samhain Festival (2010) Live at Roadburn (2010) Live at the Hare and Hounds Birmingham (live) (2011) Live at the Rammel Weekender Nottingham (live) (Nov 2012)   Live at Roadburn (2012) Split with Pyramidion (Mar 2013) Idle Days on the Yann (2013) Northumberland Arms (live) (Jun 2013) Another Dose (Jul 2013) Mongolith (live) (2013) Beyond Ancient Space (2014) Live at Roadburn (live) (2014) The Roadhouse Manchester (Jun 2014) Live at the Cluny (Aug 2015) St Petersburg (Aug 2019) Live in Porto (Oct 2019) This is not all of what Bong recorded and put out, but it is fairly comprehensive. It doesn't include Mana-Youd-Sushai (2012)  We Are, We Were, and We Will Have Been (2015), nor  Thought and Existence (2018), wh...
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Heavy January

This January, I'm going to listen to the collected works of the stoner/doom band  Bong , and I'm going to blog about it. I've not really listened to them before, though as you can see from my Bandcamp profile I like stoner/doom heavy music.  Over the holiday period I read Electric Wizards: A Tapestry of Heavy Music  by the music critic  JR Moores . I liked the book, and might critique it later on. However, on reading I was left with only a limited sense of what made a record "heavy", notwithstanding subjectivities. This is perhaps because unpacking the sonic aesthetics of "heavy" music isn't at all easy. So, I'm going to try to do this, by listening to everything that Bong have for sale on Bandcamp , and writing about the experience. 
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