The third volume in the album series Heavy Rocks , featuring explorations of hard rock and heavy metal sounds, was released in 2022.
They released two other albums that year, with Fade , which focuses on drone metal , appearing with no prior notice.
After Clayton Counts’ death, Bull of Heaven remained inactive, however on September 12, 2018, Neil Keener released the first new Bull of Heaven piece since Counts’ death, titled “Fight Night for the Ghosts of Heaven”.
In 2017, the band’s 25th anniversary, they considered retirement after one final album.
On December 4, 2016, Bull of Heaven made a post on their Facebook page announcing the death of member Clayton Counts.
On October 17, 2016, Bull of Heaven released their final numbered release, 353: To Fill the Mouth of Their Monster , although pieces 334 onward never made it onto their website.
In May 2016, Bull of Heaven were discussed in Wesley Cray’s essay “Unperformable Works and the Ontology of Music”, written for Grand Valley State University and published in the British Journal of Aesthetics .
In early 2014, the band released a fan-made compilation of love songs, 300: Songs for Girls , followed by 301: Weed Problem II–V , and another extremely lengthy piece, 302: It is Part of Space and Time , which runs for at least 86 billion years. Clayton Counts was interviewed…
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On April 24, 2014, psychedelic rock band The Flaming Lips included a reference to Bull of Heaven in the liner notes of the vinyl release of the condensed version of their 24 hour long piece 7 Skies H3 . The Flaming Lips mistakenly call the band “Bull in Heaven,” but…
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On July 10, 2014, the band released 305: Hostages are Human Beings . On July 12, 2014, 303: n(k) , 304: 0(2^18×5^18) and 306: It is Not a Lack of Love were released, with the first two being over nine billion years and over three septillion years long respectively, although…
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