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Noob Heavy Podcast

A regular metal interview show with surprising guests. Available on spotify, Anchor and Stitcher. [...]
The Black Dahlia Murder Interview

I spoke with Trevor about the new album Verminous and did a fan Q&A with him for the podcast. [...]
Between The Buried and Me Interview

Spoke to Tommy Rogers from Between the Buried and Me to promote their east coast Australian tour late february 2020. [...]
Metal Redux

Every week or so Steven from Aeons Abyss covers a metal album forgotten by time or just cool. Consider it metal history class and the only legacy material on the site. [...]
Katatonia Interview

Interview with Jonas from Katatonia including fan Q&A podcast Audio to promote City Burials. [...]

Microdose: Danheim, Forndom, DakhaBrakha & The Moon and the Nightspirit

November 25, 2020 0

Iranian metalhead Mass (HardAlbumReview on IG) has given us a Noob Heavy first, an article dedicated to brand new folk and dark ambient from around the world. […]

Thrash Microdose: Warbringer, Divine Chaos, Beyond & Macbeth

August 26, 2020 0

Mass reviews 4 new thrash albums. […]

Interview: Luca Indrio from Necrot

by Steve - Abyss Abyss in Death metal 0

There has been some really great Death Metal releases in 2020… and one of the best has been by Oakland (USA) band Necrot. Front-man and bassist Luca Indrio agreed to have a chat to Steve from Aeons Abyss for the Noob Heavy website… Enjoy! […]

Interview: Luca Indrio from Necrot

November 16, 2020 0

Album Review: Undergang – Aldrig i livet 9.4 (Death Metal)

November 15, 2020 0

Fun. A lot of fun. There’s something Undergang does in their writing that draws you into it with all of your enthusiasm. Some parts of this had me moving like the metal version of those goth kids dancing at the underpass or the wacky waving inflatable tube man. On the other hand, they managed a few times to descend into an utter dirge that will tickle your dark. It’s a varied album that comes off as an intelligent deconstruction of death metal rather than blind worship of it. They have a deep understanding of old death, doom and grind – far beyond my own. […]

Album Review: Depravity – Grand Malevolence 9 (Death Metal)

November 15, 2020 0

Grand Malevolence is the death metal album I’ve been waiting for this year. Many have come and gone, some solid albums but even with Necrot and Ulcerate releasing huge albums I was still reserving my fandom for something specific and until now, undefined. It’s a big boy, with many five minute songs making up forty-nine minutes total but not a minute is wasted. Depravity are a machine that will keep force feeding you your own shit the whole time then at the end you’ll doff your hat and thank them. […]

Album Review: Reign/Rulum – The Occult 8 (Black Metal)

November 19, 2020 0

Fuck it, more black metal! This time I’m covering a split between two relatively obscure bands from the United Kingdom: Reign and Rulum. I’ve actually never covered a split on the site before, but hey, there’s a first time for everything. […]

Album Review: Black Void Cult – Dysphoria 8.2 (Black Metal)

November 14, 2020 0

This is the second black metal album I’ve covered in a row on this site this month, in case you were wondering what the winter does to me. Ironically enough, it hardly even gets cold here in Florida, but I digress. This is far different from last week’s pick though, it’s something much less primitive and much more epic and symphonic! […]

Album Review: Ysgaroth – Storm Over a Black Sea 8 (Black Metal)

November 6, 2020 0

I’m just now realizing that I haven’t covered a proper black metal album on here since, shit, June… That said, with the beginning of November and the inevitable winter on the horizon, I figure it’s time to jump back into the darkest, coldest genre out there with this November 13th release. […]

Album Review: Draconian – Under a Godless Veil 9.5 (Doom Metal)

November 6, 2020 0

This year has been a flourishing year for doom metal as several of the Doom giants have released their masterpieces, among whom we can name My Dying Bride’s The Ghost of Orion, Paradise Lost’s Obsidian and Pallbearer’s Forgotten Days. But above all, I had been looking forward to listening to Draconian. They have always been an inimitable band to me and their signature gothic doom death metal sound has enthralled me ever since I discovered them more than a decade ago with their album Turning Season Within (2008), where I listened to “When I Wake” until my ears, as well as my heart, started to bleed. Album after album, they have stamped themselves upon the massive corpus of Doom Metal. […]

Album Review: Fumarole – Valley Of Ten Thousand Smokes 9 (Stoner Doom)

October 17, 2020 0

Brisbane’s Fumarole have been around since 2018. They dropped the “Mountain” EP in 2018 and have released 3 singles leading up to the ambitious concept album “ Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes”. The album was recorded and mixed by Scott French of Lovestreet Studios, Gold Coast. Mastered by Haldor Grunberg of Satanic Audio in Poland, this is a great sounding album that excellently captures the live prowess of the band and is dripping in classic stoner goodness. Got a light? […]

Album Review: Harbinger Of Storms – Talos EP 7 (Doom/Gothic)

August 27, 2020 0

Harbinger of Storms is the work of one-man bedroom producer Shane Edward Semler. “Talos” is the companion to his last EP release, “Jupiter”. Everything about this EP has a mythical quality to it. Always having a strong interest in mythology myself, I was sucked in by the cover art. A huge winged automaton towers over a scene of fleeing livestock and peasants. Guarding them? Or poised to wreak havoc? Defined as Epic Doom Metal, I’m hoping for havoc and impending doom. […]

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