2025
The Best Things We Heard in September
How’s it going, chat? You hanging in there? We’re doing our best here at the site. All sorts of things are happening in the world: the days are getting colder, the fascism is growing stronger, […]
Ellis Heasley
2025
The Best Things We Heard in July
Another month has come and gone in our endless trudge through ruin and misery. Onward we march, accompanied only by our own thoughts…AND some kickass metal and metal-adjacent tunes. July saw some truly special releases, […]
2025
Noob Heavy’s 2025 Mid-year Best Albums
Welcome to July 2025, folks. Shit’s, uh, shit’s tough out there. We get it. But the music is good, and we writing staff got our heads together and decided on a special feature to mark […]
2025
Demolicious Derby II: 10 Sick AF Hardcore Demos from April-June 2025
Written by Ellis Hopefully you already know what to expect if you read the last one of these (or just the title of this one lol): ten killer hardcore demos from the second quarter of […]
2025
Album Review: Mugshot – “All the Devils Are Here” (Metallic Hardcore)
Written by Ellis Mugshot – All the Devils Are Here> Metallic hardcore> California, US> Releasing June 20> Pure Noise Records There’s a track about halfway through Mugshot’s new album All the Devils Are Here that […]
2025
The Best Things We Heard in May
It was another quiet month here at the site, as our little collective of writers was busy with a bunch of everyday life-related stuff. We’re gonna bring more reviews your way here soon, have no […]
2025
Album Review: Thus Spoke Zarathustra – “I’m Done With Self Care, It’s Time for Others’ Harm” (Deathcore)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra – I’m Done With Self Care, It’s Time for Others’ Harm> Deathcore> Maryland, US> Releasing May 23> Prosthetic Records Deathcore is so back right now isn’t it? Like proper deathcore that is, […]
2025
The Best Things We Heard in April
Another month of 2025 is in the rearview mirror, and it featured some ass-kickers. No big preamble today: let’s dig into Noob Heavy’s favorite listens of the month! As always, albums we reviewed in full […]
2025
The Best Things We Heard in March
Well that was a hell of a month. I (Kep) had a whirlwind March for reasons unrelated to music, and thus the whole thing sort of disappeared into a time warp and I’m still wrapping […]
2025
Demolicious Derby: 10 Killer Hardcore Demos from January-March 2025
Written by Ellis Shout out Demo 2025 – gotta be one of the best demos of 2025… No but for real, demos are awesome and there’s been a bunch of great ones this year already […]