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 […]
John Angel Reviews
2025
Album Review: Snooze – “I Know How You Will Die” (Mathrock)
Written by Jangel Snooze – I Know How You Will Die> Happy heavy mathrock> Illinois, US> Releasing April 4> Independent/self-release If a band was called Snooze, what would you expect them to sound like? Ambient? […]
2024
Album Review: Cyborg Octopus – “Bottom Feeder” (Progressive Metal)
Written by Jangel Cyborg Octopus – Bottom Feeder> Progressive metal> California, US> Releasing September 27> Silent Pendulum Records Be sure to catch Cyborg Octopus on their Bottom Feeder-supporting tour of the Eastern US starting on […]
2023
Interview with Tyler Dworak of The World Is Quiet Here
Our resident prog nerd, Jangel, chatted with Tyler Dworak, bassist for up-and-coming prog death metal quintet The World Is Quiet Here (TWIQH). They talk about TWIQH’s new record, Zon, due out January 27th via Silent […]
2022
Jangel’s 15 Fave Records of 2022
What up y’all, Jangel here with my AOTY list! If you don’t know me I write (not as much as I should) for Noob Heavy and run our Instagram account. I wrote this list and […]
2022
Roundup: August Abundance
Written by Kep, Melinda, Barlovv, and Jangel Well what do you know, we’ve made it through 2/3 of the year and the world is only simultaneously on fire and flooding and also ships are getting […]
2022
Album Review: Cyborg Octopus – “Between the Light and Air” (Prog Metal)
Written by Jangel Cyborg Octopus – Between the Light and Air> Progressive metal> California, US> Releasing August 26> Silent Pendulum Records Alright, first thing’s first: Cyborg Octopus is a fucking sweet band name. It strikes […]
2022
The Z-List Winter 2022
Written by John Angel Hello to all the wonderful, underground theydies and djentlethems! Today we’ve got a new edition of The Z-List, a column dedicated to bringing some much deserved attention to the underground of […]
2021
John Angel’s Top 13 of the year 2021
Jangel So 2021 just happened. It sucked in many ways and I’m ending it in covid isolation. However, I finished recording my own debut album this year and was treated to some kick ass music! […]
2021
Last Friday This Week: December 3rd 2021 Release Day
Written by Melinda, Kep, John Angel and Crisy The year is coming to a close and yet the quality of music is far from on the decline with some huge albums last week to catch […]