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, […]
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2025
The Best Things We Heard in August
Welcome to September, folks. Time remains swift and the world remains a nightmare. The writing team has been swamped with real life responsibilities and stresses, so our review game has been a little weak recently. […]
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
Album Review: Floating – “Hesitating Lights” (Progressive Death Metal/Post-Punk)
Written by Westin Floating – Hesitating Lights> Progressive death metal/post-punk> Sweden> Releasing July 11> Transcending Obscurity Records I’ve been away from music writing for many months now. Between a new job and the worsening state […]
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 […]
2024
Westin’s Top Albums of 2024
Written by Westin 2024 has been a year. Dealt with an overwhelmingly strong identity crisis, a serious burnout from that crisis resulting in a scant handful of full reviews from me, and got a new […]
2024
Nifty November
Written by Kep, Westin, and Kirk After a bit of a break from our usual monthly roundups, we’re back again for the last one of the year. November was packed to the gills with good […]
2024
Halloween Horrors Death Metal Massacre
Written by Westin October is upon us, smoke bellows from the crematorium and unbeknownst to all until too late is that the acid rain begins to fall – it is a deadly month for death […]
2024
Album Review: Undeath – “More Insane” (Death Metal)
Written by Westin Undeath – More Insane> Death metal> New York, US> Releasing October 4> Prosthetic Records Zombies do not eat brains. This is a particularly virulent strain of myth about horror’s most neighborly monster […]
2024
August August
Written by Westin, Kirk, Ellis, and Kep Welcome back to your regularly scheduled monthly roundup from Noob Heavy. We covered some kickass music this month and we’re about to cover more kickass music. Buckle up; […]