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 […]
Death metal
2025
Album Review: Lipoma – “No Cure for the Sick” (Goregrind/Melodic Death)
Written by Kep Lipoma – No Cure for the Sick> Goregrind/melodic death metal> California, US> Releasing June 13> Gurgling Gore Look, I wasn’t born yesterday. If I see a release from the filthmongers at Gurgling Gore, and […]
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: Ossuary – “Abhorrent Worship” (Death Metal)
Written by Kep Ossuary – Abhorrent Worship> Death metal> Wisconsin, US> Releasing May 23> Darkness Shall Rise Productions/Me Saco Un Ojo Records Ossuary have been around for a while—a decade at this point, in fact—but I remember being […]
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
Album Review: Cytotoxin – “Biographyte” (Technical/Brutal Death Metal)
Written by Kep Cytotoxin – Biographyte> Technical/brutal death metal> Germany> Releasing April 11> Independent/self-release You sense it before you really hear it: a faint clicking, a mechanical tick that gets faster and faster, urging you to turn […]
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
Album Review: Chestcrush – “Ψυχοβγάλτης” (Black/Death Metal)
Written by Kep Chestcrush – Ψυχοβγάλτης> Black/death metal> UK> Releasing April 4> Independent/self-release Noob Heavy’s enjoyment of Chestcrush and their monstrous brand of death and death-adjacent violence is well-documented. Ellis and myself have combined to cover every full release […]
2025
The Best Things We Heard in February
February was a bit of an odd duck from where I sit: two relatively weak release Fridays sandwiched between two particularly great ones. We got a new album from Dream Theater with Portnoy back in […]
2025
Album Review: Sepulchral Curse – “Crimson Moon Evocations” (Death Metal)
Written by Kep Sepulchral Curse – Crimson Moon Evocations> Death metal> Finland> Releasing February 28> Dark Descent Records Sepulchral Curse are one of those veteran death metal bands that I’m surprised you don’t hear about more often. Featuring […]