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 […]
Nu-metal
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; […]
Alternative metal
Op-ed: Marilyn Manson Does Not Belong in the Music Industry
Written by Daniel Lukes Editor’s note:Today we’re proud to feature an op-ed from Daniel Lukes, a heavy music and culture writer who’s also co-editor of the book Black Metal Rainbows (you can find the BMR […]
2023
Septembest Roundup
Written by Westin, Ellis, Kep, Rae-Aila, and Kirk We here at Noob Heavquarters were a bit quiet during September—life responsibilities and all that, you know the drill—but not for want of plenty of great music, […]
2022
Exhumed, Reviewed, Renewed: quannnic’s kenopsia
Written by Rae-Aila quannnic – kenopsia> Alt metal/shoegaze/indietronica> Released February 28, 2022> deadAir Records The internet music landscape moves quickly, often in no exact direction. With the rise of algorithm-heavy apps like TikTok that drop […]
2023
Album Review: Memorrhage – “Memorrhage” (Nu-metal)
Written by Kep Memorrhage – Memorrhage> Nu-metal> Texas, US> Releasing June 16> Big Money Cybergrind I’m going to be honest here: when Garry Brents (Cara Neir, Homeskin, Gonemage, Sallow Moth, etc.) announced that his new project was going to […]