2025
Kep’s Best Albums of 2025
Happy New Year, folks. It’s still before midnight here in Pacific Standard Time (aka the only time zone that matters) so legally speaking I’ve managed to fire this off while it’s still 2025. I listened […]
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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
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 […]
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
Kep’s Best of 2024
Written by Kep Welcome in, folks! This year, I decided to mix things up in the interest of shouting out the maximum amount of albums that deserve it: rather than a standard ordered list, I’m […]
2024
Album Review: Fellowship – The Skies Above Eternity (Symphonic Power Metal)
Written by Kep Fellowship – The Skies Above Eternity> Symphonic power metal> UK> Releasing November 22> Scarlet Records I know what you’re thinking: why in the hell is the death metal guy from Noob Heavy writing a […]
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; […]
2024
The Best of 2024…So Far
Written by Kep, Westin, Ellis, Kirk, and Espi Kvlt Welcome to the midpoint of 2024! This year we’re mixing it up, and instead of a June release roundup, we’re doing individual quick-hit best album lists. […]
2024
April Aces
Written by Westin, Ellis, Kep, and Kirk The months keep flying by and the quality releases keep stacking up. The world may be a mess (and the editor’s life may be hectic as all hell […]
2023
Kirk’s Top Albums of 2023
Written by Kirk Alright, fellow music lovers, the final push is here. I gave you my favorite singles of 2023, and then I gave you my favorite EPs. Now it’s time for the list you’ve […]