2022
ProgPro’s 2022 AOTY List
Hey, I’m Mike, friend of the Noob Heavy crew and also known as ProgPro on social media. Since there have been so many releases this year, I made a Spotify playlist so you can check […]
Shoegaze
2022
Fire to the Prisons’ Albums of the Year
Fire to the Prisons is a Brisbane-based leftist black metal project and its mastermind is a friend of the site. Check out their self-titled debut EP here and our review of it here, and follow […]
2022
Barlovv’s Best of 2022
Written by Barlovv ‘Tis the season for “Best Of” lists, and no one likes a list more than this guy, so let’s fucking go. This year has been kind of buck-wild honestly, joining this absolutely […]
2022
Album Review: Holy Fawn – “Dimensional Bleed” (Blackgaze)
Written by Barlovv Holy Fawn – Dimensional Bleed> Doomgaze> Arizona, US> Released September 9> Triple Crown Records / Wax Bodega “I want to breathe fireI want to grind my teeth into dust“ Every once in […]
2022
Album Review: Kardashev – “Liminal Rite” (Deathgaze)
Written by Ellis Heasley >Kardashev – Liminal Rite>Deathgaze>Arizona, US>Released June 10th >Metal Blade Records “I am a pilgrim and oh, I am lost The past that I loved has been molded and mossed A ghost […]
2022
Split Review: A Rose Dying in the Rain / Moongazer – “sky of fading lights”
Written by Kep >A Rose Dying in the Rain / Moongazer – sky of fading lights>Post-black metal / blackgaze from Mexico / US>Released June 24, 2022>Bandcamp Link There’s this cool thing that happens with splits sometimes, […]
2022
Album Review: Zetra – From Without (Goth Rock)
This is definitely the furthest thing from metal I’ve ever reviewed on Noob Heavy, but this site’s jurisdiction isn’t really ironclad or anything, so let’s talk about something neat! […]
2021
Album Review: MØL – “Diorama” (Blackgaze)
Written by Ellis Heasley MØL – Diorama Blackgaze from Aarhus, Denmark Releases November 5, 2021 via Nuclear Blast Records For a genre that once felt so fresh, blackgaze seems to have strayed a bit into […]
2019 Albums
Album Review: Holy Serpent – Endless 10 (Stoner/Gaze)
Endless is straight up ‘the shit’, that’s the most important fact of this review. It’s an album that has made me swoon like few others this year and it’s not exactly that metal or heavy. It is however, perfectly suited to the current climate of stoner rock and doom, bringing something quite zesty and refreshing, a fusion of fuzz, alt rock and doom rock. I’m hearing influences from Type O Negative and My Bloody Valentine, it’s super inspired and engorged with energy despite the doomy tempo. They nailed it musically and in terms of doom aesthetic – something Australia has been refining for some time now. […]
2019 Albums
Review/Interview: Moon and Azure Shadow – Age Of Darkness and Frost 9 (Blackgaze)
I’m so excited to share this album with you guys, it’s an absolute gem. Moon and Azure Shadow is a solo project that mixes atmospheric black metal with Japanese style soundtracks. You have to listen to this with headphones on in a dark room to get the full effect of how grand this album is. As a fan of soundtrack style music and dark ambient, I’m so stoked to see that type of sound being so well mixed with the harshness of black metal. […]