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
Ellis’ End of Year Lists 2025 (Demos, EPs, & Albums)
Written by Ellis I love being a part of the Noob Heavy team. Espi, Jangel, Kep, Kirk, Westin – great people covering great music, standing up for important shit, making me laugh a lot and […]
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, […]
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
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 January
Written by Kep, Kirk, and Ellis It’s a new year, and with the new year we’ve got a new monthly article for you, dear reader. Each month some of our writers will each choose an […]
2025
EP Review: Slaughtersun – “Black Marrow” (Death Metal)
Written by Kirk Slaughtersun – Black Marrow> Death metal> New Jersey, US> Released January 10> Independent/self-release New years are all about exploring new things, right? And while 2025 has started off a bit more like a […]
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
Kirk’s Top Releases of 2024
Written by Kirk What’s shakin’ loyal Noob Heavy reader! Guess what? We’ve crossed the halfway point of December, which means it’s officially LIST SEASON. And believe me when I tell you these are gonna be some killer lists; […]