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
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 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
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 […]
2023
FABruary Roundup
Written by Westin, Kep, Ellis, and Kirk Welcome back to another Noob Heavy roundup, where we give you the rundown on releases we loved that you might have missed. February continued the strong start to […]
2022
Jangel’s 15 Fave Records of 2022
What up y’all, Jangel here with my AOTY list! If you don’t know me I write (not as much as I should) for Noob Heavy and run our Instagram account. I wrote this list and […]
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
Westin’s Top Albums of 2022
Hey, I’m Westin and this is my Albums of the Year list. If you don’t know me I am extremely annoying on Twitter. And when I’m not busy doing that, I’m listening to music and […]
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 […]