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 […]
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2025
Album Review: Cytotoxin – “Biographyte” (Technical/Brutal Death Metal)
Written by Kep Cytotoxin – Biographyte> Technical/brutal death metal> Germany> Releasing April 11> Independent/self-release You sense it before you really hear it: a faint clicking, a mechanical tick that gets faster and faster, urging you to turn […]
2025
The Best Things We Heard in February
February was a bit of an odd duck from where I sit: two relatively weak release Fridays sandwiched between two particularly great ones. We got a new album from Dream Theater with Portnoy back in […]
2025
Album Review: Celestial Scourge – “Observers of the Inevitable” (Technical/Brutal Death Metal)
Written by Kep Celestial Scourge – Observers of the Inevitable> Technical/brutal death metal> Norway> Releasing February 28> Time to Kill Records I’ll admit it: I slept on this album. I saw “death metal” and a colorful cover […]
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
Nifty November
Written by Kep, Westin, and Kirk After a bit of a break from our usual monthly roundups, we’re back again for the last one of the year. November was packed to the gills with good […]
2024
Album Review: Blood Incantation – “Absolute Elsewhere” (Progressive Death Metal)
Written by Kep Blood Incantation – Absolute Elsewhere> Progressive death metal> Colorado, US> Releasing October 4> Century Media Records Evolution. We demand it of the bands we love—and the bands we love to criticize—even as we cling […]