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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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Kep’s Best EPs of 2025
Written by Kep Welcome in for the first of my two AOTY articles. Today we’re talking EPs, and 2025 was full of great ones. I rounded up 13 that I thought were particularly deserving of […]
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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 […]
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Demolicious Derby IV: THE BIG CATCH-UP 2025
Written by Ellis YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! Here we are, last Demolicious Derby of the year. Rather than just covering the last three months as per previous installments (I, II, and III), I figured I’d expand this to […]
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Halloween Bloodbath: 6(66) All Hallows Releases You Need to Hear
Written by Kep Metal and Halloween go together like blood and guts. In fact, there’s usually a flood of metal releases on 10/31 even when it falls on a non-standard release day, just because so […]
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EP Review: Torture Hammer – “Torture Hammer” (Death Metal)
Written by Kep Torture Hammer – Torture Hammer> Death metal> California, US> Releasing October 24> Creator-Destructor Records Sometimes when I’m writing about death metal I use flowery language and big words. I talk about a richness of […]
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Album Review: An Abstract Illusion – “The Sleeping City” (Progressive Death)
Written by Kep An Abstract Illusion – The Sleeping City> Progressive death metal> Sweden> Releasing October 17> Willowtip Records We here at Noob Heavy were enormous fans of Woe, the 2022 sophomore release by Swedish progressive death powerhouse An […]
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Demolicious Derby III: 10 Rad Hardcore Demos from July-September 2025
Written by Ellis Yo sorry this one’s already a bit late because my son had an ear infection but I showed him the Disgrace Tied Down set which seemed to help a bit. Without further […]
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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, […]
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Album Review: Ritual Mass – “Cascading Misery” (Death Metal)
Written by Kep Ritual Mass – Cascading Misery> Death metal> Pennsylvania, US> Releasing September 5> 20 Buck Spin Sometimes I like to challenge a new death metal album to fuck me up real good. Like I’ll literally […]