2022
Noob Heavy’s Best Album Art of 2022
Written by Kep We here at the ol’ Noob love visual art, and we love supporting visual artists. In fact, you might have seen our official statement on AI art, but if you haven’t I’ll […]
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2020 Albums
Album Review: The Motion Mosaic – Avant-Garbage 9.2 (Mathcore)
I’m a huge fan of post hardcore and mathcore, sometimes it even threatens to overcome even my love of metal. This is the second major release from The Motion Mosaic following up their 2016 album Samsara which is well worth a listen but is a very different release, a different part of the bands development. The ideas and experimentation are there but are looser. Now with Avant-Garbage they’ve tightened it up and turned it on it’s head. There’s nothing loose about it, this is a hard hitting yet elegant core album with all the makings of an end of year list candidate. […]
Black Metal
Microdose: Yoth_Iria, Nipenthis, Avern & Modarin
Four great albums, four short reviews. This time the theme is the murky depths of black metal. All new stuff from the underground to your ears, so get your headphones out and support these bands.
2020 Albums
Album Review: Xenobiotic – Mordrake 7.8 (Deathcore)
Here’s the perfect storm of pre-release bait for me – it’s an Australian tech death release featuring the artwork of Mariousz Lewandowski (I know how we all feel but this one’s really good). Xenobitoic are a tech deathcore band from Australia’s new metal mecca, Perth. Take a look at my Top 25 Australian Metal Releases article and drink every time I wrote Perth, then just drink recreationally. Mordrake releases on the 21st of February and features a couple of guests vocals that really make their tracks for me. Expect more of a scifi prog approach than a bunch of breakdowns – we’re telling a story here with an album of a higher brow. […]
2019 Albums
Album Review: Infant Annihilator – The Battle of Yaldabaoth 9.5 (Deathcore)
Written by Carcassbomb Infant Annihilator The Battle Of Yaldabaoth Technical Deathcore Hessle, UK September 11, 2019 9.5/10 Bandcamp – Spotify – Metallum After a couple of years of anticipation, there’s finally a new Infant Annihilator […]
2019 Albums
Album Review: Witch Ritual – Death:Beyond 9 (Stoner Doom)
I’m going to try to do this without doing a single pun involving their band name and hopefully without misspelling witch. Witch Ritual is some dense european stoner doom, real melancholic stuff. I haven’t heard their EP, but this is their debut LP that really cements their expectations high. This ones essential for fans Windhand and Jex Thoth, general doomheads should certainly check it out too. It has the raunchiness I love in stoner doom/fuzz without the exploitation aesthetic. It’s pretty awesome all over. […]