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Track Premiere: Ashenheart – “Stars Wept to the Sea”

January 22, 2026 Noob Heavy admin

Today we have the prodigious honor of premiering a work by one of our favorite projects: deathened black metal outfit Ashenheart. “Stars Wept to the Sea” is a standalone track, with proceeds to be donated […]

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Kep’s Best EPs of 2025

December 24, 2025 Noob Heavy admin

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)

December 22, 2025 Ellis Heasley

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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Halloween Bloodbath: 6(66) All Hallows Releases You Need to Hear

October 29, 2025 Noob Heavy admin

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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Album Review: An Abstract Illusion – “The Sleeping City” (Progressive Death)

October 15, 2025 Noob Heavy admin

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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The Best Things We Heard in September

October 1, 2025 Noob Heavy admin

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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Noob Heavy’s 2025 Mid-year Best Albums

July 6, 2025 Noob Heavy admin

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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The Best Things We Heard in May

June 4, 2025 Noob Heavy admin

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 […]

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Album Review: Ossuary – “Abhorrent Worship” (Death Metal)

May 20, 2025 Noob Heavy admin

Written by Kep Ossuary – Abhorrent Worship> Death metal> Wisconsin, US> Releasing May 23> Darkness Shall Rise Productions/Me Saco Un Ojo Records Ossuary have been around for a while—a decade at this point, in fact—but I remember being […]

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The Best Things We Heard in April

May 1, 2025 Noob Heavy admin

Another month of 2025 is in the rearview mirror, and it featured some ass-kickers. No big preamble today: let’s dig into Noob Heavy’s favorite listens of the month! As always, albums we reviewed in full […]

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