2026
May Release Spotlight
Welcome in to another edition of our monthly release spotlight! Check out our full review of the new offering from Necropia, and read on below for the May albums we think deserve some extra love. […]
Black metal
2026
Track Premiere: Ashenheart – “Stars Wept to the Sea”
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 […]
2025
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 […]
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
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 […]
2025
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 […]
2025
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, […]
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
Album Review: Ossuary – “Abhorrent Worship” (Death Metal)
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 […]