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 […]
Death/Doom
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 […]
2025
The Best Things We Heard in March
Well that was a hell of a month. I (Kep) had a whirlwind March for reasons unrelated to music, and thus the whole thing sort of disappeared into a time warp and I’m still wrapping […]
2025
Album Review: Sepulchral Curse – “Crimson Moon Evocations” (Death Metal)
Written by Kep Sepulchral Curse – Crimson Moon Evocations> Death metal> Finland> Releasing February 28> Dark Descent Records Sepulchral Curse are one of those veteran death metal bands that I’m surprised you don’t hear about more often. Featuring […]
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
Kirk’s Top Releases of 2024
Written by Kirk What’s shakin’ loyal Noob Heavy reader! Guess what? We’ve crossed the halfway point of December, which means it’s officially LIST SEASON. And believe me when I tell you these are gonna be some killer lists; […]
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
EP Review: Negative Bliss – “Everything Hurts and I’m Dying” (Gothic Death/Doom)
Written by Kirk Negative Bliss – Everything Hurts and I’m Dying> Gothic death/doom > New Jersey, US> Releasing November 1> Independent/self-release At the risk of outing myself as “the old guy” on the Noob Heavy […]
2024
Halloween Horrors Death Metal Massacre
Written by Westin October is upon us, smoke bellows from the crematorium and unbeknownst to all until too late is that the acid rain begins to fall – it is a deadly month for death […]