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 […]
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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
The Best Things We Heard in July
Another month has come and gone in our endless trudge through ruin and misery. Onward we march, accompanied only by our own thoughts…AND some kickass metal and metal-adjacent tunes. July saw some truly special releases, […]
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
Demolicious Derby II: 10 Sick AF Hardcore Demos from April-June 2025
Written by Ellis Hopefully you already know what to expect if you read the last one of these (or just the title of this one lol): ten killer hardcore demos from the second quarter of […]
2025
Album Review: Lipoma – “No Cure for the Sick” (Goregrind/Melodic Death)
Written by Kep Lipoma – No Cure for the Sick> Goregrind/melodic death metal> California, US> Releasing June 13> Gurgling Gore Look, I wasn’t born yesterday. If I see a release from the filthmongers at Gurgling Gore, and […]
2025
Album Review: Jivebomb – “Ethereal” (Hardcore)
Written by Ellis Jivebomb – Ethereal> Hardcore> Maryland, US> Releasing March 28> Flatspot Records Pretty sure Jivebomb haven’t always been this ugly (complimentary). Yep, a quick listen back to the Baltimore hardcore outfit’s fantastic 2021 […]
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; […]