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 […]
Hardcore
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: Mugshot – “All the Devils Are Here” (Metallic Hardcore)
Written by Ellis Mugshot – All the Devils Are Here> Metallic hardcore> California, US> Releasing June 20> Pure Noise Records There’s a track about halfway through Mugshot’s new album All the Devils Are Here that […]
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
The Best Things We Heard in April
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 […]
2025
Demolicious Derby: 10 Killer Hardcore Demos from January-March 2025
Written by Ellis Shout out Demo 2025 – gotta be one of the best demos of 2025… No but for real, demos are awesome and there’s been a bunch of great ones this year already […]
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 […]
2025
Album Review: Ingrown – “Idaho” (Metallic Hardcore)
Written by Ellis Ingrown – Idaho> Metallic hardcore> Idaho, US> Releasing March 7> Closed Casket Activities Right, this album throws together a load of the meanest bits of hardcore, thrash, death metal and powerviolence and […]
2025
The Best Things We Heard in January
Written by Kep, Kirk, and Ellis It’s a new year, and with the new year we’ve got a new monthly article for you, dear reader. Each month some of our writers will each choose an […]
2025
Album Review: Open Kasket – “Trials of Failure” (Death Metal/Hardcore)
Open Kasket – Trials of Failure> Death Metal/hardcore> Arkansas, US> Releasing February 7> Barbaric Brutality Records If the past few years have taught us anything beyond the fact that we are all absolutely fucked, it’s […]