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. […]
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2026
February Release Spotlight
Another month down, another fresh set of horrors, another bunch of killer metal and metal-adjacent albums to help keep us sane. We’ve rounded up the February releases we think are most worthy of the spotlight, […]
2026
January Release Spotlight
Welcome to 2026, friends. The horrors persist, but so do we. So, as it turns out, do metal and hardcore, because the one month under the year’s belt provided us with plenty of damn good […]
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
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 […]
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
Album Review: Molder – “Catastrophic Reconfiguration” (Death Metal)
Written by Kep Molder – Catastrophic Reconfiguration> Death metal> Illinois, US> Releasing November 8> Prosthetic Records A little over two years ago I wrote the following about Molder’s sophomore LP Engrossed in Decay “You know how sometimes you see […]
2024
EP Review: Enforced – “A Leap into the Dark” (Thrash/Crossover)
Written by Kep Enforced – A Leap into the Dark> Thrash/crossover> Virginia, US> Releasing October 25> Century Media Records Last summer, by a stroke of pure chance, I was reminded how much I love Enforced when I saw their […]
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Album Review: Laceration – “I Erode” (Death/Thrash)
Written by Kep Laceration – I Erode> Death/thrash metal> California, US> Releasing July 26> 20 Buck Spin We don’t talk enough these days about shit being rousing. Records that have that magic combination of sky-high energy level, […]