Lists

May 2017 Best Heavy Metal Albums

May was another month where it was difficult to figure out which five albums would make the cut.  The top …

April 2017 Best Heavy Metal Albums

The first third of 2017 has been up and down when it comes to the quality of new releases. A …

March 2017 Best Heavy Metal Albums

March was a really strong month for new heavy music releases, the best so far this year. It was a …

1982 Best Heavy Metal + Hard Rock Albums

1982 was a quantum leap forward from 1981, with a plethora of outstanding and influential albums. The NWOBHM was peaking, …

Best Queensryche Albums

It seems like Queensrÿche have been around forever, but a closer look reveals a mere 14 albums over a 33-year …

Interviews

Dying Fetus Interview

It has been a few years since the last Dying Fetus album. The Maryland crushers are back with Wrong One …

Entrails Interview

World Inferno is the latest album from the Swedish death metal band Entrails. We caught up with guitarist/band founder Jimmy …

Tombs Interview

Tombs are back with a new album and a new label. The Brooklyn band’s latest effort is The Grand Annihilation. …

Necrot Interview

After releasing three demos, the Oakland, California death metal band Necrot‘s highly anticipated full-length debut is Blood Offerings. Drummer Chad …

Great White Interview

Great White have been around for more than three decades now. The current lineup of the band includes founding guitarist …

Album Reviews

Goatwhore – Vengeful Ascension Review

Black metal from the bayou, chock full of thrash and death too, Goatwhore always had about as much going on …

Heavy Music Headquarters Album Reviews: Week of June 23, 2017

This week’s reviews include releases from Bad Karma, BardSpec, Broken Hope, Carach Angren, Dying Fetus, Ex Eye, In Human Form, …

Municipal Waste – Slime And Punishment Review

Municipal Waste, for the uninitiated, are a raucous crossover thrash metal band from Richmond, VA. Their first five albums covered …

Suffocation – …Of The Dark Light Review

New York death metal icons Suffocation return with their eighty full length album …Of The Dark Light, and it appears …

Heavy Music Headquarters Album Reviews: Week of June 16, 2017

This week’s reviews include releases from Arcadea, Cavernlight, Chaos, CKY, Entrails, Impetuous Ritual, Khost, Mean Streak, Sharzall, Tombs, Ustalost and …

Iced Earth – Incorruptible Review

Whenever venerable American metallers Iced Earth release an album, it makes our ears prick up. Not so much because every …

Heavy Music Headquarters Album Reviews: Week of June 9, 2017

This week’s reviews include releases from Birdflesh, Enragement, Exist, A Flourishing Scourge, Hollow, Necrot, Organ Dealer, Schammasch, Space Witch, Svartsyn …

Meet The Band

Meet The Band: Currents

This week we’re featuring the Connecticut metalcore/djent group Currents in Meet The Band. They just released their full-length debut The …

Meet The Band: Bury The Machines

Bury The Machines are in the spotlight this week for Meet The Band. Their latest release is the EP Wicked …

Meet The Band: Völur

We’re spotlighting the Canadian folk/doom trio Völur in this week’s edition of Meet The Band. Instead of guitar, they use …

Meet The Band: Volker

This week the French quartet Volker are in the Meet The Band spotlight. They just released their full-length debut album …

Meet The Band: Tribulance

This week’s featured Meet The Band artist is Tribulance. The Arizona group released an album in 1995 before splitting up, …