Lists

1983 Best Heavy Metal + Hard Rock Albums

1983’s best albums include a mix of NWOBHM bands with younger, rawer groups like Metallica and Slayer along with two …

June 2017 Best Heavy Metal Albums

As the weather heats up, so did the quality of albums released in June. Narrowing down a strong crop of …

Best Queensryche Albums

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

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, …

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 …

Interviews

Tau Cross Interview

Two years after their debut, Tau Cross return with Pillar Of Fire. The band’s lineup, which includes vocalist Rob “The …

River Black Interview

The metallic hardcore band Burnt By The Sun released their last album in 2009, and disbanded soon after. Three of …

Mutation Interview

The latest album from Mutation is III: Dark Black. Frontman Ginger Wildheart and bassist Scott Lee Andrews fill us in …

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 …

Album Reviews

Heavy Music Headquarters Album Reviews: Week of July 28, 2017

This week’s reviews include releases from Abhorrent Decimation, Byzantine, Couch Slut, Divinity Compromised, Fate Unburied, Hexenklad, Make Them Suffer, Obscura …

In This Moment – Ritual Review

  In This Moment started life as a metalcore band, but they’ve gradually transitioned away from most things hard and …

Heavy Music Headquarters Reviews: Week of July 21, 2017

This week’s reviews include Cytotoxin, Ded, Ereb Altor, Kroh, Necromandus, Orden Ogan, Poseidon, Soul Remnants, Tau Cross, Wilderness Dream, Wintersun …

Decrepit Birth – Axis Mundi Review

7 years away from the scene is a long time, but Decrepit Birth return just as strong as they were …

Boris – Dear Review

Impossibility and Tokyo’s Boris share the commonality of slow evolution into reality along with the respect that time, ever-so-slowly, crushes …

Heavy Music Headquarters Album Reviews: Week of July 14, 2017

This week’s reviews include releases from 12 Stones, Dayseeker, Destroyer Of Light, Enfold Darkness, Explusion, Ewigkeit, Integrity, Livid, One Master, …

Edguy – Monuments Review

Tobias Sammet may be better known for Avantasia these days, but Edguy is where it all started for the prolific …

Meet The Band

Meet The Band: Ded

This week we’re shining the Meet The Band spotlight on Ded. The Arizona band’s debut album is Mis-An-Thrope, which has …

Meet The Band: Livid

In the spotlight for this week’s Meet The Band is the Minneapolis experimental doom group Livid. Beneath This Shroud, The …

Meet The Band: Heresiarch

The New Zealand black/death metal group Hiersiarch are in the spotlight for this week’s Meet The Band. After two EPs …

Meet The Band: Siberian

The Swedish trio Siberian are in the spotlight this week for our Meet The Band feature. The sludge/post metal group’s …

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 …