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

Masterplan Interview

For Masterplan‘s latest album PumpKings, they decided to cover songs that guitarist Roland Grapow had written during his time in …

All Out War Interview

New York hardcore veterans All Out War return with a new studio album Give Us Extinction, their first full-length in …

Accept Interview

Teutonic titans Accept return with their latest album The Rise Of Chaos, produced by longtime collaborator Andy Sneap. Founding guitarist …

Exit Eden Interview

Exit Eden are a new symphonic metal project featuring four female vocalists: Clementine Delauney (Visions Of Atlantis), Amanda Somerville (Trillium, …

Tau Cross Interview

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

Album Reviews

Heavy Music Headquarters Album Reviews: Week of August 18, 2017

This week’s reviews include releases from Casket Robbery, Eagleheart, Eluveitie, End Of Green, Funeralglade, Janet Gardner, KMFDM, Phylactery, Sons Of …

Steven Wilson – ‘To The Bone’ Review

Steven Wilson is this generation’s equivalent of progressive rock royalty. Whether it is his past work with seminal prog band …

Venom Inc. – Avé Review

Everyone knows the legacy of Venom. In some ways, the band is responsible for black metal (although not in the …

Heavy Music Headquarters Album Reviews: Week of August 11, 2017

This week’s reviews include releases from Atriarch, Dawn Of Disease, Devil Electric, Empyrean Throne, Hundred Suns, Incantation, The Lurking Fear, …

Accept – The Rise Of Chaos Review

When I was a teenager, two of my favorite albums were Accept’s Balls to the Wall and Metal Heart, classics …

Heavy Music Headquarters Album Reviews: Week of August 5, 2017

This week’s reviews include releases from Bonehunter, Dead Cross, Def Leppard, Exit Eden, Kavrila, Marty Friedman, Masterplan, Quiet Riot, Russkaja, …

July 2017 Best Heavy Metal Albums

There was a bit of a summer slump in July, with a noticeable drop in the number of quality releases. …

Meet The Band

Meet The Band: Subservience

This week we’re featuring the British group Subservience in Meet The Band. After several EPs, they just released their full-length …

Meet The Band: Nostoc

We travel to Costa Rica this week to shine the spotlight on Nostoc for Meet The Band. Aevum is the …

Meet The Band: Seven Spires

This week, we’re introducing the Massachusetts symphonic metal group Seven Spires in Meet The Band. They just released their full-length …

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 …