Tombs – Under Sullen Skies Review
Tombs arise yet again from the black metal hotbed that is Brooklyn for their fifth full length foray Under Sullen …
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Heavy Music Headquarters Album Reviews: Week of November 20, 2020
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Avandra, Communic, Concede, Dark Psychosis, Eternal Champion, Hjelvik, Ilsa, Jinjer, Killer …
Dark Tranquillity – Moment Review
Progenitors of the Gothenburg melodic death metal sound, Dark Tranquillity return with Moment. The band are fast approaching their 30th …
Heavy Music Headquarters Album Reviews: Week of November 13, 2020
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Accuser, Chris Manning, Deathroll, Doro, In Malice’s Wake, Isolert, Katatonia, Lizzy …
Heavy Music Headquarters Album Reviews: Week of November 6, 2020
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Alter Bridge, Ancient Thrones, Angelica, Bloodsoaked Necrovoid, Countless Skies, Cult Burial, …
Heavy Music Headquarters Album Reviews: Week of October 30, 2020
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Autopsy, Botanist, Carcass, Convulse, Draconian, Emma Ruth Rundle, Evildead, Forlorn World, …
The Progress Report: October 2020
Welcome to the October Progress Report – our penultimate report of the year. Here we go with the usual fare …
Heavy Music Headquarters Album Reviews: Week of October 23, 2020
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Bleakheart, Celestial Season, Devin Townsend, HammerFall, Invincible Force, Kosmovorous, Leaves Eyes, …
Armored Saint – Punching The Sky Review
It seems age is no obstacle for many of the heavier bands of yore. Earlier this month, Blue Oyster Cult …
Pallbearer – Forgotten Days Review
What an auspicious start to a career: Arkansas’ Pallbearer have released three albums thus far, all of which have perched …
Heavy Music Headquarters Album Reviews: Week of October 16, 2020
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Aphonic Threnody, Ataraxia, Benediction, Hellsmoke, Infera Bruo, Kraken Duumvirate, Leviathan, Lost …
Spirit Adrift – Enlightened In Eternity Review
Spirit Adrift’s fourth album Enlightened In Eternity is the first album without any connections to Gatecreeper, as frontman Nate Garrett …
Venom Prison – Primeval Review
When it comes to bands acknowledging their past, it varies all over the place. There are groups like Metallica, who …
Heavy Music Headquarters Album Reviews: Week of October 9, 2020
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Ascension Of The Watchers, Empress, Gargoyl, Greg Puciato, Hagathorn, Helion Prime, …
Deftones – Ohms Review
Long running alternative metal band Deftones have very rarely slowed down in their over 30 year career. Their evolution continues …
Heavy Music Headquarters Album Reviews: Week of October 2, 2020
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Amaranthe, Anaal Nathrakh, The Arson Choir, Brave The Cold, Corey Taylor, …
Enslaved – Utgard Review
Returning for their fifteenth album, Enslaved have changed their approach of progressive black metal with a bit more of a …
The Progress Report: September 2020
Welcome to the September Progress Report. Interestingly, this might be the first month in four years that we don’t have …
Ayreon – Transitus Review
Ayreon albums are always lavish productions with a long running time, a dramatic storyline and numerous guests. That’s also the …
Heavy Music Headquarters Album Reviews: Week of September 25, 2020
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Angelic Desolation, Dropdead, Ewigkeit, Four Stroke Baron, Kataklysm, Lik, Morta Skuld, …
The Ocean – Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic Review
Certainly one of the most anticipated albums of the year would be Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic (hereafter referred to …
Heavy Music Headquarters Album Reviews: Week of September 18, 2020
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Behemoth, Brother Firetribe, Carnation, Dynfari, Finntroll, Fires In The Distance, Heathen, …
Napalm Death – Throes Of Joy In The Jaws Of Defeatism Review
With 15 prior albums under their belt, Napalm Death have very little left to prove to the metal world, being …
Heavy Music Headquarters Album Reviews: Week of September 11, 2020
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Aborted Fetus, Aether Realm, Bornwithhair, Demolizer, Eskimo Callboy, Ghoulhouse, Ihsahn, Korgull …
Stryper – Even The Devil Believes Review
Veteran metal band Stryper may be best remembered from the ’80s as the group dressed in black and yellow spandex …