Within The Abyss: January 2021
Welcome (to Hell) to the first installment of Within The Abyss! Each month I present reviews of several black metal …
Album Reviews Archive
Heavy Music HQ Album Reviews: Week of January 22, 2021
This week’s Heavy Music Headquarters album reviews include releases from Aethyrick, Asphyx, Comatose, The Dead Daisies, Ektomorf, Jason Bieler and …
Heavy Music HQ Album Reviews: Week of January 15, 2021
Welcome to the first Heavy Music Headquarters reviews of 2021! This week’s reviews (which also include January 1 and January …
Heavy Music Headquarters Album Reviews: Week of December 11, 2020
Welcome to Heavy Music HQ’s final weekly reviews of 2020. Our lists of best albums, best progressive albums and more …
Heavy Music Headquarters Album Reviews: Week of December 4, 2020
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from The Advent Equation, Avatarium, Awrizis, Dawnwalker, Deafheaven, Gama Bomb, Genus Ordinis …
The Progress Report: November 2020
Welcome to the November Progress Report – our final report of the year. Next month we will present our Best …
Heavy Music Headquarters Album Reviews: Week of November 27, 2020
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Amahiru, Cadaver, Ceremonial Castings, Diamond Head, Dream Theater, Eleine, Glorious Depravity, …
My Dying Bride – Macabre Cabaret Review
England’s masters of melodic doom My Dying Bride return with a second heap of sorrow in 2020. Following their vaunted …
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 …
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 …