Category: Album Reviews
Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of November 21, 2025
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Aeons, Bloodbound, Calcraft, Cassidy Paris, Danko Jones, Def Leppard, El Muerto, …
Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of November 14, 2025
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from 1914, Aerial Ruin, Bell Witch, Chairmaker, The Devil Wears Prada, Fallstaf, …
Drain – …Is Your Friend Review
…Is Your Friend is Drain‘s third album, picking up from where their 2023 beast Living Proof left off. The band …
Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of November 7, 2025
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Agnostic Front, Beastwars, Black Sabbitch, Centinex, Cold Steel, Denial Of Life, …
Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of October 31, 2025
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Aephanemer, Alpha Destroyer, Barren Path, Bastard Cross, Believe In Nothing, Burned …
Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of October 24, 2025
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from The Acacia Strain, Born Divided, Cemetery Moon, Darah, Jet Jaguar, Mammoth, …
Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of October 17, 2025
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from An Abstract Illusion, Battle Beast, Biohazard, Coroner, Evoken, Flitcraft, Graveripper, Now …
Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of October 10, 2025
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Blindfolded And Led To The Woods, Dead Heat, Extortionist, Frayle, Friendship …
Testament – Para Bellum Review
Testament‘s fourteenth album Para Bellum, their first since 2020’s Titans Of Creation, features most of the same lineup. Longtime drummer …
Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of October 3, 2025
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Agriculture, Author & Punisher, Cathedral, Dirkschneider And The Old Gang, Dispossessed, …
Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of September 26, 2025
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Abraham, Autumn Tears, Cosmic Reaper, Degrave, Fauna, Last Retch, Mors Principium …
Amorphis – Borderland Review
The veteran Finnish band Amorphis‘ fifteenth album is Borderland. It opens with the powerful “The Circle,” featuring the expected vocal …
Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of September 19, 2025
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Ancient Thrones, Castle Rat, Deaf Club, Hartmann, Igorr, Krigsgrav, Mike Tramp, …
Paradise Lost – Ascension Review
Paradise Lost‘s 17th album is Ascension, the proper follow-up to 2020’s Obsidian. Having been a part of the nascent …
Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of September 12, 2025
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Arjen Anthony Lucassen, Beth Blade And The Beautiful Disasters, Between The …
Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of September 5, 2025
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Ambush, Before The Dawn, Esoctrilihum, Fury, Glenn Hughes, Green Carnation, Nailed …
Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of August 29, 2025
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Adur, Ash Magick, Finnr’s Cane, Headless, In Mourning, Manegarm, Pinkshift, Shadows, …
Helloween – Giants And Monsters Review
Helloween’s vaunted Pumpkins United lineup returns with Giants and Monsters, their second consecutive full-length album as the three-headed monster …
Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of August 22, 2025
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Abhorrent Expanse, Anthrodynia, Arcadea, Baest, Bask, Blackbriar, Burning Witches, Castrator, Cruel …
Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of August 8, 2025
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Ashes Of Ares, Attack Attack!, Aversions Crown, Babymetal, Blackbraid, Cemetery, Halestorm, …
Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of August 1, 2025
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Accvsed, Amphisbaena, Ancient Malice, Barbarous, Hammer, Harvested, Kayo Dot, Moths, Sea …
Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of July 25, 2025
After a quick vacation break, we are back with reviews of albums released last week and this week, including Abigail …
Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of July 11, 2025
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Angerot, Atom Juice, Born Of Osiris, Diamond Head, Imperial Crystalline Entombment, …