
Category: Album Reviews



Imperial Triumphant – Goldstar Review
Imperial Triumphant‘s sixth album Goldstar is complete with cigarette packaging artwork again featuring Zbigniew Bielak (Ghost/Carcass) and the generally dark …

Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of March 21, 2025
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from As The World Dies, Bloodywood, Calyces, Cradle Of Filth, Dissocia, Drudkh, …

Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of March 14, 2025
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Ade, Black & Damned, The Body, Cartilage, Dorothy, Intensive Care, Manntra, …

Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of March 7, 2025
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Amber Asylum, Avulsed, The Baptized, Christian Mistress, Cryptosis, Dawn Of Ouroboros, …

Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of February 28, 2025
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Avantasia, Brainstorm, Chemicide, The Dead And Living, Dirkschneider, Grima, Havukrunnu, Hirax, …

The Progress Report: February 2025
Welcome to the February Progress Report. We have a bit of an odd duck for a column this month, in …

Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of February 21, 2025
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Abduction, Acid Magus, Aitheer, Dirty Honey, Killswitch Engage, Marrowomb, Mean Mistreater, …

Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of February 14, 2025
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Bleeding Through, Crazy Lixx, Dawn Of Solace, Decline Of The I, …

-(16)- – Guides For The Misguided Review
-(16)-’s sludgy serenades have reached their tenth album with Guides For The Misguided. They feel as strong as ever …

Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of February 7, 2025
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Dream Theater, Ereb Altor, Ghost Hollow, Jinjer, Marko Hietala, Noctambulist, Open …

Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of January 31, 2025
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Consumption, Grief Ritual, The Hellacopters, Kilmara, Lunar, Maceration, Mad Parish, Mountain …

The Progress Report: January 2025
Welcome to January, and the start of a new year of Progress Reports. Unlike last year, which featured some absolutely …

Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of January 24, 2025
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from AnāʻAnā, Axetasy, Bumblefoot, Century, The Ferrymen, Grave Digger, The Great Old …

Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of January 17, 2025
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Aeon Of Awareness, The Cimmerian, Deadly Magic, Ex Deo, The Halo …

Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of December 13, 2024
Our final weekly reviews of 2024 include releases from An Axis Of Perdition, Canis Diris, Caressing Misery, Druparia, Harkane, Helloween, …

Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of December 6, 2024
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Aara, Among These Ashes, Axioma, Blessed King Of Longing, Catharia, Dragunov, …

The Progress Report: November 2024
Welcome to the November Progress Report, our last new review column of the year. December will see our summary of …

Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of November 29, 2024
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from An Autumn, Bedsore, Corrosive Elements, Fire Action, The Gates Of Slumber, …

Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of November 22, 2024
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Aeon Gods, Ante-Inferno, Crossbone Skully, Defeated Sanity, Die For My Sins, …

Opeth – The Last Will and Testament Review
Swedish prog giants Opeth are back with The Last Will and Testament, their fourteenth outing and the follow-up to 2019’s …

Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of November 15, 2024
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Apocryphal, As I Lay Dying, Empires Of Eden, Fiasko, HollowKin, Miracle …

Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of November 8, 2024
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Abschwörzunge, The Body, Delain, Earthburner, Ghost Frog, Heavy//Hitter, Isleptonthemoo, Molder, Paysage …

Neon Nightmare – Faded Dream Review
When it comes to heavy fall tunes it’s tough to top Type O Negative’s contributions to the craft. Neon Nightmare …