
Category: Album Reviews



Heavy Music HQ Album Reviews: Week of November 5, 2021
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Bornholm, Bryan Eckermann, Bullet For My Valentine, Crazy Lixx, Deber, Deceased, …

Lucifer – Lucifer IV Review
Lucifer return with their fourth proper album, only a year after the amazing Lucifer III. Their constant embrace for ‘70s …

Mastodon – Hushed And Grim Review
Four plus years after 2017’s Emperor Of Sand, the mighty Mastodon return with the double album Hushed And Grim, their …

Heavy Music HQ Album Reviews: Week of October 29, 2021
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from 1914, Aexylium, Bastardur, Beast In Black, Be’lakor, Black Veil Brides, Bobby …

The Progress Report: October 2021
Welcome to the October Progress Report. As the end of the year (and therefore list season) approaches, things are heating …

Within The Abyss: October 2021
Welcome to another installment of Within The Abyss. Each month we review black metal albums from all over the world, …

Cradle Of Filth – Existence Is Futile Review
British gothic metal icons Cradle Of Filth once again open Pandora’s Box with Existence Is Futile. The group’s thirteenth album …

Heavy Music HQ Album Reviews: Week of October 22, 2021
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Apparition, Armored Saint, Blackwater Holylight, Catalyst Crime, Dream Theater, Dust Mountain, …

Heavy Music HQ Album Reviews: Week of October 15, 2021
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Aeon, The Agonist, Alcatrazz, Ded, Dug Pinnick, Feed The Corpses To …

Trivium – In The Court Of The Dragon Review
The pandemic put all bands on the sidelines when it came to touring. Musicians used that downtime in different ways. …

Heavy Music HQ Album Reviews: Week of October 8, 2021
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include Alda, Antichrist Siege Machine, Atrae Bilis, Black Sites, Blood Red Throne, Eternal Silence, …

Heavy Music HQ Album Reviews: Week of October 1, 2021
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from 1000 Bone Cylinder Explosion, Alkuhamonian Kantaja, Big|Brave, The Body, Bummer, Charred, …

The Progress Report: September 2021
Welcome to the September Progress Report. As we head into the final months of 2021 (already?!) we will typically see …

Within The Abyss: September 2021
Welcome to another installment of Within The Abyss. Each month I review albums from humanity’s darkest form of music, black …

Heavy Music HQ Album Reviews: Week of September 24, 2021
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Aeon Zen, Cognizance, Drott, Grinder Blues, Hellsword, Nefariym, A Pale Horse …

Rivers Of Nihil – The Work Review
Anyone that heard the massive evolution Rivers Of Nihil took on 2018’s Where Owls Know My Name won’t be surprised …

Heavy Music HQ Album Reviews: Week of September 17, 2021
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Alien Weaponry, Anomaly, Aversio Humanitatis, Brainstorm, Centenary, Charlotte Wessels, Criminal, Eard, …

Carcass – Torn Arteries Review
Few bands in extreme metal can boast the albums that Carcass have released. Reek Of Putrefaction made goregrind a thing, …

Heavy Music HQ Album Reviews: Week of September 3, 2021
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Apallic, Behemoth, Beyond Grace, Carnifex, Deformatory, Feral Lord, Lady Beast, Malison, …

Iron Maiden – Senjutsu Review
When a band has been around as long as Iron Maiden and released so many iconic albums, expectations are bound …

Within The Abyss: August 2021
Welcome to another installment of Within The Abyss. Each month I dissect albums from the global black metal scene with …

The Progress Report: August 2021
Welcome to the August Progress Report. As summer winds down we bring you another half-dozen progressive music albums of varying …

Heavy Music HQ Album Reviews: Week of August 27, 2021
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from The Bronx, Danko Jones, Filth Is Eternal, Graveland, Heathen Rites, Hooded …