
Category: Album Reviews



Evergrey – Escape Of The Phoenix Review
Dark prog masters Evergrey return with Escape Of The Phoenix, their twelfth album and first since their conceptual trilogy of …

The Progress Report: February 2021
Welcome to the February Progress Report. Progressive music got off to an average start in January, but this month things …

Within The Abyss: February 2021
Welcome (to Hell) to another installment of my monthly black metal column, Within The Abyss. Each month I review a …

Heavy Music HQ Album Reviews: Week of February 19, 2021
This week’s Heavy Music Headquarters reviews include releases from The Amenta, Buried, Crystallion, Harakiri For The Sky, In Tormentata Quiete, …

Heavy Music HQ Album Reviews: Week of February 12, 2021
This week’s Heavy Music Headquarters album reviews include releases from Ablaze My Sorrow, Abythic, Ad Nauseum, Arc Of Life, Crystal …

Heavy Music HQ Album Reviews: Week of February 5, 2021
This week’s Heavy Music Headquarters album reviews include releases from Age Total, Angelus Apatrida, Astora, Boozewa, Cult Of Luna, Everdawn, …

Accept – Too Mean To Die Review
It has been forty-five years since seminal German metal band Accept first came into being. Perhaps, then, it is appropriate …

Heavy Music HQ Album Reviews: Week of January 29, 2021
This week’s Heavy Music Headquarters album reviews include releases from Altered Dead, And Now The Owls Are Smiling, Belial, The …

The Progress Report: January 2021
Welcome to the January Progress Report, and Happy New Year to everyone out there. It’s not much of a bar …

Tribulation – Where The Gloom Becomes Sound Review
Swedish goth metallers Tribulation return for their fifth proper album. It’s the third in which they embrace this side of …

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 …

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, …