
Category: Album Reviews



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 …

The Progress Report: September 2020
Welcome to the September Progress Report. Interestingly, this might be the first month in four years that we don’t have …

Ayreon – Transitus Review
Ayreon albums are always lavish productions with a long running time, a dramatic storyline and numerous guests. That’s also the …

Heavy Music Headquarters Album Reviews: Week of September 25, 2020
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Angelic Desolation, Dropdead, Ewigkeit, Four Stroke Baron, Kataklysm, Lik, Morta Skuld, …

The Ocean – Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic Review
Certainly one of the most anticipated albums of the year would be Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic (hereafter referred to …

Heavy Music Headquarters Album Reviews: Week of September 18, 2020
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Behemoth, Brother Firetribe, Carnation, Dynfari, Finntroll, Fires In The Distance, Heathen, …

Napalm Death – Throes Of Joy In The Jaws Of Defeatism Review
With 15 prior albums under their belt, Napalm Death have very little left to prove to the metal world, being …

Heavy Music Headquarters Album Reviews: Week of September 11, 2020
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Aborted Fetus, Aether Realm, Bornwithhair, Demolizer, Eskimo Callboy, Ghoulhouse, Ihsahn, Korgull …

Stryper – Even The Devil Believes Review
Veteran metal band Stryper may be best remembered from the ’80s as the group dressed in black and yellow spandex …

Heavy Music Headquarters Album Reviews: Week of September 4, 2020
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Amputation, Cult Of Lilith, Dead Lord, Dunwich, Eave, En Minor, Fortoken, …

The Pineapple Thief – Versions Of The Truth Review
Like many albums we are going to be hearing in the back half of 2020, Versions of the Truth comes …

The Progress Report: August 2020
Welcome to the August Progress Report, and what an August it is, with two albums that stand a better than …

Venom – Sons Of Satan Review
Sons of Satan: Rare And Unreleased is a collection of early demos originally released as a deluxe vinyl boxset titled …

Heavy Music Headquarters Album Reviews: Week of August 28, 2020
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Dokken, From The Depth, Gorgatron, Gutvoid, Hinayana, In Flames, Lynch Mob, …