Category: Album Reviews
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, …
Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of July 4, 2025
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Anger Machine, Gaupa, Keddies Resort, Leonov, Motorhead, Mutant Sex Demon, Phantom …
Deadguy – Near-Death Travel Services Review
Returning from 30 years of LP silence are New Jersey legends Deadguy with their sophomore release, Near-Death Travel Services. Their …
Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of June 27, 2025
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Anfauglir, Heaven Shall Burn, Lenax, Lord Belial, Margantha, Niklas Sonne, Noumenia, …
Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of June 20, 2025
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Alestorm, Black Majesty, Cryptopsy, Deathblow, Death Pill, Helheim, Helms Deep, Imha …
Heavy Music HQ Album Reviews: Week of June 13, 2025
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from A-Z, Agabas, Buckcherry, Byzantine, Dolven, Fairyland, Fallujah, Goya, Hexvessel, Leafblower, Malvada, …
Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of June 6, 2025
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Acrolysis, Austere, Bacon Wagon, Bear Mace, Bludgeoned By Deformity, Dissonant Seepage, …
The Haunted – Songs Of Last Resort Review
It has been nearly eight years since The Haunted released their last album, 2017’s Strength In Numbers. They return with …
Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of May 30, 2025
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include reviews of albums from Cwfen, Death Rattle, Drifter, Low Before The Breeze, Obsidian …