
Category: Album Reviews



Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of November 11, 2022
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Casket Robbery, Constellatia, Epica, He Is Legend, Kampfar, Last In Line, …

Heavy Music HQ Album Reviews: Week of November 4, 2022
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from 96 Bitter Beings, Aurora Borealis, Black Anvil, Black Mirrors, Devin Townsend, …

The Progress Report: October 2022
Welcome to the October Progress Report – our penultimate edition before list season starts. With that in mind, we start …

Heavy Music HQ Album Reviews: Week of October 28, 2022
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Dead Cross, Despised Icon, Fall Of Seraphs, Forlesen, Hoaxed, Morbikon, Nostromo, …

Exhumed – To The Dead Review
San Jose’s Exhumed need no introduction for the sanguine splattered masses, seeing as their debut album dropped almost 25 years …

Heavy Music HQ Album Reviews: Week of October 21, 2022
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Battalions, Black Math Horseman, Black Royal, Crooked Royals, Lost In Kiev, …

Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of October 14, 2022
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Alter Bridge, Catalyst, Daeva, Girih, Lacuna Coil, Orianthi, Riot City, Sea …

Ripped To Shreds – 劇變 (Jubian) Review
Once a solo project by main man Andrew Lee, 劇變 (Jubian) sees Ripped to Shreds‘ third proper album branch out …

Heavy Music HQ Album Reviews: Week of October 7, 2022
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Acid Witch, Armed For Apocalypse, The Bobby Lees, Cloud Rat, Ellefson/Soto, …

Queensryche – Digital Noise Alliance Review
The sixteenth studio album from the thinking man’s metal band, Queensrÿche, is here. Digital Noise Alliance is the band’s first …

Lamb Of God – Omens Review
Omens is the latest album and ninth overall from Richmond, Virginia’s resident scene veterans Lamb Of God. It sees Randy …

Heavy Music HQ Album Reviews: Week of September 30, 2022
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Acephalix, Alice Cooper, The Dead Daisies, Drowning Pool, Escuela Grind, Hexed, …

Autopsy – Morbidity Triumphant Review
Chris Reifert’s legendary death metal outfit Autopsy return after a 7-year gap in albums with Morbidity Triumphant. As the band’s …

The Progress Report: September 2022
Welcome to the September Progress Report. It felt like we struck gold last month with all the high-quality releases, and …

The Retaliators Film Review
In lesser hands, Better Noise Films’ new horror/thriller flick The Retaliators could have been little more than a vanity project …

Heavy Music HQ Album Reviews: Week of September 23, 2022
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Blodskam, Crone, Eternal Closure, Gaerea, Gutvoid, Harvest Of Ash, KEN Mode, …

Heavy Music HQ Album Reviews: Week of September 16, 2022
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Assimilator, Behemoth, Choke, Clutch, The Devil Wears Prada, Edenbridge, Morbus Grave, …

Heavy Music HQ Album Reviews: Week Of September 9, 2022
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Allen/Olzon, Fallujah, I Am, Inhuman Depravity, Mourir, Mo’ynoq, Parkway Drive, Slugcrust, …

Revocation – Netherheaven Review
Netherheaven is the eighth full-length foray for Boston’s Revocation and their first in four years. The lone change in the …

Bloodbath – Survival Of The Sickest Review
Bloodbath need very little introduction on their sixth album Survival Of The Sickest, being the quintessential death metal supergroup and …

Megadeth – The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead! Review
There has been a lot of drama and controversy throughout Megadeth’s career, but the past few years has seen even …

Heavy Music HQ Album Reviews: Week of September 2, 2022
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Ancient North, Defacing God, Figure Of Speechless, Hawkwind, The Hu, King …

The Progress Report – August 2022
Welcome to the August Progress Report, and what a report it is! The quality of music is high this month …