Category: Album Reviews
Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of June 2, 2023
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Body Stuff, Buckcherry, Dieth, DiGelsomina, Einar Solberg, Gloryhammer, Hellwitch, OK Goodnight, …
The Progress Report: May 2023
Welcome to the May Progress Report. The themes this month are twofold: independent releases and long albums. Four of these …
Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of May 26, 2023
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Hanoi Rocks, Heathen Kings, Incendiary, Inherus, Khanate, Nattverd, Pandrador, Raven, Sirenia, …
Immortal – War Against All Review
A new Immortal album raises more questions than answers, it would seem. With the departure of Abbath in 2015 and …
Metal Church – Congregation Of Annihilation Review
Throughout Metal Church’s extensive, on-again/off-again career, they have remained standard bearers for pure, uncompromising heavy metal, a trend which happily …
Frozen Soul – Glacial Domination Review
Frozen Soul carved out their frosty funeral two years ago with the crushing Crypt Of Ice, an exceptional debut with …
Heavy Music HQ Album Reviews: Week of May 19, 2023
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Alcatrazz, The Amity Affliction, Ara Solis, Arjen Lucassen’s Supersonic Revolution, Botanist, …
Cattle Decapitation – Terrasite Review
For their tenth full-length and first album in nearly four years, Cattle Decapitation return with Terrasite. This collective represents a …
Heavy Music HQ Album Reviews: Week of May 12, 2023
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Ascended Dead, Battle Born, Cronos Compulsion, The Dark Side Of The …
Heavy Music HQ Album Reviews: Week of May 5, 2023
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Blood Ceremony, Burning Witches, Countless Skies, Dawn Of Existence, Drain, Enforcer, …
Unearth – The Wretched; The Ruinous Review
Seeing Mass-hole metalcore mainstays Unearth live earlier this year after nearly a decade’s gap between Australian tours, this scribe walked …
The Progress Report: April 2023
Welcome to the April Progress Report. Pretty much any review roundup is going to pale in comparison to last month’s …
Heavy Music HQ Album Reviews: Week of April 28, 2023
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Chrome Waves, Cradle Of Filth, Danava, Enforced, Fires In The Distance, …
Heavy Music HQ Album Reviews: Week of April 21, 2023
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from The 69 Eyes, Angel, As Everything Unfolds, Blodtar, Blood Star, Dawn …
Metallica – 72 Seasons Review
On the surface, Metallica’s new album 72 Seasons is eerily similar to their last full-length, 2016’s Hardwired…To Self Destruct. Both …
Heavy Music HQ Album Reviews: Week of April 14, 2023
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Altari, Atreyu, Carcariass, Deathgrave, Dodheimsgard, The Hellfreaks, Holy Moses, Jesus Piece, …
Overkill – Scorched Review
Twenty albums in and no signs of stopping seems pretty par for the course for New Jersey metal titans Overkill, …
Heavy Music HQ Album Reviews: Week of April 7, 2023
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Asystole, Atemporal, Ayyur, The Golden Grass, The Grifted, Heathen Foray, Heretic …
Heavy Music HQ Album Reviews: Week of March 31, 2023
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Crown Lands, Demonstealer, Desert Storm, Haliphron, Invicta, Kommand, Last In Line, …
The Progress Report: March 2023
Welcome to the March Progress Report – possibly the best Progress Report in the column’s history. Not the writing – …
Heavy Music HQ Album Reviews: Week of March 24, 2023
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Category VI, Dawn Ray’d, Endless Nameless, Floor Jansen, Gatekeeper, Hatesphere, Ihsahn, …
Heavy Music HQ Album Reviews: Week of March 17, 2023
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Anarkhon, The Answer, Choir, Downfall Of Gaia, Foretoken, Kamelot, Kruelty, Night …
Heavy Music HQ Album Reviews: Week of March 10, 2023
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Bastard Grave, Dirge, Exelerate, Frozen Crown, Gorod, Isole, Judiciary, Läjä Äijälä …