Category: Album Reviews
Candlemass – The Door To Doom Review
Eons and eons have gone by since the recording of Epicus Doomicus Metallicus, Candlemass’ seminal foray into heavy music, one …
Dream Theater – Distance Over Time Review
Progressive music’s most polarizing band, Dream Theater, are back with Distance Over Time, the band’s 14th studio album, and first …
Rotting Christ – The Heretics Review
Rotting Christ are considered the fathers of Grecian black metal or at least the first band to break out playing …
Avantasia – Moonglow Review
For nearly two decades now, Edguy’s Tobias Sammet has been curating the all-star symphonic power metal project Avantasia. Every few …
Heavy Music Headquarters Album Reviews: Week of February 15, 2019
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Backstabber, Blatant Disarray, Chainbreaker, Coltsblood, Crystal Lake, Diabolical, Endon, Euclidean, Hellnite, …
Heavy Music Headquarters Album Reviews: Week of February 8, 2019
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Beast In Black, Blodskam, Critical Defiance, Downfall Of Gaia, Herman Frank, …
Heavy Music Headquarters Album Reviews: Week of February 1, 2019
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Astronoid, Der Rote Milan, Hedfuzy, Mastiff, Ossuarium, Pulchra Morte, Soen, Sonic …
The Progress Report: January 2019
Welcome to the January Progress Report. Overall in the metal world, the year is off to a rather slow start, …
Evergrey – The Atlantic Review
For more than twenty-five years, Sweden’s Evergrey have been the preeminent purveyors of morose progressive metal. Tom Englund and company …
Heavy Music Headquarters Album Reviews: Week of January 25, 2019
This week’s Heavy Music HQ album reviews include releases from 10:13, Ancient Bards, Ars Magna Umbrae, Carnal Forge, Dodsfall, Entheogen, …
A Pale Horse Named Death – When The World Becomes Undone Review
For the better part of the decade, original Type O Negative drummer Sal Abruscato has perpetuated his former band’s sound …
Flotsam and Jetsam – The End Of Chaos Review
Flotsam and Jetsam show no sign of wear and tear on their latest full-length, The End of Chaos. Even though …
Heavy Music Headquarters Album Reviews: Week of January 18, 2019
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Arch Enemy, Astrophobos, Leach, Magnum, The Mound Builders, Phlebotomized, Raven, Switchfoot, …
Soilwork – Verkligheten Review
For more than two decades, Swedish stalwarts Soilwork have been releasing consistent albums, even as their sound evolved. They have …
Heavy Music Headquarters Album Reviews: Week of January 11, 2019
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Archangel A.D., Artas, At The Gates, Bloody Times, Born Of Osiris, …
Heavy Music Headquarters Album Reviews: Week of January 4, 2019
Welcome to Heavy Music HQ’s first reviews of 2019, which include releases from Beaten To Death, Feral, Festerday, Gandalf’s Owl, …
Heavy Music Headquarters Album Reviews: Week of December 14, 2018
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Cloudburst, Create A Kill, Death Comes Calling, Defy The Curse, Deitus, …
Venom – Storm The Gates Review
Last year we reviewed the solid new album from Venom Inc., Avé. While not the greatest album, it was a …
Heavy Music Headquarters Album Reviews: Week of December 7, 2018
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Alcatrazz, Cardiac, Deathkings, Ernia, For I Am King, Graf Orlock, Johnny …
Heavy Music Headquarters Album Reviews: Week of November 30, 2018
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Battalions, BillyBio, A Canorous Quintet, Emigrate, Groza, Marius Danielsen, Master, Sacrosanct, …
The Progress Report: November 2018
Welcome to the November Progress Report – our last one of the year (December’s will be our Top Prog Albums …
Heavy Music Headquarters Album Reviews: Week of November 23, 2018
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from 22, Accept, Cattle Decapitation, Corpsessed, Flight, Foghound, InnerWish, In The Woods…, …
Heavy Music Headquarters Album Reviews: Week of November 16, 2018
This week’s Heavy Music HQ album reviews include releases from All Hail The Yeti, Amon Amarth, Anneke Van Giersbergen, Artillery, …