Category: Album Reviews
Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of May 9, 2025
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Behemoth, Black Map, Candlemass, The Chemistry Set, Cocaine Culture, Death SS, …
Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of May 2, 2025
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews includes releases from Acherontas, Amalekim, Black Honey Cult, Bleed, Crematory, Encelado, A Flock Named …
Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of April 25, 2025
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Ahamkara, Cadaver, Caliban, Cancer, Changeling, Coffin Feeder, Deserted Fear, Eluveitie, Employed …
Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of April 18, 2025
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Ancient Death, Dormant Ordeal, Exterminatus, Gama Bomb, I Am Your God, …
Messa – The Spin Review
Italian band Messa‘s fourth album The Spin toes the lines between rock and metal. Vocalist Sara Blanchin stars with her …
Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of April 11, 2025
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Church Of The Sea, Elvenking, Epica, Exorcism, Impaled, In The Woods…, …
Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of April 4, 2025
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Allegaeon, Chestcrush, Kiritsis, L.A. Guns, Lo-Pan, Marble Ghosts, Meshuggah, Rotting Christ, …
The Progress Report: March 2025
Welcome to the March Progress Report. As if to make up for last month’s dearth of progressive albums, this column …
Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of March 28, 2025
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Alien Weaponry, Chamber Mage, Deafheaven, Decripisy, Doomsday, Fleshspoil, Judicator, Memphis May …
Arch Enemy – Blood Dynasty Review
Arch Enemy’s 30th anniversary arrives during 2025, and the Swedish metallers have fittingly chosen to celebrate via a new …
Imperial Triumphant – Goldstar Review
Imperial Triumphant‘s sixth album Goldstar is complete with cigarette packaging artwork again featuring Zbigniew Bielak (Ghost/Carcass) and the generally dark …
Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of March 21, 2025
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from As The World Dies, Bloodywood, Calyces, Cradle Of Filth, Dissocia, Drudkh, …
Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of March 14, 2025
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Ade, Black & Damned, The Body, Cartilage, Dorothy, Intensive Care, Manntra, …
Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of March 7, 2025
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Amber Asylum, Avulsed, The Baptized, Christian Mistress, Cryptosis, Dawn Of Ouroboros, …
Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of February 28, 2025
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Avantasia, Brainstorm, Chemicide, The Dead And Living, Dirkschneider, Grima, Havukrunnu, Hirax, …
The Progress Report: February 2025
Welcome to the February Progress Report. We have a bit of an odd duck for a column this month, in …
Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of February 21, 2025
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Abduction, Acid Magus, Aitheer, Dirty Honey, Killswitch Engage, Marrowomb, Mean Mistreater, …
Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of February 14, 2025
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Bleeding Through, Crazy Lixx, Dawn Of Solace, Decline Of The I, …
-(16)- – Guides For The Misguided Review
-(16)-’s sludgy serenades have reached their tenth album with Guides For The Misguided. They feel as strong as ever …
Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of February 7, 2025
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Dream Theater, Ereb Altor, Ghost Hollow, Jinjer, Marko Hietala, Noctambulist, Open …
Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of January 31, 2025
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Consumption, Grief Ritual, The Hellacopters, Kilmara, Lunar, Maceration, Mad Parish, Mountain …
The Progress Report: January 2025
Welcome to January, and the start of a new year of Progress Reports. Unlike last year, which featured some absolutely …
Heavy Music HQ Reviews: Week of January 24, 2025
This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from AnāʻAnā, Axetasy, Bumblefoot, Century, The Ferrymen, Grave Digger, The Great Old …