Written by Westin, Kirk, Ellis, and Kep Welcome back to your regularly scheduled monthly roundup from Noob Heavy. We covered some kickass music this month and we’re about to cover more kickass music. Buckle up; [...] The post August August appeared first on Noob Heavy ..read more

Written by Kep, Westin, Ellis, Kirk, and Espi Kvlt Welcome to the midpoint of 2024! This year we’re mixing it up, and instead of a June release roundup, we’re doing individual quick-hit best album lists. Read on for five “Best of 2024…So Far” lists from our writing staff and make sure to hit us up on Twitter to let us know how vehemently you disagree. We begin with the writer whose taste is by far the most well-rounded: WESTIN (Albums listed in alphabetical order) Allie X – Girl With No Face This is one of the most addicting albums I’ve listened to all year; Allie is an absolute master at ..read more

Written by Kep, Westin, Ellis, and Kirk March felt like the first truly packed month of 2024 as far as releases go, as we were swamped by a tidal wave of Extremely Good Shit. We loved a lot of things, and we’re here to tell you all about them. As always, quick links to our reviews of March releases: Angmodnes – Rot of the Soul Cell Press – Cages Wounds – Ruin Hideous Divinity – Unextinct Cave Moth – In Memory Eternal And now on to the rest of the best! Iskalde Morket – Deleted Scenes from the Pandemic Ward Black/death metal from the UK Solo project Iskalde Morket has already released some rea ..read more

Written by Kep Cave Moth – In Memory Eternal > Grindcore/black/screamo > East coast, US > Releasing March 29 > Independent/self-release After the first time I listened to In Memory Eternal, I took two or three days before listening to it again. In that two or three days, I asked myself “Should I review this?” on more than one occasion, because In Memory Eternal sounded very little like the Cave Moth I thought I knew. I eventually decided that yeah, I should, and finally gave it a second listen with ears as wide open as possible. It was (and ..read more

Written by Westin, Ellis, Kep, Rae-Aila, and Kirk We here at Noob Heavquarters were a bit quiet during September—life responsibilities and all that, you know the drill—but not for want of plenty of great music, which the month absolutely delivered. We’re gonna make up for going light on the full reviews by going heavy on the roundup minis. Gird your loins, motherfuckers. Quick links to our reviews for September albums: Białywilk – Zmora Dying Fetus – Make Them Beg for Death PeelingFlesh – Slamaholics, Vol. 2Champenoise – LostThrough Mists – Starkiller / Homicidal Hamsters Terra Builder ..read more

Written by Kirk Champenoise – Lost > Emotive post-hardcore/indie rock/shoegaze > New Jersey, US > September 22 > Syrup Moose Records In case you haven’t already heard, this is “The Year of the Moose.” No, I’m not talking about some silly made-up day to honor some esoteric, niche thing that a handful of people of Facebook and a tiny, nigh-forgotten subreddit collectively celebrate. I’m talking about the first anniversary of the record label that started out as a joke and ended up becoming a tour de force, Syrup Moose Records. The only record label I know of that has “No Fuckin ..read more

Written by Westin, Kep, Kirk, and Ellis Here we are again, folks, another month of 2023 is in the books. We wrote about a ton of killer April music already, but there are some things we didn’t review that we really loved. Read on to see what you might have missed! In case you missed any of them, here are quick links to all of our reviews for April releases: Mammon’s Throne – Mammon’s Throne Anthropophagous – Abuse of a Corpse Harjo – The Magi Incandesca – Destronomer Blazon Rite – Wild Rites and Ancient Songs AthanaTheos – Cross. Deny. Glorify. Smoulder – Violent Creed of Vengeance Heathen For ..read more

Hey, I’m Mike, friend of the Noob Heavy crew and also known as ProgPro on social media. Since there have been so many releases this year, I made a Spotify playlist so you can check out EVERYTHING I enjoyed from 2022. But for now, here are my top albums! Albums I enjoyed that didn’t make the list: 40 Watt Sun – Perfect Light A.A. Williams – As the Moon Rests Ashenspire – Hostile Architecture Assumption – Hadean Tides Barn – Habitat Cloud Rat – Threshold Denzel Curry – Melt My Eyez See Your Future Ethel Cain – Preacher’s Daughter GGGOLDDD – This Shame Should Not Be Mine Hatchie – Giving the Worl ..read more

Hey, I’m Westin and this is my Albums of the Year list. If you don’t know me I am extremely annoying on Twitter. And when I’m not busy doing that, I’m listening to music and writing reviews for this blog. 2022 was yet another year in the passage of so called time, which I have begun to question – is time even real? The answer is no, and so here I am yet again. 2022 has been, like 2021 and 2020 before it, another mindblowing year for music. I truly believe that we are living through a renaissance in the underground and alternative music culture, which is a small silver lining to all the horribl ..read more

Written by Ellis Heasley Brutus – Unison Life > Post-Hardcore/Post-Metal > Leuven, Belgium > Releases October 21 > Hassle Records It is hard not to start this review with one cliché or another about how Brutus are one of those special bands who don’t fit into any one box. Or how they manage to sound so fucking massive despite having just three members. Or how instantly recognisable their sound becomes as soon as you’ve heard anything they’ve done. Point is, this Belgian trio are remarkable, and if you have listened to any of their previous records you probably won’t need telli ..read more