Noob Heavy
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Website focusing on reviewing and interviewing the newest underground metal and hardcore bands. Creator of resources such as The Free Bandcamp Wiki and Commissioning Artists List. Our team is dedicated to digging deep into the underground, not just the rising stars everyone else covers.
Noob Heavy
2d ago
Written by Westin
Hekseblad – Kaer Morhen
> Melodic black metal
> Michigan/Massachusetts, US
> Releasing April 19
> Hypnotic Dirge Records
“Punk is dead” is a common refrain that’s so ingrained in music that it’s become memetic. It’s gone from earnest to rejected to ironic to post-ironic and all the way back again, constantly igniting debate about what the phrase and the genre itself even mean. Although no such phrase exists for black metal, a similar sentiment has lurked within the culture for decades, ready to decry the death of the “trve kvlt” and incite arguments about wh ..read more
Noob Heavy
5d ago
Written by Kep
Atræ Bilis – Aumicide
> Technical death metal
> British Columbia, CA
> Releasing April 19
> 20 Buck Spin
Vancouver four-piece Atræ Bilis burst onto the scene in the back half of 2020, right when we all were locked in our houses trying not to get sick. And, like many other folks, working from home with a lot of the rest of my life on pause, I was pouring myself into new metal releases on a weekly basis. I latched onto Divinihility and its 22 minutes of crispity crunchy tech like a goddamn leech, naming it the second-best EP of 2020 ..read more
Noob Heavy
1w ago
Written by Kirk
Castle Rat — Into the Realm
> Doom/trad metal
> Brooklyn, NY
> Releasing April 12
> King Volume Records
Somewhere deep in the heart of Brooklyn stands a lonely hill, lost and forgotten to the annals of time. At the top of this hill and surrounded by a nigh-impenetrable forest and fog so thick you could lose your hand is a castle, its walls eternally wet and covered with moss. Though the walls seem on the brink of collapse and the floors look as though they could give way at any second, it remains as sturdy now as it was the day it was built, a testa ..read more
Noob Heavy
1w ago
Written by Kep
Replicant – Infinite Mortality
> Dissonant death metal
> New Jersey, US
> Releasing April 12
> Transcending Obscurity Records
I listen to a lot of metal. I listen to it a lot. So much so that I’m pretty sure my wife has accepted it as part of the permanent background to her life. Rare is the band, though, that can make enough of impression to jump out amongst the sea of heavy shit I listen to and make her say, unprompted, “I like this,” and then, later, again unprompted, “I really, really like this.” The Kep’s Wife Stamp of “Damn That’s Good” list is ..read more
Noob Heavy
2w ago
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
Noob Heavy
1M ago
Written by Kirk
Cell Press — Cages
> Grindcore/noise rock/sludge metal
> Quebec, Canada
> Released March 8
> The Ghost is Clear Records/Ancient Temple Recordings/No List Records
(Scene opens)
(You are in a dimly-lit dive bar as you fumble your way into the men’s room, the hinges squeaking loudly in spite of the band blasting away on stage. As your eyes adjust to the change in lighting, you see a guy snorting something off the sink before catching your reflection in the mirror and spinning around to face you, a weird grin on his face.)
HIM: Hey, man! This your first time comin ..read more
Noob Heavy
1M ago
Written by Westin, Ellis, Kep, and Kirk
Well friends, February is over and March has arrived. The neverending trudge of time carries on heedless of our protests and priorities. Each day brings us yet another step closer to the end of another month, the end of another year, and the end of our human existence. Onward we march; onward we toil.
But February also brought us some killer metal and metal-adjacent shit, so let’s talk about that instead!
As per usual, quick links to our reviews of February releases:
Spectral Voice – Sparagmos
Amiture – Mother Engine
Stellar Remains – Wastelands
Commande ..read more
Noob Heavy
1M ago
Written by Kep
Angmodnes – Rot of the Soul
> Funeral doom
> Netherlands
> Releasing March 1
> Meuse Music Records
Dutch funeral doom trio Angmodnes first caught my ears back in 2022 with their debut EP The Weight of Eternity. Their sound was sorrowful, plaintive, and crushing, with a penchant for poignant melodies and pervasive dreary atmosphere. It was a promising listen, but at only 36 minutes (the sound you hear is grindcore fans passing out at the concept of a 36-minute EP) I needed more to really come to a verdict on Angmodnes. Would their s ..read more
Noob Heavy
1M ago
Written by Kirk
Samsara Joyride — The Subtle & the Dense
> Stoner rock/heavy blues/heavy psych
> Austria
> Releasing February 23
> Tonzonen Records
What exactly is “heavy music”? How do you define it? Is it the way the music sounds, or is there more to it than that? These are questions I have found myself asking time and time again since officially returning to the world of heavy metal and fully immersing myself into that musical culture in late 2018. I was too young to fully understand or appreciate it when I first heard Black Sabbath’s Paranoid oozing through the wall s ..read more
Noob Heavy
2M ago
Written by Kirk
Commander : ) — Starberry Perzervz
> Electronic/experimental/noise rock
> Washington, US
> Releasing February 16
> Philip K. Discs
I don’t know if this is some kind of cardinal sin for which I need to atone, but I watched the Grammys on February 4th. Was I in any way invested in any of the artists who were up for any of the awards? Fuck no! (although I do find it funny that Boygenius beat bands like Arctic Monkeys and Foo Fighters in both the Rock and Alternative categories, but that’s because I think Chad tears are delicious.) To be honest, I watched it becau ..read more