This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Agriculture, Author & Punisher, Cathedral, Dirkschneider And The Old Gang, Dispossessed, Hooded Menace, Michael Schenker Group, The Red…

September 2025's best heavy metal albums, from Heavy Music HQ.

This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Abraham, Autumn Tears, Cosmic Reaper, Degrave, Fauna, Last Retch, Mors Principium Est, Overt Enemy, Rage, Revocation, The Vintage Caravan and…

Review of the Finnish band Amorphis and their 2025 album Borderland.

This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Ancient Thrones, Castle Rat, Deaf Club, Hartmann, Igorr, Krigsgrav, Mike Tramp, Novembers Doom, Stoned Jesus, Sunniva, Tithe and Vittra. The…

Review of the UK gothic/doom metal band Paradise Lost and their 2025 album Ascension.

2025 interview with Paradise Lost vocalist Nick Holmes. The British doom/death metal band's latest album is Ascension.

The Seattle band Hyperstrike step into this week’s Meet The Band spotlight. Their debut album is High Risk, and there’s also a Hyperstrike video game. Vocalist Adon “BrainLord” Fanion, bassist Ben “Chop Daddy” Bennett and guitarist Ilya “Siberian Claw” Ignatov introduce us to their band. Chad Bowar: Give us a brief history of Hyperstrike. Chop Daddy: Hyperstrike started when I decided to brush the dust off the old Ibanez and get good at guitar again. I had writer’s block for 8 years or so and out of nowhere all these songs flew out of me. I knew I was on

This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Arjen Anthony Lucassen, Beth Blade And The Beautiful Disasters, Between The Buried And Me, Cea Serrin, Der Weg Einer Freiheit, Helstar, Lorna…

2025 interview with Faun vocalist Stephan Groth. The German folk metal band's latest album is Hex.

This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Ambush, Before The Dawn, Esoctrilihum, Fury, Glenn Hughes, Green Carnation, Nailed To Obscurity, Pestilential Shadows, Primal Fear, Still In…

2025 interview with Pestilential Shadows guitarist Balam. The Australian black metal band's latest album is Wretch.

Here are our picks for August 2025’s best heavy metal albums: 1. Blackbraid – Blackbraid III (Self) The success of their first two albums has made upstate New York’s Blackbraid an attractive artist fo...

2025 interview with Shadows vocalist/guitarist Dejan Milenkovits. The blackened death metal band's debut album is Miseria.

This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Adur, Ash Magick, Finnr’s Cane, Headless, In Mourning, Manegarm, Pinkshift, Shadows, Ursawrath, Vicious Rumors and Zatokrev. The ratings are…

Helloween’s vaunted Pumpkins United lineup returns with Giants and Monsters, their second consecutive full-length album as the three-headed monster of Michael Kiske, Andi Deris and Kai Hansen aim to…

This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Abhorrent Expanse, Anthrodynia, Arcadea, Baest, Bask, Blackbriar, Burning Witches, Castrator, Cruel Bomb, Desaster, Feuerschwanz, Glass Lungs,…

2025 interview with Incite vocalist/guitarist Richie Cavalera. The Phoenix thrash/groove metal band's latest album is Savage New Times.

This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Ashes Of Ares, Attack Attack!, Aversions Crown, Babymetal, Blackbraid, Cemetery, Halestorm, Liv Sin, Lord Of The Lost, Malthusian, Sinsaenum…

This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Accvsed, Amphisbaena, Ancient Malice, Barbarous, Hammer, Harvested, Kayo Dot, Moths, Sea Mosquito, Silk Spinster and Victim Of Fire. The…

July 2025's best heavy metal albums, from Heavy Music HQ.

After a quick vacation break, we are back with reviews of albums released last week and this week, including Abigail Williams, Azure Emote, Ba’al, Blind Equation, Bloodletter, Clairvoyance,…

2025 interview with Nefarious drummer Will Carroll (Death Angel) and guitarist Doug Piercy. The thrash band's debut album is Addicted To Power.

2025 interview with dead7 vocalist Jason Kozik. The metalcore band's latest album is Love What You Can While You Still Got Something To Love.

This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Angerot, Atom Juice, Born Of Osiris, Diamond Head, Imperial Crystalline Entombment, Impureza, In The Company Of Serpents, Laguna,…