God’s Country is an absolutely incredible piece of work that has echoes of a psychotic break and righteous fury at the world around you. In “Why” asking, all to rightly, why people have to live outside and calling out the absolute fucking bullshit that a country like the United States (or Canada for that matter) can claim to be “developed” nation, and yet so many of its citizens live discarded and ignored by the very country that is supposed to value them so ... read more

Socialist crust punks, Disoviet, have a whole lot to say and not a whole lot of time to say it – likely because they’ve broken into the basement recording studio of a billionaire and have to record this album as quickly as possible before they get home (or at least that is how I’m choosing to interpret “recorded in a basement” from their Bandcamp page). Lessons in Dialectics tears through its five songs in just 9 minutes, and yet manages to condense theory, ... read more

I am absolutely on my hipster bullshit with this one, but what can you do? When you like a thing you just do. It definitely took some time to get on board with Black Country, New Road but at some point it absolutely clicked in my brain and was exactly what I wanted. It’s another of the first albums that I heard this year, and it also helped me to get more interested in seeking out new and different music.

Four songs span over an hour of brutal and desolate soundscapes. Black gaze is a genre that I never knew the name of, but now that I do, it’s kind of all I really want.

No question about it, Super Champon is one of the most chaotic albums I’ve ever listened to. Managing to combine an almost sickly sweet cuteness with ferocious intensity in a way that feels like it shouldn’t work at all, but super fucking does. There is, admittedly, some language and cultural barriers in place that I have to admit lacking context for, but it doesn’t make a single bit of difference to how hard this album slaps.

Do you ever find yourself wondering what Linkin Park might sound like if they were a bit heavier and from India? I hadn’t either, but now that I’ve heard it there’s no going back. Bloodywood mix metal and nu metal with some traditional music. It rules pretty hard and you should be listening to it.

Animals as Leaders absolutely shreds through this album and delivers more top-notch prog metal – as is their way. You can’t go wrong here, just listen to it.

There’s something almost nostalgic about Earthless, it seems like the kind of thing my dad would have been into and knew a guy who knew a guy who sold them weed or something. That’s so oddly specific, but it’s hard not to get specific during a 20 minute song of psychedelic rock music.

A metalcore/djent album featuring Mick Gordon – the man behind the soundtrack to Doom and Doom Eternal – on more than one track? The album was begging me to love it, and so I do. It may not be breaking new ground or advancing the art form, but sometimes this is the exact thing you need.

foxtails hold absolutely nothing back in the 43 minutes you are privileged to spend with fawn; you are on this train and it has no interest in making the trip easy, you will share space with the vulnerability and anger here, and that’s just how it is going to be.

An album as chaotic and ferocious as the times in which it was released, Diaspora Problems does not stop pummeling you until it’s over. A unique and excellent piece of work, trying to call it punk or hardcore almost seems reductive. Put this at the top of your list, immediately.

https://noobheavy.com/soul-glo-diaspora-problems-hardcore/

Something I realize every time that I listen to Rammstein is that they’re never quite as heavy as I’m expecting, even songs that I’ve heard before – if I go back and listen, in my head they are ferocious screaming metal, but there is always a level of softness and gothic beauty that I had forgotten about. They’re a strange band and have been strange since the 90s, who else can say they’ve had that kind of staying power?

Zeal & Ardor is putting out some of the most interesting avant-garde metal right now, and while this may not be what everyone is hoping for, it follows through on the thematic purpose of the three records thus far and is absolutely worth your attention. Right now, go listen to it.

https://noobheavy.com/album-review-zeal-ardor/