The New Jersey duo Datura Lodge are this week’s featured Meet The Band artist. They just released their self-titled debut album. Vocalist/bassist Nicky B and vocalist/guitarist W introduce us to their...

Review of the Swedish melodic death metal band Amon Amarth and their 2026 album The Allfather Awakens.

This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Butcher Babies, Crimson Steel, Crystal Throne, Cursed To Occult, Dissimulator, Frozen Crown, The Green Goblins, Hippotraktor, Krallice, Miss Ma...

September 2026's best heavy metal albums, from Heavy Music HQ.

2026 interview with the Swedish death metal band Sacreligious. Their debut album is Brutality Incarnated.

This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from 7 Miles To Pittsburgh, Aborym, Bloodstain, Brat, Burner, Cloven Hoof, Europe, Gargant, Metalite, Noctule, The Ocean, Pure Reason Revolution, Si...

2026 interview with Aletheya vocalist Gianni Carcione. The Italian power metal band's full-length debut is Chance To Reborn.

This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from 30,000 Monkies, Abstracted Mind, Anthrax, Blodtar, The Cartographer, Domino Drive, Early Moods, Holding Absence, Kai Hansen, Mourning Wood, Omb...

This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Archgoat, Cartilage, Dreadnought, Green Lung, Harlott, Hunter Omega, Jess By The Lake, Lemongrab, Shrineburner, Sněť, Space Chaser, Til The End...

Back in 2010, Mustaine: A Heavy Metal Memoir was released, with Dave Mustaine chronicling his youth, joining Metallica, the acrimonious exit from that band and the founding and rise of Megadeth. It wa...

2026 interview with Fog Wall's Alex Malmquist and Zak Brady. The Reno, Nevada death metal band's debut album is Gloomweaver.

This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from 156/Silence, Acausal Intrusion, Accept, Airbourne, Behemoth, Devil Master, Encasement, Green Carnation, Grimner, Kingcrown, Mad Max, Pirate Que...

2026 interview with The Unknown guitarist Aamir Syed. The Connecticut heavy/power metal band's latest album is Graveyard Of Empires.

August 2026's best new heavy metal album releases, from Heavy Music HQ.

Review of Mastodon's 2026 album Marrow Deep.

This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Apocaelypse, Azgaal, Colorblind, Dreamwell, Echoes Of A Dying World, Exhumer, Flotsam And Jetsam, Immiserator, In This Moment, Kamelot, Kickin ...

The latest release from symphonic metal veterans Kamelot is Dark Asylum. The concept album features guest appearances from Tobias Sammet (Edguy), Clementine Delauney (Visions Of Atlantis, Exit Eden) a...

Canadian hard rockers Famous Strangers step into this week’s Meet The Band spotlight as they issue their self-titled debut album. Vocalist Amanda Kiernan, guitarist Jeff Kittlitz, bassist Braden Sustr...

This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Axty, Dark Funeral, Deathgrave, Deceptor, Famous Strangers, Fejd, Fen, The Night Eternal, Nova Riot, Ocean Sleeper, Pattern-Seeking Animals, Ra...

It has been a decade since the Swedish folk metal band Fejd released a new album. Their latest effort is Nifelheim. Vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Patrik Rimmerfors gets us up to speed on the albu...

This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from The Absolution Sequence, Abyssal Rift, Cutthroat, Dead Tired, Glu, Holissstik, Megascavenger, Only Echoes, Raunchy, Saliva, Storm Force and Tre...

This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from 10,000 Years, Crumbling Ghost, Din Of Celestial Birds, Hollywood Vampires, Initiate, Labor Of The Negative, Saprovore, The Sorrow Of Being Imma...

Review of the American black metal band Hulder and their 2026 album Verbolgen.

July 2026's best new heavy metal albums, from Heavy Music HQ.

2026 interview with Complexant bassist Chris Tuckley. The Australian band's full-length debut album is Apex.

This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Allt, Bear McCreary, Ceremonial Worship, Complexant, Dry Wedding, Finsterforst, Future Palace, Iconic, Lalu, Sinner and Taake. The ratings are ...

After a one-week break, we are back! This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Black Sites, Boundaries, Fuming Mouth, The Hu, Inferno, Jehovah On Death, Left To Die, Madball, Motionless...

2026 interview with REZN's Spencer McWilliams and Spencer Ouellette. The Chicago band's latest album is Cycles In The Infinite Dream.

This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Arise From Worms, Cranial Osteotomy, DevilDriver, Eva Under Fire, Grim Legion, Healer, Iron Slaught, No Cure, Smoking Snakes, Sojourner, Spread...

This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Deep Purple, Dominum, Dragsholm, Moonspell, Mortem, Solace, The Tirith, Todomal, Troy The Band, Tsar Stangra and Witchsorrow. The ratings are o...

June 2026's best heavy metal albums, from Heavy Music HQ.

2026 interview with Entropist guitarist/vocalist Solomon Smith. The progressive death metal band's debut album is The Vision.

This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Amberian Dawn, Bong Wizard, Entropist, Junius, Masterplan, NunSlaughter, Orga Mecha, The Pretty Reckless, Shane Embury, Siamese, Swanwriter and...

2026 interview with Amberian Dawn vocalist Nicole Willerton and guitarist/keyboardist Tuomas Seppaa. The Finnish symphonic power metal band's latest album is Temptation's Gates.

2026 interview with Seven Metal Sins vocalist Claw-G and drummer Patrick Soria. The French band's debut album is Legacy Of Chaos.

This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Einherjer, Endseeker, Eternal Recurrence, Loneshore, Lost In Kyiv, Mattador, Mork, Saidan, Stitched Up Heart and U.S. Bastards. The ratings are...

Review of the UK doom metal band Warning and their 2026 album Rituals Of Shame.

This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Big|Brave, The Chronicles Of Manimal And Samara, Defiled, Fires In The Distance, Fleshcrawl, Genghis Tron, Goetia, Joseph Tholl, Khemmis, Lockh...

2026 interview with Urzah vocalist/guitarist Ed Fairman, vocalist/guitarist Tom McElveen, bassist Dan Bradley and drummer James Brown. Their latest album is A Tranquil Void.

This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from The 69 Eyes, August Burns Red, Belushi Speed Ball, Converge, Dead Void, Ditheist, Evergrey, Godless, My Own Will, Together To The Stars, Vithia...

The legendary Voivod teamed up with the Quebec Symphony Orchestra for Symphonique, reimagining classic Voivod material with full orchestral arrangements. I spoke with drummer Michel “Away” Langevin ab...

The best heavy metal albums released in May 2026, from Heavy Music HQ.

This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Devin Townsend, Erdve, The Freqs, Funebrarum, Godthyrmm, Hanry, Hecate Enthroned, Leatherwitch, Monolord, On Borrowed Time, Pharmacist, Serpent...

This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Armored Saint, Blindead 23, Burial Clouds, Desecresy, Dimmu Borgir, Embrace Of Souls, Goddess, Hellevate, Impure Wilhelmina, Kurnugia, Marmozet...

The Finnish horror punk/metal troupe The Ghoulstars are this week’s featured Meet The Band artist. The group’s debut album is The Dark Overlords Of The Universe. Guitarist Markus “Daddy Ghoul” Laakso ...

This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Advent Horizon, Antimozdebeast, Artillery, Crown Lands, The Ghoulstars, Jungle Rot, Junon, Lorn, Louder, Pro-Pain, Revenge Ritual and See You N...

It has been a while since we’ve heard from hard rockers Von Groove, who emerged in the early ’90s and released their last album in 2004. They have reunited and are releasing Born To Rock. Vocalist/dru...

The Seattle group Telomyras step into this week’s Meet The Band spotlight. After a self-titled EP, they are issuing their full-length debut Duskfall. Guitarists Jack Schonher and Ephraim Grimm introdu...

This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Baratro, Black Sea Of Trees, Black Veil Brides, Electric Sun Defence, High Fade, Ingested, Kurt Deimer, The Quill, Rexoria, Sins Of Shadows, Te...

2026 interview with Stalemate Of Wills vocalist/guitarist Derek Kovcas. The Pittsburgh band's full-length debut is Existence Denied.