2025 interview with El Muerto multi-instrumentalist/vocalist Ricardo Botello. The black/death metal band's debut EP is Lost And Amsterdamned.

This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Aeons, Bloodbound, Calcraft, Cassidy Paris, Danko Jones, Def Leppard, El Muerto, Karu, Midnite City, Morbikon, Sainted Sinners, Slaughterday…

This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from 1914, Aerial Ruin, Bell Witch, Chairmaker, The Devil Wears Prada, Fallstaf, Lamp Of Murmuur, Mausoleum Gate, The Mist, Qrixkuor, Putrevore,…

2025 interview with Temple Of Love vocalist Suzy Bravo and guitarist Steve Colca. The band's full-length debut album is Songs Of Love And Despair.

This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Agnostic Front, Beastwars, Black Sabbitch, Centinex, Cold Steel, Denial Of Life, The Gloomy Radiance Of The Moon, Glorious Depravity,…

May The Bridges We Burn Light The Way is the latest album from the Finnish melodic death metal band Omnium Gatherum. I caught up with vocalist Jukka Pelkonen, who gives us the scoop on the new…

The best heavy metal albums released in October 2025, from Heavy Music HQ.

2025 interview with Believe In Nothing vocalist Caine Hemingway. The UK band's debut album is Rot.

This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Aephanemer, Alpha Destroyer, Barren Path, Bastard Cross, Believe In Nothing, Burned In Effigy, Empire Drowns, Gumm, Howling Giant, Moonspell,…

This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from The Acacia Strain, Born Divided, Cemetery Moon, Darah, Jet Jaguar, Mammoth, Mastiff, The Munsens, Psychonaut, Scorching Tomb, Soulfly and…

This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from An Abstract Illusion, Battle Beast, Biohazard, Coroner, Evoken, Flitcraft, Graveripper, Now I’ve Done It, Paul Lidel’s Scream Therapy,…

2025 interview with Sabaton vocalist Joakim Broden. The Swedish power metal band's latest album is Legends.

This week’s Heavy Music HQ reviews include releases from Blindfolded And Led To The Woods, Dead Heat, Extortionist, Frayle, Friendship Commanders, Humanity Zero, Les Batards Du Roi, Purpendicular,…

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.