Nao Glover

Naø is a writer, musician, apologist, and editor of HM Magazine.

Nao Glover

Naø is a writer, musician, apologist, and editor of HM Magazine.

HM Album Reviews

The Drowned God

I'll Always Be the Same

The Drowned God has made a statement of blistering severity on their sophomore record, I’ll Always Be the Same. The eight-song record rests somewhere between an EP and an...

The Brutal Homecoming

Featuring Impending Doom

On 'The Sin and Doom, Vol. II,' Impending Doom reunites with their first producer in a beatdown of a return to music with their first release in five years

HM Album Reviews

Memphis May Fire

Broken

When a band has mastered their craft like Memphis May Fire, it’s no surprise when they continue to release solid records. On their sixth studio album, Broken, the band...

HM Album Reviews

Silent Planet

When the End Began

When the End Began is nothing short of spectacular and fans would expect nothing less from the band that has forged such a unique path in the music industry.

Darkest Before the Dawn

Featuring Phinehas

Phinehas pushes the human rights cause forward, highlighting the atrocities of the Kim regime in North Korea with their most recent effort, concept album 'Dark Flag'

The Unpublished Interview

Featuring We Came As Romans

This past weekend, We Came as Romans vocalist Kyle Pavone passed away. Previously unpublished, HM is releasing their last official interview with Pavone, conducted on the heels of the band's most recent release, 'Cold Like War'

Forthcoming Dystopia

Featuring Forthteller

"That's what the album is. It’s about what it means for society now that God is dead." Forthteller pulls back the curtain on their dystopian new EP, 'Nihilism.'

HM Album Reviews

Weathered

Stranger Here

Facedown Records’ newest addition, Weathered, shows the scene that sometimes it’s the quiet giant that cuts through the noise with the strongest voice. Bringing with them a powerful rock...

HM Album Reviews

Stryper

God Damn Evil

If there is one band in Christian metal that will not be shaken, it’s Stryper. Blazing the trail for the future of heavy Christian music, Stryper entered the scene...

They are Few

Featuring He Is Legend

He is Legend turns to crowdfunding, an isolated cabin, and the art of storytelling to execute their latest work, 'Few'

Wolves Among Men

Featuring Project 86

"So it just begs the question and makes you look at the bigger picture: What is it that’s broken about this system of Christianity that produces wolves in sheep's clothing?"

HM Magazine Exclusive

News 25 Nov 17 What We Do in Secret

HM PREMIERE: What We Do In Secret drops new single for ‘Blackout: A Sudden Exit’

Dayseeker is Waking Up

Featuring Dayseeker

For their third album, Dayseeker comes out of a coma to realize a full-length vision two years in the making

HM Album Reviews

To Speak of Wolves

Dead in the Shadow

What better way to celebrate ten years as a band than blowing away metalcore standards with another outstanding album? Dead in the Shadow, the long-awaited third album by To...

HM Album Reviews

Miss May I

Shadows Inside

Last summer, metalcore veterans Miss May I announced they were leaving Rise Records after five studio albums with the iconic label. Their sixth album, Shadows Inside, became their debut...

Warped Tour 2017

Featuring Warped Tour

"The feeling I left with was assurance. I was assured that we are never alone in our passion, our pain, our curiosity, and our excitement for music." HM writer Nao Lewandowski makes her way to Warped Tour for the first time in her life to find the camaraderie and love that has kept the festival alive for decades.

Out in the Cold

Featuring Gideon

Gideon has returned to the hardcore scene with their fourth full-length release, 'Cold,' and, this time, with more ice in their veins. HM speaks with guitarist Tyler Riley about their process, the response, and what makes this album different from their last.

HM Album Reviews

Deathbreaker

Disconnect

It’s no secret that the standards of heavy music have been rising for the last decade or so. With the surge in DIY metal, it’s harder and harder for...

The Continuous Collapse

Featuring Fit for an Autopsy

The evolving creativity of Fit for an Autopsy gives the band an unending hope for their latest release, 'The Great Collapse,' the "next step toward wherever we’re going to end up as a band"

HM Album Reviews

Death Therapy

The Storm Before the Calm

Solid State Records arguably houses the strongest forces in metal music, boasting a roster including Silent Planet, Underoath, Norma Jean, August Burns Red, Haste the Day… It’s a strong track...

The Complexity of Death

Featuring Lorna Shore

On Lorna Shore's sophomore album 'Flesh Coffin,' the band digs deep into the "process of death."

HM Album Reviews

Holy Gold

Feral Children

Some albums just leave you speechless, and Holy Gold’s debut EP, Feral Children, will do exactly that. This powerful collective (with history, weight and pedigree behind all the band’s...

HM Album Reviews

Those Who Fear

State of Mind

The mind is powerful. It’s the genesis of actions and words, governing character and impacting daily life, bridging our thoughts and decisions, creating a world of good and evil....

Stories in the Shadows

Featuring Wolves at the Gate

Wolves at the Gate's third studio album, 'Types and Shadows,' is born of experience and shaped by story

HM Album Reviews

Memphis May Fire

This Light I hold

It’s rare to see a band hold true to their identity throughout five studio albums. Especially so after multiple member changes. After a year of writing and recording new...

The Gray Area

Featuring Wovenwar

"It represents the tone of the record, in general, and the idea that the world is not as clear cut and as right-and-wrong as it was when you were a kid."

HM Album Reviews

Dire

Volume I

While Volume I successfully gives listeners an idea of what to expect from Dire in the future, the best is surely yet to come with this band. A strong...

The Reality of Death

Featuring Fit For A King

Fit for a King’s latest album finds its home in the gap between life and death. After encountering the fresh sting of death in Paris after the Bataclan terror attacks, the band was fueled with anger and sorrow. In response, he asked his fans to send him their stories and found within them a common theme: death. The result: 'Deathgrip.'

HM Album Reviews

Sunndrug

Exit Wounds

Birthed from the members of Spitfire and Norma Jean, the Virginia-based Sunndrug has released their debut album, Exit Wounds, and it will leave you with a new respect for...

HM Album Reviews

Lessons

Daydreamer

There’s something about isolating yourself when it’s time to go to work. Brothers Chad and JJ Snell, the duo that makes up Lessons, proved that with their latest EP,...

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