Nao Glover

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

Nao Glover

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

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,...

HM Album Reviews

Idle Threat

Grown Tired

Nashville’s hidden treasure, Idle Threat, is taking the scene by storm with their go-getter attitude and raw, honest talent. Just days after they released their sophomore album, Grown Tired,...

HM Album Reviews

Earth Groans

Renovate

A year and a half after the release of their first single, “The Estate,” Earth Groans has now released their debut EP, Renovate. The album packs a punch with...

Nature's Animation

Featuring Invent Animate

Invent, Animate perfects the line between crushing riffs and an ambient backdrop on their second album, 'Stillworld.' Where does the world take them next?

HM Album Reviews

Skillet

Unleashed

Since their formation in 1996, Christian rock band Skillet has undergone a number of member changes and sound transformations. Their latest album, Unleashed, holds bits and pieces from each...

HM Album Reviews

Hotel Books

Run Wild, Stay Alive

Hotel Books has returned to the scene with their third full-length album via InVogue Records, Run Wild, Stay Alive. The album brings perfect justice to the band’s raw character,...

Silent Planet's New Reality

Featuring Silent Planet

Silent Planet vocalist Garrett Russell ushers the band into a new era of expectation with their sophomore album, Everything Was Sound

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