Heavy Headlines 9+

Metal News

Nativity Mobile, LLC

Designed for iPad

    • 4.8 • 58 Ratings
    • Free
    • Offers In-App Purchases

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Description

Built BY a metalhead FOR metalheads Heavy Headlines for iPhone, iPad - and now Apple Watch - is the BROOTAL one-stop destination for all of your metal news, new album release, and concert listing needs. To put it another way, I'm a big metal fan and much to my surprise there was just nothing in the app store that did what I was looking for - show me metal news and do it well. So as a professional app developer I took it upon myself to fill that void with the following design goals in mind:

1. Make it simple, slick, and easy to use with a fun interface. It should "just work."
2. Pack it with the innovative features of iOS and Apple devices that I would expect from a great app.
3. Make it metal. Make it fun.

Hopefully I've achieved that and more. Let me know in the reviews.

If you find any bugs or have any suggestions please send me feedback directly from the app. I want to hear from you! Just hit the menu button in the header and select "Send Feedback"

Features:

- Aggregates content from the world's top sources of metal news in one convenient app.

- Innovative "My Bands" feature figures out your favorite metal bands from your Apple Music and iTunes libraries and then surfaces stories about them to the top of your feed. You can also Blacklist the ones you don't want to get news about.

- Explore new metal releases and top selling albums. Open them directly in Apple Music or Spotify.

- Concert Tickets! Heavy Headlines automatically finds upcoming shows in your area featuring your Favorite Bands and even lets you purchase tickets for them right through the app.

- Full background fetch integration refreshes your metal news automatically for you in the background so it's ready for you every time you open the app.

- Automatically receive notifications when new stories about your Favorite Bands are detected!

- Have multiple devices? No problem. The app uses iCloud to automatically synch your settings and to keep track of the articles you've already read across all your devices.

- Don't like the default look of the app? Heavy Headlines comes packed with over 20 different themes inspired by iconic metal album covers.

- Sleek fullscreen reading experience. Simply scroll the article you're reading to enter fullscreen mode.

- Lots of other little fun "metal" touches throughout to warm even the blackest of hearts.

Please note: The notifications will only work if you allow Heavy Headlines to refresh content in the background. You can do this by going to iOS Settings > General > Background App Refresh and turning it on for Heavy Headlines.

What’s New

Version 7.1.0

Heavy Headlines 7.1.0 is here. I know it's been a while but aside from some maintenance type of stuff the app is really pretty feature-complete at this point and I don't have any ideas for much in the way of new features right now. If YOU do however and there are things you would like to see don't hesitate to reach out and send feedback via the "Send Feedback" button in the main menu of the app. I really do value your feedback and enjoy hearing from my users.

1. Improved Favorite/Blacklisted bands search to make it easier to add multiple bands at once.

2. I may have slightly tamed the full screen takeover ads/video ads on some of the sites. I can't completely stop them, nor would I if I could because those sites deserve their ad revenue. So I would ask that you please not give the app bad reviews because of ads I can not control.

3. Added Metal Sucks back in the hopes they'll just talk about metal again.

4. Some actual bug fixes (not like when you always see "Bug fixes and performance improvements" in every corporate app's release notes.

Notice to EU users:

Due to the European Union introducing burdensome regulations that I am unable to comply with, Heavy Headlines has now been removed from the AppStore in all EU countries.

The app should remain installed on your devices but you will not be able to receive updates or install it on new devices (including via iCloud backups).

I am truly sorry for this but there is unfortunately no way around it. Thank you so much for all of your support over the past decade plus. I truly appreciate it.

Ratings and Reviews

4.8 out of 5
58 Ratings

58 Ratings

Drizmeister ,

Great App, but has a history of crashing

I've been using this App for about 3 years and it fantastic 95% of the time. It has a history of crashing then not opening. The current version seems fixed but still has issues. The other night it froze whilst saying "bringing the brutal" and that could only be fixed by restarting the phone.
And I can't seem to find a way to switch off news about bands playing locally, especially annoying as London isn't local to South Wales.
But overall, an awesome app if you want Metal news

Stumpy (Jason Siragher) ,

Do not update...

Used this app several times a day. Always reliable and useful. Until I updated. Can't open it let alone read anything on it.

Egluté ,

Outstanding!!!

Dude, this app is absolutely brilliant and works flawlessly. A genius idea, and building in a link to pull info on your fav bands is brilliant as well. I shall tell all of my metal lovin chums to download this app asap! Top marks!!!

App Privacy

The developer, Nativity Mobile, LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

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  • Usage Data
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