The Heavyist

It's the Heavyist Podcast - weekly worship at the altar of radness and we are here to give you the latest and greatest new heavy music coming for your listening pleasure this is the Riff Report   this week on the show we discuss new music coming on Friday from Throes, Great Falls and Worm Altar its a STRONG week for heavy as f**k bleak as f**k music love you all, follow us on our social media...

Welcome to another episode of The Heavyist podcast - this week we are talking about the new record Encephalic Angels by Deathcore project The Killing of a Sacred Deer - this album ABSOLUTELY rules so we decided to see how it stacked up against the rest of 2026s deathcore offering to see if it truly is the Deathcore album of the year on top of that we discuss new released from Retained Surgical Ins...

Welcome back Heavyists to another episode of our new series THIS IS YOUR RIFFS - where we catch up with people in the heavy music scene and talk about albums that were significant signposts in their life and journey within heavy music. The brief is the album that got you into heavy music, the album that made you want to be in a band and the album that influenced your latest record Harry picked 2 a...

LETS GO LETS GO LETS GO LETS GO this week on the show Sonny and Gary heard the new Slipknot song... also we unfortunately have to eulogize one of the biggest characters in the scene as we discuss the passing of ETID guitarist Andy Williams then there's discussion of new music from Chat Pile, Nott, Aversio Humanitatis, Ultha and singles from The Number Twelve Looks Like You, Wayfarer, Replicant, Gr...

In the first episode of "This Is Your Riffs"  Sonny has a chat with Jim Hodge of Mastiff. We talk about how he got into heavy music, the music the made him want to start a band as well as the record that most influenced his last release. This was honestly so much fun and I hope it's a nice listen.  Appreciate you homies Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all t...

It's been TOO long since we caught up about the new music we have been listening to so ya boys took to the mics once again to discuss some of their favourite new releases over the last month or so we discuss new music from Living Weapon, Warforged, Loathe, Barbarians of California. Witherhorde, Racetraitor, Normal American and Rockpyle thanks for listening! x Join the Discord! It's full of people...

Whats up everyone - sorry for the couple of weeks off, we're here again to chat about riffs and music - we're wrapping up our deep dive into 2006 by talking about 3 absolutely ESSENTIAL albums in the origin story of Sonny and Gary we also had a little look at the Kerrang albums of the year from 2006 and the entries from the homies in Discord love you all x Join the Discord! It's full of people sha...

We're jumping back into our Time Machine and we're gonna gun it to 88mph - destination 2006! 20 years on we look at some of the most awesome albums from 2006 - Gary and Sonny have 3 albums each they want to talk about that mean something to them , the records are: I Don't Care Where I Go When I Die by Gaza Akeldama by The Faceless Death of a Dead Day by Sikth Songs for the Recently Deceased by I K...

This week on the show Sonny has a bag of missed radness to empart upon us all that is VERY strong - but before that we must observe the release of Yearning: The Unbeautiful After by one of our favourite bands as a podcast... Boundaries does it hold up? Have they sold out? Is the production actually THAT bad? ALL is discussed we also enjoy No Cure whilst drinking a beer which feels a bit naughty to...

YES YES Heavyists - we're half way through the year so this week on the show we round up the records we are looking forward to for the second half of 2026. Records from Burner, Barbarians of California and Vulgar Mephitis as well as many many more also - the inaugural installment of "THE WHEEEEEEELL OF RIIIIIIIIIFFS" is an incredible one, we talked about The Architects of Guilt by The Famine! Keep...

Welcome back to another episode of The Heavyist, this week on the show we discuss a few new releases we have been loving from Thaetas, Dead/Awake, Blood Howl and Truck Violence also we delve into the past and find a couple of older records that are considered cult classics in the melodeath and prog death worlds as part of our new weekly feature THE WHEEL OF RIFFS if you want to submit a record for...

Welcome back everyone to another lovely episode, this week we partake in our inaugural episode of our new feature "Hot Riff Time Machine" where we look back at a year in musical history and chat about some of the albums we loved from that year we decided to look at 2011 as our first foray - this was picked completely randomly but worked out pretty well as it was actually the year that Sonny and Ga...

Yes we are aware that we announced this big change to the podcast and then didn't do one for a month! SORRY - we've both been on holiday as well has having a good old catch-up we talked about new(ish) music from Periphery, Lago, Mutilation Barbecue and No Grave Sonny went to a slam show and he loved the shit out of it he's also making an app like some sort of tech mogul and Brutal News comes from...

What's up everyone slightly different vibe to normal this week as we outline our plan going forward Rather than spending ages writing it all here, listen to the podcast and you'll see what we mean love you x Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

Today we're joined by Piper Ferrari, vocalist of Las Vegas based screamo/metalcore band Roman Candle to discuss their new record "Unadulterated" coming out April 24th through Sumerian Records Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

This week on the show we run down some of our favourite mathcore releases from the year so far. From Chamber, Coalmine Canary, The Absolute Worst or the Absolute Worst, Merit and Funeral Language Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

Sorry for the tardiness in uploading of audio episodes everyone! If you want the latest episodes from us you really should migrate to our Youtube page! It looks great   we love you all though thanks for sticking with us this week on the show we talked about some of our favourite albums of March... and Gaerea   Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

Welcome back to the Heavyist podcast - sorry we've been away for a while it turns out having kids can get in the way of recording podcasts! but we got a new episode for you talking about some of our favourite releases of February from the Underground and the not-so-underground (the overground?) we talk about Converge, Squelching, Varials, Hamarr, Cryptic Shift, Traumatization and Killing Pace also...

Wassup everyone! We got an episode of under the radar bangers released in January to talk about with you all! Hope You enjoy the bands discussed are Skulld Toothless Redivider Uncultivates Gorrch x Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

This week on The Heavyist Podcast we have review's from Brutal Death Metal from Stabbing and Blackgaze from MØL. We break down the absolute sonic whiplash of Stabbing’s massive Century Media debut, Eon of Obscenity, and the cinematic evolution of Denmark’s MØL with their new record, Dreamcrush. What a superbly strong new music friday to close out January. 👉 Subscribe to The Heavyist for more heav...

Welcome back to the Heavyist and this week we have a lovely chat between Gary and Joe Nally, singer and bassist from the UK Metal band Urne We discussed their new record "Setting Fire To The Sky", out next week through Spinefarm records X Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

Happy new year Heavyists! It's Slamuary apparently as for some reason over the last couple of months Sonny has been listening to pretty much exclusively Slam and Brutal Death. So we discussed the latest EP from Guttural Slug, the new album from Truckstop Dickpill and also the latest record from Abbie Falls. single news comes from Bludgeonex and Final Gasp it's good to be back! x Join the Discord!...

Join us for Annual Worship at the altar of 2025 SO much good music released this year and you know how we feel about arbitrary lists Love you all Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

Welcome back Heavyists we've got a bloody massive one for you this week, Sonny tells us all about his highlights from Damnation 2025, we discuss albums from Lamp of Murmuur, Veilburner, Excide (and a cheeky little bit about Predeceased) as well as Brutal News from Converge, Moon Tooth and Godeater also - if you like what we do you can see our faces as we discuss it on our lovely Youtube page! Mayb...

Hey riff addicts, welcome back to another massive catchup - we got 8 records from the last couple of months that all rule in different ways it's a really mixed back, hopefully something for everyone 00:00 Intro 00:51 Still in Love - Recovery Language 06:45 Massa Nera - The Emptiness of All Things 12:47 Blindfolded and Led To The Woods - The Hardest Thing About Being God... 18:10 - Bonginator - Ret...