The GREAT Heavy Music Podcast

It had to be done.  We have finally answered the unasked question, and ranked/shared our top ten BEST all-time Heavy Songs to slay someone/something to or if you were to go down swinging what would it be? For Phil we have the following, in no particular order: Unto others - heroin, Dance Gavin dance - cream of the crop, Flotsam jetsam - too many lives, Nile - to strike with secret fang, Cky 96 - q...

We're finally BACK with an episode proper with all the fixin's, a That's so Metal, a Mitch Hedberg outro joke, proper musical underlay, Phil being a brilliant side-kick, and what's that - oh yeah - MUSIC REVIEWS!   This episode Alex reviewed GLOW ON by Turnstile and Phil reviewed Northen by Sig:Ar:Tyr. Go out and support these great bands! http://www.sigartyr.com/ https://turnstilehardcore.com/  

Phil's EOY best of's 10 - Paradise Lost - Ascension 9  - Ghost -  Skeleta 8 - Mors Principum Est - Darkness Invisible 7 - Turnstile - Never Enough 6 - An Abstract Illusion - The Sleeping City 5 - Coroner - Dissonance Theory 4 - Fallujah - Xenotaph 3 - Buried Realm - Dormant Darkness 2 - Labyrinthus Stellarum - Rift in Reality 1 - Moron Police - Pachinko DEFINITELY support all these great bands and...

Can't wait!!!!!! Another metal cruise is upon us!!!  Thanks to 70k for a GREAT time in anticipation and if you see Phil or I aboard the cruise come say hi!

In this proper episode of the GREAT heavy music podcast Alex reviews The Art of Drowning by AFI and Phil reviews From Hell with Love by power metallers Beast in Black.  Two truly great bands with great releases that positively needed to be positively reviewed! Sign up for the newsletters from these bands and go out and support them by seeing them live. https://beastinblack.com/ https://afireinside...

Dance Gavin Dance had a big time line up change and now we get to see how they're holding up!

A nice quick hitter here as Alex reviews his experience at the nine inch nails show in Tampa Florida in 2025.

Got the chance to see an EXCELLENT band, arguably not all that heavy but GREAT nonetheless in Ballyhoo! from Aberdeen, Maryland.  Alex got the chance to check them out at the Ranch in Fort Myers, GREAT show!!!! Support these guys!!! -- https://www.ballyhoorocks.com/   And if you are in the South Florida area - Catch a live show at the Ranch. https://theranchfortmyers.com/  

On August 15th our very own Phil Collins took the treck into Philadelphia to see My Chemical Romance put on what seems to be one helluva a show!!!!   See if you can hop on this tour! - https://www.mychemicalromance.com/#tour

Mega-Anthem Arena Rockers Ghost are the subject of this latest concert review where Alex and Phil BOTH got to see these Swedish studs in person in Baltimore, Maryland in July 2025.  What a GREAT show and a GREAT band!   Support these well known heavy legends; https://ghost-official.com/

A truly UNIQUE set of albums in this episode of the GREAT heavy music podcast with Alex reviewing Outbound by Keldian and Phil reviewing Destrier by Agent Fresco. Support these amazing bands - https://keldian.bandcamp.com/ Agent Fresco - https://www.agentfresco.is/  

Phil's Honorable Mentions: Changeling - Changeling - https://changelingofficial.bandcamp.com/album/changeling Sleep Token - Even in Arcadia - https://www.sleep-token.com/ Allegeaon - The Ossuary Lens - https://www.facebook.com/Allegaeon/ Cryptopsy - An Insatiable Violence - https://www.facebook.com/cryptopsyofficial/ Ghost - Skeleta - https://ghost-official.com/   Phil's Top Five =  5 - And Oceans...

Take a listen to a relatively recent concert review for Coheed and Cambria in Ft. Myers, Florida with Mastadon and Periphery that Alex saw and the Wolves in the Throne Room and Emperor show that Phil saw in PA!   We hope you have gotten out for some summer shows this year!

Phil layoued out the Dan Swano classic Witherscape - The Northern Sanctuary and Alex offered up Sum 41 - Chuck.  Take a listen and see which one you like more! And as always - support these great bands - https://www.sum41.com/ https://centurymedia.bandcamp.com/album/the-northern-sanctuary  

Quarter one of 2025 has BLOWN by and now we have some rankings to dish out! Alex's list: Honorable Mentions: Dawn of Orobouros - Bioluminescence - https://dawnofouroboros.bandcamp.com/album/bioluminescence Drudkh - Shadow Play - https://drudkh.bandcamp.com/album/shadow-play Aversed - Erasure of Color - https://aversed.bandcamp.com/album/erasure-of-color Saor - Amidst the Ruins - https://saor.bandc...

What a GREAT heavy band - ENSIFERUM from Finland.  Time to hear about how GREAT that damn band is!!!!!

We're back on track and only 3 months into the year!  Episode 26 proper Phil reviewed Relentless Mutation by Archspire and Alex reviewed The Black Halo by Kamelot.   Be sure to support these two excellent and very different bands at their respective websites - https://kamelot.com/ and https://www.instagram.com/archspireofficial/?hl=en   Two GREAT heavy albums on the GREAT heavy music podcast!   Ne...

Phil had the great pleasure of seeing Dark Tranquility, Amorphis and Fires in the Distance and now we have the great pleasure of hearing about it!  Enjoy and get out and see a show!!!

HERE IT IS!  The official best heavy albums from 2024 list: Albums of the Year - Alex 1 - Fuerschwanz - Warriors 2 - Bayside - There are worse things than being alive 3 - Wormwood - The Star (song suffer existence might be the best soy) 4 - Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere 5 - Artificial Language - Distant Glow Ep - [articularly rain follows Songs of the Year NOT from the above - Alex 1 - Bl...

The lists abound!  Quarter 4 tops of the list are here to stay!   ALEX - 1 - Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere 2 - IOTUNN - Kinship 3 - Gaerea - Coma 4 - Undeath - More Insane 5 - Vola - Friend of a Phantom HM - Klone - The Unseen HM - Ulver - Liminal Animals HM - Mork Gryning - Fasornas Tid HM - Crippled Black Phoenix - The Wolf Changes Its Fur But Not Its Nature AND Horrific Honorifics Numb...

It's list time baby!!!!!  And we might be a little late for Q3 of 2024 - but get over it - there is a LOT of great stuff you should be checking out! PHIL's list: HM - Aeons - Ghosts HM - Fleshgod Apocolypse - Opera HM - Kalandra - A Frame of Mind 5 - Unto Others - Never, Neverland 4 - Amiensus - Reclamation Part 2 3 - Nile - The Underwold Awaits Us All 2 - Black Sites - The Promised Land? 1 - Kano...

Da boyz, da boyz, da boyz da boyz da boyz!!!!! A little belated but the boyz reunite nonetheless to talk all things 2024 70,000 tons of metal post-cruise wrap up AND now it's a combo episode because we take a sneak peak into the upcoming 2025 70k cruise! We can't wait and we hope to see you on board! 

Well if you like list episodes then you are in for a treat because, this is a big one!  In the 100th ever episode of the GREAT heavy music podcast Alex and Phil rank the top five of all the 26 albums each has referred to the other to review since the inception of the show.   Can you guess which albums are going to make the top five for Alex and the top five for Phil? What are your top five?  Email...

We are back at it!  In this episode take a listen to our reviews of King Goat - Conduit and Mithras - On Strange Loops.  Do you agree with Alex's take on the latter?  Two UK bands with 2016 releases and very different sounds! Be sure to support these excellent bands! -  https://kinggoat.bandcamp.com/album/debt-of-aeons https://mithrasuk.bandcamp.com/     BE SURE to join us for our next episode - o...