The GREAT Heavy Music Podcast

The boys are splintering off - taking a detour down the trail that was blazed by the AMAZING Arjen Lucassen.  The Ayreon Chronicles will force the fellas to review ALL of the amazing Ayreon catalog and see how all the albums stack up against each other.  Where to start you ask?  How about - the beginning!  With "The Final Experiment"

Two heavy but VERY different offerings - which one do you prefer? Jorn Lande & Tronde Holter's album - Dracula Swing of Death or the debut album by A Perfect Circule - Mer de Noms?

Check out this AWESOME interview with Denny Blake, vocalist and guitarist of the Australian Black Metal Studs STARGAZER!  Their 2021 release Psychic Secretions is OUTSTANDING!  Learn something from Denny you'd NEVER know from anywhere else!

Q3 started out slow for Alex to find some jams, but eventually, with patience, did the 'smoke' ultimately rise to the top?  Or was it the golden rule, of do 'unto others' which made the top spot for his list? Phil is improving in his quality of music because there was so crossover between the two lists - see who ranks where!

Two "L" albums comin at ya today!  Lux by Gemini Syndrome and Legend by Witchcraft.  All clean singing on this episode - so feel free to actually listen with your friends and family around.

Alex has Phil review the Swedish metal monsters IN MOURNING while Alex has to give his thoughts on the British Bombers - BOLT THROWER - which GREAT heavy album do you like best?

UK Melodeath STUDS Countless Skies jump aboard the GREAT Heavy Music Podcast to talk about the band, their epic album GLOW and all things HEAVY!

Two doom staples on this episode of the GREAT heavy music podcast.  Alex insisted that Phil would LOVE Origin by Enshine and Phil tossed the heavy doomers Sunnata and their album Zorya back at Alex.  Which album do you prefer?

Alex's list includes: King Buffalo, The Circle, Bloodbound, Subterranean Masquerade and VOLA - but in what order?  You'll have to listen to find out. Phil's list includes: Amorphis, Flotsam &  Jetsam, Liquid Tension Experiment, Bodom After Midnight, and Vreid.  Listen to find out who took the top spot.

Stoner-Rock/Psychedelic masters Graveyard pitted against the Frenetic Finnash masters of melodeath.  If you don't know about these two goliaths - you have been living under a rock!  And now it's time to roll out!

Hear it direct from King Buffalo's lead singer, composer, and guitarist - Sean McVay - all about the band's THREE albums releasing in 2021 --- hopefully!!!

Check out the in-depth interview with the EXCELLENT Shredder and lyricist/music-writer/swedish army knife - the brains behind Kvaen - Jacob Bjornfot - as he tells us who DEFINITIVELY are the best metal acts in Swedish history!

A classical metal masterpiece from our friends in Germany (Haggard) and a modern technical impressive slab of metal from St. Petersburg, Russia.  Be sure to tell us which album YOU think is best!  Thegreatheavymusicpodcast@gmail.com

Join Alex and Phil on a special episode delivering you the BEST and GREATEST heavy albums of the first quarter for 2021 - if you like spoilers - well - tough - you have to listen to the episode!

Check out two titans of metal as Alex review's Phil's pick of Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic by the Ocean Collective and Phil reviews Alex's selection of Watershed by Opeth.  Tell us what you think @greatheavymusic on Twitter.

Alex absolutely CRUSHES Phil on this episode of the Poddy - Pariah - one of the all-time best albums Phil has been overlooking his whole life - and Alex reviews the cult classic New World Shadows by Omnium Gatherum.

Alexi Laiho - founding member of the trail blazing band: Children of Bodom.  Alexi was yet another unfortunate victim of 2020 - gone too soon.  Alex and Phil pay homage to Alexi and C.O.B.

It's time to say goodbye to 2020 - which was actually a DAMN good year for HEAVY music!!!  Check out Phil's Top Phive songs and albums of the year and see how your list compares.  Alex's list of top fives is obviously better, but see how you feel! 

Take a tour of the Judicator family with John Yelland, founding member and lyricist for the band - find out the inside scoop about their AMAZING 2020 release - Let there be Nothing - and see how they're getting on with the COVID CRAZINESS!

The boys are back to it - reviewing two  INCREDIBLE  releases from two opposite ends of the spectrum.  A greek rager and an Australian haunting ride makes for two excellent albums.  

Check out an Episode with TWO undisputably GREAT albums - Voyager's - Ghost Mile and UADA"s debut release Devoid of Light!  

Learn everything there is to know about the AMAZING 2016 release from Theocracy GHOST SHIP when Phil and Alex get in-depth with Matt Smith - the lead singer and brain being Theocracy.

Collective Soul kicking some ass and taking some falls (spoiler) at the food and wine festival at Busch Gardens!  Great HEAVY band.  Phil didn't make it, but who wants him there anyway?

Check out our in-depth review of the AMAZING album Tarot by Aether Realm just before their new album drops!!!  It should hold you for a bit!  Also, check out how the ol' metalcore classic Alive or Just Breathing by Killswitch Engage holds up!

A living legend sits down to have a chat with another living legend,  Phil Collins, of the GREAT heavy music podcast.  Take a listen!