The Heavyist

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...

Today on the show we pitted 2 new Deathcore records against each other to see whose in better shape from the legends and the next generation Spite released New World Killer and it really shows that band are ready to make the jump and Despised Icon release a new record that proves that you can teach an old dog new tricks Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

This week on the show we are joined by the homie Jim Hodge - vocalist of the Hity City Noise Crew Mastiff to chat about their new EP "For All The Dead Dreams" and their recent move to the wonderful Church Road Records also while we had him we had to have a chat about the MASTERS of heavy The Acacia Strain and their absolutely phenomenal new record "You Are Safe From God Here" out now on Rise Recor...

What's up Heavyists - this week on the show we have 2 recent albums we've been getting VERY excited about, they come from polar opposite ends of our music tastes but they are both equally incredible AFI released "Silver Bleeds The Black Sun" - a goth rock masterpiece and Agriculture released "The Spiritual Sound" which is an experimental and baffling black metal experience for the ages check them...

welcome back Heavyists! get ready as we discuss the third record from Ohio Death Metal crew Sanguisugabogg "Hideous Aftermath" released on the 10th of October through Century Media Records as is customary when discussing tentpole releases from the Death Metal world we are joined by Tom Cronin from UK Death Metal band Celestial Sanctuary get ready for us to really drool over this awesome record Cha...

Hey everyone an amalgamation of 2 episodes we did recently we talked about "How I Fell In Love With The Void" - the latest offering from the wonder Connecticut Noise Rock band Intercourse and we also chatted about the new EP "With Skull Crushing Force" from Atomic Rule, the new project from former Every Time I Die riff-lord Andy Williams and we compared it to the latest releases from the other pos...

This week on the show Gary sat down with Brent Mills, vocalist of Louisville, Kentucky based post hardcore band Greyhaven to chat about the band and their new record "Keep It Quiet" coming out October 10th through Solid State Records he was an absolutely lovely bloke and a pleasure to chat to thanks a lot Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

Welcome Heavyist's to another instalment of the show - this week Sonny was joined by Tony Castrati and Stefan Iglesias from the Boston based Post Punk/Doom/Sludge/Rock/Dance (blimey it gets harder and harder to categorise this lot) legends Crippling Alcoholism ahead of the release of their new album Camgirl - released September 12th through Portrayal of Guilt Records Sonny covered a LOT of topics...

Welcome Heavyists to another installment of the show - this week Sonny was joined by Tony Castrati and Stefan Iglesias from the Boston based Post Punk/Doom/Sludge/Rock/Dance (blimey it gets harder and harder to categorise this lot) legends Crippling Alcoholism ahead of the release of their new album Camgirl - released September 12th through Portrayal of Guilt Records Sonny covered a LOT of topics...

This week on the show we round up a few albums the pair of us have been absolutely obsessed with lately, those records are Deftones - Private Music Defacement - Doomed Blackbraid - Blackbraid III Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.