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Welcome back to another episode of the Heavyist! Your home for the latest and greatest in all things heavy music. This week Gary and Sonny got together to talk about the new album Duel from Ukranian Groove metal band Jinjer - out February 7th through Napalm Records There's a lot of hype around this band so we figured we should do our due diligence and check out their new record and see what all th...

This week on the show Sonny and Gary picked 10 records we know (or are pretty sure) are coming out in the first few months of 2025 and get excited about the potential year of incredible riffs ahead of us! From dreamy hardcore to fowl black metal, massive legendary to underground, there's something in here for every type of riff worshipper to be psyched for! Chapters 00:00 Intro 05:05 Kills witch E...

Greetings Heavyists! This week on the show we had a really lovely chat with Jamie Waggett, vocalist of the UK hardcore band Grief Ritual to discuss their upcoming record "Collapse" which is released on January 31st through Church Road Records We talked about the evolving sound of Grief Ritual, the UK hardcore scene, lyrical content and the visual direction. It was an absolutely great chat! Thanks...

This week Sonny sat down with Bigg Brian Ortiz, driving force behind the breakout indigenous death doom outfit Tzompantli. Tzompantli's album "Beating The Drums of Ancestral Force" was one of the hardest releases of 2024 so we're stoked to get to chat to the man. We delve into the cultural influences that shape Ortiz's music, particularly the incorporation of indigenous folklore and themes. The di...

Happy New Year Heavyists! It's good to be back chatting about riffs and records with you all and we've got a LOT planned for 2025. We hit the ground running with a chat about the 8th studio album from Orange County Hardcore band Stick To Your Guns, Keep Planting Flowers Stick to Your Guns have some flawless records in Gary's opinion so join us in todays episode to see what your boys thought about...

We got together to chat with Andreas Bjulver, frontman of the outstanding Danish Deathcore band Cabal. They've seen a meteoric rise in profile since we lasted chatted with him nearly 5 years ago so we dug into everything that they've been up to since then from US tours to music videos (and Audiotree 😬) Cabals new album "Everything Rots" is coming out April 11th through Nuclear Blast, make sure yo...

It's the end of year special! We run down the best albums of 2024 as voted for by the trve homies of the Heavyist Discord. Thank you all for your submissions this was really fun! We'll be back next year with more interviews and sick riffs. Come join the discord here: https://discord.gg/nSjP3A8bRy Chapters: 00:00 - Intro 02:00 - Hardcore 08:35 - Dissonant and Technical Death Metal 13:53 - Mathcore...

It's been a couple of weeks since we did a new episode as we've been busy busy boys - we discussed our trip to the Manchester BEC Arena to attend the magnificent Damnation Festival where we saw bands such as Gatecreeper, 200 Stab Wounds, Dragged Into Sunlight and Cradle of Filth then we have a massive pile of riffs to chat about, some of them high profile and some of them relatively underground bu...

Gaerea are a bad who just keep continuing to impress, their live performances rule and they make big leaps forward with every new album release, but can they keep it up on their new album Coma, out on Friday 25th of October through Season of Mist Join your boys Sonny and Gary to see what they thought about it! Follow us on the socials! https://discord.gg/nSjP3A8bRy https://www.instagram.com/thehea...

This week on the show is MASSIVE for your boys as one of our collective favourite bands release their 7th studio album, YES Fit For An Autopsy, one of the most consistently amazing bands in modern metal release 'The Nothing That Is' on Friday 25th of October through Metal Blade Records can they keep it up? Can they continue to improve? Join us and see what we thought Follow us on the socials! http...

WE'RE BAAAAACK! Reconvening to worship at the altar of radness once again Gary has been on holiday so OF COURSE we had to talk about the breakfast buffet then it's a huge bag of riffs and records released in October so far that we have been jamming including Vomit Forth, Immortal Bird, Weeping, Devenial Verdict, Promise Breaker, Black Pegasus, Infant Annihilator, Candy and Disentomb Was a really n...

WHAT A WEEK FOR THE RIFF!! 2 of the biggest names in the modern death metal landscape are BOTH releasing records this week so we had to get in touch with the Death Metal Correspondent himself Tom Cronin from the amazing UK Death Metal crew Celestial Sanctuary! After catching up with him a little bit about his recent wedding and honeymoon we got straight into it! Blood Incantation have always fough...

Welcome back to The Heavyist - It's your weekly dose of the best riffs around with your boys Sonny and Gary. Also joining us is true homie of the show Ross Beagan from the amazing UK Technical Death Metal band Godeater - he gave us some sneaky insight into what's going on in the Godeater camp before joining us in worship at the altar of radness The Black Dahlia Murder release their 10th studio alb...

It's that time again! That's right time to get your dose of weekly worship at the altar of radness this week Gary and Sonny HAD to gather to talk about 2 of our favourite bands from the metalcore scene in 2024, these bands go from strength to strength and they do it on their own terms Kublai Khan release their 6th studio album and show no signs of slowing down 156/Silence have one of the most uniq...

It's a big one for us Heavyist Boys - Every Time I Die are one of the single most important bands to us so when Keith's new project Many Eyes put out their debut we had to convene early to discuss it, does it hold up? Are we happy with the direction that he has taken? You'll have to tune in to find out! Also we discuss the return of Linkin Park with their new singer and how we think it will go the...

This week on the show we are putting dinner plates in our earlobes and dying our fringes jet black as we talk about 2 new releases from the world of Deathcore! New Zealand based heavy bastards Depths bring the atmosphere and the groove with their 5th studio album and NEW NEW band The Killing of a Scared Deer from Canada have an EP of throwback deathcore that's going to take years off your life 🖤...

We're "MAD FER IT" this week (well Sonny is anyway) as we have yet another stacked bag of riffs to chat about. It's a grindcore party here on the Heavyist as we have 2 hard and fast ragers to talk about NAILS are BACK! Have they managed to keep up the pace after 8 years? Has the completely new line-up had any effect on their ability to level cities with their potent brand of HM2 thick metallic gri...

We're BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK (again) Sonny's been on paternity leave since his offspring joined the world but while the world's youngest Heavyist took a nap we managed to convene to worship at the altar of radness once more and have a good old catch up about amazing new jams and riffs that have also been birthed into the world! We HAD to get together to discuss the frankly outstanding new album fr...

This week on the show we're a little bit off the cuff - We weren't sure we would be making a show but we managed to pull a belter out of our asses. We discussed the fact that movies are back with the new Deadpool & Wolverine movie then after we finish doing the worlds worst Kermode and Mayo impression we return to the regularly scheduled programming of RIFFS State Faults released a gamechanger in...

Welcome Heavyists! This week on the show we have 2 absolutely glorious records to discuss, one from the UK Underground and one from some sort of fantasy realm! We must start though with Brutal News! It's always a monumental day in the Heavyist calendar when Fit for an Autopsy announce a new album so we delayed the release of the show this week so we could talk about it - their new single Hostage o...

In what we intend to be a semi-regular episode format here on The Heavyist we dig into "Bandcamp Bangers #2" and bring you some of the best releases we have rummaged up from the underground corners of the Heavysphere Ranging from Canadian Cowboy Noise Rock to absolutely relentless chaotic deathcore we have a bit of something for everyone to discuss in this show also its been a little while since w...

This week on the show we've got that need... that need for Speed - that's right the much hyped Aussie hardcore band Speed have released their debut record and we have gathered to bask in it's phenomenal glory! Also we are blessed with the debut EP from a wonderful new UK Underground Supergroup VOWER whose debut EP could potentially finally be the thing to put it's members over the top the calibre...

We're back now that the internet has stopped conspiring against us to deliver your (normally) weekly dose of worship at the altar of radness, riffs and general mucking about! After general random preambles as usual Gary discussed his trip to look at some riffs from one of the show's favourite bands The Acacia Strain then we talked about one of our most highly anticipated records of the year - the...

After the standard introductory nonsense including Gary complaining about sleep deprivation (again) and Sonny FINALLY getting on the Big Ass Truck with everyone we get into the review of the week. We have to eat some pretty substantial quantities of humble pie when we discuss the fantastic debut record from metalcore upstarts Foreign Hands then we are joined by Zan Greene from Nashville progressiv...

This week on the show we are back to our regularly scheduled programming of keeping you up to date with all the latest amazing bands and records in the Heavy-Sphere. After we had what might be our first disagreement (that isn't about Kaonashi) we discussed briefly how much fun we had at Fortress Festival and making our first vlog about it then we get into the meat of the week discussing the except...