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 fought to make death metal into high art so is their new record continuing this mission? Undeath have risen to prominence really quickly with 3 albums in 4 years but can the quality keep up with the pace? You'll need to tune in to find out... Chapters 00:00 - Intro 04:21 - Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere 23:17 - Undeath - More Insane Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

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 album and their first since the tragic passing of their frontman and Death metal talisman Trevor Strnad - have they released a record worthy of his legacy? UK blackened hardcore squad Heriot release one of the most anticipated debut record from the UK scene in years and we discuss whether they are a band who has managed to live up to their hype and also UK based sludge b*stards Swamp Coffin release their follow-up to 2021s Noose Almighty as a way to exorcise some serious demons! Chapters: 00:00 - Intro and catching up with Ross 12:17 - The Black Dahlia Murder - Servitude 31:38 - Heriot - Devoured By The Mouth of Hell 52:50 - Swamp Coffin - Drowning Glory Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

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 of releases this week is out of hand - we hope you enjoy joining us to get excited about riffs and worship at the altar of radness Intro - 00:00 Speed - Only One Mode - 05:52 VOWER - Apricity - 25:17 Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

Another insane week for heavy music with some deliciously destructive records atop the altar! Zeal & Ardor return to with their signature brand of invigorating briliance. Then Lifesick and Take Life do their utmost to smash us to bits with riffs. An insanely strong week this week homies, hope you dig the records! STAY HEAVY X Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

Another incredible release week for heavy music in 2022! Venom Prison and Mass Worhip delivering an outstanding calibur of decimation each with it's own disgusting merits. There's a pinch of Brutal News with some fantastic singles from Meshuggah, Greyhaven and Pupil Slicer. Thanks for listening! STAY HEAVY X Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

A genre bending blackened masterpiece from incredible Celeste. A kitchen sink djent odyssey from The Dali Thundering Concept. Two albums delivering excellence from different galaxies inside the heavy verse. What a wonderful world it is (sometimes) Hype train this week is Vicarage, Magdalene and Promise Breaker! Remember you can help support the pod by picking up one of our gnarly new shirts at https://linktr.ee/theheavyistpodcast Thanks for listening, much love! X Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

A sad week at the altar, the kings are dead and it's messy as hell. We do our best to keep our chins up and reminisce about some awesome times they gave us. This weeks records come in the form of a debut album from Age of Apocalypse delivering exhilarating hardcore and a belated xmas gift for old LoA fans. There's an absolute monster of an EP from Great American Ghost with a masterclass in malicious metalcore. Thanks for listening homies! STAY HEAVY X Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

What a week! Show favourites Fit For An Autopsy return with their incredible evolutionary slab of riffs in "Oh What The Future Holds". There's a contender for "black metal maelstrom of the year" from Wiegedood and Slowbleed bring the ruckus with an unbelievably hard debut album. Three absolute units this week homies, hope you dig! STAY HEAVY X Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

The HMS Heavy makes it's maiden voyage of 2022 to the altar of radness. Some large large jams get the year off to a banging start. The debut full length from sonic hurricane that is Deaf Club followed up beautifully by an audible dreascape from Seven Nines & Tens. There's a big old dollop of 2022 hype to wash it all down. Thanks for listening homies, we're stoked as hell for what 2022 has instore for the altar! X Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

Part 2 of the big one! big up yourself, much love homies enjoy the holiday! X Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

Part one of our countdown of our favourite slabs from 2021. Thanks so much for listening homies much love, have yourself a fantastic holiday! X Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

This week atop the altar are three mighty records. One of the years more ambitious and brilliant albums from So Hideous. Some good old rotten Death from Malignant Altar and a beatiful posty doom banger from Heiress. Thanks for listening homies ! Much love! STAY HEAVY X Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

We are joined by The Homeboy General this week Christian Segerstrom and had a bloody great time. We chat about the Converge Chelsea lovechild, some dissonant Black Metal from Noise Trail Immersion and errr... some more delicious dissonance from Teeth. OH and one of the most promising debut EP's in a bloooooody long time from Ten56. Much love homie, thanks for listening! STAY HEAVY X Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

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 sophomore album from Ohio Death Metal heroes 200 Stab Wounds is finally here and it's a phenomenal step up also The God Awful Truth absolutely win us over with their new album of chaotic metalcore/mathcore from the homies of Dark Trail Records AOR (Any Other Riffness) comes from Wharflurch, Sunfall, Diabolic Oath and Knife Spitter 00:00 - Intro 09:32 - Acacia Strain Live Review 18:09 - 200 Stab Wounds - Manual Manic Procedures 35:07 - The God Awful Truth - All That Dark and All That Cold 47:41 - AOR: Wharflurch - Sh*ttier/Slimier 49:55 - AOR: Sunfall - Les Morts Sont Nés Ici 51:18 - AOR: Diabolic Oath - Oracular Hexations 53:27 - AOR: Knife Spitter - Deeper Than Hell STAY HEAVY x Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

Another incredible rifftacular slab of immense death this week! 200 Stab Wounds unleash their brilliant album "Slave To The Scalpel". Melodic Metalcore titans Silent Planet release their new banger "Iridescent". There's a lovely big dollop of Brutal News and finally a chat about the brilliantly  powerful record from Rinuwat "Dua Naga". Stretch that neck before you bang 200 stabbo's fam because you'll wreck that shit otherwise. Thanks for listening homies, 

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BLACKGAZE IS BACK! MØL have grabbed the torch that Deafheaven dropped and ran all the way home with it. Seeyouspacecowboy evolve once more and Portrayal Of Guilt prove they are one of the most interesting and vital bands in extreme music. Thanks for listening homies much love! Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

This week Whitechapel delivers their follow up to The Valley and it is an absolute bloody pleasure. Finally an album from death merchants Zeolite! We have been waiting like very good lil heavyists and that shit paid off! Also this week a great taste of the next chapter of incredible 156/Silence. Thank you for listening homies! Much love X Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

IT'S HERE, IT IS FINALLY HERE. NEW ETID HOMIES LET'S GO. Also this week we catch up on the incredible new EP from the the young kings Knocked Loose. Also this week a damn ripper from the might Sentinels. It was nice to be back homies, hope you dig! X Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

Holy hell homies, this week was a double thicc one stuffed with big boi bangers. After taking a week off we had to catch up on the incredible Frontierer & Dying Wish records and the ... uhh...Sleep Token record. The new album Apexapien from ATRÆ BILIS is absolutely out of hand heavyist fodder of the highest order. Also this week the posthumous offering from the UK's beloved God Complex. And finally, the return of the kings........ VILDHJARTA IS UPON US AND IT IS GLORIOUS. MUCH LOVE HOMIES STAY HEAVY X Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

This week is a big one homies! An album we've been eagerly waiting for, anticipating it's glorious impact on our lives. Has tech death christmas come early?..... We gotta talk about it. Thankfully LLNN drop Unmaker and it's one of the most suffocating heavy albums. Whoever said the old "In space no one can hear you screa" needs to listen to LLNN. Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

This week on the Heavyist Podcast we are joined by the angriest man in Hull Jim Hodge from the awesome Mastiff, we chat about their amazing new record and them signing to EOne as well as discussed the biggest release in metalcore so far from Spiritbox and the rifftacular new record from the legends of Death Metal Carcass. We had a right laugh this week, hope you do too

 

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A week for the record books of heavy 3 albums that I think we'll be seeing on album of the year lists all over the bloody shop. Replicant unleash their deliciously dissonant and unhinged assault on "Malignant Reality". Mastiff strangle the life from planet with "Leave Me The Ashes Of The Earth" and Burial In The Sky crushed the tech death competition with "The Consumed Self". Thanks for listening homies much love X Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

It's a massive bloody week for incredible metalcore! Dead/Awake deliver an outstanding follow up with their monstrous album Melancholia. Foreign Pain shine new light on the old ways with their stellar debut. These records both coming out on the same day has corrected the imbalance of late... BREAKDOWNS ARE BACK! STEAY HEAVY! X Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

The BBQAOTY is here homies and it's name is Glow On. Turnstile deliver intravenous sunshine on their awesome new album. Our puny brains are mulched, digested and repurposed by Utopia and we worship the return blackened dissonant death dealers Nightmarer. What a brilliant week for music. Thanks for listening! STAY HEAVY X Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

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 progressive death metalcore band Moru to talk about their insanely good new record, we get into the writing process, why it took so bloody long to come out, the frankly amazing concept of the record and what the band has in store for the future, as well as his inside track on the bands to watch coming out of the Nashville scene We've been chatting with Zan a LONG time so it was really nice to finally get him on the show and get into some discussions with him! AOR also this week comes from Awake the Secrets, Apes and Mirar Timestamps: Intro - 00:00 Foreign Hands - What's Left Unsaid - 14:53 Zan from Moru - 31:19 AOR (Any Other Riffness) - 1:05:55 Be sure to follow us on the socials and join our Discord server! https://discord.gg/nSjP3A8bRy https://www.instagram.com/theheavyistpodcast/ https://twitter.com/TheHeavyist https://www.facebook.com/TheHeavyist/ Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

This week we chat to our good mate Otis Chamberlain about his upcoming release as cybergrind mastermind Infinite Hex! We also cover the incredible Fawn Limbs release and the new Deafheaven. Otis also brought us some sick as hell NZ bands to keep an eye on. Marrowspawn, Ayamvoid and Glassblower, be sure to check out the Infinite Hex album Simulacrum & Stimuli when it drops August 20th! Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

This week we sat down with the almighty Fawn Limb. We discuss their triumphant new slab Darwin Falls alongside some jams they have brought us in "Show & Hell". There's some juicy news and a game of Famly Goretunes. We had some Audio Issues on this one so BIG UP the homie Otis for helping us clean it up. Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

This week we had a bloody right laugh with our dude, Ross Beagan from Scottish death dealers Godeater! Together we cover outstanding filth Tombstoner and Ether Coven. Also recently an incredible important album for UK heavy dropped and we just had to worship, URNE's SERPENT & SPIRT. There's a shit ton of news and some sick hype. We enjoyed ourselves quite a bit on this one, can you tell? Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

Three sick records this week! Your boys dive in to Erdve, holy hell is one serious ruckus homies! One of the heaviest records of the year for sure, brilliantly claustrophobic but balanced also. There's some excellent djented, aggro metalcore from Sleep Waker and Pacmanthemovie levelled up super hard on their awesome new mathcore record. We hope you dig the show and we hope you jam the bands. STAY HEAVY X Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

Holy hell is there some sick ass death this week. Cognitive deliver an immense mesh of brutality, groove and technicality whilst Ophidian I do their best to take your face and leave it more a yoghurt on the floor than actual skin. There's some incredible astral dissonance from Siderean and Structures straight beat the piss out of us. Thanks for listening homies, this was a real stacked week! Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

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Forgetting The Memories - Spotify

 

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We return in worship, for the heavyverse doth provide hella riff. Atop the altar this week post badassery from Danish units Kollapse & some sick expansive prog death from Fractal Universe. There's a splash of news and some incredible singles to chat about. Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

An absolute belter of a week! Bangers of all horrible shapes and sizes. Sundrowed unleash a lush post black dreamscape to lose yourself in. Wanderer fuse Hardcore and Death Metal to a devastatingly disgusting result. Also had to shout out one of the best HC records for a long while from Ekulu. There's a ton of news and some damn teases in the air! Thanks for listening homies 

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Alluvial

Morokh

Youth Code

Black Country, New Road

Visceral Autopsy

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https://ophidiani.bandcamp.com/album/desolate

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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 exceptional new record from New Zealand's Technical Death Metal pioneers Ulcerate and their incredible new record with the hardest name you've ever heard. Also a thick slab of Industrial Hardcore chaos is delivered unto us by Candy Any Other Riffness comes in the form of Bristol's Blackened Doom band Moon Reaper 00:00 - Intro, RIFF POLICE 13:04 - Ulcerate - Cutting The Throat of God 30:24 - Candy - It's Inside You 43:50 - AOR - Moon Reaper - Black Sun Sorcery Be sure to follow us on the socials and join our Discord server! https://discord.gg/nSjP3A8bRy https://www.instagram.com/theheavyistpodcast/ https://twitter.com/TheHeavyist https://www.facebook.com/TheHeavyist/ 🖤💀 STAY HEAVY x Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

Dan Stevenson hangs this week! Dan chats about his lovely new project Lift and what it's like being an active part of the robopocalypse that is one of our favourite bands, Frontierer! This weeks records are the another slab of UL deathcore, with the awesome Mental Cruelty record. It's blackened, it's symphonic and it also bloody slams. LOVE IT. We also talk about one of the best EP's for a long while from Eclipser. Eclipser play a dissonant blackened death metal with a twist. And the twist isn't just that they don't take 11 minutes to get the job done, honest! Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

Bangers from all corners of the heavysphere this week! Yautja are back to  mulch our brains with a noise rock grindsludge baby, Kaonashi pull off an emo mathcore high school musical. Panopticon transcends with their incredible dramatic black metal and TDWP return to form with another much wanted trip to zombieland!

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The week atop the altar of radness are a couple banging full lengths, some wicked little EP's and a right stacked Hype Train! The Ember, The Ash blend BM and Metalcore to incredible effect and Mouth For War rearrange our fuc*ing faces with tasty metallic HC AKA absolute podfodder. Sonny has a couple of great EP's to shout, Bled To Submission and Deathtax. This week's hype train bands are Lantlos, Wanderer and Perliaxe Occlusion. Thanks for listening homies much love! X Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

This week on the pod, some bloody tough records and some solid homies. Jamie returns and brings the homeboy Matt to chat about their Scottish savagery from Freedom Fist. There's elite tier Deathcore from UK behemoths Osiah. AND of our favourite Mathcore acts return to rearrange our bloody teeth, Mouthbreather are back! Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

We have returned! To kneel before the altar of radness. There's bangers about and we gotta chat some sh*t dude! Gojira and Cruelty are this weeks main releases but also there's also a run down of some amazing records like Cannibal Corpse, Intercourse, The Armed and For Your Health. There's a slab of news and tease of a new game! Thanks for listening homies, much love X Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

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Returning champion Tom Cronin joins us at the altar this week in bent knee before the riff almighty just before the Celestian Sanctuary debut crushes UK Death. Other records this week come fromThe Drowned God & Sanguisugabogg. There's a whole bunch of news finally with some absolute bangers flying. We had a great time recording this one so hope you enjoy listening. STAY HEAVY X Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

Atop the altar this week is some ridiculous jams homies. The UK's Dvne unleash a feast so expansive it hurts. NZ's Blindfolded and Led To The Woods unleash an incredible technical, dissonant and visceral monster and we wash it all down with some straight up damage from OKC's Sledge. As ever homies, some amazing jams. Hope you dig the pod! STAY HEAVY X Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

This week our dude Steffan joined us at the altar in worship of some massive bloody jams. The incredible debut from Pupil Slicer, the sun-bleached hardcore of Slope and and immense groove stuffed death of Orecus. Another great time this week, hope you dig homies! X Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

This week the homie Alex returned to the altar and we has a bloody great laugh. Records worshipped this week are the new Brand Of Sacrifice,  the mighty return of Wolf King and the big brillaint bag of nasty that is the debut Thirdface record. There's not much news but there is a WOULD I GRIND TO YOU to finish it off. Hope you enjoy homies, much love! 

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This week on the show we have got a RIDICULOUS amount to talk about - but before all that we NEED to hear about Sonny's trip to the garden centre... Louisiana Sludge Aficionados Thou are here with a dirgey, rage filled new record that's going to get you bouncing and the one-man Norwegian riff factory that is Vredehammer released a stonker of a record! Brutal News comes in the form of new tracks from Nile, Oranssi Pazuzu, Totally Unicorn and These Streets then we are visited by Chris, Bob and Mal from the noisy Sunderland trio Yersin to discuss their latest record The Scythe is Remorseless, their recent UK tour with Mastiff and resisting the urge to write comedy metal it's a packed one! love you all 🖤💀 STAY HEAVY x Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

High spirits this week as dive into the heart of thefantastical riff storm that is Summoning The Lich. Also this week, The refreshing post bludgeoning of Black Sheep Wall and the 2021 GOLD BLOODY STANDARD for metallic HC with Mugshot. There's a quick run down on why you should be excited about the UK's Carcinoma too! We had a blast recording this one, thanks for jamming homies! STAY HEAVY X Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

Really fun episode this week, had a bloody great time. Abiotic and Flesh Worship friggin rip, just remember Flesh Worship is out  27th Feb.  

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This week one of the true kings of modern heavy music usher in a new era of darkness. Humanity's Last Breath unleash "Välde". Swampbeast live up to their name with an awesome amalgamation of darkness with "Seven Evils Spawned From Seven Heads". THANKS FOR LISTENING STAY HEAVY X Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.