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The Heavyist

Sonny Taylor and Gary Trelease

Join Sonny and Gary for weekly worship at the altar of radness. The Heavyist provides the members of our congregation with their weekly dose of riffs, blasts and laughs. We adore only the sickest new jams from all around the heavysphere, we observe only the week’s most BRUTAL NEWS and have a good-ass time along the way… WELCOME HOMIES

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00:50:40

The Heavyist #254 Interview with Brian Ortiz from...

The Heavyist ·

2025/01/14

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 discussion also touches on the dynamics of live performances, the challenges of touring with a large

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00:37:13

The Heavyist #253 Stick To Your Guns

The Heavyist ·

2025/01/10

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 this new record. Also in some early year BRUTAL NEWS we have release announcements from Bodybox and

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01:04:45

The Heavyist #252 Andreas Bjulver from Cabal

The Heavyist ·

2025/01/07

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 you check it out and listen to the singles already released now which both BANG Chapters 00:00

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01:27:03

The Heavyist #251 Album of the Year 2024

The Heavyist ·

2024/12/29

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 16:30 - Best Debut 17:58 - Best Label 21:20 - Deathcore 28:01 - Heavyist Adjacent 31:59 - Noise

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01:10:38

The Heavyit #250 November Riffs

The Heavyist ·

2024/11/18

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 Filththen we have a massive pile of riffs to chat about, some of them high profile and some of them relatively underground but all of them are absolutely unmissable records to check out Chapters 00:00 - Intro 02:46 - Damnation

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00:18:52

The Heavyist #249 Gaerea

The Heavyist ·

2024/10/25

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 MistJoin your boys Sonny and Gary to see what they thought about it! Follow us on the

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00:22:02

The Heavyist #248 Fit For An Autopsy

The Heavyist ·

2024/10/23

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

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01:10:06

The Heavyist #247 October Riffs

The Heavyist ·

2024/10/22

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 nice chance to catch up before ALL the albums come out next week if you like what you see click the

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00:48:27

The Heavyist #246 Blood Incantation / Undeath with...

The Heavyist ·

2024/10/03

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

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01:06:10

The Heavyist #245 The Black Dahlia Murder / Heriot /...

The Heavyist ·

2024/09/26

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 radnessThe Black Dahlia Murder release their 10th studio album and their first since the tragic passing of their frontman and Death metal talisman Trevor Strnad -

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00:44:22

The Heavyist #244 Kublai Khan / 156/Silence

The Heavyist ·

2024/09/19

It's that time again! That's right time to get your dose of weekly worship at the altar of radnessthis 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 unique sounds of all of their peers and hopefully it's their time to get recognised for

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00:42:52

The Heavyist #243 Many Eyes

The Heavyist ·

2024/09/09

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 then in AOR Gary has been listening to some Electro-Punk from Fat Dog and Sonny has found his "in" with

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00:40:48

The Heavyist #242 Depths / The Killing of a Sacred Deer

The Heavyist ·

2024/09/05

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 🖤💀 STAY HEAVY xJoin the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

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01:01:40

The Heavyist #241 Nails / Concrete Winds

The Heavyist ·

2024/08/29

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 grindcore? I guess you'll have to listen to find out ;) Concrete Winds on paper might appear to be up

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01:07:01

The Heavyist #240 Nile / Trench

The Heavyist ·

2024/08/22

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 from everyone's favourite Egyptologist Technical Death Metal legends - NILE - Gary is a bit of a Nile

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00:57:19

The Heavyist #239 Any Other Riffness and Brutal News

The Heavyist ·

2024/08/01

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 the world of Post Hardcore and Screamo, Gravemind prove that Modern Metalcore still has something to

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00:48:09

The Heavyist #238 Tendrils / Summoning The Lich

The Heavyist ·

2024/07/26

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 out now. Also after originally teasing it 4 years ago Glacial Tomb finally announce the release of

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01:02:27

The Heavyist #237 Bandcamp Bangers 2 / Brutal News

The Heavyist ·

2024/07/18

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 HeavysphereRanging 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 we got hyped about some really exciting high profile upcoming releases so we caught up on new singles

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00:37:01

The Heavyist #236 Speed / VOWER

The Heavyist ·

2024/07/12

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

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00:56:24

The Heavyist #235 200 Stab Wounds / The God Awful Truth

The Heavyist ·

2024/07/04

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 Strainthen 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

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