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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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#312
September 1 · 1 hr 21 min
This Is Your Riffs #1 Jim Hodge
This was a proper laugh. Sonny sits down with our good buddy Jim Hodge of Mastiff to have a chat about his life propped up by 3 albums.
#311
August 24 · 53 min
#310 New Music Catch-Up
It's been TOO long since we caught up about the new music we have been listening to so ya boys took to the mics once again to discuss some of their favourite new releases over the last month or so we discuss new music from Living Weapon, Warforged, Loathe, Barbarians of California. Witherhorde, Racetraitor, Normal American and Rockpyle thanks for listening! x
#310
August 20 · 1 hr 26 min
#309 Hot Riff Time Machine #2 - 2006 (Part 2)
Whats up everyone - sorry for the couple of weeks off, we're here again to chat about riffs and music - we're wrapping up our deep dive into 2006 by talking about 3 absolutely ESSENTIAL albums in the origin story of Sonny and Gary we also had a little look at the Kerrang albums of the year from 2006 and the entries from the homies in Discord love you all x
#309
July 31 · 1 hr 25 min
#308 Hot Riff Time Machine #2 - 2006 (Part 1)
We're jumping back into our Time Machine and we're gonna gun it to 88mph - destination 2006! 20 years on we look at some of the most awesome albums from 2006 - Gary and Sonny have 3 albums each they want to talk about that mean something to them , the records are: I Don't Care Where I Go When I Die by Gaza Akeldama by The Faceless Death of a Dead Day by Sikth Songs for the Recently Deceased by I Killed the Prom Queen The Always Open Mouth by Fear Before the March of Flames As Daylight Dies by
#308
July 18 · 1 hr 23 min
#307 Sonny's Hot Load (of missed radness) and Boundaries
This week on the show Sonny has a bag of missed radness to empart upon us all that is VERY strong - but before that we must observe the release of Yearning: The Unbeautiful After by one of our favourite bands as a podcast... Boundaries does it hold up? Have they sold out? Is the production actually THAT bad? ALL is discussed we also enjoy No Cure whilst drinking a beer which feels a bit naughty to be honest but what are you gonna do? then Sonny's missed radness comes from Verdun, Yersin, Chaosphere, Skinsewnshut and Hot Load then the WHEEL OF RIFFS gifted us a delight in the form of Messy, Isn't It? from the cult heroes Dangers, another FANTASTIC spin from the wheel if you wanna discuss anything we talked about on the show or submit your WHEEL OF RIFFS recommendation then come on down and join us in the Discord, the funnest place on the internet to worship the riff Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.
#307
July 11 · 1 hr 2 min
#306 Sick Albums to Look Out For In H2 2026
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 them coming as strong as this! love you all, Join the Discord to be part of the fun!
#306
July 4 · 55 min
#305 New stuff Old stuff
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 THE WHEEL OF RIFFS join the Discord and find the channel where you can submit your suggestion for an album for us to check out x Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.
#305
June 14 · 1 hr 40 min
#304 Hot Riff Time Machine #1 - 2011
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 Gary became best friends! we looked at 3 albums that we each loved from that year, a couple of recor
#304
May 28 · 1 hr 7 min
#303 Catch-Ups and Let-Downs
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 No Cure, Burner and 156/Silence regular programming will be resumed from now on love you all x Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.
#303
April 30 · 1 hr
#302 Time for a change
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
#302
April 19 · 32 min
#301 Piper Ferrari from Roman Candle
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
#301
April 17 · 30 min
#300 Chamber and other sick new mathcore records
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
#300
April 5 · 42 min
#299 March Bangers
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.
#299
March 4 · 47 min
#298 February Bangers
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 we're on Youtube so maybe consider popping over there to look at our wonderful faces!
#298
February 8 · 35 min
#297 January Bangers
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
#297
February 4 · 29 min
#296 Stabbing / MØL
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 heavy music coverage: https://www.youtube.com/@theheavyistpodcast?sub_confirmation=1 In this episod
#296
January 23 · 26 min
The Heavyist #295 Joe Nally from Urne
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
#295
January 12 · 36 min
The Heavyist #294 Slamuary
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
#294
Dec 22, 2025 · 1 hr 37 min
The Heavyist #293 Album of the Year 2025
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
#293
Dec 1, 2025 · 1 hr
The Heavyist #292 Damnation / Lamp of Murmuur / Veilburner / Excide
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! Maybe consider popping over there and watching aswell as listening - you can see our handsome faces!

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