The Heavyist #251 Album of the Year 2024

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 Rock 37:55 - Best UK Album 41:17 - Heaviest Album 45:10 - Post Hardcore 47:54 - Grindcore 50:54 - Biggest Disappointment 53:13 - Black Metal 58:03 - Best Artwork 1:00:03 - Best EP 1:05:00 - BBQAOTY 1:06:10 - Vocal Performance 1:08:14 - Metalcore 1:12:57 - Death Metal 1:21:59 - ALBUM OF THE YEAR LOVE YOU X Follow us on the socials! https://www.instagram.com/theheavyistpodcast/ https://twitter.com/TheHeavyist https://www.facebook.com/TheHeavyist/ https://www.tiktok.com/@theheavyist STAY HEAVY xJoin the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

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 but all of them are absolutely unmissable records to check out Chapters 00:00 - Intro 02:46 - Damnation Review 21:07 - Still - A Theft 33:10 - Better Lovers - Highly Irresponsible 42:52 - Counterparts - Heaven Let Them Die 47:35 - Lores - Book 1: Panthalassa 51:37 - All That Remains - Forever Cold 55:00 - Obeyer - Chemical Well 59:31 - Vicarage - Perfect Hatred 01:03:07 - Spider God - Possess the Devil Follow us on the socials! https://discord.gg/nSjP3A8bRy https://www.instagram.com/theheavyistpodcast/ https://twitter.com/TheHeavyist https://www.facebook.com/TheHeavyist/ https://www.tiktok.com/@theheavyist STAY HEAVY x Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

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/theheavyistpodcast/ https://twitter.com/TheHeavyist https://www.facebook.com/TheHeavyist/ https://www.tiktok.com/@theheavyist STAY HEAVY xJoin the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

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! https://discord.gg/nSjP3A8bRy https://www.instagram.com/theheavyistpodcast/ https://twitter.com/TheHeavyist https://www.facebook.com/TheHeavyist/ https://www.tiktok.com/@theheavyist STAY HEAVY xJoin the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

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 subscribe button, we're here every (most) weeks worshipping at the altar of radness Follow us on the socials! https://discord.gg/nSjP3A8bRy https://www.instagram.com/theheavyistpodcast/ https://twitter.com/TheHeavyist https://www.facebook.com/TheHeavyist/ STAY HEAVY xJoin the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

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 InsaneJoin 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.

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 unique sounds of all of their peers and hopefully it's their time to get recognised for it! Chapters 00:00 Intro 09:04 - Kublai Khan - Exhibition of Prowess 25:11 - 156/Silence - People WatchingJoin the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

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 Slam with the new record from PeelingFlesh 00:00 - Many Eyes - The Light Age 28:29 - Brutal News - The Return of Linkin Park 33:15 - AOR - Fat Dog 36:45 - AOR - PeelingFleshJoin the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

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.