#310 New Music Catch-Up

In the first episode of "This Is Your Riffs"  Sonny has a chat with Jim Hodge of Mastiff. We talk about how he got into heavy music, the music the made him want to start a band as well as the record that most influenced his last release. This was honestly so much fun and I hope it's a nice listen.  Appreciate you homies Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

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 Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

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 Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

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 Killswitch Engage we LOVE doing these episodes so I hope you guys enjoy listening to them join the Discord so you can have your say on what you thought was the best in 2006! much love x Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

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.

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! Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

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.

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 records we hated, Sonny found a VERY strange record from that year and then we also took suggestions from the lovely folks over in the Discord if you want to be part of the fun for the next episode maybe join the Discord! and if you wanna support the show follow us on one of the many annoying and stupid social media platforms that exist or hit subscribe on your podcast catcher of choice (or check out our Youtube page which is currently a bit on the dormant side but will be re-invigorated soon!) thanks, love you all x Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.

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.

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 Join the Discord! It's full of people sharing sick heavy music all the time.