Best Heavy Albums of 2023 - YEAR END LIST TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Release Date: 01/01/2024
BONUS CONCERT REVIEW - Alex saw Coheed and Cambria and Phil saw Emperor
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Take a listen to a relatively recent concert review for Coheed and Cambria in Ft. Myers, Florida with Mastadon and Periphery that Alex saw and the Wolves in the Throne Room and Emperor show that Phil saw in PA! We hope you have gotten out for some summer shows this year!
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Episode 27 - Sum 41 and Witherscape
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Phil layoued out the Dan Swano classic Witherscape - The Northern Sanctuary and Alex offered up Sum 41 - Chuck. Take a listen and see which one you like more! And as always - support these great bands -
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Best Heavy Albums of Q1 - 2025
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Quarter one of 2025 has BLOWN by and now we have some rankings to dish out! Alex's list: Honorable Mentions: Dawn of Orobouros - Bioluminescence - https://dawnofouroboros.bandcamp.com/album/bioluminescence Drudkh - Shadow Play - https://drudkh.bandcamp.com/album/shadow-play Aversed - Erasure of Color - https://aversed.bandcamp.com/album/erasure-of-color Saor - Amidst the Ruins - List Proper 5 - Judicator - Concord - 4 - Deafheaven - Lonely People with Power - 3 - Dream Theater - Parasomnia - 2 - The Halo Effect - The March of the Unheard - 1 - Coheed and Cambria - The Father of Make...
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BONUS CONCERT REVIEW - Ensiferum
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What a GREAT heavy band - ENSIFERUM from Finland. Time to hear about how GREAT that damn band is!!!!!
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Episode 26 - Kamelot and Archspire
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We're back on track and only 3 months into the year! Episode 26 proper Phil reviewed Relentless Mutation by Archspire and Alex reviewed The Black Halo by Kamelot. Be sure to support these two excellent and very different bands at their respective websites - and Two GREAT heavy albums on the GREAT heavy music podcast! Next up, Witherscape's - The Northern Sanctuary and Chuck by Sum 41
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BONUS CONCERT REVIEW - Dark Tranquility, Amorphis and Fires in the Distance
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Phil had the great pleasure of seeing Dark Tranquility, Amorphis and Fires in the Distance and now we have the great pleasure of hearing about it! Enjoy and get out and see a show!!!
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GreatEST Heavy Albums of 2024
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HERE IT IS! The official best heavy albums from 2024 list: Albums of the Year - Alex 1 - Fuerschwanz - Warriors 2 - Bayside - There are worse things than being alive 3 - Wormwood - The Star (song suffer existence might be the best soy) 4 - Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere 5 - Artificial Language - Distant Glow Ep - [articularly rain follows Songs of the Year NOT from the above - Alex 1 - Blind Man by Orden Ogan - The Order of Fear 2 - Hope Shatters by Gaerea - Coma 3 - Winter Storm Vigilantes by Ensiferum - Winter Storm 4 - Der Maulwurf by Kanonenfieber - Die Urkatastrophe 5 -...
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Best Heavy Albums of Q4 - 2024
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The lists abound! Quarter 4 tops of the list are here to stay! ALEX - 1 - Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere 2 - IOTUNN - Kinship 3 - Gaerea - Coma 4 - Undeath - More Insane 5 - Vola - Friend of a Phantom HM - Klone - The Unseen HM - Ulver - Liminal Animals HM - Mork Gryning - Fasornas Tid HM - Crippled Black Phoenix - The Wolf Changes Its Fur But Not Its Nature AND Horrific Honorifics Number Two HM - Opeth - The Last Will and Testament HM - Ensiferum - Winter Storm PHIL - 1 - Blood incantation - Absolute Elsewhere 2 - IOTUNN - Kinship 3 - Opeth - The Last...
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Best Heavy Albums of Q3 - 2024
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It's list time baby!!!!! And we might be a little late for Q3 of 2024 - but get over it - there is a LOT of great stuff you should be checking out! PHIL's list: HM - Aeons - Ghosts HM - Fleshgod Apocolypse - Opera HM - Kalandra - A Frame of Mind 5 - Unto Others - Never, Neverland 4 - Amiensus - Reclamation Part 2 3 - Nile - The Underwold Awaits Us All 2 - Black Sites - The Promised Land? 1 - Kanonenfieber - Die Urkatastrophe ALEX's list: 1 - Summoning the Lich - Under the Reviled Throne 2 - Dark Tranquility - Endtime Signals 3 - Orden Ogan - The Order Of Fear 4 - Mork - Syv 5 -...
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Pre-2025 70,000 tons of metal cruise and POST-2024 70k wrap up
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Da boyz, da boyz, da boyz da boyz da boyz!!!!! A little belated but the boyz reunite nonetheless to talk all things 2024 70,000 tons of metal post-cruise wrap up AND now it's a combo episode because we take a sneak peak into the upcoming 2025 70k cruise! We can't wait and we hope to see you on board!
info_outlineYear end list time ladies and gents and 2023 did NOT disappoint!
Alex's list is:
Albums of the Year -
1 - Kalmah - Kalmah
2 - Fires in the Distance - Air not Meant for Us
3 - Moonlight Sorcery - Horned Lord of the Thorned Castle
4 - Scar Symmetry - The Singularity (Phase II - Xenotaph)
5 - Isole - Aneisidora
Top five Songs of the Year that are NOT on the best albums of the year -
1 - Crowne - Super Trooper off of Operation Phoenix
2 - BlackBraid - Moss Covered Bones on the Altar of the moon off of Blackbraid II
3 - Angus McSix - Master of the Universe off of Angus McSix and the Sword of Power
4 - UADA - Crepuscule Natura from the album by the same name
5 - Marduk - Shovel Beats Sceptre off the Memento Mori album
Honorable Mention: Vesuvian - Emergence
Phil's list is actually pretty good this year, surprisingly, and it is:
Albums of the Year -
1 - Kalmah - Kalmah
2 - Fires in the Distance - Air Not Meant for Us
3 - Scar Symmetry - The Singularity (Phase II - Xenotaph)
4 - Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite
5 - Krigsgrav - Fires in the Fall
Top five Songs of the Year that are NOT on the best albums of the year -
1 - Sermon - Wake the Silent off the album Of Golden Verse
2 - Sulphur Aeon - Hammer From the Howling Void off of Seven Crowns and Seven Seals
3 - Tomb Mold - Will of Whispers off of The Enduring Spirit
4 - Earthside - But What if We're Wrong off of Let the Truth Speak
5 - Theocracy - Liar, Fool, or Messiah off of Mosaic