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 band, and Ortiz's personal interests outside of music, including movies and hobbies.

Thanks so much to Brian for hanging out, this ruled.

Cheers!

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https://www.instagram.com/tzompantlidoom/?hl=en

https://x.com/tzompantlidoom?lang=en

Chapters

00:00 Introduction and LA Fires

05:56 The Birth of Tzompantli

09:08 Influences and Inspirations

12:05 Mesoamerican Heritage & Themes

15:02 Researching Indigenous History

20:50 Future Aspirations and Musical Directions

23:59 Visual Storytelling

27:01 Predator

27:41 Live Show Dynamics and Band Logistics

34:59 Creative Process and Future Plans

40:03 Personal Interests

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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 Church Tongue.

Sonny then also manages to sneak a couple of cheeky recommendations in at the end too!

Chapters:

00:00 - Intro and Nosferatu Chat

5:55 - Stick To Your Guns - Keep Planting Flowers

20:49 - Brutal News: Bodybox and Church Tongue

28:15 - AOR: Obscure Sphinx

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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 Intro

01:15 Evolution and the new record

06:57 Collaborating

18:37 The Danish Scene

25:16 Patreon and "Content"

28:45 The Audio Tree Experience

31:32 Visual Concepts

37:38 The Evolution of Album Artwork

56:12 Excitement for Upcoming Music

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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.

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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

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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

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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!

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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

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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

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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

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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

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