Heavy Matters
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Heavy Matters Meets Metal Epidemic
Joey and Venny are joined by Dave, Kyle and Duncan, from The Metal Epidemic podcast. The five lads sit down and discuss one album each that will definitely be on their end-of-the-year list, the album they are most looking forward to for the remainder of 2
Part 2 - ArcTanGent Interviews 2022
Part 2 of our ATG interviews features Fraser and Jack from Still after their glorius debut and Jake from Rivers of Nihil after they laid waste to the fest.
ArcTanGent 2022 Interviews Part 1
Part one of our interviews conducted at ATG 2022 features:Head Honcho, numero Uno, Mr James Scarlett, the man who books the bands for ATG. The Hyena Kill (fresh off stage). Paranoid Void from Japan and Sam from Ithaca.
ArcTanGent 2022 Review
Joey & Venny sit down and chat about the bands they saw at this years incredible ArcTanGent 2022.
Epi. 62 - Arctangent Preview
Joey and Venny sit down and discuss which bands are on their list to see at this year's Arctangent festival. There were, quite frankly, far too many to choose from, such is the quality on show. They did pick some well-known ones and choose a couple of ban
Epi. 61 - Guess who's back, back again Joey's back, tell a friend
Joey is back after his long break and back in the hosting chair. Venny and Joey review albums from Imperial Triumphant, Panzerfaust & Russian Circles. A special shout-out to Tony & Fletch for their support over the last two shows and doing an incr
Mikael Stanne - The Halo Effect
Joey had the pleasure of sitting down with Mikael Stanne to discuss his new band The Halo effect, featuring ex-members of In Flames. This was such a great chat ahead of their album release 'Days of the Lost' on the 12th August 2022 on Nuclear Blast record
Epi. 60 - While the cat’s away 2…
Venny is again joined by Heavy Matters Fletch and Tony Album Reviews Alexisonfire – Otherness (1mins10sec) Oceans of Slumber – Starlight and Ash (16min50sec) Blood Command – Armageddonism (33mins50sec)
Epi. 59 - While the cat's away...
Whilst Joey takes a hard earned rest, Venny is joined by HM writers Tony Bliss and Chris Fletch to discuss three storming albums. Ithaca - They Fear Us (2mins10sec) White Ward - First Light (16 mins) Coheed and Cambria - Vaxis II A window of the wak
Ithaca Interview
Venny sits down on a Sunday night and talks to Sam Chetan-Welsh, guitarist from London-based band Ithaca. We talk about the huge progression on the new album 'They Fear Us' (Hassle Records, 29/7/22), Lewis Johns' stellar production job, H*ly R**r, and pla