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TOP 10 ALL TIME BEST Heavy Songs - AKA Songs to slay/be slain to

It had to be done. We have finally answered the unasked question, and ranked/shared our top ten BEST all-time Heavy Songs to slay someone/something to or if you were to go down swinging what would it be? For Phil we have the following, in no particular order: Unto others - heroin, Dance Gavin dance - cream of the crop, Flotsam jetsam - too many lives, Nile - to strike with secret fang, Cky 96 - quite bitter beings, AFI - total immortal, Iron Maiden - where eagles dare, Metallica - for whom the bell tolls, Dio - rainbow in the dark, Ngalfar - spoken words of venom, Coroner - Sacrificial Lamb, Death - Without Judgement, Cattle Decapitation - Bring Back the Plague, Alice In Chains - Them Bones, Breaking Benjamin - Diary of Jane, Kannonfieber - lviv zu Lemberg, Charlie Griffiths - Under Polaris, Cormorant - The Crossing, Kalmah - Blind Leader, Wintersun - Death and the Healing, Ayreon - Day Fourteen: Pride, A Day to Remember - Mind Reader, Rival Schools - Hooligans for Life, Kamelot - Center of the Universe, Nightwish - Passion and the Opera, Mithras - Part the Ways, Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime. Phil's true honorable mentions - in no particular order were: Arsis - Shattering the Spell, Death - Without Judgement, Ensiferum - Little Dreamer, Mgla - With Hearts Toward None, Coheed and Cambria - Here We Are Juggernaut And now Phil's list proper: 10 - ...And Oceans - Dissolution of Mind and Matter 9 - Buried Realm - Human Code 8 - Black Dahlia Murder - What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse 7 - Amorphis - A Servant 6 - Aether Realm - King of Cups 5 - In Flames - Davids Disarm Their Goliaths 4 - Between The Buried And Me - The Primer 3 - Hypocrisy - Global Domination 2 - Children of Bodom - Taste of My Scythe 1 - Blind guardian - Time Stands Still at the Iron Hill --------------------------------- For Alex his honorable mentions were, in no particular order: The Fight Song - Marilyn Manson, Like Fire - Bloodbath, SNM - Uada, I Walk Among The Living - Illdisposed, Revenge is a Vulture - Three Inches of Blood, Violent Nature - I Prevail, The Black Waltz - Kalmah, Yee Naaldlooshii - Kvaen, Infamous Last Words - Tear out the Heart, Devestation of Souls - Come to Grief, Laihem's Golden Pits - Iotunn, Embrace the World - Gojira, The Deranged - LIK, Omega Point - Beyond Grace, Only for the Weak - In Flames, Unholy Confessions - Avenged Sevenfold, Morrigan - Children of Bodom And his top ten list was: 10 - Involuntary Doppelganger by Archspire 9 - Yekteniya III: Premudrost by Batushka 8 - Dead of Winter by Thrawsunblat 7 - Flagellation by Non Est Deus 6 - Kenosis by Hath 5 - Hammer the Bastards by Wolfbastard 4 - 01.09.15 by Leipa 3 - Circo Inhumanitas by Cattle Decapitation 2 - Blinded by Fear by At the Gates 1 - The Murder Manifesto by Naglfar What are your top ten to rage to?

Episode 30 - Sig:Ar:Tyr and Turnstile

We're finally BACK with an episode proper with all the fixin's, a That's so Metal, a Mitch Hedberg outro joke, proper musical underlay, Phil being a brilliant side-kick, and what's that - oh yeah - MUSIC REVIEWS! This episode Alex reviewed GLOW ON by Turnstile and Phil reviewed Northen by Sig:Ar:Tyr. Go out and support these great bands! http://www.sigartyr.com/ [http://www.sigartyr.com/] https://turnstilehardcore.com/ [https://turnstilehardcore.com/]

Best Heavy Albums of 2025 YEAR END Episode (plus Q4 of 2025)

Phil's EOY best of's 10 - Paradise Lost - Ascension 9 - Ghost - Skeleta 8 - Mors Principum Est - Darkness Invisible 7 - Turnstile - Never Enough 6 - An Abstract Illusion - The Sleeping City 5 - Coroner - Dissonance Theory 4 - Fallujah - Xenotaph 3 - Buried Realm - Dormant Darkness 2 - Labyrinthus Stellarum - Rift in Reality 1 - Moron Police - Pachinko DEFINITELY support all these great bands and buy their work and pay to see them live!!! Alex's EOY best of's 1 - Amorphis - Borderlands 2 - Alleageon - The Ossuary Lens 3 - Fuerschwanz - Knightclub 4 - Ghost - Skeleta 5 - In the Woods... - Otra Best songs of the year - but not good enough to be albums of the year HM - Species - Changelings - "Inspirit Creation" HM - Three Days Grace - Alienation - "Kill Me Fast" HM - The Hives - The Hives Forever Forever the Hives - "Bad Call" HM - Glare - Sunset Funeral - "Saudade" HM - Rivers of Nihil - Rivers of Nihil - "House of Light" DEFINITELY support all these great bands and buy their work and pay to see them live!!!

BONUS - 2026 70k pre-cruise party episode

Can't wait!!!!!! Another metal cruise is upon us!!! Thanks to 70k for a GREAT time in anticipation and if you see Phil or I aboard the cruise come say hi!

Episode 29 - AFI and Beast In Black

In this proper episode of the GREAT heavy music podcast Alex reviews The Art of Drowning by AFI and Phil reviews From Hell with Love by power metallers Beast in Black. Two truly great bands with great releases that positively needed to be positively reviewed! Sign up for the newsletters from these bands and go out and support them by seeing them live. https://beastinblack.com/ [https://beastinblack.com/] https://afireinside.net/ [https://afireinside.net/] Next up will be Northen by Sig:Ar:Tyr and Glow On by Turnstile