169 – I’m On A Boat

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Heavy Pod Is Heavy Cast! This week I am dialing in from an unusual location. We have a bunch of items to discuss, including Iron Maiden suing the creators of the game Ion Maiden, Metallica playing the national anthem, video of domestic abuse from the Vektor frontman surfacing, This Gift Is A Curse, Howling Sycamore, Shrek slam band The Ogre Packet Slammers, Wormed, Wait, Brand of Sacrifice, Season of Mist moving to on-demand shirt printing, and Cody’s chaotic meme playlist. Then, cool people time with Designated Survivor, Chernobyl (we go into some good discussion about nuclear energy), Surviving Mars, Killing Eve, and The Society. Enjoy!

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167 – Guitar Professional

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Heavy Pod Is Heavy Cast! This week Ahmed and I discuss the music composition software Guitar Pro, its impact on metal, and how a musician’s process affects their music in subtle ways, what technicality and virtuosity even is, and more. Then we do a deep dive on Sekiro and Dark Souls 2. Enjoy!

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166 – Vale of Djnath

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Heavy Pod Is Heavy Cast! Eden is finally back, but this time I’m derailing. We talk about new music or videos from Trivium, Vale of Pnath, Shokran, Slipknot, Immortal Guardian, Disentomb, Conjurer, Iron Maiden, and maybe Amaran. Then, cool people time with A Plague Tale: Innocence, What We Do In The Shadows, Sekiro, and Under the Silver Lake. Enjoy!

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165 – Djestures

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Heavy Pod Is Heavy Cast! Eden is finally back, but this time I’m derailing. We talk about new music from Dreadnaught, Inanimate Existence, Babymetal, Warforged, Xenobiotic, Flub, and Destrage. Then we talk about the Threatin lawsuit, Mayhem signing with Century Media, and Demons & Wizards coming back. Also some philosophy, cool people time with Detective Pikachu, Chernobyl, Charles Stross’s Laundry files, Hannu Rajaniemi’s Summerland and Re:publica. Enjoy!

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164 – What Even Is Metalcore?

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Heavy Pod Is Heavy Cast!Regular co-host Cody and I get together to discuss Metallica playing St. Anger stuff live, and then go into an extended conversation about metalcore. Its history, the subgenres, its evolution, and what our favorite bands in the genre are. Mentioning a few artists for SEO purposes: Shadows Fall, Killswitch Engage, Trivium, August Burns Red, Underoath, Lamb of God, Converge. Then we discuss Avengers Endgame with full spoilers, and this video about it. Enjoy!

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163 – Bizarre Content

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Heavy Pod Is Heavy Cast!This week, we have little content. Even less than usual. New music from After the Burial, Fractal Universe, Allegaeon, Masvidal, The Odious. Also Adam Neely on busking, the Vmbrella teaser, and cool people time with Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure and Lancer. Enjoy!

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162 – I’m Not Staple

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Back on the grind with new music. Fractal Universe, Hacktivist, Krosis, Whitechapel, Amogh Symphony, and Enterprise Earth. Then we discuss, Matt Heafy’s guitar strap for reducing back strain, the neural network that generates Archspire music, Eden’s Devin interview, and the passing of Michael Eikenaar of Nihill and Dodecahedron. Then, cool people time with Sekiro, Hob, and The Occupation. Also this mashup. Enjoy!

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161 – Trash Fire feat. Se’nam Palmer

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Heavy Pod Is Heavy Cast!This week, we are joined by Se’nam Palmer of Crispin Wah to discuss basically one subject: a certain pair of pants with a certain logo. Of course, this turns into an extended conversation about the usage of symbology and ideology in metal. Enjoy.

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160 – I Couldn’t Come Up With A Title But Go Watch Santa Clarita Diet

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Heavy Pod Is Heavy Cast!We have a bunch of new proggy music this week, including Devin Townsend, Periphery, Equipoise, and Hannes Grossmann. Also Nekrasov. We also cover some sad/weird stories like the passing of Viraemia bassist Scott Plummer, and Static-X doing a tour with their vocalist replacing Wayne Static wearing a Wayne Static-but-with-dead-skin-looking mask. Yeah. Also this Magic: The Gathering trailer with an emotional Linkin Park cover, and some random live clip of Metallica with Cliff. Then cool people time with, you guessed it, Santa Clarita Diet, Arrested Development, Sekiro, Hitman 2, and Texorcist: The Story of Ray Bibbia. Enjoy!

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