Heavy Handed Podcast

28/05/2024

🎉 BRISBANE - THIS FRIDAY!! 🎉

Come celebrate Heavy Handed with Daz, Trodds and Tobes at Tomcat with The Last Martyr, Revoid, Torizon, and Citadel! 🤘🏼

Tickets are less than $12.00. That's the same price you'd pay for a beer at one of the other s**t clubs in the Valley, and we guarantee the music wouldn't be as good! Do it. 🎟️

Head to the bands pages for the ticket link and we hope to see you there for a million beers!! 🍻

26/05/2024

After 3 epic years, the Heavy Handed podcast will be going on an indefinite hiatus 😢.

Catch up with Daz, Dean, Tobes, and Todd one last time, to look back and reflect on our favourite times and guests on the show. We also open the playlist up to our loyal listeners, taking requests that explore multiple genres within the heavy music world.

Thank you for listening and for your support, we hope to see you all again. This is only the end, so far. 🤘🏼🖤

22/05/2024

After the tragic news of Jon Wysocki's passing this week, I wanted to share a short video taken from when he appeared on the show 2 years ago.

I didn't upload it at the time, mostly because I was so visibly nervous to be meeting one of my favourite drummers. I was a huge fan of Jon's work on Staind's 'Dysfunction' and 'Break the Cycle', albums that barely left my cd player in the late 90's.

Within moments, his calm, humble demeanour instantly put me at ease, and I left the conversation incredibly thankful to have been given the opportunity to connect with him, and his bandmates.

A big thanks to Tonya, Corey, and Cody from Lydias Castle for allowing me to fanboy out for these 5 minutes, it was a moment in time that I'll forever cherish - Daz.

RIP Jon Wysocki 1971 - 2024 🖤

Jon Wysocki, Corey England, Cody Denton and Tonya LeeAnne from Lydia's Castle join Daz on Heavy Handed to talk about their musical influences, favourite song...

23/04/2024

Ask and you shall receive! More Seize The Day gems from the vault.

Second photo: Our drummer didn't actually want to be in the band, so we subbed our mate Crebo in for a pic 🤣.

Hear all about the band, how we met, and how it all ended on our latest episode, with The Merlz (Milly's Misty Dream) now streaming.

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18/04/2024

Alright, so for those of you who have listened to our latest episode with The Merlz, where we talk about our first band together, 'Seize The Day', do we have a treat for you.

These are the photos from our first 'photo shoot', taken around Merlz's Mums place in Sawtell circa 2004.

Merlz with short hair, Todd with hair, and Daz sporting the died brown mop, we were all set to become the latest nu metal sensation to rock the east coast.

With our first single 'Break Me' freshly recorded, nothing could stop us. Or could it?

Stay tuned next week for some more gems from the vault, and the dramatic conclusion to the Seize The Day story.

15/04/2024

The wait is over! After over 2 and a half years of HH, we finally secured our most sought after guest... none other than The Merlz. With 20 years of friendship between Daz, Todd, and Merlz, you can only imagine just how awesome this episode is.

Join us as we look back at our first band, 'Seize The Day', to Merlz's early alternative outfits 'Shattered Dreams' and 'Dream Sequence', performing shows at Brisbane's Milton Bowl and The Globe Theatre.

Fast forward to today, and Merlz is celebrating the release of his latest single, 'Illusion', from his own solo work, the synth driven darkwave project, Milly's Misty Dream.

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🎧 A Spotify Premium account is required to hear all songs.

Listen to this episode from Heavy Handed on Spotify. The wait is over! After over 2 and a half years of Heavy Handed, we finally secured our most sought-after guest... none other than The Merlz. With 20 years of friendship between Daz, Todd, and Merlz, you can only imagine just how awesome this epis...

11/04/2024

Ever since we first started Heavy Handed, we've wanted to interview our very good friend, The Merlz. With his impeccable music taste and ability to share a good story, it was only a matter of time before it finally happened.

On one dark night in March, fuelled by Merlz's very own delicious beef masaman curry, and Maynard from TOOL's exceptionally tasty wine, Daz, Todd, and The Merlz finally got together and hit record, over 2 and a half years later.

🎧 TUNE IN MONDAY THE 15TH OF APRIL ON SPOTIFY, as we look back on our first band together, and Merlz's synth driven darkwave project, Milly's Misty Dream.

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Oh yeah, and that is also HH's very own Toby Skeates pictured there too. But you'll have to listen to the episode to hear all about that!

18/12/2023

We did another year! This calls for a celebration! 🎉

Join all 4 hosts - Daz, Dean, Trodds and Tobes as we come together to reflect on our favourite heavy music releases and shows of 2023 and provide you with our review of Australia's greatest alternative festival, Good Things Festival.

From Sleep Token all the way through to Limp Bizkit, we had some excellent live music visit our great country this year, and some solid metal albums too, and you're going to hear about them!
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3aG4zgEj0VVKaNDFVlccMy?si=mLaLYYW3RiyyiMyxkvCzIg 👊🏼

Thanks to all of our awesome guests for making 2023 our biggest year yet, and to you our listeners for tuning in and supporting the show. See you in 2024! 🤘🏼

06/12/2023

With 2023 coming to a close soon, we wanted to take a moment to say thanks for your continued support of our podcast this year 🙏🏻

We didn't quite release as many this year as other years, but we feel the ones that we did really counted. What started as a simple radio show concept, has really evolved into a show about connection. While we'd love to pump out episode after episode and stay constantly present in the scene, we prefer our guest shows to flow organically, and happen when the time is right for everyone. Some happen quickly, there are others who we're still chasing after knowing each other for over half our lives 😂. If it's forced you're doing everyone a disservice, and for one reason or another, every show we've done so far has landed at the perfect time.

We'll be back with 1 more show on the 18/12, looking back on the year that was in heavy music and giving you our Good Things Festival wrap up! 🤘🏼

Season 4 next year and there's already plenty of conversation happening around who will be joining us on the show to chat all about their career, and play us their favourite tunes! Get excited!! 🍻

30/11/2023

Happy AusMusic Tshirt day from the Heavy Handed lads!! 👕

Daz rockin some Lagerstein, Dean h***y for Th***y Thornhill, Tobes embracing the Darkness of Milly's Misty Dream, and T-Rubble 'sporting' a bitta Pist Idiots! 🤘🏼

Give it up for Support Act - delivering crisis relief services to musicians, managers, crew and music workers across all genres who are unable to work due to ill health, injury, a mental health problem or some other crisis, such as COVID-19. 🇦🇺

28/11/2023

🤘🏼 ROLL CALL!! 🤘🏼

Good Things Festival is just days away now and we wanna know, who are YOU most looking forward to seeing play?! 🎸

Your boys from HH will be there in Brissy (cept Trodds, he'll be breaking stuff at the Limp Bizkit sideshow) and capturing all the action from the ground. THEN, we'll be wrapping it up and turning it all into a nice little podcast pressie for ya's to see out the end of the year! How's that sound?! 😎

Lettuce know if you're comin, let's meet up!! 🍻