Horus Heretics
67 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★ - 5 ratingsHorus Heretics is a podcast where a couple of friends talk about the Warhammer 40k Horus Heresy books published by Black Library as if they were real literature. We'll moan about the characters, laugh at the dialogue and talk lustily about the spilling of gallons of traitorous blood. Come join us as we make our way through these books, with new episodes every 2 weeks, and laugh along with us at this excellent series.
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Horus Heretics - Insert missing episode here
September 06, 2021 00:00 - 26 seconds - 176 KBHi Folks, Sorry to disappoint but we just didn't have time to put together an episode this week. New jobs, making games, new lives and new wives. Y'know? We'll be back very soon with your favourite mix of amateurishness and xenos misting.
Bonus Episode 12 - Warhammer+ TOTAL COVERAGE (of the free stuff)
August 23, 2021 00:00 - 26 minutes - 28.7 MBOur thoughts on the Hammer and Bolter episode Old Bale Eye, which was free for 24 for hours as part of the hype campaign for Warhammer+, the Netflix of Warhammer
Bonus episode 11 - Head wound, Fatal!
August 09, 2021 00:00 - 34 minutes - 39.4 MBThe completion of our Opus - Ultramarines: the Movie. Where the training and arts of the Ultramarines show through in their otherworldly ability to identify an axe wound that slices a head in half as fatal
Bonus Episode 10 - The world famous Ultramarines movie - Free to steal now on youtube
July 26, 2021 00:00 - 33 minutes - 38.3 MBYour Primarchs love you like sons and daughters and so have provisioned you with a bonus episode while they lock themselves away to concentrate on completing their life's works. Behold Ultramarine: the movie. We all feel bad for John Hurt.
Episode 52 - Killing people because of unforgivable ignorance? We've all been in those meetings
July 12, 2021 00:00 - 42 minutes - 45.8 MBWe're still dealing with the audio gremlins but we've returned to finish of Betrayer which turns out to be.......not a novel. It's a tone piece. Or maybe more of a pitch document for a better, more accomplished book. There are some really good bits but they aren't attached to plot or even the grander overarching heresy narrative.
Episode 51 - Our primarchs are adrift, microphoneless in the Italian warp
June 28, 2021 00:00 - 44 minutes - 50.2 MBToday we discuss the first part of Betrayer. It's a vague and often directionless narrative with some nice moments and characterisation. We've talked about it for a bout 45 minutes and still can't really say what it's about. We've also put out a request for ideas for some upcoming bonus episodes so do get in touch at [email protected]
Episode 50 - Lets find out what happened in this book together.........We'll be as surprised as you
June 14, 2021 00:00 - 57 minutes - 63.9 MBYour Primarchs apologise again (most other Primarchs would apologise eh? So....be thankful?) for missing last week's episode. To make it up to you, and to celebrate our 50th episode we've decided to make this ep an even bigger mess than our normal bullshit. But we enjoyed it. A lot.
A message from your Primarch
June 01, 2021 00:00 - 1 minute - 1.59 MBWe had planned on having an episode this week but time really got away from us. I explain why and if you care to listen to this episode you may even learn a thing to two about your favourite heretics.\\We had planned on having an episode this week but time really got away from us. I explain why and if you care to listen to this episode you may even learn a thing to two about your favourite heretics.
Episode 49 - How heresy even effects the private lives of Insects
May 17, 2021 00:00 - 40 minutes - 37.5 MBWe discuss the first part of Angel Exterminatus, Neil's impending vaccination, insects and even the plot of this book. Perterabo seems like someone we both want to read more about and Fulgrim is...........the best Primarch??
Episode 48 - Another story about the same thing? really?? (our worst episode)
May 03, 2021 00:00 - 35 minutes - 32.3 MBWe finish off Shadow of treachery and we'll be frank, this episode sucks. We recorded it and were not on our game because of other life shit. Sorry about that. We'll improve in the next one for sure
Episode 47 - Chapbooks, books of Hours and hand illumination
April 19, 2021 00:00 - 46 minutes - 42.5 MBWe begin this short story collection with more discussion about the black library writers room which almost certainly doesn't exist and start to reflect on a series of stories with.........Character development?.......really?.........Yes really! and it's great!
Episode 46 - Amit provides a useful counterpoint and a face to punch
April 05, 2021 00:00 - 45 minutes - 42.1 MBWe finish talking about the superb Fear to Tread and sympathise (Read: Laugh at) with poor old Amit who has a lot to deal with in his life and ends up going full vampire.
Episode 45 - Sanguinius, Mate! Take the hint!
March 22, 2021 00:00 - 50 minutes - 46.2 MBThis episode we begin the Doom-like Fear to Tread. It's full face ripping, blood misting and meat smoke. So join us as the perfect moment for treachery has finally revealed itself.
Lost Episode - Another apology
March 08, 2021 00:00 - 1 minute - 2.46 MBWe're taking a week off due to another commitments and moving to a new recording schedule. We'll still be releasing episodes at the same rate, just recording them differently so hopefully you won't even notice. Which begs the question, why am I even writing this? Find out next time on Horus Heretics!
Episode 44 - Balancing honesty, prudence, plot and characters in a profoundly unbalanced way
February 22, 2021 01:01 - 36 minutes - 41.2 MBWe finish up the final two stories in the Primarchs anthology and end up incredibly disheartened and fearing for the future. Fun!!!
Episode 43 - Novellacious
February 08, 2021 00:00 - 47 minutes - 50.9 MBWe discuss stories about Fulgrim and Ferrus Manus in the first half of The Primarchs, the first collection of novellas in the Horus Heresy series. The TLDR on this is they're crap.
Episode 42 - Best snake monster ever?
January 25, 2021 01:00 - 44 minutes - 50.4 MBThe conclusion to Know no Fear by Dan Abnett. We encounter a young dreadnought, a vacuum surviving primarch and an enormous snake with hooves. Just another normal day on the black library beat.
Episode 41 - Raining tanks
January 11, 2021 00:00 - 50 minutes - 55.1 MBAction, betrayal and precise recording of time in the first part of Dan Abnett's Know No Fear.
Bonus Episode 9 - A festive message from Neil
December 28, 2020 00:00 - 2 minutes - 2.45 MBNot really an episode as such. Just festive good wishes to you all and a plan to return in January with what you love best about the Horus Heretics!
Bonus Episode 8 - A Warhammer Christmas Carol
December 14, 2020 00:00 - 36 minutes - 38.8 MBA re-imagining of A Christmas Carol in the Warhammer 40k/30k universe. The URL for the Kickstarter (which I'm afraid has nothing to do with the Horus Heresy) is https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/commonprofytgames/strange-sickness
Episode 40 - Was that the emperor? I think that magic was probably the emperor!
November 30, 2020 00:00 - 46 minutes - 51.6 MBWill breaks open his new Kickstarter for his video game called Strange Sickness. Go find it on Kickstarter. We'd really appreciate it if you backed it and said it was the Horus Heretics that sent you. And we talk about Deliverance too
Episode 39 - A retirement home for primarchs
November 16, 2020 00:00 - 52 minutes - 53 MBCorax and the Raven Guard head back to Terra and into the Emperor's deadly mountain funhouse
Episode 38 - The magical janitorial team earn their money
November 02, 2020 00:00 - 52 minutes - 59.2 MBWe finish the book Outcast Dead. Characters disappear and then return, some don't seem to have any role in the story and a magical floating death skeleton appears to little or no consequence. Par for the course in your fortnightly walk through the Horus Heresy. Apologies for the audio quality on one of the mics. Cross continent travel is proofing to be a real audio problem
Bonus Episode 7 - Halloween special!
October 31, 2020 00:00 - 24 minutes - 25.4 MBJoin us for a spooky chat about Perdition's Flame by Alec Worley, a Warhammer 40k horror audio drama
Episode 37 - The Content Must Flow
October 19, 2020 00:00 - 55 minutes - 57.3 MBWe're back, discussing, and very much enjoying, the first part of The Outcast Dead.
Episode 36 - Our holiday continues
October 05, 2020 00:00 - 49 minutes - 52.6 MBHi everyone, we're still off on Holiday this episode. Will broke his mic on his move to Italy and Neil will be moving into his new house on the day this podcast is released. We're sorry to have to take another break but life sometimes gets in the way. We will def be back in 2 weeks fresh and ready to talk to you all about heresy and chaos.
Episode 35 - Summer Holiday time off
September 21, 2020 00:00 - 52 minutes - 55.5 MBIt's summer and we're taking an episode off. Our schedules have been hit by housing issues. Will is moving to Italy and Neil is trying to find a house to live in in London. We'll def be back soon as we love doing this too much to stop and we're too deep in this series to stop, So please enjoy this report of our first Bonus episode we're we drunkenly sketch out a warhammer story of our own. The final part of this process can be found in our feed. Sorry to miss 2 episodes in a row but it's ho...
Episode 34 - Mea Culpa
September 07, 2020 00:00 - 2 minutes - 2.35 MBWe're sorry. We're very very sorry. We really are Sorry. Sorry, is what we are.
Episode 33 - A little bit more from Age of Darkness
August 24, 2020 00:00 - 38 minutes - 43.5 MBA short episode this week due to Neil's housing crisis, covering two short stories from Age of Darkness
Episode 32 - The worst story we have ever read
August 10, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 67.7 MBOur boys begin Age of Darkness, edited by Christian Dunn. The short stories we cover in this episode include an interminable collection of battles directed from the pages of a book, a great little story about how the threat of war and change can lead to a community destroying itself out of fear and the worst story ever told. William also starts this with some very strange energy.
Episode 31 - Skjald-ing hot action
July 27, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 76 MBWe enjoy the latter part of one of the best books in the series so far. You can contact us at [email protected]
Episode 30 - Catharism and their ongoing influence on our lives
July 13, 2020 00:00 - 42 minutes - 48.5 MBJoin our hosts as we read Prospero Burns by Dan Abnett and bloody love it. We encounter our old friends the Vikings, the Kievan Rus and the Cathars so we are basically recounting our undergrad History degrees
Episode 29 - Don't worry about the slug demon
June 29, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 103 MBThe second part of our discussion of The First Heretic. The book has some fun moments, as the brief appearance of the Imperium's answer to Hugh Grant, but ultimately sacrifices itself on the altar of THE LORE.
Episode 28 - Our hosts can't decide to be mystified or angry, so choose both
June 15, 2020 00:01 - 1 hour - 74.7 MBWe start our deep dive into the First Heretic by Aaron Dembski-Bowden and learn a lot to like about Lorgar. Who then promptly goes on to show us that he, like everyone else, is a genocidal psychopath. Which is annoying. Contact us at [email protected]
Episode 27 - This is Not Described Well
June 01, 2020 15:32 - 1 hour - 68.6 MBAn episode named after Neil's refrain about the disappointing second part of Nemesis. NB Neil's mic is the definition of 'Hot' in this episode so we're sorry for the poor audio quality. Contact us at [email protected]
Episode 26 - Detectives and Assassins
May 18, 2020 00:00 - 55 minutes - 63.2 MBWe discuss a police procedural story spliced with a tale about a team of assassins. One is good, one is bad. Listen to find out which. You can contact us at [email protected]
Episode 25 - FLESH CHANGE!
May 04, 2020 00:01 - 1 hour - 78.7 MBWe finish The Thousand Sons by Graham McNeill, talk about the emperor's weird architectural requirements and wonder about the mechanics of psychic egg implantation.
Episode 24 - A nice day for a talking snake
April 20, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 84.4 MBWe begin our review of the Thousand Sons by Graham McNeill and discuss the prevalence of sharks, veins and eyeballs in the literature of magic. It's recommended you favour the phlegm in preference over blood in the balance of your humours while you listen to this episode.
Episode 23 - Escalating snake monsters
April 06, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 84.6 MBNemiel and Zahariel finish their separate adventures. Various sizes of snake monster are defeated.
Episode 22 - The definition of military genius
March 23, 2020 00:00 - 59 minutes - 68.1 MBWe look at the first part of the sequel to the Dark Angels story we very much enjoyed and discuss whether sending your spaceships round the other side of the enemy constitutes military genius
Episode 21 - Welcome to your first day in atheism school
March 09, 2020 00:00 - 50 minutes - 54.3 MBThis episode finishes off the Tales of Heresy collection but lets face it, it's all about the Last Church short story. It's really terrible. Like, really terrible.
Episode 20 - My dad doesn't understand me, i'm going to my room!
February 24, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 82 MBWe're back with 2 more short stories telling tales of heresy. William is very keen to apologise for breaking our normal cadence of episode and Neil is just generally unhappy with the direction of this collection. Hopefully this combination makes for a good podcast.
Episode 19 - Short stories about big people
February 10, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 82.3 MBWe take a look at the first two stories from the short story anthology Tales of Heresy. Get in touch at [email protected]
Episode 18 - It's a metaphorical dragon, but also a literal dragon
January 27, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 73.3 MBThe final part of mechanicum is batshit crazy! Like, this is nuts and i love it. And hate it, obviously. But mostly love it. Contact us at [email protected]
Episode 17 - The mechanicum make their entrance
January 13, 2020 15:56 - 52 minutes - 62.4 MBWe've been wanting to read about the mechanicum for some time now and finally that day has arrived. And this book does not disappoint.
Bonus episode 6 - New Year Special
December 31, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 84.8 MBA review of what we read in 2019 and a look to the year ahead. We ask a few questions here and really want to know what you think. reach us at [email protected]
Bonus Episode 5 - Christmas Special
December 24, 2019 00:00 - 55 minutes - 65 MBToday we take a look at warhammer literature for children and disagree on if we would buy it for family. Hope you enjoy this special festive episode. Whichever holiday you celebrate, or don't celebrate, we hope you enjoy it.
Episode 16 - Knowledge is power. Check out this power!
December 16, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 91.8 MBThe final part of Battle for the abyss is here and it quickly degenerates into some of the worst, and best, bits of the series. Get in touch with Neil and Will at [email protected]
Episode 15 - A laser cannon inside a book
December 02, 2019 00:00 - 48 minutes - 56.3 MBSpace battle and warp travel in the first part of Battle for the Abyss
Episode 14 - Heed the monolithic slab of light
November 18, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 70.4 MBThe Legion's mysteries unravel and it is very disappointing. Our host's disagree on the quality of this episode and nearly come to blows over the correct choice of drinking vessel.