Horus Heretics

Hi 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.

Our 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

The 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

Your 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.

We'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.

Today 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 horusheretics@gmail.com

Your 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.

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.\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.

We 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??

We 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

We 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!

We 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.

This 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.

We'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!

We finish up the final two stories in the Primarchs anthology and end up incredibly disheartened and fearing for the future. Fun!!!

We 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.

The 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.

Action, betrayal and precise recording of time in the first part of Dan Abnett's Know No Fear.

Not 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!

A 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

Will 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

Corax and the Raven Guard head back to Terra and into the Emperor's deadly mountain funhouse

We 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

Join us for a spooky chat about Perdition's Flame by Alec Worley, a Warhammer 40k horror audio drama

We're back, discussing, and very much enjoying, the first part of The Outcast Dead.

Hi 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.

It'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 hopefully you'll agree the reasons are pretty legit. We'll be back soon with new episodes.

We're sorry. We're very very sorry. We really are Sorry. Sorry, is what we are.

A short episode this week due to Neil's housing crisis, covering two short stories from Age of Darkness

Our 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.

We enjoy the latter part of one of the best books in the series so far. You can contact us at horusheretics@gmail.com

Join 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

The 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.

We 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 Horusheretics@gmail.com

An 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 horusheretics@gmail.com

We 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 horusheretics@gmail.com

We finish The Thousand Sons by Graham McNeill, talk about the emperor's weird architectural requirements and wonder about the mechanics of psychic egg implantation.

We 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.

Nemiel and Zahariel finish their separate adventures. Various sizes of snake monster are defeated.

We 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

This 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.

We'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.

We take a look at the first two stories from the short story anthology Tales of Heresy. Get in touch at horusheretics@gmail.com

The 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 horusheretics@gmail.com

We've been wanting to read about the mechanicum for some time now and finally that day has arrived. And this book does not disappoint.

A 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 horusheretics@gmail.com

Today 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.

The 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 horusheretics@gmail.com

Space battle and warp travel in the first part of Battle for the Abyss

The 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.

An episode of intrigue and diabolical espionage. We meet the Alpha legion and their Primarach Alpharius. In fact we meet him a number of times, each time more disappointing than the last.