Riffs On Riffs

Issue 25 of Riffs on Riffs reveals our hesher's secret origins! Metalcore, Metallica and more! Will they we able to succeed in the face of this adversity, or will it spell their DOOM? Songs Megadeth - Symphony of Destruction (03:33) Metallica - Battery (12:12) Death - Pull the Plug (25:46) Burzum - Key to the Gate (42:35) Griffin - Heavy Metal Attack (52:59) Deceased - The Silent Creature (00:00)

This week your heshers turn their skulls toward the beautiful idiocy of Skullfist, the lovecraftian threat of Witchfinder General's "Music" and finally are joined by Ethan from Hesychast to talk about their latest release Ageless and more! SongsHobbs' Angle of Death - Bubonic Plague (00:00) Skullfist - Get Fisted (03:16) Witchfinder General - Music (17:13) Hesychast - Eye (27:52) KYPCK - Вальс смерти (Death Waltz) (46:36) HesychastInterview Timestamp (31:11) Bandcamp Facebook

Fenriz goes to city hall, Potts and Aaron try out Chastain for the first time and Kreator for the thousandth time, drummers who sing are awesome and so are great feuds in Episode 23 of Riffs on Riffs. Songs Bestial Mockery - Raise the Chalice (00:00) Chastain - We Must Carry On (05:46) Kreator - Pleasure to Kill (16:44) Belphegor - Stigma Diabolicum (35:10) Article DARKTHRONE's Fenriz Got Voted Into His Town's Council After Asking "Please Don't Vote For Me"

  The Heshers talk on a potential street tussle between Manowar and Twisted Sister, the validity of the tape revival, and Vinnie Paul crying in Episode 22 of Riffs on Riffs. Songs Venom - In League With Satan (00:00) Borrowed Time - The Thaumaturgist (11:30) Havok - Covering Fire (32:19) Pestilence - Out of the Body (45:38)

Lock up your children! Riffs on Riffs is tackling the new Metallica song, a striking similarity between Riot's Thundersteel and Judas Priest's Painkiller and an even more striking similarity between what Aaron has to say about Thundersteel and what he has to say about Omen's The Axeman. Songs: Slayer - Black Magic (06:34) Riot - Thundersteel (18:41) Omen - The Axeman (32:16) Amebix - Axeman (43:45) Judas Priest - Painkiller (00:00)

This week, Riffs on Riffs discusses how much of a dick the lead singer of Slough Feg is, Warfare's journey into the post-apocalyptic world of Mad Max and the role of the sybian in Heavy Metal. Songs Slough Feg - Street Jammer (00:36) Warfare - Rape (23:21) Militia - Objective: Termination (35:17) Paul Chain Violet Theater - Voyage to Hell (45:36) Voivod - Forgotten in Space (00:00) Article Bullpen Bulletins #1: Welcome to the Grind Ole Opry by Mike Scalzi Video Warfare - Rape

  The godfather of extreme metal, Tom G. Warrior, works as an intrepid personal assistant for H. R. Giger in this especially primitive episode of Riffs on Riffs. Songs Hellhammer - Messiah (00:24) Tormentor - Elisabeth Bathory (19:43) Antediluvian - Intuitus Mortuus (35:08) Anthrax - Subjugator (46:37) Ares Kingdom - Beasts that Perish (00:00)

Episode 18 of Riffs on Riffs features 80's tits, afrosemites and Chris Barnes, oh my! Songs Witchfinder General - Witchfinder General (00:20) Merciless - Dreadful Fate (12:46) Satan's Wrath - Hail Tritone, Hail Lucifer (32:09) Wrathprayer - Ritualization (Rev XIII) (44:36) Morbid Saint - Assassin (0:00) VideoChris Barnes' Park Auto Mall Commercial

This week Aaron talks about experimenting with Dungeon Synth and Potts mourns the loss of Rob Halford to Baby Metal before the team dives into the primordial ooze of early extreme metal. Saveki rules.  Songs Chaucerian Myths - The Nun's Priest's Tale (00:48) 3 Inches of Blood - Leather Lord (09:55) G.I.S.M. - Endless Blockades for the Pussyfooter (20:02) Venom - Angel Dust (33:06) Sodom - Exhibition Bout (44:29) Grand Belial's Key - The Red Heifer (00:00) Image Royal 19 C I f. 33 Fall of the rebel angels

Ice T has a surprising run in with a group of intrepid Norwegians, Iron Maiden's Eddie stars in a mobile game, Aaron is still sexist and more in Episode 16! Songs Body Count - Cop Killer (13:19) Iced Earth - The Path I Choose (27:34) Christian Mistress - Riding on the Edges (40:55) Tank - Blood, Guts and Beer (55:44) Incantation - (00:00)

The Ross Bay Cult is in town featuring the unholiest powerlifting act since Arnold stopped making Conan movies. Unfortunately Ironsword isn't quite able to unlock the Riddle of Steel themselves in Episode 15 of Riffs on Riffs.  Songs Blasphemy - Weltering in Blood (2:30) Ironsword - Death of the Gods (25:26) Master's Hammer - Ritual (45:27) Vlad Tepes - Diabolic Reaps (00:00) Darkthrone - Pervertor of the 7 Gates (15:25) Mitochondrion - Kathenotheism (35:47)

This special all-Manowar episode of Riffs on Riffs commemorates the Kings of Metal's journey toward The Final Battle. From their defense of the fabric of reality to the band's undeniable sexual hang-ups, Aaron and Potts remember 36 years of True Metal. Songs Manowar - Dark Avenger (10:56) Manowar - Warriors of the World (22:55) Manowar - Pleasure Slave (39:22) Manowar - Kill with Power (55:30) Manowar - Hail and Kill (1:12:20) Manowar - Black Arrows (0:00) Video Warriors of the World Music Video

  Ozzy's on the loose! Watch out for the vagrant of darkness in this rock 'n' roll filled episode of Riffs on Riffs Songs Richie Blackmore's Rainbow - Man on the Silver Mountain (10:47) Thin Lizzy - Got to Give It Up (22:04) Graveyard - Satan's Finest (32:11 ) The Animals - We Gotta Get out of This Place (41:50) High on Fire - Fertile Green (51:16) Trouble - Assassin (00:00) Video Abbath on Repulsion, his Judas Priest cover and saluting Mayhem | Aggressive Tendencies  

We're actually back this time! In this episode Potts and Aaron tackle the out of control ego of Liege Lord's Master Control robot, wanna bone Atheist's Tony Choi, aren't super into Brutal Death Metal and are super into Steel Bearing Hand. Songs Liege Lord - Master Control (00:27) Atheist - Mother Man (09:49) Suffocation - Liege of Inveracity (23:03) Steel Bearing Hand - (Usurp) The Hidden Thrones (33:23) Bolzer - Entranced by the Wolfshock (49:00) God Macabre - Spawn of Flesh (00:00)

After a brief hiatus, we're back! In this episode Potts and Aaron delve into their psyches in an attempt to list their top 5 heavy metal albums of all time. It's long, there's lots of music, hail and kill! Potts: 5. Municipal Waste - Art of Partying (2007) 4. Toxic Holocaust - An Overdose of Death... (2008) 3. Death - The Sound of Perseverance (1998) 2. Judas Priest - Painkiller (1990) 1. Skeletonwitch - Beyond the Permafrost (2007) Aaron: 5. Angel Witch - Angel Witch (1980) 4. Slayer - Reign in Blood (1986) 3. Judas Priest - Painkiller (1990) 2. Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness (1989) 1. Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky (1991) Songs: Funebre - Shiver (0:00:00) Municipal Waste - Sadistic Magician (0:07:58) Municipal Waste - Open Your Mind (0:10:05) Angel Witch - Atlantis (0:11:26) Toxic Holocaust - Gravelord (0:14:28) Toxic Holocaust - Nuke the Cross (0:16:45) Slayer - Criminally Insane (0:20:52) Slayer - Necrophobic (0:24:14) Slayer - Piece by Piece (0:24:56) Death - Scavenger of Human Sorro

In this episode, Potts and Aaron dissect the documentary One Man Metal, their love for Priest (surprise, surprise) and the incomparable Donny Paycheck on drums.  One Man Metal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQl6PzXU4cQ  Songs Leviathan - Within Thrall (00:58)  Judas Priest - The Ripper (27:30)  Toxic Holocaust - Wild Dogs (40:21)  Mefisto - Act Dead (49:50)  Nunslaughter - As the Cacodemons Feast (00:00)

Oh, boy. Get ready for some especially lukewarm social commentary, pulpy lyrics and ominous doctrines of the perpetual mystic keyboards in this special episode of Riffs on Riffs. Songs: Blood Ceremony - The Great God Pan (00:57) Electric Wizard - Barbarian (20:22) Nocturnus - Destroying the Manger (37:54)  Rats of Reality - Shallow Bastards (51:48)  Razor - Below the Belt (00:00)  Image:  Augustine and demons

The cryptkeeper weeps as he looses another soul from his Podomatic tomb! This episode Potts and Aaron try to tackle the eternal battle between Punk Rock and Heavy Metal and then move on to gush about Mercyful Fate and Onslaught. Songs: Mercyful Fate - Curse of the Pharaohs (19:56) Onslaught - Metal Forces (40:25) Xysma - Mild Stench of Rot (58:27) Trouble - The Fall of Lucifer (0:00) Read more at http://riffsonriffspod.libsyn.com/page/2/size/25#vHFyOWKwT6h1zTjW.99

  From the Podomatic Crypts, Episode 005 is alive again! In Episode 5, Potts and Aaron stumble their way through Metallica, Humpty Dumpty and Steve Grimmet to the promised land of Morbid Angel. Songs: Hirax - Blitzkreig Air Attack (9:11) Grim Reaper - See You in Hell (17:37) Morbid Angel - Maze of Torment (26:17) Witchfinder General - Shadowed Images (47:24) Demilich - The Echo (Replacement) (0:00)

  In this episode, R.H. Macy steals a teenagers' patch jackets, Aaron can't stop talking about Daniel Ekeroth's Swedish Death Metal and Potts looks at a man's obsession with an Angel Witch. Songs: Bathory - Women of Dark Desire (14:59) Angel Witch - Angel Witch - Angel Witch (22:34) The Lord Weird Slough Feg - High Passage / Low Passage (31:14) Candlemass - Solitude (39:53) Xysma - Entanged in Shreds (50:16) Nocturnus - Neolithic (00:00)