Riffs On Riffs

We're back! Riffs on Riffs returns with Dave Mustaine's liberal use of blood pacts, Doro's killer run with Warlock and the best goddamn father-son bonding activity to ever come out of England. Doro or death! Songs Protector - Agoraphobia (00:00) Warlock - Sign of Satan (04:10) Pagan Altar - Flight of the Witch Queen (18:56) Pentacle - Veil of Sulpher (37:36) VideoMegadeth's Dave Mustaine: Satanic Forces (ABC News, 2011)

This brand new episode of Riffs on Riffs features the same old arguments you've heard for years on Metallica's Some Kind of Monster and the Viking Metal crypto-genre. Also, Alice Cooper rules.  Songs Metallica - Trapped Under Ice (00:00) Alice Cooper - The Black Widow (12:07) Legend - The Wizard's Vengeance (30:25) Liege Lord - Legend (46:53)

If you can wade through Aaron's strangely distorted audio (lo-fi or die baby!), episode 43's torrent of Heavy Metal includes Darth Vader, worshiping Danny Lilker and a band of Disco crushing neanderthals. Songs: Black Sabbath - Cornucopia (00:00) D.V.C. - Mourning Sun (00:17) S.O.D. - Milano Mosh (16:39) Gehennah - Metal Police (28:00) Running Wild - Soldiers of Hell (39:45)

Strap in Hessians, Episode 42 of Riffs on Riffs is a heavy metal rollercoster. We've got Thin Lizzy, we've got Jack Starr's website from 2003, we've got Detroit''s metal militia, we've got it all!  Visit this immediately jackstarr.com Songs Inquisitor - Consuming Christ (00:00) Thin Lizzy - Thunder and Lightning (00:22) Jack Starr's Burning Star - No Turning Back (20:15) Demon Bitch - Beneath the Ice Caves (30:43) Apocalyptic Raids - Tyrant, Emperor (45:55)

It's mysterious, incredible - it's bizarre - IT'S NASTY! Episode 41 of Riffs on Riffs brings you Dane Cook, TV smashing and family hair care. Songs Slough Feg - High Season V (00:00) Powerlord - Masters of Death (00:13) Nasty Savage - Gladiator (15:03) Nasty Savage Hair Commercial (22:38) Demilich - Inherited Rowel Levitation - Reduced Without Any Effort (39:22) Videos Nasty Savage 'Nasty Ronnie smashing TV' KIT 15.11.2008 NASTY SAVAGE HAIR COMMERCIAL 1984

Andrew Oliver of Chaucerian Myth joins us to talk about jazzy Dungeon Synth, confused Thrash Metal vocalists and more in Episode 40 of Riffs on Riffs! Songs Chaucerian Myth - Voice of the Soul (Death Cover) (00:00) Chaucerian Myth - Troilus and Criseyde (01:54) Gammacide - Victims of Science (33:17) Rotting Christ - His Sleeping Majesty (45:59) Chaucerian Myth BandcampFacebook YouTube

Your hosts contemplate the spiritual subtleties of mary-jane influenced metal, Matt Pike's side-burns and their tendency to not listen to enough thrash in episode 39 of Riffs on Riffs. Songs Funebrarum - Cursed Eternity (00:00) Sleep - Stillborn (00:35) Dark Angel - Darkness Descends (23:09) Dream Death - The Edler Race (44:26)

Episode 38 features our take on Heavy Metal apologetics, way too much talk about the disappointing super group Wyld Stallyns and some Squantch hunting. Songs Grave Miasma - Eoxatoc (00:00) Stallion - Wild Stallion (06:24) Axxion - Tonight (21:25) Sarcofago - Alcoholic Coma (35:03) Music Video Axxion - Tonight

Heavy Metal legend Steve Grimmett's in trouble, Cynic's a bunch of weird dudes and your step-dad's feelin' Randy in this rip roaring episode of Riffs on Riffs EDIT: Aaron was wrong about there not being robot vocals on Traced in Air Songs Terrorizer - Resurrection (00:00) Cynic - Uroboric Forms (06:02) Randy - The Beast (18:19) Steelwing - Headhunter (31:52) Cathedral - Soul Sacrifice (42:58)

Riffs on Riffs looks at some new releases this episode, making their way to Italy for a Highlander-esque battle, to bandcamp for exciting new Traditional Metal and finally to Norway to honor our lord and savior. SongsBehexen - Fist of the Satanist (00:00) Baphomet's Blood - Underground Demons (01:11) Eternal Champion - The Armor of Ire (19:54) Bat - Primitive Age (39:08)

Episode 35 brings dueling Tyrants, Aaron's German heritage and the Immortal feud! Hail Matt Pike forever. Songs Sodom - Witching Hour (00:00) Jag Panzer - Licensed to Kill (00:19) Tyrant - Too Late to Pray (11:22) Sleep - Dragonaut (41:11) Video Abbath Interview

Ice-T gets in the Festivus spirit by airing his grievances in an unspectacular cover of Institutionalized, there's mustachioed metal men with leather vests on and more in episode 34 of Riffs on Riffs. Songs Randy Uchida Group - Deathly Fighter (00:00) Body Count - Institutionalized (01:00) Ranger - Speed & Violence (14:05) Vektor - Tetrastructural Minds (28:32) Raven - For the Future (41:38) Video Body Count - Institutionalized

Black Sabbath is deep into the 90's, Aaron's a Metal weeaboo, and Potts hates Von in Episode 33 of Riffs on Riffs! Songs Blind Guardian - Run for the Night (00:00) Black Sabbath - TV Crimes (00:25) X Japan - I'll Kill You (15:14) Von - Satanic Blood (29:18) Agent Steel - Mod Locust Rising (43:45) Video Black Sabbath - TV Crimes

We've got speed metalpunks, we've got lo-fi vampyr Black Metal, we've got men from Venus - we've got it all in episode 32 of Riffs on Riffs! SongsDio - Evil Eye (00:00) Municipal Waste - Set to Destruct (00:13) Vlad Tepes - (13:01) Valient Thorr - I Hope the Ghost of the Dead Haunt Your Soul Forever (30:09) Destroyer 666 - Australian and Anti-Christ (44:39)

This week Riffs on Riffs looks to Sodom's especially kinky mascot, Knarrenheinz, Italy's especially brain-damaged wrestling stars, Death SS, and NorCal's especially wankerish Vicious Rumors for our weekly dose of Heavy Metal. Songs Voivod - Build Your Weapons (00:00) Sodom - The Vice of Killing (00:25) Death SS - Vampire (15:08) Vicious Rumors - Lady Took a Chance (37:28) Vulcano - Holocaust (51:15)

This week our heshers dive into their love of Conan the Barbarian and then talk about how big of nerds they are. Songs Darkthrone - The Hordes of Nebulah (00:00) Cauldron Born - Crom, Count the Dead (03:34) Summoning - Runes of Power (34:24) Crimson Glory - Azrael (50:11)

Episode 29 finds our intrepid heshers exploring the mystical properties of Sabbat's Gezolucifer, the amateur art of the NWoBHM and the twisted tales of Mayhem frontman and Black Metal madonna, Dead. Songs Metalucifer - Heavy Metal Drill (00:33) Blackmayne - Blackmayne (21:09) Morbid - Disgusting Semla (34:38) Black Murder - My Satanic Hatreds (53:03) Raven - Don't Need Your Money (00:00)

Heavy Metal war crimes, downtown crackers, magick and more in Episode 28! Songs Ambush - Don't Shoot (Let 'Em Burn) (00:22) Chain - Downtown City Boys (18:08) Mortuary Drape - Black Night (28:09) Absu - Magic(k) Square Cipher (41:08) Mutiilation - Transylvania (00:00) Chain Bandcamp  

In this episode: Heavy Metal in pop culture, the city of Ventura's love for Cirith Ungol and our newfound devotion for the satirical, anti-authoritarian, British children's novels, and Savatage album art The Borribles.  Songs Master's Hammer - Geniové (00:00) Cirith Ungol - Master of the Pit (07:19) Savatage - I Believe (26:05) Danava - White Nights of Murder (41:47) Schizo - Epileptic Void (52:01)

Posers beware, we are breaking out the nuclear drums in this episode. Aaron gets pretentious, Potts supports his local metal scene and the pair tries to figure out how exactly the Rainbow was kept afloat while Lemmy was holding court there. Songs Vader - Blood of Kingu (00:00) Bulldozer - Whiskey Time (01:24) Anialator - Fatal Decision (16:09) Sarcofago - Deathrash (28:24) Savage Grace - Master of Disguise (44:19)