Riff Worship
By Austin Paulson, Dylan Adams, and Justin Swindle
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The riff is the foundation of heavy music, evolving over several decades and styles. Many of our favorite songs started with a single idea and guitar in hand. Anyone can write a riff, but what makes a good riff? Each week, riff disciples Austin Paulson, Dylan Adams, & Justin Swindle attempt to answer this question by discussing their favorite riffs, how they came to be, and why we still worship them today.
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#156 - Majority Rule - Emergency Numbers
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May 28, 2026 |
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#155 - Top 5 Death Metal Albums w/ David Stepanavicius (Atræ Bilis, Fulci Rots)
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May 21, 2026 |
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#154 - Gorguts - Obscura
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May 14, 2026 |
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#153 - Full of Hell - Roots of Earth Are Consuming My Home
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May 07, 2026 |
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#152 - Isis - Oceanic w/ Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean
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Apr 30, 2026 |
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#151 - The Great Double Album Debate (Top 5 Double Albums)
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Apr 23, 2026 |
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#150 - Coheed and Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
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Apr 16, 2026 |
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#149 - The Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity
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Apr 09, 2026 |
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#148 - The Berzerker w/ Luke Kenny & Sam Bean (The Berzerker)
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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#147 - Andrew W.K. - I Get Wet
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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#146 - Alice In Chains - Dirt
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Mar 12, 2026 |
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#145 - Punch - Flexi Your Head w/ Meghan O'Neil (Punch, The Armed, King Woman)
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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#144 - Converge - You Fail Me
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Feb 26, 2026 |
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#143 - Breather Resist - Charmer w/ Evan Patterson (Breather Resist, Jaye Jayle, Young Widows)
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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#142 - Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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#141 - Bleeding Through - The Truth
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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#140 - Pageninetynine - Document #8
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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#139 - diSEMBOWELMENT - Transcendence into the Peripheral
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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#138 - Top 5 Favorite Punk Records
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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#137 - Best of 2025
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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#136 - Born Against - The Rebel Sound of Sh*t and Failure w/ Bryan Funck (Thou)
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Dec 24, 2025 |
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#135 - Earth Crisis - Destroy the Machines w/ Trevor Phipps (Unearth)
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Dec 18, 2025 |
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#134 - Carcass - Heartwork
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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#133 - Defacement - Doomed
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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#132 - Maruta - Forward Into Regression w/ Jack McBride (Bandit)
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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#131 - Mastodon - Blood Mountain w/ Liz Walshak (Glacier, SEA)
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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#130 - Halloween Special - Danzig (1988)
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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#129 - Cave In - Until Your Heart Stops w/ Dan Thomson (lowheaven)
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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#128 - Cult Leader - Lightless Walk w/ Michael Mason and Sam Richards (Cult Leader)
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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#127 - Electric Wizard - Dopethrone w/ John Hoffman (STOMACH, Weekend Nachos) and David Stepanavicius (Atræ Bilis)
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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#126 - Between the Buried and Me - Alaska
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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#125 - Defeated Sanity - Passages Into Deformity
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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#124 - KISS - Love Gun w/ Christopher Terry (Rwake)
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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#123 - Inside Out - No Spiritual Surrender
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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#122 - Sepultura - Dante XXI
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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#121 - Burnt By The Sun - Soundtrack to the Personal Revolution
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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#120 - Neurosis - Souls at Zero w/ Christopher Zucchero (Mr. Beef, The Bear)
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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#119 - A Tribute to the Prince of Darkness: Ozzy Osbourne
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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#118 - Unearth - III: In The Eyes Of Fire w/ Owen Morawitz (The Pitch of Discontent)
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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#117 - Machine Head - The Blackening
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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#116 - Mammoth Grinder - Underworlds
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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#115 - Trevor de Brauw (Pelican, RLYR, Chord)
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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#114 - Godflesh - Streetcleaner
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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#113 - Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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#112 - Avenged Sevenfold - City of Evil
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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#111 - Richie DeVon (Lástima, Half/Cross, Suduuer)
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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#110 - Ripping Corpse - Dreaming with the Dead
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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#109 - Zachary Ezrin (Imperial Triumphant, Folterkammer)
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May 29, 2025 |
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#108 - Converge - Jane Doe
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May 21, 2025 |
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#107 - Evan Patterson (Jaye Jayle, Young Widows)
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May 14, 2025 |
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#106 - Black Flag - Damaged
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May 07, 2025 |
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#105 - Damaged - Purified in Pain w/ Matt "Skitz" Sanders (Damaged)
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May 01, 2025 |
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#104 - TAD - Inhaler w/ Tad Doyle (TAD, Brothers of the Sonic Cloth, Hog Molly)
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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#103 - Michael Brodsky (Vacuous, Bastard Mycosis, Thundering Hooves)
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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#102 - Burning Witch (Part 2) w/ Mizmor & Hell
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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#101 - Burning Witch (Part 1)
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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#100 - Rwake - Voices of Omens w/ Nate Garrett (Spirit Adrift, Neon Nightmare) and Sanford Parker (Buried At Sea, Minsk, Black Cross Hotel)
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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#99 - Meghan O'Neil (King Woman, The Armed, Punch, Super Unison)
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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#98 - Ancient Tome
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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#97 - Chris Colohan (SECT, Cursed, Burning Love, The Swarm)
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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#96 - Mudvayne - Lost and Found
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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#95 - Friendship - Undercurrent
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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#94 - Botch - We Are the Romans
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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#93 - Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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#92 - Oryx
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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#91 - Soilent Green - A Deleted Symphony for the Beaten Down
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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#90 - Converge - When Forever Comes Crashing
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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#89 - Best of 2024
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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#88 - Crowbar Christmas
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Dec 25, 2024 |
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#87 - Nailbomb - Point Blank
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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#86 - Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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#85 - ISIS - Celestial
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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#84 - Sunrot & Body Void
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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#83 - Behemoth - The Apostasy
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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#82 - In Solitude - Sister
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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#81 - Cradle of Filth - Midian w/ David Stepanavicius (Atræ Bilis, Fulci Rots)
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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#80 - Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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#79 - Converge - Petitioning the Empty Sky
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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#78 - Laceration
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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#77 - Job For A Cowboy - Genesis
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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#76 - Oathbreaker - Eros|Anteros
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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#75 - These Arms Are Snakes - Easter
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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#74 - Ghost - Opus Eponymous
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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#73 - Punch - Nothing Lasts
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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#72 - Cursed - II
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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#71 - Slipknot - Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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Vocal Distortion: John Hoffman (Stomach, Weekend Nachos)
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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#70 - Grief - Come to Grief
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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#69 - Ampere - All Our Tomorrows End Today
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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Vocal Distortion: Ukko's Hammer
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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#68 - The Cramps - Bad Music for Bad People w/ Justin Pearson (Three One G, Deaf Club, The Locust)
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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#67 - Mastodon - Leviathan
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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#66 - Baroness - Blue Record w/ Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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#65 - Faith No More - Angel Dust
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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#64 - Orchid - Chaos Is Me
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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#63 - David Stepanavicius (Atræ Bilis)
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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#62 - Cowardice
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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Vocal Distortion: Selenoplexia #2
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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#61 - Thou (Part 5)
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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#60 - Lamb of God - Ashes of the Wake
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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#59 - Brutal Truth - Need To Control
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May 29, 2024 |
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#58 - Thou (Part 4)
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May 22, 2024 |
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#57 - Thou (Part 3)
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May 15, 2024 |
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Vocal Distortion: Wretched Blessing
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May 14, 2024 |
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#56 - Aidan Neuner (Civerous)
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May 08, 2024 |
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#55 - Thou (Part 2)
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May 01, 2024 |
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#54 - Thou (Part 1)
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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#53 - Xander Bradley & John Riley (Slimelord, Cryptic Shift)
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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#52 - High On Fire - Death Is This Communion
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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#51 - Shadows Fall - The War Within
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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#50 - Slint - Spiderland w/ Dan Vida (Selenoplexia)
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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Vocal Distortion: Dave Hofer & John Mendola
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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#49 - Pelagius
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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#48 - Discordance Axis - The Inalienable Dreamless
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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#47 - Sean Ingram (Coalesce)
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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#46 - Killswitch Engage - The End of Heartache
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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#45 - Nick Schendzielos (Job For A Cowboy)
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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#44 - Sammy Duet (Goatwhore)
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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#43 - Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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#42 - Bolt Thrower - War Master
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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#41 - Eyehategod - Dopesick
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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#40 - Crowbar - Odd Fellows Rest
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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#39 - Acid Bath - When the Kite String Pops
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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#38 - Goatwhore - A Haunting Curse
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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#37 - Best of 2023
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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#36 - Twisted Sister - A Twisted Christmas
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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#35 - Alice In Chains - Jar Of Flies
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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#34 - NOFX - The Decline
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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#33 - Coalesce - 0:12 Revolution In Just Listening
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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#32 - Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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#31 - Motörhead - 1916
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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#30 - Neill Jameson (Krieg)
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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#29 - Halloween Special
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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#28 - Ringworm - Birth Is Pain
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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#27 - Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Agorapocalypse
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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#26 - Death - Individual Thought Patterns
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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#25 - Cattle Decapitation (Part 4)
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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#24 - Cattle Decapitation (Part 3)
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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#23 - Cattle Decapitation (Part 2)
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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#22 - Cattle Decapitation (Part 1)
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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#21 - Tribulation - Down Below
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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#20 - Andy LaRocque (King Diamond)
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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#19 - James Wallwork (Faerie Ring)
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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#18 - Watain - The Wild Hunt
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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#17 - Cryptopsy - None So Vile
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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#16 - Dio - Holy Diver
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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#15 - Morbid Angel - Covenant
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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#14 - Sabot
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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#13 - Nate Garrett (Spirit Adrift)
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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#12 - Magrudergrind - Magrudergrind
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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#11 - Nirvana - In Utero
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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#10 - Thorr's Hammer - Dommedagsnatt
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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#8 - Animosity - Animal
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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#7 - Human Remains - Using Sickness as a Hero
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May 31, 2023 |
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#6 - Left Hand Path & Heartwork
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May 24, 2023 |
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#5 - Pull the Plug & The Time To Kill Is Now
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May 17, 2023 |
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#4 - Duality & Imperium
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May 10, 2023 |
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#3 - Everything Dies & I Feel The Burning Sun
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May 03, 2023 |
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#2 - Emerald & March of the Fire Ants
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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#1 - Snowblind & Blackened
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Apr 19, 2023 |