Riffs on Riffs

Double digits, baby! In this episode, Potts and Aaron take a look at the Street Metal lifestyle, Circus-core, and goetic seals. Hail and Kill! Songs: Gehennah - 'Cause We're a Street Metal Band (00:14) Between the Buried and Me - Informal Gluttony (15:19) Archgoat - Whore of Bethlehem (29:07) Xysma - Priests Formented in Excrements (39:34) Amorphis - First Doom (00:00)  Image: Royal 12 C XIX  f. 9v  Unicorn 

Ancient Sumerian skullet rituals lurk under the cloak of Riffs on Riffs Episode 9. This week we take a look at Nifelheim's beautiful domes and Aaron gets embarassingly pretentious. Also, fuck Testament. Nifelheim Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB2vOB2neck  Songs: Nifelheim - Satanic Sacrifice (01:29) Opeth - Demon of the Fall (13:09) Testament - Face in the Sky (37:50) Saint Vitus - Saint Vitus (48:00) Adramelech - Psychostasia (00:00) Special Bonus: Aaron joins the witness protection program at 27:16 for about 20 seconds. 

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 

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)

Riffs on Riffs is a Heavy Metal discussion show. 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 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)

Aaron and Potts sell their souls to Manilla Road to avoid Dream Theater's The Astonishing and Phil Collins' evil schemes. Songs: Municipal Waste - Beer Pressure (08:30) Darkthrone - Raised on Rock (16:10) Manilla Road - Necropolis (26:14) Death - Spirit Crusher (45:33) The Philosopher, The Conduit, The Artist - Magus (1:00:53)  Dark Angel - Merciless Death (00:00) 

This week our heshers take on High on Fire's time-traveling epic, De Vermis Mysterii, alcoholic frontmen, collective effervescence and more. Songs: I.C.E. - Astral Frost Invocation (00:00) High on Fire - Madness of an Architect (12:21) Skeletonwitch - Soul Thrashing Black Sorcery (24:05) Exodus - Bonded by Blood (32:48) Inquisition - Desolate Funeral Chant (48:10) Image: The battle on Salisbury Plain

Heshers dissect Lemmy predicting Obama's presidency in 1979, the Herculoid's influence on NWOBHM, warfare and the immortal Manowar. Songs: Motorhead - Bomber (live) (00:00)  Satan - Blades of Steel (06:36)  Bolt Thrower - Spearhead (19:37)  Nunslaughter - Raid the Convent (30:21)  Manowar - The Gods Made Heavy Metal (36:57)  Cadaveric Fumes - Unspeakable Visions (50:33) Image:  Dante and Virgil encoutering Satan, Canto 34