#31 - Danzig's Demon Smashing Pumpkins

Reviewing the epic Tank Crimes Brainsqueeze tour, featuring Dead Heat, Necrot, Ghoul, and Municipal Waste. Randomly running into the most exciting new Austin band at the gig in San Antonio, reviewing the new Judas Priest album, answering your e-mails, and more!

Album of discussion:

Mean Mistreater  - Razor Wire (2024)

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Discussing Nile's timeless technical death metal milestones. Answering MORE e-mails about the harsh realities of "rockstardom" and touring, thoughts on Machine Head, Rob Flynn vs. Phil Anselmo nonsense, Pearl Jam ticket prices, and more!

Album of discussion:

Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked

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Why do we wait until bands/big riffers are no longer around to voice our appreciation? Is High on Fire the only band with a perfect discography? Praising their new song, and the new album by fellow lifer big riffers The Obsessed. Answering profound and thought-provoking questions about the 10 most important/influential songs, the best Australian bands of all time, and more!

Album of discussion:

High on Fire - Blessed Black Wings (2005)

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Could this criminally overlooked Russian technical thrashterpiece be the single most underrated thrash album of all time? Praising the recent Nuclear War Now pressing of this infamous masterpiece, recounting first hand experience bringing Big Riff Energy to Russian soil, exploring the ways that universal BRE can defeat the power-hungry propagandists and psychotic leaders of military industrial complex centric superpowers, fielding EVEN MORE questions about everyone’s favorite topic (the state of the touring industry), and more!

Album of discussion:

А с п и д  (Aspid) - Кровоизлияние (Extravasation) - 1993

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Fielding questions regarding Kerry King, Acid Bath, New Wave Of Norwegian Thrash Metal, movies and how they relate to the creative process/big riff energy, and more!

Album of discussion:

Chapel of Disease - Echoes of Light (2024)

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Eulogizing the mighty and beloved American hero Carl Weathers, proclaiming the end of the HM-2 era as society prepares to embrace the new dawn of a vintage Boss effects pedal resurgence, discussing racism in metal and how to separate the art from the artist, going nuclear on a grown man who walks around with a name like Gelal Necrosodomy, and more!

Album of discussion: 

Black Breath - Slaves Beyond Death (2015)

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Reviewing a recently released masterpiece that firmly cements itself as the extreme metal album to beat in 2024, announcing a brand new Spirit Adrift release for Feb. 2 Bandcamp Friday, highlighting can’t-miss metal festivals and shows on the near horizon, exploring the best metal bassists/bass-centric bands, and more!

Album of discussion: 

Sovereign - Altered Realities (2024)

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The quest for a Smashing Pumpkins audition, celebrating the downfall of the world's douchiest music publication, answering e-mails sent by Big Riffers from Australia to Brazil, breaking down one of the best metal albums of the last 20 years, sharing more industry grossness sent in by a nameless riffer from one of the best current metal bands, and more.

Album of discussion: 

Inter Arma - Paradise Gallows (2016)

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Diving deep into three masterpieces of Hellenic Black Metal, brief studio update, responding to some of the most profound and compelling emails to date, naming the single best band post-2010, singling out OG New Orleans legends as #1 pick for tour mates, and more!

Albums of discussion:

Rotting Christ - Triarchy of the Lost Lovers (1996)

Varathron - Patriarchs of Evil (2018)

Varathron - The Crimson Temple (2023)

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Setting attack strategies for 2024, determining which NPR Tiny Desk performance has the Biggest Riff Energy, remembering a truly terrifying childhood friend, analyzing the potential riff energy of rap music, raging against leeches and vultures of the touring world, first ever on-air fistfight story, and more!

Album of discussion:

Mournful Congregation - The Incubus of Karma (2018)

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