Riffology 111 – Procreation Of The Wicked
The last installment of Riffology featured one of my favorite bands, Mercyful Fate. This week, the trend continues with Celtic Frost. In a few short years, Celtic Frost created a wildly diverse (and wildly uneven) …
Riffology 110 – Doomed By The Living Dead
This being the tenth installment of Riffology, I thought I would celebrate this mini-milestone by covering one of my favorite bands: Mercyful Fate. I could go on for days about how great this band was …
Impiety – Ravage And Conquer Review
The first and last time I heard Singapore’s Impiety was on the band’s third album, Kaos Kommand 696, which was released almost ten years ago. Despite enough line-up changes over the past decade to make …
Kill Devil Hill – Kill Devil Hill Review
Rex Brown and Vinnie Appice have both spent most of their lengthy careers in the shadows of larger than life figures. Phil Anselmo and Dimebag Darrell were always the focal points in Pantera, and Vinnie …
Riffology 109 – Suffer The Children
The term “breakdown” has been used in music for decades. What constitutes a breakdown varies from genre to genre, but for most popular forms of music, it refers to a section of a song wherein …
Riffology 108 – The Well Of Souls
In today’s lesson, we will examine a couple of riffs from the Candlemass song “The Well of Souls,” from their second album, Nightfall. This album featured the debut of the band’s “classic” line-up. Founding members, bassist Leif Edling …
Nocturnal Torment – They Come At Night Review
Nocturnal Torment is another death metal band out to prove that old-school is the only school, with its debut, They Come at Night. While my ears are admittedly growing weary of the endless stream of …
Riffology 107 – The Face Of Oblivion
In celebration of the release of De Vermis Mysteriis, we will be analyzing a High On Fire riff in this week’s lesson. And in keeping with our last lesson’s theme of majestic riffs that emerge …