HardLore - Best Guest Vocal Features of All Time

Episode Date: December 5, 2024

HardLore proudly presents our 40 (20 each) picks for our favorite recorded guest vocal features of all time within the hardcore, metal and punk genres. Features are a timeless art that exists in every genre of music, where likely and unlikely artists collaborate to make something one of a kind that couldn't be achieved alone. It's a foolproof method to create new stars, or re-cement legends, and sometimes all it takes is a single line to make a track stand out and keep people coming back forever. Official companion playlist: Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/45gdciAngZAK4Yiy8XDDgq?si=e4e03a96ee4a4a99 Apple - (COMING SOON) Pick up the new ringer tee Colin is wearing and two other new HardLore shirts on the Knotfest store: https://knotfest.com/collections/hardlore Join the HardLore Patreon to watch every single weekly episode early and ad-free, alongside exclusive monthly episodes: https://patreon.com/hardlorepod HardLore Official Website/HardLore Records store: https://hardlorepod.com join the HARDLORE DISCORD: https://discord.gg/jA9rppggef Get 15% off MADD VINTAGE with code HARDLORE15! https://maddvintage.com/ Get 20% OFF @manscaped + Free Shipping with promo code HARDLORE at MANSCAPED.com! #ad #manscapedpod This episode is brought to you by ATHLETIC GREENS! Try AG1 at athleticgreens.com/HARDLORE to receive a free 1-year supply of vitamin D and 5 travel packs of AG1. FOLLOW HARDLORE: INSTAGRAM | https://www.instagram.com/hardlorepod/ TWITTER | https://twitter.com/hardlorepod SPOTIFY | https://spoti.fi/3J1GIrp APPLE | https://apple.co/3IKBss2 FOLLOW COLIN: INSTAGRAM | https://www.instagram.com/colinyovng/ TWITTER | https://www.twitter.com/ColinYovng FOLLOW BO: INSTAGRAM | https://www.instagram.com/bosxe/ TWITTER | https://www.twitter.com/bosxe 00:00:00 - Start 00:00:56 - Introduction 00:04:54 - Gods Hate / Valley Beyond 00:06:43 - Faith No More / Judgement Night Soundtrack 00:08:05 - Pain of Truth / Acting Up 00:10:19 - Colins Second Pick 00:10:23 - Death Threat / Life Sentence 00:11:51 - Damnation AD / If You Could Remember 00:14:25 - Deftones / Passenger 00:15:58 - 25 Ta Life / Loyal To The Grave 00:17:33 - Blacklisted / Eye For an Eye 00:19:44 - Sepultura / Biotech is Godzilla 00:22:19 - Nails / Endless Resistance 00:25:41 - Converge / Grim Heart Black Rose 00:28:20 - Weekend Nachos / Jock Power Violence 00:30:43 - Stigmata / Burning Human 00:32:30 - Bo's 8th Pick 00:32:52 - Dimmu Borgir / Progenies of the Great Apocalypse 00:35:24 - Never Ending Game / Never Die 00:37:34 - Biohazard / How It Is 00:40:17 - Terror / Cant Help But Hate 00:42:29 - Suffocation / Mass Obliteration 00:44:10 - 100 Demons / So Alone 00:46:05 - Death Threat / Still Alone 00:46:46 - Pardon This Interuption 00:51:05 - Bad Religion / Struck A Nerve 00:52:46 - Ramallah / Ramallah 00:55:05 - Mastodon / Crack the Skye 00:56:35 - Bo's 13th Pick 00:56:52 - Motorhead / I Aint No Nice Guy 00:58:57 - Bo's 14th Pick 00:59:06 - Firestarter / Year Stained Youth 01:00:51 - World Collapse / Second Life 01:03:05 - Blink 182 / All of This 01:05:21 - Trapped Under Ice / Believe 01:07:00 - Carry On / a Life less plagued 01:08:45 - Terror / Spit My Rage 01:11:39 - Integrity / Hollow 01:13:49 - Ice Pick / Real Recognizes Real 01:17:04 - Danzig / Twist of Cain 01:19:05 - Six Feet Under / One Bullet Left   HardLore: A Knotfest Series, Fueled by Monster Energy Edited by Steven Grise • Title sequence by Nicholas Marzluf Join the HARDLORE PATREON to watch every single weekly episode early and ad-free, alongside exclusive monthly episodes. Join the HARDLORE DISCORD for community discussions and to participate in our future Q&A episodes. FOLLOW HARDLORE: INSTAGRAM, TWITTER, SPOTIFY, APPLE FOLLOW COLIN: INSTAGRAM FOLLOW BO: INSTAGRAM, TWITTER   For sponsorship opportunities, email us! [e-mail] Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Subscribe to the all-new hardlore Patreon now for early ad-free access to every episode and an exclusive episode every month. My next pick, iconic guest spot. This is Biohazard featuring Sendog from Cypress Hill. The song is How It Is. What record is that on? This is on state of the god-bri-world address. I listen to it recently. I don't remember.

It's because he fits in so pretty. Well, that's funny that you wouldn't remember because it goes, Yo, Cypress Hill. Like, that's how the song starts, I'm pretty sure. Hello, welcome. It's Hardlore Time. How are you, Bo? I'm so good.

I'm sawned up. Good for you, man. Thank you. You needed it. You just steamed up. I'm steamed hands. But you know what I needed more? What? To talk to you about a very special subject.

So true. Today on Hardlore, we are talking all about the greatest guest vocal parts of all time. We're keeping it relative to like hardcore metal punk adjacent things. Yes. Rather than Queen featuring David Bowie and Michael Jackson featuring Stevie Wonder. Peter Gabriel featuring Kay Bush. Banger.

You know? So we're talking, we're excluding some bangers, but we're talking about strictly bangers as well. Yeah. Yes. You know, this is an ancient art form. It's a tale as old as time. it's really the foundation of the genres in many ways. And I was thinking about it last night.

I think one of these is for sure the first time I became aware of it as like a young man. Where I was like, oh, that's someone else doing this part. I wonder who that is. And then figuring out who, you know. Isn't it fun? How many times in your life have you wondered who it is and just never looked it up? I mean. So many times I've been like, that guy sounds so cool.

if only he sang for a band. And then sure enough, he will never know. Too bad. In the, in the minute work song, who could it be now? Who could it be? There's a saxophone solo. And just the timbre and kind of like bravado that's on the saxophone solo sounds like Colin Hague,

the singer. And I was like, it's probably him for the last like 20 years. I was like, yeah, it's definitely him. It's not even close. It's just another guy. So it's the opposite. Well, it's funny to me about that. song is the saxophone part sounds exactly like, I like the way you move.

Two great songs. But that's a whole of the conversation. Not what we're talking about today. Guest vocals are something near and dear to the show. You know, we've got our own parts, you know. True. We've done them for you. Yep.

You've done them for me live. You know, we got, I've had, I've done a ton. There's a bunch on Valley Beyond. There's the pain of truth one I did, the three I've recorded that are coming out in 2025. There's so many. Vamping. We got it. We get it.

I'm just saying. So the thing that I was also thinking about last night when I was making this list was like, I almost called it a lost art, but it's not lost at all. It's ever present. Yeah, I mean, hip hop, it's, it like is the basis of hip hop. It's like how new stars are born. Interesting. And using that, using it as that kind of tool, like a newer band having like a legend on. Oh, yeah.

And you swap it and you have a legendary band having a newer band on to give them the rub. Either way, it's just this like perfect combination of two things. When done the right way, can create a timeless moment live, can create a hit, a standout hit on an album. Yeah. And can reinvigorate somebody that maybe needed it. Dude, I love when it's a live thing and it's the guy. Oh, man. When you get to see the guy or the gal or whoever do the part in a guest spot, it is, it's special.

It's a special. It's a phenomenal. It's that I'll bring tears your ass sometimes. Yeah. Yeah, totally. So here we go. We have each picked 15 and a top five. Yes.

And I'll tell you what, this playlist. Absolutely insane It's gonna be insane Many things represented here I'm gonna take it away I'm gonna start first because you mentioned you And I'm given I don't I don't do this

Toot your horn Lord knows I hate tooting your horn It's tooted But I'm going with various artists The Valley Beyond God's hate by God's hate That Thanks man The way in which you did it

the symbolism behind who's doing it. Can you list off everyone who's doing that? I know they're all that. Yeah. So it's the first verse is like all of God's hate. Right. And then it's Scott Vogel who transplanted from Buffalo to the valley. He's got a badge.

He's got a badge. Nick Jet, born and raised. He's the king. One of the kings. The sheriff. Absolutely. Aldo Felix, the mayor, singer. of human garbage. And then

God's sake comes back to reprise the end of the second verse. And then Anthony finally sings in the like bridge part. Yeah, that was the vision. Just putting that song together and that song was inspired by Bone Thugs, which I think

just the music being inspired by Bone Thugs was like, okay, we've got to have this has got to be grand. And the hip hop crossover like you just said. And so it all really ties together. It's Funny, Colin, you texted me a little of fact like an hour ago. And it's crazy as we do this show how we realize how often everything is intertwined.

I know. Like, everything is a web of one thing. And it's like this collective brain. To quote Max Cavalera. Yeah. Everything comes from somewhere. And that's it. And that's it.

My first pick is, it was, you know, it's hard to mention guest folklore. and collaborative songs in general, without mentioning the 1993 soundtrack to the film Judgment Night. And I'm picking what may be a dark horse pick to some. Yeah? Faith No More featuring Buyah Tribe, another body murdered.

We might have vastly different lists. I think we do, man. I'm really impressed with this. crazy. I think we've got, I think I was expecting like same, same, same, same, same, same. Yeah. I think I think it's going to be a very different playlist, which is great. I think this is the best song on the Judgment Night soundtrack, for one, because there's real drums. And a lot of these songs are finished hip-hop beats with guitars dubbed over them, which is sick. Like, Judgment Night the song, fucking awesome. Okay. But it is a hip-hop song with some hardcore thrown on

top of it, whereas this feels like a Faith No More Buya Tribe song. Which is sick. Which is really cool. Absolute banger. Mike Patton in his prime. Say no more. Faith no more.

Boom. My next one. So these first 15 just for everybody listen, they're in, like Colin said, they're in no order at all. So this is just this is just going. And so we get to the top five. So the next one I have is again kind of a symbolic one because I just think it's really cool. It's Steve from 200 Stab wounds

doing the part and acting up. My next pick, just so you know, is just Pain of Truth. Yeah, totally. Off their LP, not through blood. James did it on the Kubla Khan tour that we did with Pain of Truth. James would do it towards the end of the tour. He would do that part every night. And it's just cool

to like, I don't know, the pairing of stab wounds and Painter Truth is not one that you would put together. But again, it's this cool thing, right? Everything is, everything is what. This, this part is a great example of, it's the same lyrics as when he does the chorus the first time. This is a great example of how just another voice doing the same part can, can make it stand out and feel like something else. A hundred percent. Oh man, and Pain of Truth in general has established themselves as like the guest vocal band.

Which like, if every band started doing that, it would drive me crazy. It would not work. And this could have been a crutch for them. Yes. But this could have been, like, of course, the first couple months of live shows would be great because you got all your buddies doing the parts. But when you become like a worldwide touring band, that's not always an option. But they've figured it out in a way where it's like always going to work.

They nail it on the record. They pick really cool people. No bias there. I don't mean me. I mean the other guys. Just a little. just a great man. This is probably the best one. It's a toss up for me between

like this, the bad seed one, the T-U-I one. Yeah, yeah. There's a lot of good ones. There's a lot of good ones. Dude, even like, Freddy sounds awesome on his one. You know, so it's like, yeah, it was kind of a toss-up, but it is the one that stands out the most to me. Agreed. And like, I knew

I was going to do a paint-of-truth one on this, because it's yeah, yeah, yeah, got it. That's the, I mean, that's probably the one. Yeah, I think so. Cool. So that's my number two as well. So you, my next pick so why don't you just keep going so now we're going up we're going we're going northeast near and dear to you

it's going to be uh rob lind on life sentence peace and security fantastic death threat dude he again sounds the contrast between Aaron's vocals and Rob's vocals are like

so awesome the Joker laugh at the end is like it's like it's like it's awesome. It's just like unique and I don't know. It's fucking. I mean, that's that's like an all time great and unique. Like there's nobody that sounds like Rob. Yes. You know? Yes. So you put him next to somebody like Aaron who nobody sounds like. Yes. And you've got magic. Pure magic. And it was really cool, man. I was on Spotify. I was at the gym on Spotify making this list. And I was just letting like probably started with terror. Just letting. the radio roll. And it would be like, oh, he did, oh, wait, but, and I was like, that's how I, like, populated this. It was awesome.

So I love, obviously, that record is incredible. This particular guest spot, like, stands out. That's a great one. And, you know, it doesn't hurt that you got one of the greats singing with one of the greats. Yeah. What's better than that? We'll talk more about them later.

The rest of this list, yeah. Yeah. My next pick out of sugar. partly out of Chicago, Illinois. Damnation ADD. Featuring Patrick Stump from Fall Out Boy. The song is, if you could remember. I don't even know that song.

It's from the record. It's from the newest one. I think it's the newest one now. Okay. With the girl with the chest hat on the cover? Yeah, yeah. This was so baffling and confusing to me the first time I heard it. Because I remember the day the record,

came out, putting it on. Yeah. And being like, that's the fucking fallout boy guy. What the fuck? Yeah. And then second listen around being like, think this rocks. Yeah, yeah. And it very much is a damnation song

with a fallout boy hook. Wow. Which I have to imagine for damnation was like, well, you'll do it? Oh, damn. Okay. That's crazy. And for Patrick was probably like, that guy loves cool shit. So something that

like when I is the way oh this is a good example the way e town is for you I think is what damnation was in Chicago for Chicago for all of the older guys than us were like damnation's the band yeah damnation is what we all want to be damnation and earth mover are like the two heavy bands and earth crisis that we all wanted to be that we all like if we saw them it was like chaos it was violence and was super influential for like the convicted stuff that was just like something that all of us liked and

I don't know Patrick personally but I'm 100% sure that that's where that all comes from because all of the follow boy dudes are older hardcore dudes who were in the scene at the time great pick I need to revisit I think you're gonna I think you're gonna be like

that's wild that is damnation featuring Patrick it's out it is exactly as I'm describing it you'll see One thing that's awesome about Damnation, and this is a band we don't talk about that much that deserve some flowers is they, like, they were weird. They did weird shit a lot, and it's fucking, it's so cool. They covered all the pornography by The Cure. It's so insane. Just to do it.

Just cuss. And it's awesome. If you're curious about Damnation AD, just look up the song, The Hanged Man, listen to that all the way through. And just no more dreams front to back is fantastic. Yeah, love it. Um, my next pick, you're going to hate, Colin. And I'm sorry to do this to you. This should be the only one I think that you'll hate.

Oh, I, I know what you should have. But it's an all, it's an, it's an undeniable guest feature. It's featuring. Yeah. I get it. It's super penisey, too. The song in general is, right? I know what it is already.

Maynard, uh, from Tool doing the guest spot on passenger off of White Pony by the Deaf Tones. One of the coolest, most unique little parts. it to me is like kind of a perfect example of taking someone who has a strength and applying it into a song. You know? There's videos of like Haley doing this part with Deftones and it's they're not using her strength because it's too low for her. It's like well within her register. Whereas for Maynard, he's pushing it so hard that it sounds fucking awesome. You know, I love me some Maynard.

I know. I know. So me, I was hoping this would. I'm a toolman. I'm the toolman. Yeah. And I deeply respect Chino and the band for their artistry. You know, it's just not for me musically. Of course. But I get it. And I, like I said, I knew this was coming.

Right. Already, which is a testament to how iconic it is. Totally. A good point. As a non-fan, you probably know the melody. And you like, know it. 100%. Good point. 100%. my next pick is very different but in a way

it's the same because it's two icons clashing beautiful you know in a way that was like oh yeah of course and it's 25 to life

featuring Freddie Madball in loyal to the grave this is something listen I have people all the time who are like I don't like 25th life and I'm like first of all you're an idiot second of all

you just don't know you And then you put this on, and they have no idea that this is what they sound like. Yeah, the greatest breakdowns playlist was that for me. I never... I just like, that's pretty good. Yeah, yeah, totally. Band Rocks, this is the top three 25 to Life tracks, probably. The opening riff is insane.

And you can very much hear... I think it's like dudes from Demise playing on this record, which that music was... Yeah. billions of years ahead of its time. So this kind of is too, man. Keeping it real, strength or unity. Legitimately great records have stood the test of time. Say what you will.

It is what it is. Loyal to the grave. Good pick. You know, it was not surprising, I guess, but just a surprise because I am unfamiliar with the catalog. Didn't know if Freddie did that. And you know, I always put point of all life on these lists. I do.

It's great. He finds a way He finds a way All right We're bringing it back To Hardcore Bring it back Straight back to Hardcore

And I thought This was the first time I was aware of a band Doing a guest spot But it isn't I found an earlier one Joe Hardcore

Eye for an Eye Off of the Blacklisted It was it Blacklisted First? Blood? Split? It was a single Either way

By Blacklisted he has a whole bridge part. Yeah. And he sounds fucking... First of all, the song is one of the heaviest songs, one of the heaviest hardcore songs in like the last 20 years. Oh, yeah, of that era, I would say this is like, this is one of the, like, scariest pit to be in type songs, you know?

To the point where... Which is crazy because it's not even that, like, the part is particularly hard. Right. It's like this... Joe's part is so scary and in... intimidating? Yes. Even without a breakdown really, like, happening.

Yeah, the breakdown. That the part is scary. Yeah, the breakdown is the first second of the song. Like, it's, the intro is what would get people to the point. The whole song is scary and why. I'm pretty, I think they resented the song by the end. Like, they didn't, like, because it's all people wanted. It was like, play that song, which, you know, that'll happen.

That happens, but you got, like, you got to just put, put it aside and play the song. Sure. But you know what's cool about, dude. Blacklisted is a band that I drew a lot of influence from, I think, without doing it on purpose without really realizing it. But the fact that they just wrote a different song, that they, did you ever see them like tease it and then they would play canonize? Yeah. Like stuff like that, but when that's like next record, they were like, we're going to allude to this because we're done playing. We're over it.

Stop asking. But to see them play it And then I saw them play it with Joe doing the part And that was pretty cool There you go Pretty fucking sick The guy doing the part What's the guy doing that man

Here's one I doubt we'll ever see The guy doing the part four This is a life changing record Life changing song And I have to imagine For them This was the craziest thing in the world of the time The band is Sepuletura

Featuring Jellipatera featuring Jello Biafra from the Dead Kennedys. The song is Biotech is God motherfucking Zilla, baby. What's crazy is I almost put this, but I was afraid of the ridicule. No, dude, this rips. Jello wrote the lyrics for the song. He wrote the lyrics and he does the Godzilla thing, which is cool. But dude, the fucking biotech.

That riff is fucking awesome. It's insane. And here's the thing. This is proof that I guess vocal part doesn't need to be a duet throughout the song. Yeah. It could be a moment. And young 10-year-old me hears that moment and goes, what the hell was that? Yeah, who's that?

Yeah. All it takes is a couple words to stand out and make something unique with amongst the context of a full album. So there are some kind of honorary mentions, honorable mentions that I have that I didn't include for that reason. Like Jesse Stanhard did want to fuck you on a couple things. I didn't include that because it's so short. Or like Porter doing bust on the No Warning song. I didn't include that. It's pretty good.

It's pretty sick and I didn't know it for years. But I didn't include those because it felt like too easy. Yeah, I got it. However, I will contest that Jello wrote the lyrics. That's- He's featured artistically on the entire thing. Totally. Great pick.

Thank you. That is a song that was a skit when I was younger. It's like, I don't want this weird, weird song. And now I like the, I love that part so much. I love the weird songs on Chaos AD are probably my favorite. Like that, we who are not as others. The fucking Kiwa Don, the instrumental, that they recorded live in a church. Yeah, totally.

Awesome. Dude. And you know why they did it a lot? No, tell me. Were they high? They were like, this would be impossible to perform live. and then they watched a video of neurosis where they all put down their instruments

and just started banging on drums, the whole band. And they were like, we are recording live. So fucking cool. Hey, speaking of the coolest guy ever, Max Cavalera, endless resistance, the nails single. Oh, my God, dude. Incredible pick. I love Sepul Tarah,

and I love Max. And his voice is, awesome. And the fact that both brothers, both the Cavalera brothers, stay so tuned in to in ways you've never imagined. You couldn't imagine. Yeah.

And I'll go into story time here. And maybe I should save this for the Nails episode, but I'm not going to. The other day when Dead Body played with Nails at the Belasco, Max sang territory and endless resistance. I've never met him before. Yeah. But Taylor

texts me, like, come around, to this side Max wants to say what's up cool so it's like I'm sprinting just drop everything I drop everything I'm on my way

I was on the other side he walks off stage after doing these parts and like there's there's like people waiting for him there that like either he knows or just like fans waiting to see him

he's he looks at me and he likes me gives me a big hug and it like stuns me yeah Um, that was like a moment I've been waiting for my entire life.

Like legit first CDA I ever bought. One of the first bands I ever loved completely shaped everything about me musically. And then he starts talking and it's like, dude, you are so tapped in. It's unbelievable. He knows everything. He listens to everything. He's going to be on the show soon. He wants to do it with Igor.

He said, three hours, four hours, five hours. Let's record it live in a church. Oh, yeah. Yeah, so if you haven't heard. Coolest guy ever. Yeah. The proves them and Endless Resistance as a single. Like this is the last thing that Taylor played on.

And it was part of an album that was, I think, at the time, like, maybe they thought wasn't ready. So they just recorded these two songs. And these two songs were so fucking good that it, like, didn't even matter that they weren't attached to an album. This is like the truest example of a single being so fucking strong that it doesn't even matter. Great, great example. One of the hardest now songs, period. 100%. It's top three, probably.

I just love I just love Sepulchura getting more as much attention as possible in any in any facet. That's all I want. That's all I believe. And he, and this is another great example of him doing his thing, dude. Yeah, right. His accent is one of the, being, like in a singing way. Yeah. It's so much harder. And when he does like fast patterns, they're like, oh, oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. It comes off just like so much more aggressive and meaningful.

It's awesome. And, and nails really, really let him shine here. Yeah, beautiful. Love it. Beautiful done. Speaking of support, goats, supporting goats, this one I, is like, probably number six, if we're being honest, you know? Yeah, okay, okay. Converge featuring Jonah Jenkins, Grimheart, Black Rose. Yeah, that's a little further up for me.

That's fair. Talk about it. This is the best contemporary metalcore band, if you can even call them that. Sure. Because they're just so in a league of their own. putting on for a cult hometown hero and one of the greatest extreme music vocalizers in history, the most underrated probably.

One of the most talented for sure. 100%. And just like truly giving him the perfect spot to do his thing. The melodies, the lyrics, the vibe is off the charts. He sings alone for like four. minutes. Yeah, yeah. Basically does an entire song before the song becomes an entire other song.

This is a top five converge track, and they're a band with no less than a thousand bangers. So that's an insane statistic. Yeah. And this is like, this to me is, I said this in the Only Living Witness episode, this feels like the series finale of Only Living Witness. Wow. It feels like the bow on the career. The movie that comes out after the series. Exactly.

It's like, oh, I love that. Here's what this guy could do. Can you believe this? Here's Sex and the City movie one. The movie. Yeah. They're in Egypt. I love this.

I obviously listen to it as I was making this list. Yeah. He's so fucking good. No Heroes is so fucking good. That's my favorite one. Really? Yeah. I think you fail me.

After, I think Jane Doe kind of goes on. And it's like, of course. I think No Heroes after both of those was a harder statement overall. Oh, totally. Much harder record, which for me at the time was like exactly what I was looking for. Got you. Got you. Crazy shit.

What a band. What a band. One of the greats. We should do an episode of just ranking converged songs. It's three. We should an episode called What a Band. Or we just like list bands like guys list like NFL play. Yeah

just stats Listen to me All right My next one My number God I'm counting backwards Doesn't matter In between

It doesn't matter But Patrick Stump Jock power of violence Worthless Weekend nachos Seems like a cool guy Yeah Right

Like and also the first There's a solo That starts the record And that's Joe From Fall of Boy playing it So there's two Fall of Boy playing it. one weekend nachos record, which is crazy.

Yeah. And Patrick... Which both were legally had to be under the radar. Yes, I believe that's under the radar. But he is, if you, I think it's on discogs. It's like, it says Patrick's something. That's like Michael Jackson in the Simpsons episode. You know, we all know now.

Was it actually him? Yes. It was... Not singing. Not singing, right. But the character was him. The voice was him. What was his name?

Was it Curly? No, his name was Michael Jackson. Oh, when he says at the end, when he breaks it, it's like Larry or something. Yeah, yeah, okay. Just the fact that when this was recorded, Fallup Boy was as big as ever. Yeah. You know, top of the world. The fact that Patrick would do this, he screams on it.

The last few lines, he's like screaming, which, like, for a guy with one of the craziest voices ever. One of the crispest, cleanest, most smoothest voice. He's these like punk Michael Boubley, you know? There's no difference between the two. Identical. Just melted butter. So I love it. They usually close with that.

It's just like a highlight of probably the band, the record, any live set. It rocks. It's really cool that Patrick did it. Sounds great. And I think, dude, he's like a infamous, this is a little insider trading, but he's like an infamous one and done. Just like first take kind of guy. There is a cover of

Roxanne that Falliboy did that's out there that they didn't have time in the studio. And he was like, just let me do it once so I can get it down. And that's the take. That's on the whole, it's one take. Kate Bush esque. Straight up. It is fucking crazy. Unbelievable. That's my pick.

Go Patrick. All right. My next pick is band called Stigmata. Oh. From the album Hymns for an Unknown God, which was produced in whole by Harley Flanagan. Oh. The song Burning Human features Harley Flanagan.

I had no idea. Oh, dude. You put this on. You're going to get goosebumps. Man. He's going full. Uh-huh. Yeah.

Uh, I've sang with this with them, which was very special. But aside from that. this is a band that finding them was was very influential to me in terms of writing and my interests and like that this is such a unique piece of aggressive music where it's there's so much melody intertwined in a way that doesn't make it any less hard which I'm all about and then Harley comes in finally at the end on the closing track sings the beginning and end uh and it just feels like this big like in 97 or 96 or 95 whenever this was that's huge yeah that's and having him produce it was huge and clearly

I don't know how much he contributed to it but this record sounds perfect he sounds incredible on it burning human great song great band I probably didn't know it because it's the last track and I am a serial skipper of I remember one time we played frigid the frigid breakdown yeah and you and Saba were like, what was that part? Really? This is the end of the out. How about that? I skit, man.

I move on. It's all right. My next one, an all time, never seen them do it, but I've seen many, many a scary man do it, is Tad's part and believe,

Secrets of the World. We're going to have to say this one. No problem. Yeah. Great pick. Thank you. A top four pick, someone's saying.

My next pick is an interesting one because it's a member of the band singing the part. Oh. But my God. He's not in the band anymore. Okay. And since then, they only perform with a full choir to do his parts. He's so fucking good at what he does that only a choir of many, many people could replace him. The band is DEMU-Bore Gear.

The man is ICS Vortex. The song is progenies of the Great Apocalypse. This is right up there with Genesis. Fucking warning. Fucking Barry White in like best bridges in history. In all music.

This thing hits and you will lift off the ground a little bit in a way that will scare your friends and family, but you will finally feel at ease because you've heard a six-part harmony sang by a European guy in a way that you can't believe. This inspired, of course, God's hate six feet deep, which I also tried to achieve a ICS-4 test-esque six-part harmony for. No big deal. But I'm a shell of what this man can do truly like perfect voice insane performance timeless song

what did he do in the band I think he was the keyboard guy okay which now they it's full orchestra live which is why they never play in America right how could you can't I saw the Who a couple years ago and they would they had full orchestras every night

and they would just basically hire the local Philharmonic which like at that point makes sense because you're just reading the Who songs. Yeah, right. But like I can, I know from experience, I've tried to hire choirs to sing parts

and they really care about the lyrics they're singing. If it says bitch, they're not going to do it. Wow. Demon Borgier is like Satan fucking rules. Yeah, right, right, right. So the local San Fernando Children's Choir is not going to do that. Interesting. Maybe they had a birthday to do or something.

Exactly. My next one, you'll see exactly why I went from Tad to this. You know what's interesting, Colin, something we didn't talk about at the beginning. I might have bands multiple time on this with different guest features, but I tried not to have a repeat singer.

I didn't do a single repeat band. Okay. Just so you know. I think I did one. But I didn't do any repeat singers because I wanted to pick that person's best or my favorite. That's fair.

So Justice has quite a few I picked what I think is Just what I think is like the coolest Because he sounds fucking awesome And it's on Never Die Off of Al Cry by Neverending Game I think

I think that song Was like almost written with him in mind You know what I mean It was co-written by Sam Perfect And does Sam do the other Guess spot on it? Maybe

Someone else does. I don't know if it's somebody in the band or not. But yeah, so it, the DNA of, the DNA of TUI is like in this song. 100%. Justice finishing in that and then doing, there's like the weird vocal effect on the last line. It just like, it felt like, who, you know, it got me. And it, it immediately, because the song following this is like kind of like the nir-n-n-n-it, like the kind of, Yeah, the big ballad he song.

Yeah, so it's like the record, it takes you places. And this is the one that goes like, like this is where we came from. In your face, up your ass. This is, you know. I love his pulling teeth part too. Dude. He's got, he's got some bangers in, man. He's got some good ones.

That one was in consideration for sure. This one, this one is a standout in his discog on the album all around. Fantastic pick. Thank you. Okay. I got all heat coming up. Yeah, this is a good shit coming. I'm excited.

My next pick, iconic guest spot. This is Biohazard, featuring Sendog from Cypress Hill. The song is how it is. Wow. It's how it is, yo. It's how it is. What records set out? This is on state of the goddamn world address.

What's funny is because I listened to it recently. As you know, I was messaging you about it. I don't remember. It's because he fits in. Well, that's funny that you wouldn't remember because it goes, yo, Cypress Hill. Like,

that's how the song starts, I'm pretty sure. But this is, this is like, this is a better hardcore rap song than Judgment Night. Okay. Like, this is better,

this belongs more so on something like that than that. I think this is like the perfect example of how rap music is rap music because of, the lyrical content and the vocal flow and stuff. Like, he's just rapping. He's just doing his thing over a hardcore song. Yes. And it sounds completely natural.

Cool. Like a great beat and a great riff is a great beat and a great riff no matter what instrument it's being played on. Yeah. We're like, it's such a fucking perfect melding of worlds here. It's an iconic song. It's one of the best songs in the album. It was a single.

There was a great video. Okay. And I've seen him do it live. Wow. Wow. Which was beautiful. That seems rare. It was really cool.

It was biohazards like come back to L.A. where they opened for suicidal and only played first three records. Yeah. And it was insane. Did you see the clip that was going on recently with one of the guys from Cypress Hill? And they're in Australia. And he's like, oh, yeah. So they're talking about high school.

He's like, oh, I went to high school with that guy right there. That's Dave Lombardo from Slayer. and Dave's just in the crowd. He's just like, yeah. That's insane. It's all, like, they were obviously playing the same fest somewhere in Australia. And he just went. So cool.

He just went to see his buddy from high school do an interview because there's like a crowd. It was awesome. Fucking Dave Lombardo, man. Pay the man. God damn it. The goat. Pay him. Yeah, biohazard, how it is.

Sendog, iconic, historic, legendary. I'm really, as often is, I'm very happy with how different. our lists are for me. I knew they would be. I knew they were either going to be absolutely identical or almost nothing in common. The top five, I don't know. I think we'll have a couple.

I know one for sure. My next pick, one of the coolest on this whole fucking list, and I know you're going to appreciate this. George motherfucking corpse grinder can't help but hate. Pain into power. Terror.

Absolutely. fantastic. It's so fucking cool. I can't express... 10th LP, dude. Yeah, 10th LP. And it's in the top three they've ever done. And it's constantly evolving and doing shit like this that makes it happen.

I know I've told the story before, but I just want to reiterate that George told, specifically talk to James and I about how much he loves hardcore, specifically New York hardcore, specifically straight edge hardcore. Like that's his favorite shit. He thinks it's like the most angry and he loves it. I love it. We walked off stage one time and he went, make a change

and like did a Ray Capo thing as we were walking by. And then we just sat there like, what? And well then then we were like, oh yeah, that's a, you guys excited for Christmas? And then we talked about Christmas movies for 30 minutes. Fucking legend. That's exactly how it went. It was in New Orleans. This is absolutely iconic.

I only didn't put it on here because I have another terror song on here and that was I made that rule going in. But this is like easily number two. Dude. Of all terror guest spots. I didn't put the furnace one because it's so short. What are we done? It's really brief.

So I was like, I'll give, you know, furnace he'll get his in a bit. But yeah, corpse grinder doing the, the kettle butter is like, it sounds awesome. And like this is a, this is Todd's back on this one. Yeah. helping them write this record. And this is like, I imagine Todd maybe writing this part, this fucking part.

It's awesome. The whole song is perfect. This record's insane. Pain into Power. I'm still listening to it all the time. Just fantastic. And it applies directly to my next pick. Oh, perfect.

Take a trip with me. Strap in for this one. The band is suffocation. The song is called mass obliteration. The year is 1991. This is four years before he joined Cannibal Corpse. In his first ever recorded vocal performance, Corpse Grinder.

Really? The first thing he ever sang on was Effigieth's Forgotten. The song Mass Abliteration. This is, I mean, this is already the hardest and heaviest. one of the hardest and heaviest bands of all time. And then you've got them picking this man out of obscurity. I wonder how that, like... He sang for bands, he, like, he sang for bands, but just was a local guy.

Like a live guy. And hadn't recorded anything. And then obviously, in a few years, a few short years, he joined Cannibal Corpse, completely transformed the band, helped make them what they are today, recorded all their best records. Yeah. Sue me. He might.

This is iconic, man. Yeah, and it's not like a huge part, but you know it when you hear it. And it's crazy to hear how locked in his voice already was. Just, yeah, like he had the... He fucking had it, man. Man. So there it is. Isn't that cool, dude?

Yeah, yeah. Isn't that so cool? It really is. Everything is one. Everything is one thing. Everything comes from somewhere. Straight up, dude. Next.

something so near and dear to you that this might be in the top five for you. It is Aaron from death threat. So alone, off of in the eyes of Lord by 100 demons. It's my next pick, Bo. Perfect. Colin?

Perfect. You have two juggernauts finally meeting. This is Ben Franklin, George Washington. to the great presidents finally meeting on the top of Mount Rushmore

to sing together you sang that as me just like Ben Franklin obviously the 100th president and George Washington the first president finally meeting to sing together in a way that is so beautiful

and so powerful this is like legit one of my favorite hardcore songs ever so obviously everything the song is great dude the fucking ride bell on the Dund Dund Dink ding ding dan

That part's incredible The way he starts the song The Zababababababab da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da like That part's awesome But the highlight for me Is still alive wishing I was dead Saying in the way that he sings it Is like

Like I just got chills I just got chills thinking about The delivery, the way he does it Again A voice that's like that Dude, I remember we used to like go to a restaurant and order death threat style. So we'd be like, I'll have a pancake and some coffee, right? Like every like whatever, everybody would do that.

And it like, it seems novel as when you're young. You know what I'm. But now it's like, now that I'm older, you can appreciate how like, nobody sounds like. It's an identity. Nobody sounds like that. And it's so good. They were so great together that they went ahead and did it again on the song. still alone.

Death Threat featuring Bruce LaPage on Forgotten Government. My next pick. They did it again, man. What can I say? All the lyrical callbacks here. Yeah. It's like both bands trading parts. I've seen them do it live.

Wow. What can you do? You know? That's perfect. Two of my favorites. Doing it again. Connecticut. saying no more on me that's how we got you know what i'm you know what i'm all in on dude

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I told you not to post bad religion stuff. Anyway, My next pick Yes Is bad religion And I had a hard time picking They have a number of features Do they?

That are all good Eddie Vedder sings on a song Right right right right Tim Armstrong sings on a great song But to me This one stood out immediately On the album recipe for hate The song is called Struck a Nerf

I think this is a great example of how simple Something like this can be Johnette Napolitano From the band Concrete Blonde sings on it. Oh, cool. It is entirely just a harmony of the bridge

until she just belts out the title of the song and it completely makes the song. It's at the very end and you're sitting there the whole time waiting for it. Wow. After you know it's there, it's like, I can't wait for that part to come. Yeah, right, right, right. Because it's, she sounds so different than Greg.

It's so fucking iconic and memorable in the context of the record. It's a pretty fast record overall aside from like American Jesus and this and a couple of the other tracks. So it is like a mid-tempo banger amongst a punk record. A punk record. And I think this is the, I think

this is the one. I love it. I was wondering if you were going to work bad religion into this list. They got features, man. They got them. It's cool. I, yeah. We'll get to the first time. The first time I noticed the feature is in my

top five, so we'll get to it. but it's just such a cool concept. I'm also noticing how much crossover there is with all of the remaining bands. So my next one is Jacob Bannon. He's on two songs on the same record of Butterwimper by Ramallah. Well, he was in the band.

Bannon was in Ramallah. He was in Ramallah for that record. No shit. Yeah. Mind blown. I had no idea. I had absolutely no idea. What did he do? I think he was maybe keys or something, or he was just second vocals.

Really? Yeah. Had no idea. Hard lore exclusive. Well, he does backup vocals on the song Ramallah and Al Shafah. Does he ever? The song, I like more Ramallah than this record, but this is my favorite. Yeah, I mean, this is front to back, like, masterpiece level.

it's Un- It's insane Dude it's like Putting this on Was like he did it again Yeah Yeah

Yeah You got you got Rob Jeff G And Bannon And one In a band That's the most Powerful band

Of all the The pit part To The To Ramallah The song itself Is like So fucking

Heavy And so fucking cool Is that Dana Oh yeah Yes It's I mean, it's

awesome. It's one of those parts, too, that kind of like, you can trace where it came from, you know? It's just awesome. In a way that is exciting, though. It's not, you're not like, they ripped that off. You're like, that's so cool that they got that from that. 100%.

And Al Shafah is sick, too, because of just the back, tack, tack, like, it's awesome. It's awesome. I didn't know Bannon was in the band. I had absolutely new idea. But the fact that he's doing his, the converge thing, Yeah. The over it is like, it was just awesome and it's, it's very Massachusetts.

I mean, it adds just another dynamic element that you, that sets the, set the whole band apart at this. This band was fucking huge and they played a handful of shows ever. Really? I didn't know they were that big. Because it was so sick. Wow. Yeah. Wow.

Love it. Uh, my next pick is a band called Massadon. This, yeah? Yeah, I'm going there. The song is Cracked the Sky from the album Crack the Sky, featuring Scott Kelly from Naurosis. This, I think, is the definitive Mastodon song, period. Really? And the back and forth between Scott and the homie really just like, it really just does it for me.

Yeah. This was in consideration from. my list. It's such a fucking banger, dude. It's really cool. They have another guest feature too, but this one's awesome. This one's crazy. Because it is, it's another example of like,

we need the guy to do his thing. You know? Yeah, and just let's got to do his thing. Here's the part, here's what we were thinking, have that it. And like every band ever worships neurosis. So it's cool

that Macedon like At the height of their success, which God, are they wildly successful now? Mm-hmm. Get the fucking guy from neurosis. Yeah, it's awesome. Probably knew each other, you know? Of course. But just so cool.

Yeah, they were, I mean, they were down. They know. They like hate breed, you know? All right, my next one, which might be higher up on yours, too, so we might have to pause, but it's, I cheated. It's two and one. It's Jamie Jost. Oh, yeah, that's higher.

Is it top five? Yeah, just, yeah, it is. Okay, so we'll wait. Zimipulet. My last pick before my top five. Yeah. Motorhead. Featuring Ozzy Osbourne.

The song is called I Ain't No Nice Guy. Wow. From there. Yeah. 12th studio album. 12th studio album. Do you know what do you have when it came out? 92, I think.

12th record by 1992. Yes, dude, they're the coolest man of all their S-tier. Period. I think we put them in S-tier. We did. Yeah, of course. This is after

they wrote No More Tears together lyrically, I have to imagine Lemmy was like, I want to do a fucking ballad. So they write this really rare type of song for Motorhead and fucking croon together. It's just this rare

well-rounded dynamic song that shows how talented Lemmy was. Oh, yeah, dude. That he chose to be extreme because he fucking wanted to be. He could do what any of these other motherfuckers were doing. Yep. And then he gets the belt with his boy one beautiful time in this incredible, incredible ballad that doesn't really sound like motorhead. Wow.

I can't wait to listen. I'm unfamiliar. You're going to love it. Yeah, yeah. Timeless banger. Lemmy is one of those. I saw a motorhead with Lemmy a few times. I bet you we could have gotten to Lemmy through the show.

And it's one of those things that makes me sad because he's the coolest guy. Universally beloved, he was a god to gods. Yeah. When we inevitably get to talk to Dee Schneider, I can't wait to talk to him about Lemmy. because what he did for Twisted Sister and for like all of that is legend, you know? Just really cool and I'm excited to hear this track.

Great pick. You're going to love it. So we kind of switched inadvertently after the ads. Yeah. My next one was Jonah on the Converge song. So I'll go to my last one before my top five. Perfect. Which is, and I know you're going to love this,

Mark Porter, to your stained youth, off of our boys. Boys? Dude, you're not wrong. This is the Firestarter song, a brand new song. We put this shit out featuring Porter from Floor Punch. It's unbelievable. I'm not, and I love Floor Punch.

Yeah. One of my favorite hardcore bands of all time. Right. Porter sounds better on this than anything. He sounds so fucking pissed. It's like a not only does he still have it, he has it more than he's ever had. More than he's ever had. I love this song.

I love this part. I love that he did it. I love that this song has called backs to other bands that I love that we're going to talk about soon. And I can't wait to talk to Porter about it. Very soon. Incredible pick, Bob. Thank you. Thank you.

Put this on right. Pause this episode in your YouTube app or Spotify. And put on this record. put on this single and the rest of the record fucking rips too i'm i it's so this guest spot is perfect bone chilling dude it's exactly what i want in in a new band newer band reaching out to an old head to be like hey we you blah blah blah and he does it like better than ever he nails it and you know obviously the part is like paying tribute to him and floor punch in general of course it's just like it's a new floor punch part it's awesome it's

It's an unearthed relic. It's beautiful. It's beautiful. Yeah. All right. All right. Top five time. Top five.

Here we go. My number five. All the way from Germany. Fuck. Is this up there for you? It's number three. Yeah. Oh, okay.

But it's all good. It's fine. The band is world collapse. Yes, it is. One of the most unique, fascinating hardcore songs ever written. The song is. called Second Life, featuring Scott Vocal. It's perfect.

It has everything. It's Depeche Mode meets Madball. It makes no sense, but it makes perfect sense. And when the fucking pit hits, it's so simple but so technical in a way where you can't comprehend where the fucking root note is ever. It switches five times, and it's so fucking.

hard. I can't believe it. There's that little like that little slide part. Vogles, Vogles part. I remember when this came out. I remember listening to it probably honestly James Carr, like on a three song Burn CD,

you know? Right. The fucking, there's the little Tom, there's the little Tom build up before. Dude. Oh my God. And his vocals were recorded into a MacBook microphone. And they're on the bus, right?

Yeah. And they're perfect. They're fucking awesome. Because there's a part, I don't know if maybe he did it twice, if maybe it was multiple takes, or like a overlap, because it's like, but it's like. It's probably a punch in, but it's so fucking awesome. The, the mic is peaking, but like in a perfect amount, like not too much. It's like brickwalled. It's awesome.

It's awesome. It's, when we decided we were going to do this, this was the first song that came to mind. Yeah. I can't, I can't say why. We were texting about it, but we were. But yeah, this is the first one that came to mind. Excellent pick. Great song.

Right back at you. What's your number five? I got clearance from you for this because it's punk adjacent. Yeah, 100%. It is, and it's got a crazy story that I don't know if you know. Hit me. I'm knighting him, Sir Robert Smith, on the song, all of this off of the Blinkwood A2 self-titled.

I don't like this record. I like one other song on the record. It's the fucking, I'm feeling this. That's the only other song I like on this record. This song is one of the greatest blank songs, period. Do you know the song? I know the song. I don't know the story or anything.

Dude. So they like wrote it and had it and sent it off to Robert and like his team or whatever and didn't hear anything and got it within the hour. They got it back within the hour of the deadline. Like they didn't know and they had probably one of them doing the take. Right. So they were like, it didn't happen. It didn't happen, whatever.

We got the backup take and it's a deep, it's like second to last on the record or something. Right. Boom. He delivered it. And in a quote, he said, I love the music that you sent me. So like thank you for allowing me to do me on this. That's really special. The way that he sings it is so fucking cool.

there's a Crystal Castle's which kind of band I like many bangers I know but but oh the guy is like a piece of shit but Alice is fucking sick she rocks and there's a song called

Not in Love that he also sings on that is like a fucking banger but anyway this one and the way that it's played and the way that they when you have Robert Smith you're not going to tell him how to do it

right you want him to do him and it's so fucking good and there's videos of him doing it live with them. Love it. Which reminds me, have you heard the new cure record? Yeah, it's cool. Dude, it rips. Yeah, I, I'm listened to it a couple times on the

on the Haprate tour. I need to revisit. I need like a thorough deep dive but like everything I've heard, I love. Really like it. The Cure are just one of the greats. Top. Top. Top something. That's a punk band to me. I don't give a shit. Good, good, good, good. I love it.

My number four. Trapped Under Ice, featuring Tadstow, believe. I would say this is the guest vocal of the modern era. Yeah. It's like easily. You know, it's funny, it's like, this sounds really lame of me to say. But it's like whoever gets to do the part. Yeah.

It's like a very like. It's a badge of honor. It's like a, damn, that's a scary ass part. And the guy who did it is. legendary, you know, so it's... It was written from the... Tad wrote it from the perspective of a bullet, which is the craziest thing.

The song's about how, like, is about Baltimore. And then Tad's like, I'm not going to talk about that at all. And then wrote about the perspective of a bullet killing someone. It's unbelievable. It's legendary.

Referring to said bullet as the god. Yeah. Touch and die. The backs of gods, you know? Tad. Like, I've maybe moshed this song more than any other song

The fucking music video When he's picking up the microphone Yeah Come on dude A nice touch they really did it They did it They did it's my favorite They wrote the guest vocal part

Of the modern era And it's so like It's scary It's scary sounding It's awesome Great pick Beautiful My next one is the first

time I became aware of a guest vocal. Hit me. On Carion's record at Lifeless Plague, on the self-titled song, A Lifeless Plague, Wes Isled of American Nightmare, sings the bridge. There you go. And I was already,

American Nightmare was a very, uh, entry. They're huge for you. A gateway band for me because they cover crow mags and they had, uh, they toured with X, Y, and Z and they're a part of the Boston scene. And,

and I remember looking up a video of West Mosh and, at the last 10-year-ed fight show. Right. So it's like, it's all connected for me. So when I got into this new band from California, and then we get to this part, I was like, who is this guy? Who is?

I know that voice. And sure enough, it's Wes. And you just couldn't believe it. You're like, how, how do they know each other? Exactly. How did they get him? He went all the way to California? You know, like, I couldn't comprehend it.

It blew my little dumb ass brain, but I loved it. I listened to this song. I actually listened to this record. Last night, it's one of my favorite records of all time. I always bring it up. But this part specifically was the first time I was like, oh, that's cool. That's someone else.

And that's not like Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson on the girl is mine. That is. What it is to some. It might as well be to me. Yeah. But I fucking love it. And I love that it's, again, it's the guy with a unique voice doing his thing. Doing his thing.

And he's got a whole part to do it. creating, helping create this landmark album. And now we know from the Vogel episode that this record being as good as it is basically led to the existence of terror. Hello. Which leads me right to my next pick. Oh, let's go. Let's talk about it, dude.

Terror bit my rage. featuring Jamie Josta and Lord Isaac, aka Ice Pick. It's, you know, it's, I've sang this many times with them. It's an honor every time. I've sung it once, I think. it is like the terror pit the triplets

unbelievable get the fuck out of here dude it's unbelievable this is this is uh this is one of the greatest hardcore songs of all time of all time uh when it came out I remember thinking that it was all just Carl because Carl who has a crazy voice

Carl's backups on like fucking nothing to prove unbelievable holy shit but I thought it was just him because Ezek and him kind of sound similar, you know, at least at the time. And it wasn't so much later that I realized who it really was. Yeah.

And I think both, I mean, Jamie sounds like Jamie, who has one of the best voices of all time. It's literally like Vogel Jamie Furness. Yeah. Jamie defined like enunciation in perfectly audible words in an aggressive voice. You know, like he mastered that for anybody. And then the ying to that yang being EZAC, doing the A-B of a verse about like cutting you back down the size. It's so fucking cool. And it's perfect. It's a perfect guest spot.

Like, how about we do this? I mean, on some days for me, it's number one. Yeah. You know? If I'm watching terror, it's number one. If I'm watching terror, it's the best song ever, period. On best songs of all time lists, just a bit of our age is number one. Yeah.

It depends on my mood. Today, it's number three. iconic, timeless, genre-defining, taste-defining. Three things I love, Kranet, Thorn, Hape, Red, Terror, together. All in one. Beautiful. It's so good.

Another honorable mention to Vogel on Nothing Left by Throwdown on the Haymaker version of that song. Vogel sings a whole verse and part of the breakdown, and it's fucking awesome. But that's just an honorable mention. He's got. He's got many greats. His color orange part, absolutely insane.

Is he, he the voice of our generation? I mean, he's a voice of two generations. Straight up to. The songbird of a generation. Have you seen his Halloween costume from this year? No. The Krishna guy? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's one of my favorite things to ever happen. It's awesome. Here it is, Stephen. All right, so my number two, because we just kind of combined a couple. this is a personal favorite vocalist James the human furnace from Ringworm does a guest vocal spot on the song Hollow by Integrity F of Humanity is the devil

I still don't know what he's saying Track two, no fucking I He's truly delivering a cocktoe twins-esque performance on this thing Yeah Don't know a clue I don't have a clue he's saying But I agree with every single word Yeah I have it all tattooed on me in Jimera The thing is

I'm talking about and I'm splitting hairs here I'm talking about the original version There's a remastered version on Spotify right now with some cool effects and stuff I like the old version because you could tell it's either

Dwid or Furnace just talking underneath the screaming part and both of those bands Ringworm and Integrity had these cool vocal ideas you got Florida Frank right in this part

he told me where where psychological warfare came from which is the next song. This little rock block is incredible, but specifically Furnace's guest part on Hollow is like, it's awesome. It's the two guys of like this area of hard horror.

It's one of those things where you wonder, you hear two bands are from the same place. You wonder if they know each other. Yeah. And you don't even have to wonder because you have this right off of that. It's awesome. It's one of my favorite things of all times. except for the next one, which is my favorite thing about time.

Exactly. Two bands that, you know, could use the rub. I hope that the modern generation picks up ringworm integrity, lifts them to the top of the stratosphere. Because I get into a ringworm kick once a year that is like weeks long. Dude, touring with Heybred and talking to Frank about ringworm stuff was so like, wait, ringworm is the best band. Wait a minute.

I need to listen to this now. My number two, you know, kind of evolving from my previous pick. The band is Ice Pick. This is one that I would have bet money was going to be on. The song is Real, Recognize is Real. And it features Roger Morant, Freddie Madball, Paul Bearer, Pete Morsi, a few I'm forgetting. And of course, Ice Tea. the greatest extreme music vocalist in history

who his song with Slayer on the Judgment Night soundtrack which is three exploited songs mashed together whoa I didn't know that which is fucking awesome almost is like the number one honorable mention on my whole list

that's the coolest guy of all time um this I'll never forget the day that Real Recognize Real came out it was on my space it was the only song available Whoa. And then I found the CD on a field trip like a week later. Right.

I could not fucking believe it. And I see such a big. And even as a kid, they're singing about how like they've been a part of hardcore for so long and they don't follow trends and like, you know, they're the ones who bled for the scene. They built it.

And even at 14, I was like 100%. Yeah, me too. I can really relate to this. And I, Ice tea of all people being the bookend for this. Ice pick, punk bitch, blood in the

mosh pit. Chills every time. He's a genius. One of the coolest guys ever, one of the greatest entertainers of our time, maybe the greatest tweeter in history. Yeah, yeah. Shut the fuck up.

Here's a few great iced tea tweets. Just giving Stephen little quests, little tasks. I'll be able to provide. I've got plenty of screenshot and saved as is. I think my favorite aspect of this is Paul Bear. Yeah, because he sounds insane compared to the rest of them. It's awesome. I really like it. I think it's awesome. And then Pete, of course, just crushing. And you have Roger and Freddie like doing call and response. Yeah, how cool is that? I've waited my whole life for that. Yeah, right. It's incredible.

I've been going through a big AF kick recently in the last couple weeks. And they are, I've realized something, Colin, that the importance that we hold the misfits in. Yeah. I think AF kind of is in a more, like, refined sense. I would say what misfits did for punk. I have to do for hardcore. Yeah. Period.

I've just realized. They're the godfathers. That ain't no joy. It ain't just a clever word. It's real. It's not just a great doc. No, exactly. I directed by Ian McFarland in front of the show.

All right. So that's my number one. My number one. Here we go. This is huge. Because if you know me, you know how much this ties in for me. Oh.

Could you guess? Is it, Hettfield on Danzig One? James Hettfield. Does backup vocal? on Twist of Cain and Possession Uncredited due to record label Shet.

On Danzig 1 The Self-Titled to the first record If you listen to this I didn't know this until within the last couple of years This is new Dude if you if you listen You hear Headfield Yeah the twist of cane

Like you can hear it It changes everything Once it's that he's in there Dude Okay All right I need it We do this all the time

but I got my soapbox out. The misfits are the most important band ever. The misfits directly influenced Metallica. And then when Danzig has his own fucking thing. Yeah. Hello. Danzig has his own. He has his own fucking thing.

You have James Hadfield. It was recorded in like 89 or something. 88. Is that? So Metallica is at the top of the world. They're working on their biggest record ever. right he's going and he's doing uncredited guest vocals

for his for his musical here for like his yeah his his musical his mentor you know and and you you can't you gotta give to him at the end of the day every time that's it

to both that is Glenn the literal king of punk yeah the Elvis of punk and Headfield's the Elvis of metal exactly dude and if if you know me that's That being my number one pick surely makes the most sense.

I guessed it out of thin air. Fantastic pick. And that leaves us with obviously only one natural thing left to do. Is talk about six feet under featuring Ice Tea in the song One Bullet Left, the greatest guest vocal feature in the history of music. You know, he's laughing. I hate laughing. I'm just laughing because of how different

our entire lists are, but particularly our number ones. I agree. And here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to read the lyrics to this song live on the show, aside from one word. Just so that you can all hear this. For some reason, you motherfuckers think this is some kind of motherfucking game. You ain't going to realize until I got some fucking steel pointed at your ass face.

and blow your motherfucking dome off your goddamn shoulders. You motherfucking critic-ass bitch motherfuckers. Catch you coming out your motherfucking house. And then Chris Barnes goes, and then it's back to ice. I put the gat to your face and head and blast. Blow your fucking face off. Rock you with the sod off.

Blow guts all over your bitch. Leave you stanking in a six-foot ditch. Run up in your house with a tech out. Dug tape your spouse with a gun in her mouth. Smack your kids up. You think I'd give a fuck? I call the fucking pigs on myself. Barricade the block with the ATF.

I don't give a fuck, bitch. I pray for death. Grab your little girl by the neck. Buster in the chest. Throw her on the lawn. Call CNN. It's on. Get this on TV.

This last one's for me. Aim with the pipe down dead in my head and squeeze. Leave the whole wall red. James Joyce. I mean, that's... Imagine being six feet under and getting that back. Imagine that email, dude. Yeah, because Chris Barron...

I would have been doing fucking backflips in the studio. Yeah. Just... It would have been like, hey, Ice Tid, do you think you could sing over this part? And you give him, you give him a part where musically it goes, da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. That's it. So they gave him this blank canvas, and he turned into fucking Picasso. He turned into this week's killer on SVU. 100%, dude.

Wow. And, and, you know, people criticize IST for SVU. and when all it does, he said it makes him trust the judicial system less. Wow. Is portraying this, the enemy on TV has only made him trust it less. He's the coolest fucking guy ever.

And this is the greatest guest focal part of all time. I'll die on that hill. Hell, I'll live on that hill. I'm moving in. Okay? Welcome to my hill. One bullet left. The greatest guest focal of all time. And that's our list.

What a list. Dude, this playlist, You guys, you have no idea. Unbelievable. We got a hell of a playlist. You know, don't listen to you. You can listen to it now that you finish the episode. But, you know, enjoy, really. You've got, this is, how many bangers you've got now?

I can't wait to put this thing on. I know. I know. I know. Well, thank you all so much for joining us. This year is winding down. We've got a couple special things left in store. We've got Porter from Floor Punch coming up.

We've got a live episode with Craig Reynolds from the Downbeat coming up. We've got the Hardlaw Awards coming up. Wow, wow, wow. So let's thank you all for an incredible year. It ain't over yet. Enjoy these incredible songs. We hope you enjoyed this episode. And we will see you next week.

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