HardLore - HardLore's Favorite Riffs of All Time (With Aaron Osborne)

Episode Date: March 6, 2025

We keep assigning ourselves these impossible tasks, but alas, here we go... We picked our top 10 riffs of all time while Bo was down under in Australia with Harms Way, so it only made sense to be joined by our favorite Australian riff aficionado: Aaron Osborne of Extortion, AGLO, and the Oblivious Maximum podcast. Any band, any genre. Enjoy. Join the HARDLORE PATREON to watch every single weekly episode early and ad-free, alongside exclusive monthly episodes: https://patreon.com/hardlorepod - Join the HARDLORE DISCORD: https://discord.gg/jA9rppggef Cool links: HardLore Official Website/HardLore Records store: https://hardlorepod.com Try AG1 at DrinkAG1.com/HARDLORE to receive a free 1-year supply of vitamin D and 5 travel packs of AG1. 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 FOLLOW HARDLORE: INSTAGRAM | https://www.instagram.com/hardlorepod/ TWITTER | https://twitter.com/hardlorepod SPOTIFY | https://spoti.fi/3J1GIrp APPLE | https://apple.co/3IKBss2 FOLLOW AARON: INSTAGRAM | https://www.instagram.com/returntrip/ TWITTER | https://www.twitter.com/returntrip_ 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 00:00:47 - Hello Welcome 00:03:53 - Patrick Galvin 00:07:05 - AC/DC - Touch Too Much 00:09:05 - Terror - Out of my Face 00:10:24 - Grimlock - Mountain of power 00:12:11 - Electric Wizard - Return Trip 00:14:18 - AFI - Fall Children 00:16:05 - Pantera - Great Southern TrendKill 00:18:44 - Kyuss - Supa Scoopa and Mighty Scoop 00:21:10 - Only Living Witness - Prone Mortal Form 00:23:10 - Candlemass - The Well of Souls 00:25:00 - Lynyrd Skynyrd - Simple Man 00:27:27 - Pantera - Walk 00:29:13 - Fleetwood Mac - The Chain 00:31:54 - Kiss - Love Gun 00:34:29 - Bolt Thrower - The Killchain 00:36:30 - Type O Negative - World Coming Down 00:40:06 - Black Sabbath - A National Acrobat 00:42:39 - Judas Priest - Painkiller 00:44:28 - Death - Scavenger of Human Sorrow 00:46:09 - Pardon this Interruption... 00:49:50 - Eyehategod - Southern Discomfort 00:52:48 - Slayer - Angel of Death 00:54:18 - Van Halen - Hot for Teacher 00:57:00 - Down - Stone the Crow 00:59:44 - Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love 01:01:36 - Slayer - Spill The Blood 01:04:21 - Corrosion of Conformity - Albatross 01:05:56 - Metallica - Harvester of Sorrow 01:08:27 - Ozzy Osbourne - Bark at the moon 01:12:44 - Honorable Mentions... 01:18:00 - Crowbar - I Am Forever 01:20:30 - Crowbar - Planets Collide 01:22:17 - Crowbar - To Carry The Load 01:25:05 - Australian Bands   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.

All right, number six. So, pretty big fan of a little band called I-Had-Gone. I was wondering. I was wondering where this was. On that European tour, we played Budapest with I-Hat-Gat. Yeah. And you smoked meth with them, right? Yep.

That's awesome. I mean, that's every little boy's dream. Oh, welcome. It's Hardlore time. How are you, Bo? Down under, brother. Unreal. You're feeling good.

It's 7.36 in the morning in Melbourne. Tomorrow. Which is 2.36 p.m. at home for you? Yeah, so crack a dawn. So this is perfect. Crack a dawn in multiple ways. But who do we got, Colin? This is unbelievable.

This is historic. We've got not only an Australian legend. Not only one of our favorite guys of all time. I did the research. He's the best one. I think he's the best guy. Yeah, that is true. It's like Aaron and Andrew Morrissey in terms of guy. He's sleeping.

He's sleeping in. See? He's sleeping at Aaron's right now. Real recognizes real. But we've got a hard lore legend here. We've got somebody we talk about Dan near weekly. Aaron Osborne, he used to play in a band called I Exist. Now he's in extortion, which is crazy. And now, and Aglo, and he is Aglo. Those are his initials. So I just found that out.

I said, what is that? Is that like a race in Star Trek? It's me. Like, dude. It's me. It's me. So Aaron, welcome. How are you?

I'm fucking awesome. I'm tired as. I can tell you that much. And lest we forget also, of course, oblivious maximus. Yeah. Of whom. Yes, of course my favorite podcast, realistically. Whom's studio we are currently using.

This is amazing. It's beautiful. Welcome to the room, boys. Thanks for, Thanks for having us. You know, Aaron, before we get into the subject of today's episode, we, like, the same tour that Bo and I bonded on. Yeah, that's right.

That ultimately is like the kind of the reason Hardlore exists, we met you on. So this insane, brutal, devastating European tour, I made these two, many, but these specifically two lifelong friends that I'm so proud to know, I'm not like, Hardlora has made people think I'm some extroverted, overly friendly guy who's easy to be friends with it. I don't think that's the case. And I say that objectively, I understand.

But I love you guys so much, and I love that we're getting to do this together today. Do you want to know something crazy? Before we get started, we pinpointed it to a single event. The first domino of the catalyst of all of this was James losing his passport at the Sydney Airport in 2020. 2012 when we first came here and Aaron was just the closest guy with Wi-Fi with Wi-Fi So did you guys remember that on the tour? Did you guys remember that Aaron was the guy that brought you the passport? Well so we like Andrew's here we were all at his wedding. Aaron ordained his wedding how did they meet? Because of that tour that we did in Europe. How did I exist? You know what I mean? It was like oh

unreal dude because we already know Aaron like it was just like a series of things and literally it was because James lost his Yeah, so if he wasn't a dumb ass at the airport, none of this would happen. It's really amazing. There's so many dominoes from that tour. One really funny one is Patrick Galvin. Let's talk about Patrick Patty for a second, Aaron. Yep. So before that tour, the only thing I knew about I exist was that somebody that was going to be on the tour tweeted about how much Twitching Tongues sucks.

And that it was from an account called at Patrick Galvin. didn't have a profile picture. So I was like, first thing I'm doing on this tour is finding out who Patrick Galvin is. First thing I do on the tour is take a pee in the bathroom at the venue. And I see a passport on the ground with Australian Insigny on the front. I opened the passport to one, Patrick Galvin. Holy shit. So now my greatest enemy on this earth, I have his passport.

And I think by the end of the tour, he was probably, our biggest fan of any of you, which was nice, except for you because you love the Bumblebee riff, Aaron. Yeah. And then Patrick and Patty, a few months later, would go on to design the God's Hate logo and do the artwork for divine injustice

and work with us for many years. Dude, lost passports. It's the crux of our collective friendships. Bring people together. But of course, as Aaron, many don't know this, but we know this. The first, we were

thinking like, what do we do today with Aaron on the show? And Aaron is a master and connoisseur of riffs. The riffman. You're the riff guy. I know. And so it was just like, what are we doing here? We got to just talk riffs. So unfortunately, we have dug ourselves into this agonizing hole of picking our top 10 riffs of all time. I put mine in a loose order. Me too. I think it's what I how I would put it tomorrow, but it's, you know, it's organized. Yeah. And I went with a specific, I didn't repeat any band, which sucked. Same.

Okay, good, good. Also. I went with, because it's so broad, we purposely left it broad, I went with riffs I pick up a guitar and tend to play. Sound check. Or try to play. Soundtrack riffs, exactly. Soundtrack rifts is great.

Yeah. And this is any riff, any genre. There's a couple classical ones I omitted, because I didn't want to, want to be that guy. You know, I want to stick to aggressive music. But Vivaldi would have been all over this motherfucker. Smoke on the water, number one. Yeah, exactly. James Bond themed. When I, exactly, dude, banger. When I put this together at first, I had 55 picks. Fucking hell. So I had to trim 55 to about 30. And then, and then I spent all day yesterday trimming 30 to 10, and I regret every single one, but it's, but this is what I've got and I'm going with it.

All right. Why don't you set the tone? I think Aaron, oh, I mean, I can do that. I was going to say we all do one honorable mention first. Let's do that before number one. Okay. Yeah, I love it. Save it.

I love it, just in case it's on somebody's list. Yeah, exactly. So, Aaron, why don't you give me your number 10? You're the guest of honor. I want to hear what your 10th favorite riff of all times. Okay, so this one is, this one's kind of also a homage to a recent conversation that Bo and I had. My number 10 is by a little band from Down Under called ACDC. And it is the chorus riff of a song called Touch Too Much.

It's on, it's like a deeper cut of Highway to Hell. But it features in a playlist that I made for you. Yes. Called Akadakafi Yanks. Can you do the riff for me? Yeah. I told him, too, that we would put little some clips. Yeah, there will be a clip here, but I want to hear it from the horse's mouth.

Boa, we'll whee-wee-wam. Oh, there you go. Oh, that's classic. Yeah, one of the great reefs, that one. That's a good one. As someone who's, again, not that familiar with ACDC, is, is Highway to Hell kind of like their, like, Master of Puppets? Like, before they...

Yeah, kind of. Oh, yes. And then back in black is the Black album. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I think still back in black is like the number two bestselling record of all time. It's like the Eagles.

It's like Eagles greatest hits. Yeah. Back in black. Thriller. Yeah. So sick. It's insane. Rock music, man.

It's coming back, I think. My number 10 favorite riff at all time has a little explanation. It's not solely a riff, but it's the vibe. It's from Los Angeles, California. A little band called Terror. Wow. It's specifically off of the. ringworm terror split the riff to out of my face.

On that split, it's a little slower. It sounds way less produced, but just the way the... When I first heard it, it sounded almost industrial to me. It sounded so, like, rigid and crazy that it broke my, like, high school brain. And that is a riff where I'll... If a guitar is in standard... It just comes out. I love to see core represented on this list.

Do you have a lot of core on yours? No. No. I think I have like one. Okay. I have two. I have two. One, you'll see.

But this was very specifically like, as soon as we agreed to do this, I knew this was going to be on here. Because this is literally a riff that has been in my head for 20 years. You know what I mean? Okay. Yeah, that's awesome. I mean, I feel you. I got a couple of those here. Yeah.

I love that there's a, hey, a core. pick on your list, B, it's terror. That's good shit. And this, this, I have the same kind of reasoning behind this one. My number 10, this is the first palm muted guitar I ever heard in my life. This is the reason I'm sitting in this chair.

So I have to put it on here. The band is grimlock. The song is Mountain of Power. It's just Palm muted for about a minute and a half. And I didn't know what that meant. I didn't know what a chug was. I didn't know what a Palmute was. I didn't know what a breakdown was.

All I knew was that I liked this. So to this day, when Taylor and I are writing something, it's like, okay, let's do a Mountain of Power riff on this, you know? It's a verb. It's an adjective. It's a now. It's the 10th best riff to me. I think Mountain of Power has made the most, has been the most featured on your list.

And it's so deeply personal. And like, I know this is the. most subjective because it's just like this tiny niche band from Massachusetts that nobody when I tell people I love the Grimlock was like one of my favorite man's like

what the fuck are you talking about and these are people from Massachusetts so this is this is very niche this is my only core pick on the list but this is one that like I just cut something insane to put this on because because I had to go raw personal

subjective I of course mean that non-derogatorily. I mean that to showcase how important that song is. Oh yeah. Change my life. Yeah. In an instant. Number nine. What do you thinking? Number nine. Number nine for me. Now we're getting really into the Aaron Osborne section of the list. Number nine, much like your grimlock, this riff influenced me so much that it informed my internet handle for my entire life. To this day. To this day.

Which the song is called Return Trip. So if you want to follow me on Instagram, just write that in. But it's by a band called Electric Wizard. It's just the, well, there's basically one riff in the song. It's the Rift. But it is... What's the song name?

A return trip. Sorry. You follow on Instagram. I do follow you on Instagram. Now I'm going to need you to mouth the roof. Oh, I don't. in mouth the mountain of power. Sorry, go for it.

Dun, tin, tin, dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun. Okay, give me a return trip. Return trip is like, ba, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum,

bum, boh. And that's why we do it. Is that six? Is that on six? Oh, come on. You know. A bandy six?

But yeah, just rocks. It's one of, it's similar thing, like great old band production. sucks ass, but the riff's so fucking good. For those of you who don't know, Aaron is like an encyclopedia

of many genres, but specifically of one genre, doomie, stonery, nola type. Nola sludge is this man's bread as well as his... Wait till we get to the top five place. That's all we're talking about. Perfect. Yeah. What's the Australian shit

that you guys all like? The disgusting substance that you guys like? Oh, Vegemite. Begumite. It's his bread and vegamine. Yeah. That is Nola sludge. It's Nola, yeah.

All right. Number nine for me, the ninth best riff of all time by AFI off of the All Hollow ZEP. Fall fucking children. That is something I learned

in eighth grade. It's crazy to me that that's like Jade like, I got an idea. Like, it's such a sick riff and is an overture for the, almost the entire EP because it's all kind of in the same. It's just like brilliant. It's scary. That's a big time sound check riff for me.

Big time. I pick up a guitar. That's my zone. Yeah, right. Yeah. The octave. There's like two. Seven, ten. Yeah. There's like two. I'm either playing that or I'm playing one of the intros of a Metallica ballad. Yeah. If there's a clean tone, I'm playing one of the two. Yeah.

Love this riff. That's a great pick. I remember when I figured it out as a kid on guitar, feeling like, oh, I can do this. I got this. I know how to play this. I figured it out. My career is set in stone. I think I'm going to do this.

I'm going to be the next AFI. I am Jade. Also, AIFI in Australia right now. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Everyone is here right now. Hey, breed's here. tsunamis here

it's crazy it's crazy beautiful what a great place I gotta come back yeah many many a night's I have gotten someone who A things were related

by the way you gotta tell your brother to get back in we're not not related I know but people literally like anyway many people want God's hate or twitching here

God's got it's about time my number nine the ninth you know when you're talking when you're talking riffs I think riffers, you know? So that helped me narrow this down

as like, who are my favorite riffers? Who are my favorite guys who write riffs? And one of the undisputed goats of all time was Dimebag. Yeah. So at number nine is my favorite single Dimebag riff of all time, which is the bridge

to Great Southern Trendkill. Oh. Wow, wano, wana, no, wadda. Yeah, da, da, what, gaggedo, bong, bong. And then the fucking key change.

Yeah. It's almost all pinch harmonics, too. It's exactly, he does, it's, you know the thing where you listen to a song and you go, I wish they did that.

Yeah. Every time he does the thing you wish it. It evolves into the thing you want it to do. This is like, how to make the blues scale hard as fuck. Oh, yeah. And the whole song is basically building to this the entire time. It's like the verse is stupid.

Yeah. The gank gan an an aggana. Yeah. Yeah. The chorus is even dumber because it's like gang gang gank gna. There's all kinds of bends and slides. And then this masterpiece hits you at the end. It's beautiful. We were talking about carcass yesterday. Jeff on the tour said something about certain songs sounding Pantara-e on heartwork.

And it's crazy. if you listen to embodiment put that in the Pantera context and it's like oh yeah that's one was heartwork 93, 94

6, 5, 6 yeah around there so either way it's post it's post dime it's post done so it's interesting to think of it that way it's yeah it's a DAD A D

after dime dude After time. The funny thing about that Great Southern Trinkel, but also a couple of those songs that have that really bluesy riffing, it's really funny listening to them played like slow on an acoustic guitar because like those are just country songs. Yeah. Like they're not like,

but he's just turn that Randall to game 10. Campfire with a can of beans. Yeah. And keep keeping the Cowboys warm at night. Yeah. Type riff. Beautiful. Great pick.

All right. Number eight. Yep. I'm just laughing at myself at this point. Yeah, same. Similar to you thinking of people that write great riffs. You know, not someone who I think gets too many mentions on hard law, but Josh from Queens of the Stone Age writes a lot of riffs that I vibe very heavily with. And he was in a band before Queens of Stone Age called Caius.

And this is a Kaya's song. It's got the dumbest title in the world. The title for the song is Super Scooper and Mighty Scoop. Penis music. Yeah. I mean, that's like the worst DC comic of all time. Is Kaya's penis music? I've never listened.

It has to be. It verges, I would say. Yeah. It's like high IQ penis. Yeah. You know? They definitely influence tool. There you go.

Say no more. But this riff, so the record is called Welcome to Sky Valley and technically much like Dope Smoker, they're records that are like, the intention was it's one song. But then as I understand it, they handed it into the label and the label was like, no fucking way. You got to cut them up. You can't have one song. Yeah. So all the songs are cut up.

But when you listen to it, like every song. It's one flowing track. Yeah, it flows together. And this, this song is a. the third, I believe it's the third song on the record. And it's kind of like the first time it has a real break. Yeah. And then this riff is the riff that comes after the break. Um, it's like fully just ideal stoner riff shit. Can you hum it for us? Sure. Yeah. Um, do, do do do do do again. A lot of mine is going to be me. Boa. It's a lot of bending. That's who you are. I get it,

man. Do you see the Porter tweet about his three favorite songs? Yeah, that's awesome. Dope Smoker by Sleep, Like Rats, by Godflesh, we just might by you say.

Fuck yeah. He just gets me, man. It sums a lot up. Yeah. It really does. Sounds like somebody I know. Number eight.

I'm going to switch just so that we don't have two back to back of the same bands, Colin. I'm going to go with only living witness prone modal form.

Yeah, that, that, like, just got cut for me. That is a riff. You know what I mean? Like, that's a monster. There's, like, some of these, like, one could argue that the out of my face riff, the terror riff that I said, isn't, like, a riff in, in the way that you would use, like, oh, whatever, you know what I mean? This is a fucking riff.

It starts the record. It sounds awesome. There's little nuances where it kind of doesn't repeat until it's back to one. it's so... Have you ever showed this riff to somebody in person? Yeah. They can't believe it.

I've never showed this to a person and not seeing them be like, this is insane. Oh, I know exactly what you mean. Drew from Nachos, when he was playing one... When we were all in an old band, put it on one time.

I'd never heard it. Like, oh, if you like life of agony, you're going to like this. Yeah. Played it, and I was like, this is incredible. So it's a little more straightforward. The best music I've ever heard.

And then, yeah, and then Jonah comes in and... The first time I heard, I would say that the thing that... Like, obviously, I love the riff. The thing that makes that for me, though, is the chorus vocals. Like, the combo is where I'm like... It's... To me, it's like the... I get the same feeling from that as I do from Man in the Box by Alas & Chains.

That got cut for me. And it was really bad. It was really bad. But yeah, great riff. Yeah, incredible pick. Obviously, one of the, that's, that's, that's, that's a riff. That's everything. Yeah.

It's perfect. Needs no humming at this point. No, you guys know it. We all know. My number eight, this is the definition of a sound check riff for me. Perfect. As this is my sound check riff. I guarantee if you've seen me play guitar in any kind of live setting.

Even bass, this is it. The band is Candlemas. the song is the well of souls and this is specifically when the synth intro riff from the first song comes back so and then and

and na na na na na and na na na and na and and like 10 favorite riffs don't mean 10 technical riffs that are insane that I like because they're so crazy simple is great if it's done right

like Paris said in the Chromemags episode Like, it's such a magical feeling finding a new combination of these very few notes that nobody's ever done before. 100%. And hearing that new combination of notes that nobody's ever done before. And this one in particular, if I pick up a guitar, I have to play it. Yeah. It's like swinging a baseball bat or a golf club or something. Exactly.

Right to bite. So I had to put it on here because it has stuck with me so intimately sense. And I love it so much. Are you a Candlemask guy? Yeah. I think the thing for me, though, is I, Candlemas came to me through Doom like many, many years ago. And I found it very surprising when I started meeting people in hardcore that liked that band.

Yeah. Because I kind of had gone through my time with them, if that makes sense. Yeah, of course. But, yeah, they're fucking awesome. Crazy. Yeah. Love them. All right.

Number seven. Okay, so another thing about me is that I really get in the lab on the couch after a few drinks. I see where this is going. And some vids, some vids get almost burnt into the screen at this point. A big one for me, this is one of them, is a Simple Man by Linnard Skinnered. Oh my God, dude. I mean, just that boom, boom, bam. So basically, the other reason I put this in is Simpleman is basically one riff.

Right. It's just one riff played like three kind of different ways. So the version, I just wrote same riff the whole time, but the bit with the solo. So three 30 something. It's just the saying, da da da da da da da da da da. Bam. Yeah. Oh, man.

But, man, there's one video. and then playing live, and this motherfucker's got the full American flag wrapped around his mic stand. And he means that shit, too. I'm sure he does. Every time he hits some line about God or something, he's just like,

pointing up, pointing to his heart, pointing at the flag, me on the couch, drunk, I'm like, pointing to him, yeah. Yeah. Wow. I mean, that's, there's a, a small list of songs that I've listened to for 24 hours straight.

Yeah. And Simple Man is high on that list. It's right below Return of the Mac, I think. They have a whole live set. Somewhere in the South, they have a huge fucking star and bar behind them, giant. But it's like a 10-minute version of Freebird. It's like an extra long version. and people are like losing their minds.

Like when was the last time you saw people go nuts for a solo? And like this is sometime in the 70s, people are just like, mo, and like, fucking freaking. It's freaking out. Wow, this is, he's going to do it. This is the one I've been screaming for this song to every band my whole life. And wow, I'm finally seeing the guy do it. Makes sense.

All right, number seven for me, I swapped this with only living witness so that we didn't have two Pantera songs back to back. I am going, it's kind of a, you know, a basic pick. Walk by Pantera is such a cool fucking riff. Like, that doesn't make sense as a radio hit, like their biggest song. I'm so sick of this fucking song. All right. I mean, I get it.

I know it. But that's because I've heard it my whole life because it's, it's, you know, that's what happens to timeless bangers, I suppose. We have to appreciate how cool it is. is to bend on one. And that's the rich. That's so fucking cool. And that's what we're all about. That's what we're all about.

That could fit into almost any context of heavy period. Like, there's no limit there. A crazy thing for me, too, is how it's so iconic for what it is. And then every time I see some dumb band play it wrong, 210. Like, you fucking idiot. He wouldn't do that. And then also like the ending, the walk-on homeboy part is like It's like the same thing, but just kind of all the strings are you know the two bottom strings

Like it's really cool. I've always loved it I get being sick of it like mother is another one that I'm like kind of this is this is like Bottomist tier pantera to me yeah yeah yeah but but the timelessness of it of Of course it's Sandman you know what I mean I never need to hear it exactly I'm good But it's a great riff. But hey, great riff. Sandman, great riff. My number seven.

This is kind of the only, if you wouldn't consider them rock, which I, I mean, this is pop rock at its best. The band is Fleetwood Mac. And I think this may be the greatest bridge of all the time. There's no, the guitar never plays this riff. The chain. Oh, unbelievable deal. The entire song is this chill crescendo. That's like awesome, but completely unrelated to this riff.

They never allude to it. They never do anything about it. It's like somebody in the studio was like, let me, I got to figure out a bridge. Hang on. Let me write me. It's actually the contrary. They had the bridge.

And I rode around it? Stevie said, let me see if I can figure something out. Went into another room in Van Nuys. came up with the rest of the song. The listening to Lou Amla, that was her. It's crazy. She's just a fucking genius. And then they were like, oh, we can resolve it with this and have a jam out.

And then the big chain part of it. It is a fucking jam out. And it's crazy that never once were they like, the guitar should play this riff too. That was just the baseline. So very rare, best riff ever, just a baseline. Cool. As my number seven. I like that.

That's another vid that I'll catch me on the couch. Which one? I get two. There's a good live one. Yeah. There's like a live in the 90s one. Yeah. He's playing that freaky little guitar.

Yeah, I hate that little guitar. He's a real weirdo with that Lindsay. Yeah. And then there's actually another one that's a good cover by the Highway Women. Oh, fuck yeah. It's on. And it's on Howard Stern. Yep.

I've seen it. Howard Stern. Aaron and I share a love for live sets. We often will send this. And last time he was in America and staying at my place, we, I guess that wasn't the last time, but one of the more recent times, we realized that the Harry Stiles cover of Sledgehammer on Howard Stern. It's fucking unreal.

Dude. I'd say it's my most watch YouTube video. It is incredible. It's more watched than Prince while my guitar gently weeps, Aaron. No. Come on. Sorry, I'm a liar. You say by YouTube.

You got to check it up. The drummer in this, Colin, rocks and she sings backups. It's fucking. It's awesome. It's awesome. But yeah, great. Oh, Gary. Gary's got it, man.

Gary Styles is, he was really the chosen one. All right. Number six. This one for me is just, it's iconic to me, well, to music, but to me because of just how psycho it is to start a song. It's Love Gun by Kiss. But just, la da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. It's so fucking sick. Yeah. Unbelievable.

I'm sorry, talk about it. I mean, I think just to me, Kiss, you know, the pre-taking-the-make-up-off era records, and even a couple of the taking the makeup of records. Yeah. The pre-taking the makeup off, the boys are just writing insane, like, blues rock songs. Yeah, rock.

And the heavy, the hardest hard rock known to man at that point. And they just become, like, the biggest band of all time from writing basically just like blues rock songs. And I mean, Killem All is like half that. Half recently I discovered the the Four Horseman like breakdown part is Sweet Home Alabama.

And then, you know, European shit. Yeah, and like that's it. Yeah. But there's so much. So much kiss. Yeah. In early thrash.

What Kiss did and how fast they did it, realistically. Yeah. With that type of music is unbelievable. Dude, a gimmick. Didn't really sacrifice any hard integrity until way longer. It took a while. But then even those songs are good, dude.

Dimebag. Disco kiss is good. Buried in the kiss coffin. I mean, come on. Exactly. Oh, my God. Exactly. You just remind me.

Real recognizes is real. Yeah. You just reminded me that I'm missing like a major player in this whole thing. Oh, I got one, baby. All right. Great, great pick. Thank you. I started that big drive from Chicago to Portland, just listening to Love Gun and Destroyer.

Let's set the tone for this drive. Those were the first things I'm not a huge kiss guy, but I do enjoy it. I think you'd like creatures of the night. Okay. Yeah. I think if you saw a picture of how big the drum kit on creatures of night was, you would be. I've got to listen. It is, dude, the snare is 14 inches deep.

That's a tom. Deep. It's eight by four. I think it's 14 by 14. It's insane. It's a fucking cube. It's awesome. My number six.

Give me your number six. Hit me. From Birmingham. Ban called ball thrower. Oh yeah. The fucking kill chain, dude. I, you have the Zenof Path intro,

which is incredible. And then what's interesting is you can't really tell it on the record, Zenotaph, sorry. You don't really have, on the record, you can't hear what the riff actually is. Because it sounds like,

do-d-d-da-na-da-na-da-na-but it's do-d-d-d-l-l-l-l-n-h. He does like a hammer on and pull-off, and you can only tell it in live videos because the recording is kind of, I don't know, oversaturated. Well, there's four tracks on the record. Yeah. But them playing that riff,

which is a very bull-throw-riff into gung-gung-gung-gung-gung-gung-gag-gong-gag-gung is like just the coolest thing. Yeah. That's that is on, that's like the, definitive bolt thrower part. And they start it with the definitive bolt thrower part. Exactly.

They go, hey, this is the one we picked on this album. Yeah. So, to use the part. So you better listen. You better listen. And then they come in with this insanely hard thing that is like, like, as I'm in the middle of writing right now,

you know? And this is like the miraculous type part that you wish comes to you. Yes. Where you go, I'm going to do this while the other guy just does a cool, unique pattern. And the drummer's just,

as straightforward as can be and there's an incredible I think it's like 2003 or 4 Vaken where they play and there's a security guard in front and they start the intro and then as soon as the gung gung he just

and he's like watching him just like holy fuck it's it's all time that's an all time and that's a big sound check riff for me yeah big time great pick great sound check great band my number six

is the the pick I went with from my favorite band of all time I would think maybe this one is going to be on Bose list

okay we'll see typo negative nope you're good this is this is I think the best single riff

moment of their entire discovery I love it the album is world coming down beautiful

the song is world coming down the big bridge they hit that digital bell and give me down wow

oh wow yeah the into that under that digital China yeah just hitting me with those

8 bit fucking 32 inch china this is this is the moment that will wake me up out of a deep sleep every time

I look forward to it I rewind it this is the best they're a riff band but there's a lot they're also a vocal and keyboard band so it's like there's many things to pay attention to every time

but in this moment they make sure to emphasize this riff so well that it hits like a fucking bomb the intro two or three times it comes in the intro riff to the song also is like kind of cool and nuance sounds very basic but it's not

like the feedback is so perfectly timed like the way he bends and it's great, great pick. I played it yesterday. I saw an interview recently with Johnny. They're talking about like if typo reunited in some way.

That the hardest part wouldn't be to get a vocalist. He's like, we can get any kind of baritone guy to do that. It's how good Peter was at bass. Yeah. And you need, that's insane. Yeah, it's great.

To try and replicate that sound? Solid state. Yeah. Yeah. And he palm muted. Yeah. He played. It's very unique. Some of those videos like that, the, um, another 2 a.m in the lab for me, the, like, the

Wakan where he's got the top hat. The top hat. Yeah. Yeah. There's part of that where like that bass is enormous. Yeah. It looks like a fucking child's guitar. Yeah.

Like, and he's palm eating the shit out of that thing. The shit on it. Yeah. Down near his knees. and he's still bomb muting it somehow. Is that the set where the power cuts out? Do you know the one I'm talking about? There's one where they're pissed about the sound the entire time.

The power cuts out and instead of the... In Christian Woman, Josh whistles it into a mic because the mic still works because it's a different line. Insane. He whistles it and Peter goes, ha ha ha ha! He like laughs. It's so good.

That rocks. There's a, I think there's a Vokin where you can tell they're really unhappy with the monitor mix or something. Yeah. And then there's the other one. I don't know if it's Valkin or download where they open with in the flesh with like bombs and helicopters and shit going off. That's sick. And it's the sickest thing

ever. I think the best live one of them besides some old Lamor shit is that bizarre fest with the huge suspended in dusk backdrop. Yeah. They play all of like Wolfmoot. Like it's per good era. It's good era.

All right. Now we're into the pointy end number five top five time guys holy shit we're cruising yeah yeah so this is this is a psycho one for me because most people would pick like any other song this is by a little band called black sabbath um but my my favorite black sabbath riff is the intro slash you know song riff to a acrobat from Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. Wow. Can you hum it?

Well, before I hum it, I want to preface this as well by saying this riff is so sick that when Metallica cover Sabbath on garage days, they drop this riff

into the bridge of another song to like highlight how good the riff is. Yeah. But it's just one of those things for me where it's like perfect blues shit, again, a band that invented the next four bands that I'm going to talk about. I mean, typo as well.

Like they were... Black Sabbath is the reason for the season. More so than anybody. Yeah. But the riff is just... Yeah, I mean, that's fade to black. Yeah. Same.

It's the riff. Gray pick. I didn't know that that's what that song was called. I know that song well. Obviously, that record rips. Yeah. Gray pick. That's a riff.

It's a big sound check for Aaron. Got you. Black Sabbath, like, had. Almost an overwhelming amount of options were that I couldn't end up putting them on here. I don't have one for the same reason. I didn't have a Pantera one as well because I was like I had option paralysis and I just got lost. With that, that's also kind of why I chose walk because it was just like, you know what? This is a definitive.

I get it. And like, yeah, Iron Man is like one of the most iconic riffs of all time. Never need to hear that song. But there's 55 more that I like here. Yeah, yeah. Clearly. All right. My number five.

a band we don't talk about that much, Colin, that is classic. Rebirthed in the record, Pain Killer. The song is Pain Killer by Judas Priest. Dude. All time. Same members just going, let's just do something like extreme and hard. And they put that out. Let's be hard as fuck.

Yeah. Dude. And the crazy drum intro into the daqa doka doka doka in a wheel. Another risk that is predominantly pinchedmonics, dude. A lot of. And that little turnaround bridge, the Llan-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-h. Fuck, it's so sick.

This is one of the best produced metal albums of all time. It sounds absolutely insane. Yeah. There's a lot of good songs on this record. This one is the stand-out, obviously. It was the song that made me go, oh, they're more than rocking after midnight

and breaking the law. Like, I was unfamiliar. You know what I mean? And this made me go back and go, wait a minute. What did I miss? Can't get enough. Anytime this comes on.

Their evolution was quick and sharp. It's really funny how when that drum part comes on, any musician in the room, you'll see like, da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-dha. We're all doing it. It's so good. Great. Live video is baby metal playing that with Rob Helpert, and she just doesn't know the song, but the band, who are all obviously old metalheads are just like...

Old guys. Time of their life. The drummer who's in, like, crazy, scary makeup is just like... This is my dream. Real quick. Also, just for anyone who's never heard it, death do like an incredible cover of it. The cover is insane.

Speaking of death. No way. My number five pick. Wow. God. We're really good. You know, it's a rare, it's a rare case of last is best.

The album, Sound of Perseverance. It gets its due. Finally. The opening track, the opening riff, is, I think, single best riff they ever wrote. This is not a sound check riff to me because I can't play it. The song is The Scavenger of Human Sorrow.

Gank, da little, la, oh. Oh. And like, and like, 60 miles and a lot. And like drummers going off

a thousand miles a minute. 60 miles an hour. He's playing. Absolutely insane. The production's crazy. Vocals come in, hard as shit. The evolution of this band is so

every, each record is a level up. Yeah. in performance and production and everything, went out on the best possible note. Can't believe it. Love it. The drummer on that record, Richard Christie,

works on the Howard Stern. Big Howard Stern. Really? Oh, yeah. He basically finished playing music to work on Howard Stern. Great gig. Understand. I would do it in a heartbeat.

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fan, I know. Gotta be one of the top in the world. I think in the world. Yeah, you're a top. And on that European tour, we played Budapest with I hate God. Yeah.

And you smoked meth with them, right? Yep. That's awesome. I mean, that's every little boy's dream. I was going to go. Aaron was really excited about it. When he saw the wire. Patty has a photo of me from that night

and I'm smoking two cigarettes. I don't smoke. And I'm just chatting to someone and I'm like... And who knows if those were cigarettes? Yeah. Were they glass? Dude, we got... We got encouragingly heckled by Jimmy Bauer that night.

It was an incredible night. Yeah, that was a... It's the dream. Awesome. Yeah. That's also every other little boy's dream. Yeah. You know?

Okay, so... Basically, another... Another band that would be very challenging for me to pick just one. part. But I think one of the things that I hate God has done the best, I think of any band, is that I hate God release all of their demos. Like anytime they write a song, they'll put out a fucking tape that's got all the demo versions of it. Really? So cool. And for whatever reason, I think it's just because of the title, they have a compilation called Southern Discomfit, which is just all demos of songs that later went on to be something else.

The song Southern Discomfort is on a later record and has a different name. But in its form as Southern Discomfort, it's basically just one riff repeated over and over and over again. And I love that riff. Tell me that riff. Yeah, let's hear it. A lot of just... Beautiful. I love those.

Just power power, it's just, just fret dots. Yeah. Just playing the fret dots and bending. Oh, man. Thank God for those dots. You don't,

you don't need to play the non-dotted if you can bend up to the dot. Exactly. Yeah. That's what they're for. That's what they're for. It's where to bend.

I have five. I had God, that is. That's five more than the planet. You know what I mean? That's right. You did it. Number six,

coming soon? Yeah. All right, my number four, this is where we get into kind of, like, from here on, it's kind of like, well, of course, for me. Yeah. Because it's just too obvious. My number four is by Slayer. And it's the entire song of Angel of Death. There's actually no specific riff in it that I think is better than the other, because the intro is perfect.

The chorus is perfect. obviously the nina is perfect but I guess my favorite is the I love that it's I love that it's 0101036 it's not what you think it is

which makes it cooler to me it's not 1 4 you know it's it played a little different and the fact that they fucking go into it what three times like that it's like it's like a first course first chorus and then outro of it and it's

again it's the greatest opener it's yeah it's hey now wait a we've already done it's yeah it's uh

yeah it's perfect I knew there was going to be a slayer song on here and again I just kind of defaulted to like well what do I do when I pick up a guitar yeah what are you one of the first things I do is nillan and uh... that's the one

that's a great pick um your reasoning for there's so many riffs in the song that it has to be on here is my next big. Perfect. Where every single thing that happens in this song is like the next

best riff I've ever heard. By who may be the greatest riffer in history. Okay. Sir Edward Van Halen. The song is hot for teacher. Dude. I mean, a song that no one can play. Yeah.

You know, it's insane, dude. It starts with the crazy intro riff, BAM b b b b b b b b into Gennikin'nit Gagin can't get it Gat Gat Gat Gat Gat Gat Gat that That little Like the tag kind of doesn't make any sense I don't know how you would write that

Dude and then it comes in Hard Yeah High gain The first guy to be like I'm going to turn the gain up and see what this does And then Blazing

This is harder than most Hardcorp band Yeah Harder than most metal bands and he's going his finger plucking. This actually has one of my favorite moments in music. I love like when a solo comes like a

or like something obviously. David Lee Roth hit you with a uh-oh because you're fucked now because Eddie's coming and you're fucked. I love that part. Colin, what is your... What? I was going to ask,

what is your opinion of how the drum intro is played? Like, do you, did he play that all in one take? I think it's multiple players. Yeah, I think it's a couple kicks on a couple floor times, just to make it special. And then maybe the greatest verse to chorus transition in history is

this is chock full this is chock full of ten riffs that could all be on this list. I also just realized that that drum the doonk, dunk, dunk during the intro thing is the da la la la la it's like on... Just put that together.

They're fucking genius. That's unbelievable. Yeah. Video's a little weird though. Yeah. I love the video. It's a little weird. I love the video.

It has a whole narrative behind it that by the end you're like, oh, there was a story here. Yeah. Okay. The end of it has like the... And he went on to do this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's like, oh, they were telling us something.

It's John Hughes. Lest we forget one of the greatest improvs the fucking I don't feel tardy That's unbelievable What a line All right Agreed Top three

This is big This is big now Top three So Another feature of my Remaining songs Is that My Lord and Savior

Jimmy Bauer plays On all of them So This is this this needs a little bit of explaining but the band is down the song the song is Stone the Crow

that is their biggest hit is it? Yeah yeah oh I think so weirdly they're the the music video that's on YouTube for it again like I've talked about it with you before the cover of Nola that's on Spotify is not a high-deaf cover yeah it's pixelated yeah the worst picture of it The music video for this, that's like the Down Vivo account has uploaded is...

Down Vivo! It is an Australian... It is a rip of an Australian TV show, like a music show called Rage. That's like a... It's on Saturday nights here. And I can tell because it's the font from Rage. It comes up and says Downstone the crow on it. Anyway, that's just a little Australian fact.

But the riff itself is incredible. one of my top sound check riffs, Stone the Crow. But the part that I'm selecting is when the riff becomes heavy at the end of the song, 405. Tell us all this time. Can you? Humming for a listener. The start is the...

At the end, they just go, Bubba. Boom, bu. Bo da-da-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-l-la-ha-ha. Yeah. Oh, it's so sick. And in the video, Kirk's playing a flying V. Come on.

Come on rocks. Those are two things that like, that's rock and scissors. Like those are two things that don't go together. You know what I mean? Literally. Kirk and a flying V? Yeah. It's like somehow it doesn't make sense.

Obviously it's perfect. But like you wouldn't think that would be an unideal shape for him. Yeah. For some reason. But he, but he forget he's got. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

I do forget. Peve Canaan is playing a telly and he plays the solo on like, a, you know, like a river boat. It's real. Just had a great, red. I mean, that's just pure skinner. Yeah. You know, they're just like, you just paying homage.

I love it. Great pick. I was wondering when Don was going to be in here. Yep. Uh-oh. Okay, we're going way back to the 60s, early 70s. A little band called Led Zeppelin. Mm-hmm.

A whole lot of love. Absolutely. What just a timeless, timeless riff that we've, We've all heard a thousand times, I know, but it's so sick. And also the recording quality of it, you can hear a room reverb. It was so much before effects and stuff that like if you really, if you sit down and really turn that up and listen to it in the best quality you can, you can hear the room. On that you can hear it talking back to him.

Which is, I mean, that's real. It's as real as it gets. I wonder why things sound like shit now and you don't connect with rock music the same because it's all fucking fake. All digital and silly. Excluding the beautiful 32 inch digital 8-bit china, the type of, you know I fuck with that. I also resent the, I get it, but I resent the radio edit of this song because I love how weird that chick gets in the full version. and obviously we're talking about riffs so this is not that

but the shakataka ticca ticca ticagum gung is like a screaming part that gets me and straight back into the main riff so I just like

it's a timeless that was the first Led Zeppelin song I learned as a kid because it's got to be one of the easy ones and it's fucking perfect time of it I figured some Zep

was coming up here I was wondering where it would be I know You can guess my top three for sure. Yeah, I know what's coming next. Specifically next. Okay. You know, when you're talking rippers,

Hanaman is king. And then it came down to pick my favorite Slayer riff, which just two weeks ago in our album closers pick, I talk about this one. And I think it is the best riff anybody in Slayer ever wrote. And that would be the big intro riff to spill the blood. Gannan-da-da-can-a-can-a-gun-gung-gun-gun-cun-cun-cun-cun-cun-cun-cun-cun-cun-cun-cun-cun-cun-cun-cun-cun-cand-c. And then they go to the fucking Lombardo, ride skank, hits you like a goddamn basketball to the dome.

Which can hurt. thrown by the right guy, and Hannan is the right guy. He's the right guy. They write the best closing tracks of any band ever. They're in the box. They're in my favorite riff box, more so than any band ever,

and better than any band ever. And what they, the combinations of notes that they find in that small, tiny box inspire me to this day, more so than anybody. And this is the best example of that. It's all right here.

Interesting. And it's all, and it's a few LPs in, still innovating in the best way. It's fun too to, to like, you know that if that was a riff that was invented for rain and blood or or even south of heaven, it would have been different. It wouldn't have gone on as long and it would have been kind of chopped in a little more meat and potatoes. Sure. They have time. They can explore. But then it's, but then it like doesn't happen again in the song, I think.

They truly did it as just like, let's write a fucking crazy intro really. And then just do a classic closer. It's so awesome. And then the verse comes in, Gataka, gotta, gotta, gotta, gada. Unbelievable. Yeah. We as rifers who I can't shred, you're not like a shredder.

Colin, you're not really a shredder. No. We all need to pay homage to the fact that they play their versions of solos. Yeah. That is such a punk thing. and so cool. Something we haven't really talked about is like a Slayer solo is kind of just,

and what's crazy is when you see them live, they kind of do it, like they replicate it as best they can. They know what nonsense noise they made in those moments. And so do we. We can mount the whole thing, and that's a great solo. Excellent point.

Fantastic. All right. Number two. Number two. This is truly, this riff is probably the riff I've played most on guitar. in my life, I would say. That's a fun question.

I sound, it's my sound check every, it sounds, it sounds great on bass. So I sound check it for extortion, which is very funny because there's no point in sound checking for extortion because it's just, but I play this because I love it. Now, Jimmy Bauer technically not on the recording, but he did play in the band for a time. So this is corrosion of conformity. Oh, wow. The song is Albatross of Delorins.

Oh my God. C.O.C. have this thing. A lot of people have mixed feelings about corrosion. I am a stand for every fucking record. I don't give a shit. I like the pop record. They only lost me at the tail tail end, you know? Yeah.

But what a band. But Albatross itself is just like Black Sabbath stone a riff, you know, it's the box. It's just moving up and down. That beautiful box. There they are. I knew that Ben was coming. You got to bend it.

Got to bend. Wow. Incredible pick. Wow. C-O-C number two. That's awesome. I love it. Got to do it.

I don't know if I... Don't laugh at me. I don't laugh at it. I don't know. Because I already know what it is. I wonder which one it is. Truly. I don't know if I've ever.

talked about this before. I'm a pretty sizable Metallica fan. I couldn't, I had a real hard time picking. But I went with, I pick up a guitar, what's, like, what do I think of? Harvester of sorrow off of

injustice for all. Wow, Rippo. Dude, when it... Which part? The clean, the dena cana, do, d'n ding, into the junk to get into the... Yeah, that's fair.

It, there's like that weird drone underneath it. It sounds, I think that's like one of the only parts on that record that sounds good. You know what I mean? Like the specifically the Tom buildup part sounds like, oh shit, this is like scary.

Because the Tom is adding the base. Exactly, exactly. The frequency that's missing. Every record that they have has 10 riffs that I could put on this list. So I really just went with what's the first one that comes to mind. and this is like it sounds super evil

when they played that big Moscow Monsters a Rock show this was the most violent song like people were pitting the hardest to it The version in in 89 The Seattle thing is he says hey this next one's Pretty heavy man so you know we want you to bang It sounds pretty good when you bang something together Like your head your hands your tits whatever the fuck you got

And then they start they play it and during the clean party goes What I say man And it's just so like people like lose it yeah that's so sick it just gets me going and i think it's it's my i think it's it's the rest riff i don't know if i really believe that but i'm gonna say it for today the one i almost pit put was the fade to black just verse riff yeah yeah the i can't i can't believe it to this day and that's pure skinner that is all yeah that is all cliff it's like classical skinner yeah 100% a minor that's what kirk was kirk was smoking that skinner

or Cliff was. Cliff, yeah, yeah. Cliff and Bell bottoms on. Cliff and Dave were smoking that Skinner pack when they wrote that. Bell bottoms on, Misfit shirt tight. Sick as fuck. Dave's going to get the Google a lot for that.

Just you saying that. What? My number two, I'm going to take you guys on a little journey for a minute. All right. I'm ready. Now, picture this, 1978. Okay.

I wasn't a lot of it. Ozzy is booted by Black Sabbath. Or 79. Whatever. Yeah. He's booted. He can't be in the band anymore. His life's in shambles.

He's drinking himself to death. But his manager's daughter, a lady named Sharon, asks Daddy to forward the contract. She says, give me the contract. Just give me the contract. I'll see what I can do. She starts to put together a band for Ozzy, saves him from the brink of death. finds a fellow from a band called Quiet Riot

by the name of Randy Rhodes. Randy works some magic and he writes a couple incredible records for Ozzy revitalizing his career, giving him a new lease on life. And then he's tragically taken. One of the saddest stories in front of the tour he's taken.

Absolutely devastating. Brutal. So Ozzy's at the... He's back. He's at the same cross. He was once at. He said, I've lost my, I've lost my muse. I've lost my guy. Truly, his muse.

That's the best way to do. What do I do? And then Sharon does it again. And she finds a fella named Jake E. Lee. We were just talking about it. And his first order of business. Dude, I'm tearing up right now. His first order of business is a song called Bark at the Moon,

where he writes the post-chorus riff gang gang gang the gang wading yeah the trend

part of that is so fucking cool yeah that's the second best riff of all time and then at the end

of production the record is tracked Sharon hands in a contract and says here's some money you get no credit for this record

you are not you didn't produce this. On paper, you did not write it. You were in the band, but you didn't get any credit. He signs it away. He doesn't know anything. Jake E. Lee is not credited as a writer on Barkett. That's crazy.

That's insane. Yeah. That's injustice. So two records later, he writes some songs. Ozzy says, yeah, I love it. He says, Not so fast, buddy. I'm a credited writer, or I'm walking. Fool me once. Fool me twice. That's right.

So that goes double. platinum and then Sharon gives him the boot. Justice for Jake E. Lee, just so everybody knows, we have reached out to Jake E. Lee to have him on the show to tell his story once and for all. Bark at the moon.

Yeah. And justice for Jake. Justice for Jake. Coming soon to Hardlore, hopefully. Is that your favorite Ozzy record? Would you say? No. After all that. I mean, it's probably Blizzard of Oz.

But still, I mean, Randy, Randy's God, but Randy was one where picking a Randy riff is like, how the fuck do I do this? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Whereas Bark of the Moon, like, learning as a teenager that that wasn't Randy. Yeah, yeah, totally. And that that was Jake was like,

he found that again, and then found it again in Zach years later. He keeps getting so lucky and finding these guys that change his life, his new muses. Yeah. Is Jake Ely doing anything now musically? Yeah, he's got a band called Jakey Lee's Red Dragon Cartel.

You can go see him down at brick by brick in San Diego, you know? Yeah. He's doing hard law is what he's doing. And soon he's fucking doing hardlore. We're going to get the full story. All right. Honorable mention. Before we do our number one picks.

Okay, I've got, my honorable mention is another ode to Australia. This is my only hardcore one that I put in. It's by Mind Snair. Probably Australia's premier hardcore product. Absolutely. Yeah. They're everyone's goat in Australia. So, uh, had to put one in.

The terror of Australia. Yeah. I mean, and truly they're like, I mean, I played two shows with them a couple months ago. And like, there's motherfuckers still ripping. Like still. Oh, I know. They practice five days a week. Oh, yeah.

They're shredding still. The song is bulldozed. It's the first song on their album. Yeah. Gagana. Yeah. Yeah. And it had the, the riff I chose, though, was the breakdown bit at the end.

Because it's just the weirdest beltsy who plays guitar. It's just got this weird way of playing guitar. And it's like, no one can write that riff but him. Uh-huh. And it's just got this like, oh, a little, little, little, like it's really, he's a guitar player's guitar player's. guitar player and it's one of the best songs in all time. Playing, playing metallic hardcore.

Yeah, exactly. Kind of the best. Which is what you want. Yeah, those are the best crossovers. Yeah. Seeing him live playing that on a Gibson firebird, like the weirdest. Yeah, the biggest guitar ever.

And it's sick. Anyway, that's my honorable mention. Beautiful. Love the hometown. Yeah. My honorable mention, I actually, I crossed off one because I realized I didn't put a Van Halen song in here. And that's sacrilege.

And I, fucked up because I just blanked. I went with a rare drop D Van Halen song Unchained. Oh. Listen to you. Beautiful. Like, as soon as it starts,

it's like, oh, this, this song is going to rip. Yeah. And like, it's all 5150. That is as valved as it gets. The fact, the fact that he invented the amp that every hardcore metal band has used

and will continue to use forever. Forever. He's inside. He is. The godfather of high gain amplification, and we owe him our lives. Truly. It is that simple. To Sir Edward.

Sir Edward. And, oh, and also the riff sounds straightforward, but it's not. It's weird timing. Like, it doesn't, it moves when the drums don't, so it's, like, rarely played correctly. You know? Love that. Eddie is Mount Rushmore. He's the goat.

He's George Washington. The fact that he purposefully buried Dimebag with the yellow brown original guitar because he was an original. Destroyes me. Yeah. It, like, annihilates me. You're going to get me barking at the moon. It's the coolest thing ever. And I, Van Halen is a band that's like I know a good amount about.

Yeah. But I have the utmost respect for when it comes to like guitar music influence. Totally. Dude, because even like before a uniform. choice was uniform choice. They were playing Van Halen covers as uniform choice in Orange County. You know what I mean? Like they influenced

everything that we know of as guitar music today. Yeah. And that's fucking awesome. Beautiful. My honorable mention I like just swapped with Grimlock right before we started. It is Mormon Angel.

The opening track from the album Covenant, the breakdown for the song. Rapture. You can't even mouth it the way oh wow a god o'allah duncan kong kong kano now you can't even mouth

it the way you would mouth something like Metallica. Right. Because it's so out of the box it's in fucking lowercase G sharp or some shit. It's insane.

Unbelievable riff. Hard as shit. Half-time ride double kick. Whop your ass. He's the Eddie Van Hyland of Death Metal too. That is a fact.

That's a guy. He's playing shit that you, like, unorthodox, out of the box, wacky, wacko shit that's somehow heavy and hard. Science can not define what he's doing. And truly, like, the riffs like shouldn't work. Yeah. And that's a good example of like, how is this still heavy? It doesn't. It's awesome.

The God of Emptiness Rift before the big bridge. The wah, wah, wah, wah, wampo. That sounds hilarious when I'm singing it like that. And there ain't nothing funny about it when it's being played. Also, a Randy Rhodes riff, I think, maybe would belong in here as the Believer. Oh, yeah. Absolutely insane. But.

If we're doing two, I'm throwing improdgony a Celtic Frost, because that's one that I cut. Oh, yeah, respectable. Single note riff. That's as cool as it gets. And is iconic from the second the feedback starts. Like it's perfect So I wanted to put that in there too I'm given

It's time guys Oh yeah let's go Number one all time RIF Okay So Jimmy Bauer I gotta talk to you

I gotta tell you about I gotta tell you Naturally Not only is he Fantastic at guitar He's also fantastic at drums And one of the things For me

About a dope-ass riff is it often needs the sickest person taking the reins behind it to drive forward. Yeah, right. The engine. With the man who invented the greatest fill into a breakdown of all time, which is chakakakak. Yep. So thank you, Jimmy, for that.

And if you ever want to know anything about me playing drums, it's that. The song is off broken glass Like forever The song itself is I am forever And it is the breakdown riff Of I have forever Another

Do do do do do Do do do do do Bamb bam But the reason I love it so much is because it comes in with Belladun Dun dun Dun

Dund And that's Dude, you only get that from real motherfuckers who have been jamming together

their whole lives Yes Yes Synchronicity Musical synchronicity And to think as well The other little fact about that

He started the band with Kirk He's not in the band Then for like four records Then he comes back And he just Slaps the shit out Yeah,

I got it I got it, man. He rocks. And that's one of my favorite examples of Kirk. Kirk having no box. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Dude,

where he'll go all over that neck and it'll never sound unnatural. Yeah. Because he's so, he's, he is the goat. He is the, he is the riff god. Eddie Van Halen of,

of, of, yeah, of that. My brain. Anything down to. My brain. Yeah.

The head of my thoughts. I've been on a huge crowbar kick for the last few months. I can't decide between Broken Glass and Self-Tidal as my favorite. I think I go self-titled. I think that's the one. But I've just been on a huge kick. This song is not on either, regardless. It's my favorite crowbar riff, period.

It's beautiful and heavy. It's planets collide. Awfell's Riff. I love intro riff The intro riff dude And then

And into the Da Gun Gun Gap Butcher Lord Like that And what's Cool about is There's little nuances

Where you can hear them The band The band Man Anette Like you hear the power cord Come back Yeah

That's something that people Don't like Play right When you see Covers of it or whatever And like Yeah I

This is the biggest This is An Iraq size earworm for me. This is shy hallood boring into my brain. Through the brain. I can't get this. Dude, this is raw

emotion, dude. Kirk was, I had to have been drying the tears off his sleeve as well. You don't get that nuance from being a happy complacent guy. It's, it's in like in any other application it might suck. I don't know. Yeah. It's so perfect for this band. I love that it's their most played song.

Yep. Yeah. It's, is beautiful and heavy, and that's what crowbar is. It's the song for me. It's my number one favorite riff of all time. It's so awesome that you guys both did crowbar as number one. So my number one is a band called Crowbar. Yes!

From the album, Odd Fellows Rest. Yes. It is only natural that the best riff of all time is something that inspired, destruction to me. Yeah. And nothing inspires destruction to me more than the breakdown and transition of to carry the load.

Because not only is the riff in saying, Yeah, gung, gung, gung, gung, gong, gong, gong gong gong gong gow. Gun gung gung glow. That little run at them. No, no, no, no, no. Yeah. They make you fucking wait for it.

There's no way they're giving it to me. And I was just talking to James about this literally last week that it's a minute and a half of buildup before the and then when it comes in, it comes in in the middle of the measure. Yeah, yes. Where it would go to the other thing. It finally comes in and restarts in the most brilliant way

It is the hardest riff, the heaviest riff ever. The most moshable riff in history is not by a hardcore man. It is by crowbar. It is to carry the load. This has to be the greatest riff ever for multiple reasons. Because it's, hey, listen to how complicated that was. Yeah, very. It's very common.

But we just did the entire thing by mouth. So I shouldn't be able to remember something that nuanced. And the tempo, the time, the signature. gets out of control. Yeah, yeah. It's, you know, it's steady,

but it's, but it's changing. Yeah. There's nothing. It's nothing. It's not a click there. Yeah. Uh,

and then it devolves into, and you know, Kirk is just like, then we got to give it to him. Because he understands. Yeah. Like, let's just be the heaviest band.

We got to give it to him. Him and Jimmy. He got to give it to him. Yeah. Jimmy plays drums on that. Yeah. It's beautiful. It's perfect.

It's the best rip of. Kirk. Thank you. Thank you, Kirk. You're the fucking man. Our number one, our collective number one, apparently. Beautiful. This playlist is going to go.

It's crazy. It should start at the top of the three. I love it. Colin, you know what I would like to do now? Hit me. I'd like to talk about some Australian music for a little bit with our remaining time. Please. We've been playing with some bands on this run.

For those of you who don't know, Harmsway is in the middle, the later half of our Australian tour. And on the store, we have Terminal Sleep, who are direct support. They're on every show with us. They're fucking awesome.

They are fantastic. They fit really well. They are pro as fuck. Beautiful. Yeah, they're doing it, right? They will for sure be going places. You can see it. It's often how wrestlers talk about other,

wrestlers when they're like, that's money. Kids guys. Yeah. I would love to talk about the band Blood Mouth. Dude, my fucking boys. Are you familiar with Blood Mouth? Dude, Colin, you are going to fucking love this.

It is some of the heaviest and best drummed technical grind, I would call it. Very heavy. But the gimmick is, remember Little Sam, little mate? Of course. You remember Rowan? Of course.

And two other guys. sexy Rowans in there too. Oh yeah. And they wear military fatigues and body armor and balaclavas. They're militantly vegan. Oh. And they talk and like the whole the whole bit

is like, how do you know someone's a vegan? Because they'll fucking kill you. Like that's the bit. And like for 22 minutes, I'm vegan. Yeah. So blood mouth is derogatory. Yeah, it's, yes, they are Blood Mouth derogatory. They are

destroying the Carnist Industrial Complex Like, Carnist. He, dude, the... Damn, turning Carnivore into like rapist is crazy. It's crazy. Carnus Carnus is wild. The the humor that Sam has,

he'll say like, I've got something to he'll say, shut up. I've got something to say. I recorded it. And he plays it on a tape recorder because it's like everything is Are they on the whole run with you guys? No they only play two shows

Wow You will Musically I know you will like it Okay The fucking Like I don't even want to call it a bit Because that sounds derogatory But like their presentation

Yes Is incredible Wow So it's like militant carnivore But not carnivores They're writing a song About a cop who went somewhere where he shouldn't

had to try to fix a fence or something, a cop here who got trampled by cows and died. And he was like, that's two birds, one stone. Wow. Like, it's the coolest, it's so fucking funny. Incredible man. And also amazing music. Yeah.

Okay. I want to talk about, I want to talk about Halfman. Half man was fucking sick. They only played one show. Yeah, just the Brisbane show. Just the Brisbane show. But it was like the kickoff.

They were sick. They opened. No, they were like in the middle. Yeah. fantastic. What's the vibe? The vibe is Cave manny.

Kind of, but in like a locking out sense of like, you know, really dig it. Last night, a band called Implode played here in Melbourne. They're young.

They don't even have a demo out. This is probably the newest band we're putting over on the show. All right. They covered sick people by fucking breakdown. Send us the demo. Yeah. They covered sick people by breakdown.

they sound boom bach boom bacca that's what they sound like and that's what I want more of in the world

it's like we were saying with F.I.A where we have bands covering floor punch and straight ahead and Eitha today I want more of that

that's what we get and you're gonna have to help me with the band who played Sydney with the guy from Nepal I can't pronounce the name

oh, Than Tuthicca which is a Bannber Boys camp from Canberra it's a Buddhist phrase that I can never ever remember. It's a three-piece. They're fucking awesome. Yeah. Just put out a new EP.

And they are, Colin, to your point, the pitters who are making dope music. These boys whooped ass for the entire hump as they said. They beat ass. They played and then just punch people in the head for 40 minutes. And at least the singer homies edge and they're cool. They're all straight edge and the band name, which is for how long will that happen in Australia? And the band named it is for... What's the average edge lifespan? Aaron. Short.

Thantuthica. He just said it, and I can't say it again. Fantuthica. Thantuthica. Yeah. And which is some form of enlightenment that is kind of alluding to being straight-edge. Huge. Come on.

You hear that? Shelter. Check that out. Well, you know what that. There's lots of bands on these shows. These have been like my favorites that I want to highlight. How about Aglo? Aglo played too.

And Aglo is playing tonight as a matter of fact. Aglo Brutal. Aglo Brutal is back tonight. Brutal drummer from Aglo. That's right. I played drums on the Aglo LP. Check it out. You have a new song out now, though, right?

Yes. And the new song, as we were saying the other day, is your stride. Oh, yeah. That's Aglo. I figured it out. Yeah, I think so. I was saying to the guys yesterday, I listened to like a full week of just listening to Time Heels Nothing by Crowbar, just sat down to play guitar.

song just came out. Oh, that's beautiful. That's beautiful. You're going to bring the cowbell back? It's there. Boy, am I. Cool. Good.

That should be in every song. It should be Aglo's signature piece, I think. The funniest thing about recording that with you guys was get to Taylor's house and he didn't have a cowbell. And so me and Taylor had to go to cowbell shopping. And it was probably like the funniest 20 minutes of me and him just... Testing cowbell? Yeah, walking around guitar. Microtonal aspects of cowbell shopping.

And Taylor clearly thinking about what actually. And I was just like, don't, boom, don't. He was like, no, no, no, that one. No, that's, that's F. Yeah, I could really see Taylor being like, sounds like shit. It's just being him about it. He was very supportive of the cowbell goal. And you asked me to find a spot for it.

Yeah, you did. Which, man, that spot is unbelievable. It's funny too because like a cowbell has to be used. it kind of has to be the ride, you know? And it's not... And it's got to be, oh shit. Yes, yeah. If it's not some accent,

if it's not an accent like a bell, it's got to be to... And the reason, it's on that, and the reason it's in Aglo at all is Oddfellow's rest. There you go. No kidding. Yeah, there's a cowboy on Oddfell's rest.

Jimmy Bauer. A lot of cowbell on Slow Deep and Hard. Yeah. Dude. A lot. And those were real drums, too. Interesting. Yeah.

And there's no china. there's cowbell you know yeah they should have brought the digital cowbell back at some point that's where things went wrong yeah johnny kelly dead again i've got you know you had your chance you could have used that cowbell man what happened well this this was this very fun episode i had a blast had a blast thanks what a what a concept oh yeah your favorite riffs just just fucking brutal i'm looking at my my 46 omissions here just see I can't believe it. This is pun intended and like an ever-flowing stream of a subject.

We can do part eight. Oh, yeah. Best Rifts, part two, best part six, part 55, easily. No problem. This, these 55 I listed in a minute. So imagine what I could do with two. But yeah, just check out Harm's Way on tour. They'll be done with tour by the time this episode comes out.

So that's perfect. But Europe is coming up shortly thereafter. So see you guys there. So see you guys there. Knocked loose basement, Harmsway, pest control. Listen to Aglo, listen to all the Australian bands

that Bo just listed. And listen to Oblivious Maximus, our favorite podcast. I imagine Bo will be on it very soon. Yeah, we're trying to figure that out. Mike just. If Bo is on it, check that out. If Bo is not on it,

definitely check that out. Thank you all for listening. We love you so much. Aaron, you're our favorite guy in the world. We love you so much. Thanks for making this happen. Love you guys. I love you too.

Hope to see you soon. And everybody watching, we'll see you next week. Bye.