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This week on Riff Worship, Austin & Dylan are rejoined by their longtime friend Justin Swindle to discuss Cleveland metallic hardcore legends Ringworm and their 2001 sophomore album Birth Is Pain

Recommendations:

• Alluvial - Death Is But A Door
• Mizmor - "Doubt" (Mizmor Version)
• Disgustibus - Body Horror
• Longings - Dreams In Red
• No Faith - Forced Subservience
• When a Stranger Calls (1979)
• STOMACH - PARASITE

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With humble beginnings in Pig Destroyer guitarist Scott Hull’s bedroom, Agoraphobic Nosebleed quickly took on a life of its own in the underground. While having rarely played live the band’s first decade was prolific to say the least, featuring several splits, EPs, and full-length releases. The formula was effective: “micro-length” arrangements combined with programmed drum parts at insanely fast tempos and tongue-firmly-planted-in-cheek lyrical concepts.

2009 stands as an anomaly for the band. Much of their catalog by this time captured the band with an almost improvised, raw intensity but perhaps lacked weight. However, Agoraphobic Nosebleed’s fourth album would retain many of these same elements while also making room for dynamics, hooks and song lengths that surpassed a two-minute runtime. The inclusion of the band’s newest member and Salomé vocalist Kat Katz is the standout, whose performance brought their sound to a new level of extremity listeners didn’t realize was possible. One thing was clear, this was a new era for Agoraphobic Nosebleed.

This week on Riff Worship, Austin & Dylan are joined by their longtime friend Justin Swindle to discuss Agorapocalypse

Recommendations:

• Body Void - Atrocity Machine
• Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun
• The Murder Mansion (1972)
• Krieg - Ruiner
• Hate Eternal - King Of All Kings
• Leprechaun (1993)
• Selenoplexia - Exalt and Despair
• Dinosaur Jr. - Dinosaur
• Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988)

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Chuck Schuldiner was never one to follow the herd. Dissatisfied with the limitations many extreme metal bands had placed on themselves, Schuldiner always strived to set Death apart lyrically and musically. Each era of the band contains a distinct sonic quality, and with the technical proficiency and introspective themes of their fourth album Human it was clear they had matured.

Much of this progress can be attested to the inclusion of Cynic members Paul Masvidal and Sean Reinert along with metal bass pioneer Steve Di Giorgio. Schuldiner always surrounded himself with musicians capable of elevating his music and their next album would be no different. With Di Giorgio returning on bass, Schuldiner also enlisted the skills of Dark Angel drummer Gene Hoglan as well as King Diamond guitarist Andy LaRocque to create an undeniably tight unit. Death entered the world famous Morrisound Recording in Tampa, Florida and emerged in mid-1993 with a record packed full of intricate rhythms, blistering leads, and scathing lyrics.

This week on Riff Worship, join Austin & Dylan as they discuss Death’s landmark album ⁠Individual Thought Patterns

Recommendations:

• Woe - Legacies of Frailty
• Carnifex - Necromanteum
• Unearth - The Oncoming Storm
• Unearth - III: In The Eyes Of Fire
• Svalbard - The Weight Of The Mask
• Noctule - Wretched Abyss
• Year of the Knife - Wish/Last Laugh

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In the final installment of our Cattle Decapitation career-long deep dive, we dig into an era that may yield the most challenging and polarizing music of their discography.

As we plunged into the end of the world with the massive Death Atlas, no one could have predicted that the album cycle would be marred with an almost 2-year pause due to a global pandemic.

With no touring for the foreseeable future, the band continued to write what would eventually become their most recent offering Terrasite. If one thing was clear, 2023 cemented that Cattle Decapitation was back and as strong as ever with the highest charting success of their career.

This week on Riff Worship, join Austin & Dylan as they both discuss two of Cattle Decapitation’s most musically and thematically realized albums to date: Death Atlas & Terrasite!

Recommendations:

• Harms Way - Common Suffering
• Vampire's Kiss (1988)
• No One Will Save You (2023)
• Wormhole - Almost Human
• Thy Art Is Murder - Godlike

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If Cattle Decapitation had called it quits after the release of The Harvest Floor, their career would have been considered exceptional. After spending the better part of a decade touring the world and churning out a series of genre-defining records, what more did they need to prove? This question can be liberating for an artist. If you’ve accomplished your goals, you may not be as reluctant to break the rules, subvert expectations, and explore new territory. This is exactly the mindset that ushered in a “2nd career” for Cattle Decapitation. The band challenged themselves, beginning their long-standing relationship with producer (and practically 5th member) Dave Otero, who helped sculpt their sound for a new era. The albums that emerged perfectly blended the abrasiveness of black metal, the atmosphere of post-metal, and a refined version of the death metal fans had grown to love. Join us for Part 3 in Riff Worship’s deep dive on Cattle Decapitation, as Austin & Dylan discuss two bleak predictions of humanity’s influence on the environment: Monolith of Inhumanityand The Anthropocene Extinction

Recommendations:

• Gravesend - "Gowanus Death Stomp"
• Harms Way, King Woman - "Undertow"
• STOMACH - "MIDNIGHT IN PAIN"
• Yob - Clearing the Path to Ascend
• Cannibal Corpse - Chaos Horrific
• The Keening - "Autumn"
• Ghost - Opus Eponymous
• Goatwhore - A Haunting Curse

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With the release of their Metal Blade Records debut, Cattle Decapitation seemed focused on creating an album more akin to their death metal predecessors on To Serve Man. However, an evolution would occur over the next few years that would set them apart from the many trends in metal and hardcore throughout this time. It was clear that the band’s technical prowess and songwriting ability had grown by leaps and bounds on Humanure. The band would take this growth and fine tune it into a career highlight on Karma.Bloody.Karma. In 2009 we received The Harvest Floor: a modern death metal classic as well as the beginning of what was to come… 

Recommendations:

• Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit
• Blood Incantation - Luminescent Bridge
• Baroness - STONE
• Suffocation - "Seraphim Enslavement"
• Myrkur - "Mothlike"
• Gridlink - Coronet Juniper
• Exhumed - Gore Metal (2023 Remaster)

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There are some bands in extreme music whose catalog is so vital to the genre that it would be impossible to accurately describe in a single episode. It's been nearly 30 years since their inception and yet San Diego's Cattle Decapitationcontinue to evolve, releasing some of the best death metal of their career while others may have become stale or hung it up along the way. Over the next few weeks, Austin & Dylan will be taking a good look at Cattle Decapitation's extensive history as well as each of their 10 full-lengths. In this introductory episode, they'll cover the band's origins and ties to The Locust, their longstanding relationship with Metal Blade Records, and their first 3 albums (Human Jerky, Homovore, & To Serve Man).

Recomendations:

• Dying Fetus - Make Them Beg For Death
• Job For A Cowboy - "The Agony Seeping Storm"
• Tyler Childers - Rustin' In The Rain
• Harms Way feat. King Woman - "Undertow"
• Gravesend - "Even A Worm Will Turn"
• Fuming Mouth - "The Silence Beyond Life"

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This week on Riff Worship, Austin & Dylan continue their plunge into the world of Swedish metal with Tribulation's 2018 opus 'Down Below': a vampiric, genre-bending masterclass in songwriting, atmosphere, and all things the riff. It's exactly the kind of record that was written for the fan in the front row and the die-hard in the back of the house!

Recommendations:

• Harms Way - "Devour"
• Wolves In The Throne Room - "Twin Mouthed Spring"
• Melissa - 'II'
• Incantation - "Invocation (Chthonic Merge) X"
• END - "Gaping Wounds of Earth"
• Green Lung - "Mountain Throne"
• Bad Religion - 'Suffer'

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This week on Riff Worship, Austin & Dylan are joined by guitar virtuoso & record producer Andy LaRocque (King Diamond, Sonic Train Studios) to discuss owning & operating a recording studio, his origins in riff writing, as well as the 35th anniversary of King Diamond's Them

Recommendations:

• "Welcome Home" by King Diamond
• "Sleepless Nights" by King Diamond
• "A Mansion in Darkness" by King Diamond

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This week on Riff Worship, Austin & Dylan are joined by James Wallwork of Faerie Ring to discuss their latest riff infused offering 'WEARY TRAVELER' (out NOW via King Volume Records), working with Alex Kercheval (Coven, Postal Recording), cycling, Dick Dale, & more!

Order 'Weary Traveler': https://kingvolume.8merch.us/product/faerie-ring-weary-traveler-lp/

Recommendations:

• Dick Dale
• "The Zoo" by Scorpions
• "For Those Who Love To Live" by Thin Lizzy
• "Taking Out the Trash" by Endless Boogie
• "Existence Is Punishment" by Crowbar

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