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RIFF090 - Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Jun 22, 2026
1h 33m 53s
RIFF089 - ZZ Top - Tres Hombres
Jun 8, 2026
1h 28m 35s
RIFF088 - The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
May 25, 2026
1h 18m 46s
RIFF087 - Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
May 4, 2026
1h 44m 24s
RIFF086 - Soundgarden - Superunknown
Apr 27, 2026
1h 41m 00s
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| 6/22/26 |  RIFF090 - Metallica - Ride the Lightning | When Lightning Strikes Twice and Belgium Shows Up Unexpectedly Hosts: Neil & Chris Duration: ~94 minutes Release: 22 June 2026 Episode Description Neil has officially flip-flopped. After crowning Master of Puppets the greatest album ever on a previous episode, he arrives here ready to hand the throne to Ride the Lightning, and honestly, his argument is hard to argue with. Recorded for a budget ... | 1h 33m 53s | ||||||
| 6/8/26 |  RIFF089 - ZZ Top - Tres Hombres | When a Texas Road Trip Scene Sends You Down a Blues Rabbit Hole Hosts: Neil & Chris Duration: ~89 minutes Release: 8 June 2026 Episode Description It started with a Bentley, a long stretch of Texas highway, and the opening riff of La Grange dropping into a TV show called Landman. That was all Neil needed to drag ZZ Top's 1973 masterpiece Tres Hombres onto the Riffology turntable. Released on 26... | 1h 28m 35s | ||||||
| 5/25/26 |  RIFF088 - The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street | When Tax Exile Becomes Artistic Gold Hosts: Neil & Chris Duration: ~79 minutes Release: 25 May 2026 Episode Description Seven years after tackling Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti, Neil and Chris return to the double album format with another sprawling, sun-baked classic. The Rolling Stones' 1972 masterpiece Exile on Main Street gets the full Riffology treatment, recorded in conditions that eer... | 1h 18m 46s | ||||||
| 5/4/26 |  RIFF087 - Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti✨ | Led ZeppelinPhysical Graffiti+3 | — | Led ZeppelinPhysical Graffiti | — | Led ZeppelinPhysical Graffiti+3 | — | 1h 44m 24s | |
| 4/27/26 |  RIFF086 - Soundgarden - Superunknown✨ | SoundgardenSuperunknown+3 | — | SoundgardenSuperunknown | — | SoundgardenSuperunknown+4 | — | 1h 41m 00s | |
| 4/20/26 |  RIFF085 - Ugly Kid Joe - America's Least Wanted✨ | rock musicalbum analysis+3 | — | Ugly Kid JoeREM+1 | — | Ugly Kid JoeAmerica's Least Wanted+5 | — | 1h 18m 00s | |
| 4/13/26 |  RIFF084 - Train - Drops of Jupiter✨ | rock musicpop music+3 | — | TrainDrops of Jupiter | — | TrainDrops of Jupiter+5 | — | 1h 24m 38s | |
| 4/6/26 |  RIFF083 - Matchbox 20 - Yourself or Someone Like You✨ | Matchbox 20debut album+3 | — | Matchbox 20Yourself or Someone Like You | — | Matchbox 20Yourself or Someone Like You+3 | — | 1h 26m 46s | |
| 3/23/26 |  RIFF082 - The Goo Goo Dolls - A Boy Named Goo✨ | musicalbum analysis+3 | — | Goo Goo DollsA Boy Named Goo | — | Goo Goo DollsA Boy Named Goo+3 | — | 1h 35m 19s | |
| 3/16/26 |  RIFF081 - REM - Out of TIme✨ | musicalbum analysis+3 | — | REMWarner Brothers+1 | — | REMOut of Time+3 | — | 1h 11m 23s | |
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| 3/2/26 |  RIFF080 - Nirvana - MTV Unplugged✨ | NirvanaMTV Unplugged+3 | — | Nirvana's MTV Unplugged in New York | — | NirvanaMTV Unplugged+4 | — | 1h 16m 53s | |
| 2/16/26 |  RIFF079 - 3 Doors Down - The Better Life✨ | rock musicalbum analysis+3 | — | Three Doors DownThe Better Life | — | Three Doors DownThe Better Life+3 | — | 1h 38m 01s | |
| 2/9/26 |  RIFF078 - Extreme - Extreme✨ | rock musicguitarists+3 | — | Extreme | — | ExtremeNuno Bettencourt+3 | — | 1h 12m 40s | |
| 1/19/26 |  RIFF077 - Metallica - Master of Puppets✨ | metal musicalbum analysis+3 | — | MetallicaMaster of Puppets | — | MetallicaMaster of Puppets+3 | — | 2h 04m 01s | |
| 1/12/26 |  RIFF076 - Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here | When a black shrink wrap hides the most emotional record in the rack Hosts: Neil & Chris Duration: ~101 minutes Release: 12 January 2026 Episode Description Neil and Chris dive into Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here, a record that feels less like a set of songs and more like a single long thought, drifting through absence, grief, cynicism, and that hollow “where did you go?” ache. They start with... | 1h 40m 37s | ||||||
| 1/5/26 |  RIFF075 - The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream | When a guitar tone becomes a time machine Hosts: Neil & Chris Duration: ~89 minutes Release: 5 January 2026 Episode Description Neil and Chris finally tackle The Smashing Pumpkins’ Siamese Dream, an album that hits like a personal memory as much as a rock record. For Chris, it is a private-room, headphones-on relationship, the kind where the opening of “Cherub Rock” can still trigger a lump in ... | 1h 29m 19s | ||||||
| 12/28/25 |  RIFF074 - Static-X - Wisconsin Death Trip | When Evil Disco Becomes a Genre Hosts: Neil & Chris Duration: ~96 minutes Release: 28 December 2025 Episode Description Static-X's 1999 debut Wisconsin Death Trip marked a pivotal moment in industrial metal, blending crushing riffs with techno grooves to create what Wayne Static called "evil disco." Neil dives deep into his personal connection with this record, recounting a hilarious tale of ge... | 1h 35m 44s | ||||||
| 12/15/25 |  RIFF073 - Prong - Cleansing | When the Sound Guy Becomes the Sound Hosts: Neil & Chris Duration: ~98 minutes Release: 15 December 2025 Episode Description Before Tommy Victor was crafting some of the heaviest riffs in industrial metal, he was the guy behind the mixing desk at CBGB's, watching the entire New York hardcore scene unfold in front of him. That perspective, that immersion in raw, uncompromising music, would event... | 1h 37m 35s | ||||||
| 12/1/25 |  RIFF072 - Suicidal Tendencies - Lights, Camera, Revolution! | Where Skate Punk Grew Up and Got a Grammy Nod Episode 72 | Suicidal Tendencies, Lights, Camera, Revolution (1990) | Duration: ~84 minutes | Release: 8 December 2025 Episode Description Neil and Chris dive into one of Neil's all-time decorating records, a 1990 album that transformed LA's banned skate punk outcasts into Grammy nominees. Suicidal Tendencies' fourth studio album represents a pivota... | 1h 24m 21s | ||||||
| 11/24/25 |  RIFF071 - L7 - Bricks Are Heavy | When Tuning Your Guitar Became Revolutionary Hosts: Neil & Chris Duration: ~81 minutes Release: 24 November 2025 Episode Description Neil and Chris tackle L7's breakthrough 1992 album Bricks Are Heavy, the record that proved you could be authentically punk, unapologetically feminist, and radio-friendly all at once. Between discussions of Butch Vig's game-changing production advice (tune your gu... | 1h 21m 18s | ||||||
| 11/17/25 |  RIFF070 - Bush - Sixteen Stone | When everyone said no, radio said yes Hosts: Neil & Chris Duration: ~92 minutes Release: 17 November 2025 Episode Description Bush's Sixteen Stone shouldn't exist. Dropped by their first label for having "no singles and no album tracks," Gavin Rossdale went back to painting dentists' offices while his debut sat in limbo. Then a tiny record label called Trauma took a chance, American rock radio ... | 1h 32m 24s | ||||||
| 11/3/25 |  RIFF069 - Pixies - Doolittle | Quiet verses, screaming choruses, and the album that accidentally invented grunge Hosts: Neil & Chris Duration: ~80 minutes Release: 3 November 2025 Episode Description Doolittle wasn't just a Pixies album, it was the evolutionary stepping stone between 80s sludge and the Seattle explosion that followed. Released in 1989, this Boston band's third studio effort traded Surfer Rosa's live room cha... | 1h 19m 30s | ||||||
| 10/27/25 |  RIFF068 - Hole - Live Through This | When Raw Vocals Beat Polished Perfection Every Single Time Hosts: Neil & Chris Duration: ~80 minutes Release: 27 October 2025 Episode Description Some albums capture lightning in a bottle because they refuse to be tamed. Hole's Live Through This sits right in the Goldilocks zone between the savage spikiness of Pretty on the Inside and the polished hooks of Celebrity Skin, finding that perfect b... | 1h 20m 28s | ||||||
| 10/6/25 |  RIFF067 - Tool - Undertow | When Tool made a debut that refused to sound like 1993 or anyone else Hosts: Neil & Chris Duration: ~93 minutes Release: 6 October 2025 Episode Description Neil and Chris wrap up their dual-Maynard trilogy with Tool's April 1993 debut, a record that arrived in the shadow of grunge and nu-metal but carved out its own menacing, atmospheric space. Produced by the legendary Sylvia Massey, Undertow ... | 1h 33m 12s | ||||||
| 9/29/25 |  RIFF066 - A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms | Maynard's side project that forgot to sound like a side project Hosts: Neil & Chris Duration: ~76 minutes Release: 29 September 2025 Episode Description Maynard James Keenan takes a detour from Tool, rents a room to guitar wizard Billy Howerdel, and they accidentally build the most elegant "super-group" debut of the millennium. Neil and Chris unpack A Perfect Circle's Mer de Noms (French for "s... | 1h 16m 25s | ||||||
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