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Sunday, 1 November 2026
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Front cover of Camino Palmero: a symmetrical view down two covered railway platforms towards a distant vanishing point, wet tracks gleaming between them and overhead wires strung with round globes beneath a stormy blue sky, with THE CALLING in distressed black capitals across the top and CAMINO PALMERO in smaller blue letters below.

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Camino Palmero by The Calling: The Complete Story

Camino Palmero by The Calling: years in label limbo, three weeks in the studio and the Disney executive who rescued Wherever You Will Go.
Front cover of Silver Side Up: an extreme close-up of a sea-green eye over a scratched olive background, with a stream of liquid silver running from the lower lid into a fat, mirror-like drop, and NICKELBACK in distressed black capitals with the B printed backwards. Podcast

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Silver Side Up by Nickelback: The Complete Story
Front cover of Magma: a monochrome engraving style illustration of a black triangular volcano rising from a stylised sea, a sun disc with a calm human face set into its slope, and a huge plume of curling smoke filling the sky. Podcast

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Magma by Gojira: The Complete Story
Front cover of All Killer No Filler: a four-by-four grid of flash-lit snapshots of the members of Sum 41 gurning, tongues out and eyes crossed, on a near-black background, with the band's white and red logo and the album title scrawled in red across the middle. Podcast

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All Killer No Filler by Sum 41: The Complete Story

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A blonde woman in a navy tartan school pinafore sits at a wooden school desk facing a bare plaster wall, with a black cross mounted above her that tapers into a downward arrow.

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Dear God by The Pretty Reckless: Album Review
Album artwork showing a snarling blue and black hyena in a studded leather jacket against a lime green background

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Strike and Kill by DevilDriver: Album Review
Front cover of Punk in Drublic: a black panel with the NOFX logo turned on its side, next to two cut-out cowgirls leaping across a hot pink sky. Podcast

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Punk in Drublic by NOFX: The Complete Story
Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam singing into a microphone beside guitarist Johnny Marr at BST Hyde Park in London in July 2022.

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Grunge: The Complete Story
Kirk Hammett of Metallica playing his guitar on stage in Ecuador in 2016.

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Bay Area Thrash: The Complete Story
Four members of Iron Maiden playing on a stage dressed as a Mayan temple with a jungle and pyramid backdrop, in front of a crowd holding up phones, in Madrid on 13 July 2016.

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NWOBHM: The Complete Story
Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day singing into a microphone on stage at Rock im Park in Germany in 2013.

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Pop Punk: The Complete Story
Front cover of Enema of the State by Blink-182: model Janine Lindemulder smiling in a white nurse's coat and cap, snapping on a blue surgical glove, with blue butterfly tattoos and the blink-182 logo badge on her chest. Podcast

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Enema of the State by Blink-182: The Complete Story

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Front cover of Camino Palmero: a symmetrical view down two covered railway platforms towards a distant vanishing point, wet tracks gleaming between them and overhead wires strung with round globes beneath a stormy blue sky, with THE CALLING in distressed black capitals across the top and CAMINO PALMERO in smaller blue letters below.

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Camino Palmero by The Calling: The Complete Story
Front cover of Silver Side Up: an extreme close-up of a sea-green eye over a scratched olive background, with a stream of liquid silver running from the lower lid into a fat, mirror-like drop, and NICKELBACK in distressed black capitals with the B printed backwards. Podcast

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Silver Side Up by Nickelback: The Complete Story
Front cover of Magma: a monochrome engraving style illustration of a black triangular volcano rising from a stylised sea, a sun disc with a calm human face set into its slope, and a huge plume of curling smoke filling the sky. Podcast

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Magma by Gojira: The Complete Story
Front cover of All Killer No Filler: a four-by-four grid of flash-lit snapshots of the members of Sum 41 gurning, tongues out and eyes crossed, on a near-black background, with the band's white and red logo and the album title scrawled in red across the middle. Podcast

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All Killer No Filler by Sum 41: The Complete Story
Front cover of Punk in Drublic: a black panel with the NOFX logo turned on its side, next to two cut-out cowgirls leaping across a hot pink sky. Podcast

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Punk in Drublic by NOFX: The Complete Story
Front cover of Enema of the State by Blink-182: model Janine Lindemulder smiling in a white nurse's coat and cap, snapping on a blue surgical glove, with blue butterfly tattoos and the blink-182 logo badge on her chest. Podcast

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Enema of the State by Blink-182: The Complete Story
Front cover of ZZ Top's Tres Hombres: a flat green field with the title in brown Western-style lettering, a row of three small framed outdoor photographs beneath it, and the band name in brown block capitals at the bottom. Podcast

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Tres Hombres by ZZ Top: The Complete Story
Exile on Main St. by The Rolling Stones – The Complete Story | Riffology Podcast

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Exile on Main St. by The Rolling Stones – The Complete Story

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A blonde woman in a navy tartan school pinafore sits at a wooden school desk facing a bare plaster wall, with a black cross mounted above her that tapers into a downward arrow.

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Dear God by The Pretty Reckless: Album Review

Dear God by The Pretty Reckless is their fifth album, their darkest, and the one I keep going back to. Riffology Score 92/100.
Album artwork showing a snarling blue and black hyena in a studded leather jacket against a lime green background

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Strike and Kill by DevilDriver: Album Review

DevilDriver's Strike and Kill is thirteen tracks of pure grievance and the tightest they have sounded in a decade. Jon Miller is back and you can hear it.
Lamb of God - Into Oblivion - Artwork

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Into Oblivion by Lamb of God – album review

Riffology Score: 88/100 Thirty years into a career built on sheer bloody-minded heaviness, Lamb of God could easily
Megadeth - Megadeth - Album Cover

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Megadeth by Megadeth – album review

Riffology Score: 71/100 After forty years of raising hell and rewriting the rules of thrash metal, Megadeth