Welcome to Riffology Podcast! We’re a (mostly) weekly music podcast that focuses on rock albums from the 80s and 90’s, maybe a few from the 70s and 2000s too.
We are Neil and Chris, we’re both embracing the joys of steadily growing older and enjoying going back to the albums of our youth. Sometimes we ask our listeners to pick the albums from a chosen year and sometimes we pick our own favourites. Sometimes, they are albums we loved and sometimes albums that passed us by and we revisit them to see what all the fuss was about.
This is a celebration of incredible music from a time when albums were meaningful and important to us.
RIFF064 - Anthrax - Sound of White Noise
Anthrax pivot hard into the ’90s on Sound of White Noise—first with John Bush, last with Dan Spitz—and somehow make it feel inevitable rather than mid-life crisis. We dig into why the songs land...
RIFF063 - Anthrax - Persistence of Time
Anthrax get serious. We dig into Persistence of Time (1990)—the darker, tighter, grown-up pivot where Joey Belladonna’s vocals cut through a heavier mix, the grooves slow just enough to hit harder...
RIFF062 - Soulfly - Soulfly
Soulfly’s debut gets the dry-ice treatment: Max channelled grief into groove and built a new tribe from scratch. We dig into Ross Robinson’s Indigo Ranch crunch (’97–’98), Andy Wallace’s m...
RIFF061 - Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
RIFF060 - Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters
In this episode, Chris and Neil bravely tackle the Foo Fighters’ debut—after a brief existential debate on the meaning of “all the important information.” The conversation meanders through Dav...
RIFF059 - Stereophonics - Performance and Cocktails
In this instalment of Riffology, Chris arrives early and fully prepared, a development so shocking that Neil repeatedly checks he hasn’t fallen into a parallel universe. They introduce Stereophonics...
RIFF058 - Carcass - Heartwork
This week, we sharpen our scalpels and wade into Heartwork by Carcass. Expect a forensic examination of melodic death metal’s most clinical album: guitars get dissected, solos catalogued, and lyrics...
RIFF057 - Black Sabbath - Paranoid
A discussion of Black Sabbath’s Paranoid that manages to cover the essentials: melodic guitar work, enduring riffs, and the occasional existential observation about endless skies and the moon. The c...
RIFF056 - Oasis - Definitely Maybe and (What's The Story) Morning Glory
In this episode, your hosts put away any pretence of picking a favourite and instead take a measured, nostalgic stroll through both of Oasis’s defining albums: Definitely Maybe and (What’s the Sto...
