Category: Riff Police

Riff Police! Pull Over! #165: Infantry Vs Pantera!

Returning for a special edition due to popular demand, our riff police series continues to educate the people of the Globe in the ways of noticing when a guitarist has been hero worshipping just that little too much and strayed from the left hand path into territory that has lawyers sharpening their pencils. It’s been

Riff Police! Pull Over! #161: Sodom Vs Ouija!

Having been absent without leave since the beginning of July it’s time we resurrected and reanimated the corpse of our Riff Police feature and brought it back to life with something wicked. Back in April, Spanish Cult Black Metal outfit Ouija made their return with a three track offering titled “Selenophile Impia“, their first new

Riff Police! Pull Over! #160: Emmure Vs KoRn!

Celebrating the first anniversary of their album “Hindsight“, Deathcore collective Emmure unveiled a previously unreleased track entitled “Sons of Medusa“, a short, sharp and brutally heavy number that was originally planned to serve as the introduction piece for the album, their second with guitarist Joshua Travis and drummer Josh Miller and first with bassist  Nicholas

Riff Police! Pull Over! #159: Children Of Bodom Vs Pantera!

When people talk about influence, there can’t be much more influential than Pantera. The phrases “inspired a generation” are often used when people talk about the likes of Nirvana but in the case of bands with the longevity that both bands have, with millions of Worldwide listeners, t-shirt wearers and name drops decades after the

Riff Police! Pull Over! #158: Napalm Death Vs Morbid Angel!

In an alternate Universe, when the SWAT team arrived at Nakatomi Plaza they were forced into retreat by a Corpse paint wearing Giant Troll, dressed in black with spiked wrist guards who was blasting Behemoth from a ghetto blaster. His black toothed grin and poisonous breath enough to repel bullets. But that’s a whole other

Riff Police! Pull Over! #157: BALA Vs MC5!

Last week saw the long awaited and highly anticipated arrival of “Maleza” by Spanish duo BALA, their debut for Century Media and third is all. The critically acclaimed pair have already paid their dues with records that have made them something of a Global force as they have lit up festivals such as Stone and

Riff Police! Pull Over! #156: Attila Vs War From A Harlots Mouth!

We do nothing but resurrect old beef in this feature so if you’ve heard this one before, feel free to skip it. The choice of the 2017 “Chaos” European tour trek poster at the end of this piece is a reference to the album that Atlanta Georgia Party Deathcore animals Attila unleashed the year previously.