Hair Metal's Heaviest Riff?

This is actually a really damn good list. A guy who posts as The Art of Guitar on Facebook and YouTube created a list of his picks for the heaviest riffs in hair metal. He plays each song, too!

Some of the selections include Whitesnake's "Still of the Night" and Slaughter's "Take Me Away." Of course, Skid Row's "Slave To The Grind" is included. Shotgun Messiah makes an appearance and so does Dokken. Give it a play and let me know what you think.

Kingpin to Shotgun Messiah

Happy November. It is hard to believe the holiday season is almost here.

Before Shotgun Messiah was a thing, a version of the band was known as Kingpin. The Swedish Kingpin released an album called Welcome to Bop City and it has some pretty catch tunes on it, including "Don't Care About Nothin'" and you can hear that one below.

I was listening to "Don't Care About Nothin'" and was struck by how much the song sounds like Open Up and Say... Ahh! era-Poison. The albums lived in the same time universe as Welcome To Bop City came out in 1988 just like Poison's Glam masterpiece. "Shout It Out" was also on Welcome To Bop City and that song was a hit in Sweden before the band was rebranded as Shotgun Messiah.

It never ceases to amaze me that super-star-tough-guy bassist Tim Skold was in Kingpin/Shotgun Messiah.

Just for fun - some clips of Tim Skold with Marilyn Manson.