Welcome to the wild Welsh mountainside, butt! Where the wind howls like Lemmy’s ghost and everything smells faintly of cowpat and anticipation 🐄🔥 This ain’t just another festival — this is Steelhouse, perched on a blooming mountain, built by a team of maniacs, miracle workers, and metalheads. And guess what? We’re peeling back the curtain […]
📍 Catton Park, Derbyshire | 🗓️ August 7–10, 2025 Sharpen your horns, dig out your battle jackets, and start sacrificing your last clean band tee – because BLOODSTOCK OPEN AIR 2025 is nearly upon us, and we are not ready in the best possible way. 🖤 The BOA faithful know what’s coming:🎸 Wall-to-wall riffs🥵 Circle […]
YESS MUN! Let’s dive into the chaos, crunch, and curveballs that 2025 has thrown our ears so far. From comeback kings to genre-bending beasts, here are The Best Albums of 2025 (So Far) – as loud, lush, and mad as a mosh pit in a Greggs. 🤘🥓🎧 🎸 1. Bring Me The Horizon – POST […]
From pub blags to stadium anthems — these were the nights that changed lives, rewrote rock history, and screamed “MAD FOR IT!” louder than a lad in a parka. 🏁 1. King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut – Glasgow, May 1, 1993 👥 Crowd: ~60This is where it all began. Noel blagged the band onto the […]
HELENA, HOLD MY EYELINER – THEY’RE COMING BACK.by The Riff Report Team – July 2025 Right. Someone fetch us a black parade jacket and a pint of something dark – because My Chemical Romance have just gone and dropped a bombshell that’s got the entire MCRmy shaking in their fishnet gloves. THEY’RE GOING ON TOUR. […]
Fall Out Boy guitarist Joe Trohman has announced he’ll be stepping away from the band’s current tour to undergo surgery on his hand. The news broke via a personal statement from Trohman, who reassured fans that while he’s gutted to miss out on the shows, this procedure is absolutely necessary to get him back to […]
Let’s not beat around the synth riff — Europe are absolute legends. Not just a one-hit wonder, not just a hair-metal time capsule — this Swedish rock juggernaut is arena rock royalty, and they’ve been cranking out tunes for over 40 years that make you throw fists in the air, bang your head, and probably […]
Well, this is one hell of a plot twist no one saw coming – not even in a Corey Taylor fever dream! 🤘 As if BLACK SABBATH’S FINAL HOMECOMING MELTDOWN AT VILLA PARK wasn’t already legendary enough — with doom riffs, weeping fans, and Ozzy probably defying medical science just by standing upright — we […]
Oi oi! Strap in, c’mon butt, ‘cos we’re diving headfirst into the loudest, proudest, most chaotically vulnerable punk-pop juggernaut of the 21st century: YUNGBLUD. 🤘🎸🖤 He’s the black-heart emoji of Gen Z rock — part Sex Pistols, part My Chemical Romance, part glitchy TikTok chaos — and somehow still 100% himself: messy, mouthy, and madly […]
This wasn’t just a gig.This wasn’t just a homecoming.This was the funeral, the feast, and the fire – rolled into one colossal, doom-drenched, goosebump-laced goodbye. BLACK SABBATH returned to where it all began – Birmingham – for the final time.Not just a band. Not just a show. This was the end of the world, played […]
Full Review by The Riff Report Blog – July 5, 2025Stage: Back To The Beginning Main StageArtist: OZZY OSBOURNE (THE PRINCE. THE LEGEND. THE RETURN.)Time: Sundown ’til souls rose 🌙✨ 🕯️ “I’M NOT GOING ANYWHERE… I’M F***ING OZZY!” – THE HOMECOMING WE DIDN’T KNOW WE NEEDED 🦇🥹 Ozzy Osbourne. Back in Birmingham. On his own […]
Full Review by The Riff Report Blog – July 5, 2025Stage: Back To The Beginning Main StageBand: METALLICA (USA – The Kings. The Closers. The Absolute Unit.)Time: Somewhere after midnight, beneath fire, stars, and 70,000 horns in the air 🤘 🎸 “SEEK… AND DESTROOOOOY!” – METALLICA BRING THE FINAL KILL SHOT TO VILLA PARK 🎯🔥 […]
Full Review by The Riff Report Blog – July 5, 2025Stage: Back To The Beginning Main StageBand: Guns N’ Roses (aka “Who let this happen?”)Time: Somehow dragged on for 3 hours that felt like eternity in slow motion 🫠 🥀 “YOU’RE IN THE JUNGLE, BABY”… AND IT’S A SWAMP OF SADNESS 🐢 We’re not gonna […]
Full Review by The Riff Report Blog – July 5, 2025Stage: Back To The Beginning Main StageBand: SLAYER (USA – THE RETURN. THE RECKONING.)Time: 00:66am – after midnight, after reason, after mercy ⚰️ 🧨 “SLAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYERRRRRR!” – THE WAR CRY HEARD ‘ROUND BIRMINGHAM 🗡️ They said they were done. They said the final tour in 2019 […]
Full Review by The Riff Report Blog – July 5, 2025Stage: Back To The Beginning Main StageBand: TOOL (USA)Time: 11:11pm. Full moon. Phase-shifted reality. 🌕⏳ 🧠 “THINK FOR YOURSELF. QUESTION EVERYTHING.” – TOOL TRANSCEND REALITY IN BIRMINGHAM 🛸 If you were expecting circle pits and beer-fuelled chaos… you wandered into the wrong dimension, butt. TOOL […]