New month, same madness — pint in one hand, horns in the other, butt 🤘🍻 March has rolled in like a double-kick drum to the chest 💥The weather’s still doing its usual “four seasons in one day” routine 🌧️🌤️🌪️ — but inside the venues? It’s all sweat, riffs, and absolute scenes. Wales is once again […]
March is when winter finally starts packing its bags. The days get longer, festival posters start dropping, and somewhere in the distance you can almost hear the rumble of festival bass bins waking up again. But before we all disappear into muddy fields and beer queues, March gives us a cracking excuse to celebrate something […]
Darkness. Beauty. Absolute mastery — still haunting us 25 years later. 🌲💀🎸 Alright butt… this ain’t just an album — this is a bloody monument. 😤🔥 When Opeth dropped Blackwater Park back in 2001, they didn’t just raise the bar… they built a whole new one in the middle of a haunted forest and dared […]
Right then, you glorious riff goblins — strap in. Former Skid Row frontman and Swedish vocal powerhouse Erik Grönwall has announced his brand new solo album Bad Bones, and it’s already being described as “fearless, personal, and uncompromising.” Translation? This isn’t background music for folding laundry.This is chest-out, teeth-bared, no-apologies rock ‘n’ roll. 🤘🔥 🎤 […]
Right then butt… this is not a drill. Ozzy Osbourne is officially set to receive a BRITs Lifetime Achievement Award, and honestly? It’s about time the mainstream bowed down to the Prince of Darkness. 👑🖤 From Birmingham’s industrial gloom to global metal domination, Ozzy hasn’t just had a career — he detonated one. And because […]
There are moments in rock that just feel correct.Not trendy. Not viral. Not algorithm-approved. Just… right. And seeing Mick Box back on stage with Uriah Heep? That’s one of them. 💥 The Riff Father Is Back 😈🎸 For over five decades (yes, FIVE — let that sink in while you sip your energy drink), Mick […]
Right then, metalheads… this one hits heavy. Iron Maiden have announced their final live shows before stepping away from touring until at least 2028. Yeah. Let that sink in. 😳🔥 The mighty Maiden are putting the road life on pause — but not before finishing The Run For Your Lives Tour in epic fashion… in […]
Sherwood Park / Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Massive shoutout to the legends in Famous Strangers 🤘🔥 for taking the time to chat with us here at The Riff Report! Absolute top bunch — proper sound, proper riffs, proper job 👊Always buzzing to support bands grafting hard and bringing the noise. Stay loud, lads 😈🎸 For anyone […]
Right then, Riff Report massive… brace yourselves. The original photograph used on the front of Led Zeppelin IV has just sold at auction for EIGHT TIMES its original estimate. Not a cheeky little bump. Not a polite overbid. Eight. Times. 💸 That’s not climbing the stairway — that’s building a penthouse at the top of […]
Grindhouse chaos. Industrial filth. This one crawls out the crypt and drags you with it. 🧟🔥🤘 Alright butt… dim the lights, lock the doors, and maybe don’t look behind you for a bit. 😅 Rob Zombie is back with The Great Satan, and it’s exactly the kind of twisted, horror-soaked madness you’d expect — industrial […]
On 25th February, the unstoppable force that is Foo Fighters stormed into O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire and absolutely detonated the place. No filler.No faffing.Just riffs stacked higher than the Empire balcony. This wasn’t a polite evening of light entertainment. This was cardio for the soul. 🏟 INTIMATE VENUE. STADIUM INTENSITY. Shepherd’s Bush is the kind […]
Right then, riff-raff… the nominations for the Class of 2026 have landed and it’s a proper mixed bag of legends, outsiders, pioneers and absolute icons. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has unveiled this year’s ballot — and it’s already causing debates louder than a Marshall stack on 11. 😏 No inductees yet — […]
🎸 2021 – Genre Walls Fully Smashed Foo Fighters first year eligible and straight in.Jay-Z inducted while still culturally dominant.Tina Turner getting in as a solo artist too? Absolute legend status confirmed. 🎤 2022 – 80s Edge & Arena Power Eminem first year eligible? Straight in.Dolly initially tried to decline, then dropped a rock album. […]
🎸 2016 – Arena Giants & Hip-Hop Legends Deep Purple finally getting in? Long overdue.N.W.A? Proof that the Hall had fully embraced cultural impact over narrow genre boxes. 🎤 2017 – 90s Alt & Stadium Swagger Pearl Jam first year eligible and straight in.Tupac inducted within the first year of eligibility too.Prog, grunge and hip-hop […]
🎸 2011 – New Wave Meets Old School Cool Alice Cooper finally getting in? About time. Shock rock royalty secured. 🎤 2012 – Guns, Blues & Beastie Energy Guns N’ Roses induction drama alone could’ve headlined Download. 🎶 2013 – Grunge Gets Its Crown Rush finally going in after years of fan campaigning? Prog fans […]