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Twenty-one years ago today, Iron Maiden gave metalheads everywhere the ultimate time machine — The History of Iron Maiden: Part 1 – The Early Days, released on this day in 2004. A two-DVD deep dive into the band’s chaotic, loud, and legendary early years, this release remains one of the most essential Maiden collections ever made. 🤘 This wasn’t your...

It’s been years since we lost Mitch Lucker, but his voice, energy, and sheer chaos on stage still echo through the metalcore scene.Born on October 20, 1984, Mitch rose to fame as the frontman of Suicide Silence, a band that reshaped the landscape of extreme music in the 2000s with their brutal sound and unapologetic emotion. Lucker was the kind...

By The Riff Report Rock fans have officially had enough of autotune and mimed halftime sets — and they’re making some serious noise online to prove it. Over 20,000 people have signed a petition demanding that Steven Tyler, the unstoppable frontman of Aerosmith, headline the next Super Bowl Halftime Show. The campaign is spreading faster than a Joe Perry riff,...

Move over Peart, Portnoy, and Grohl — there’s a new stick-swinging savage in town, and he’s smashing the algorithm and your eardrums. Meet El Estepario Siberiano, the Spanish drum wizard who’s turned rhythm into religion and YouTube into his personal Wembley Arena. 🤘 🎤 WHO IS EL ESTEPARIO SIBERIANO? Born Jorge Garrido in Valencia, Spain (around July 1996), this guy...

When you think of halftime, you picture players catching their breath, the gaffer shouting tactics, and fans legging it for a pie and a pint. 🍺 But at West Bromwich Albion’s Hawthorns Stadium, halftime just got real — and we absolutely love it. 👏 Up on the big screen came a simple but powerful message: “Half-time lasts 15 minutes.Talk about...

By The Riff Report – where the amps are loud, but the emotions are louder. When Nirvana: MTV Unplugged in New York first aired in December 1993, nobody knew we were watching history unfold — and heartbreak being recorded in real time. Just months later, Kurt Cobain was gone. What had been a quiet, stripped-back set suddenly became a haunting...

After two long years of mystery, name changes, and sonic teasing, Sun Dont Shine (formerly known as Eye Am) have finally stepped out of the shadows with the official announcement of their debut album — Birth To Death. And to mark the occasion, the band have just dropped their latest single, “In The End”, now streaming on all major platforms....

🔥By The Riff Report Crew Sometimes, rock history isn’t written in gold records — it’s built from junk. 💀 Eddie Van Halen, the wizard of the whammy bar and the patron saint of DIY guitar heroes, once bought a reject guitar body from a junk pile for just $50. What came next? He created one of the most copied, worshipped,...

The Catman has roared once more! 🐱💥Original KISS drummer Peter Criss is stepping out from behind the kit and back into the spotlight with his first solo album in years, set to land this December — just in time to stuff the stockings of every classic rock fanatic on the planet! 🎅🎸 For the fans who grew up air-drumming to...

🎸 Rock & Metal Albums & Singles Released in November 2025 ⚡ What’s occurring, riff fiends? November 2025 was no cosy autumn stroll through falling leaves—it was a month of grunge-laced sludge, tech-death chaos, metalcore breakdowns, and doom so heavy it could flatten a mountain goat in Snowdonia. From Finnish frostbitten fury to North American comebacks, this month served riffs...

A Riff Report Roll Call of the Loud, the Legendary, and the November-Born 🤘🍁 November might bring colder nights and darker days, but it also delivers a blazing bonfire of rock and metal royalty born to shake the earth. Whether it’s prog pioneers, metal maniacs, or punk powerhouses — this month gave us some of the most genre-defining icons to...

📺By The Riff Report Blog | October 31, 2025 At 9:25pm on Halloween night, 1992, the BBC aired a “live” investigation into the UK’s most haunted house… and in doing so, unleashed one of the most terrifying, infamous TV moments in British history — GHOSTWATCH. 👻 What was billed as a harmless Halloween special turned out to be the stuff...

🎸By The Riff Report Crew 🤘 Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider has once again cranked the volume to 11 — this time aiming his iconic scream straight at KISS, and oh boy, he did not hold back! According to Snider, Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley have crossed the line by making replacement band members wear the original makeup designs of Peter...

Out now and already shaking chandeliers across the land — The Rock Orchestra have unleashed their debut album, Classics Vol. 1, and it’s a beast, butt! 🏴 This isn’t your gran’s string quartet — these legends have taken on titans like Metallica, Evanescence, Aerosmith, System Of A Down, Led Zeppelin, Linkin Park, The Cranberries, Rage Against The Machine, AC/DC, and...

🍿By The Riff Report 🤘 Ghostface is back, butt… again. 😱 Yep, Scream 7 just dropped its official trailer, and we’ve got one question – how many more times can we answer the phone before it’s time to let it ring out? 📞 Neve Campbell’s back. Courteney Cox is back. The knife’s back. The voice’s back. And apparently, so is...