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Back in the glory days when MTV still played music (remember that? Feels like a fever dream now 😅), bands weren’t just fighting for airtime — they were battling censors, moral panics, and pearl-clutching parents. If your video got banned, it usually meant one thing: you’d made it. Here’s our countdown of the 10 music videos MTV banned — some...

🔥 25 years later — and it still hits like a sledgehammer to the skull. Slipknot have officially dropped the Deluxe 25th Anniversary Edition of their monstrous 1999 self-titled debut album — the one that introduced the world to Iowa’s masked chaos machine and changed the sound of metal forever. And because just reissuing it would be way too normal...

By The Riff Report 🪓🤘 | October 2025 🔥 25 years later — and it still hits like a sledgehammer to the skull. Slipknot have officially dropped the Deluxe 25th Anniversary Edition of their monstrous 1999 self-titled debut album — the one that introduced the world to Iowa’s masked chaos machine and changed the sound of metal forever. And because...

The Sex Pistols, those immortal troublemakers of punk rock, have been forced to slam the brakes on their much-hyped 2025 North and South American tour after guitarist Steve Jones busted his wrist. The announcement dropped on September 2, 2025, via social media, leaving fans gutted and promoters scrambling. This run was meant to be massive — their first proper U.S....

Led Zeppelin weren’t just a band – they were the gods of thunder, the riff-wielding druids who reshaped rock forever. From 1969 to 1980 they dropped eight albums that still echo through stadiums, garages, and every poor guitar shop where teenagers are told “no Stairway, denied!” 🪕 But c’mon butt, picking the 20 greatest Zeppelin songs? That’s like asking Bonham...

⚡ A Storm That Nearly Never Broke Picture it: 1990. AC/DC are holed up in the studio, trying to carve out their next big moment after the Blow Up Your Video era. The lads are under pressure — Bon Scott had been gone a decade, Brian Johnson had carried them through with Back in Black (the biggest comeback album in...

The Day Beatlemania Came Back to the Big Screen What’s occurring, mun? In a move so ambitious it makes Marvel’s Infinity Saga look like a pub gig, Sam Mendes has officially announced that he’s directing not one, but FOUR Beatles movies. And not stretched over a decade either — all four are dropping together in April 2028. That’s right. The...

🎤 Introduction: Still Rockin’ After All These Years What’s occurring, mun? 🤟 While most bands from the ‘80s are too busy cashing their pension cheques or flogging dodgy merch on eBay, Def Leppard are about to prove — once again — that they’re not just living off nostalgia. Nope. These Sheffield lads are dropping brand-new music before they hit the...

A Riff Report Mega-Beast Review 🎸🔥 Korn shows have always been chaotic, but this one? This one entered the mosh-pit folklore books forever. Not because Jonathan Davis ripped the mic stand in half. Not because Head and Munky melted our faces with downtuned riffs. Not even because the bagpipes appeared out of nowhere like a war cry. Nope — this...

⚡ The Snarl Behind the Sunglasses When people think of Motörhead, the image is always the same: a deafening wall of sound, Lemmy’s Rickenbacker bass rumbling like a tank engine, and three blokes blasting out rock ’n’ roll faster than a kebab-fuelled bin joust at Steelhouse Festival. 🥁🔥 But scratch beneath the noise – if your eardrums have survived the...

David Gilmour. The name alone makes guitar nerds weak at the knees. 🎸 From the cosmic bends of Echoes to the weeping solos of Comfortably Numb, the man has a tone that could melt glaciers. And now, at 78, he’s not slowing down – he’s speeding up. The Pink Floyd legend has confirmed he’s working on a brand-new solo album,...

When a rock legend decides to tell their story, you know it’s going to be good. When that legend is Ann Wilson of Heart, the word “good” doesn’t even cover it – we’re talking earth-shaking, soul-lifting, stadium-sized epicness. The new film, aptly titled In My Voice, isn’t some dusty retrospective. It’s Ann Wilson, in her own words, peeling back the layers of a career...

Southampton, brace yourself. Your city is about to be swallowed whole by the riff-soaked, beer-drenched, throat-singing, inflatable-hammer-swinging juggernaut that is Motocultor Festival On The Road. And trust us — this isn’t just another gig. This is a full-on, sweat-drenched cultural collision, a heavy metal carnival dragging Europe’s wildest festival spirit straight into The 1865. On the bill? Italy’s parody-metal lunatics Nanowar of Steel and...

What’s occurring? Only one of the most unexpected and brilliant Ozzy Osbourne tributes you’ll ever see – and it didn’t come from a metal festival, a tattoo convention, or a Brummie boozer. Nope. It came from a marching band in Oklahoma. Tidy! 🤘 The Pride of Oklahoma Marching Band turned their halftime show into a full-blown Prince of Darkness spectacular, blasting out a medley of Ozzy and...

Well, tidy mun – this is the glam-rock team-up we never knew we needed but now can’t live without! 🤘 The Struts, Britain’s most flamboyant modern rockers, have officially dropped the new video for their reimagined anthem “Could Have Been Me” featuring none other than Queen legend Sir Brian May. 👉 Watch it here: The Struts feat. Brian May – “Could Have Been Me”...