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We're officially more than halfway through the year, and there are a lot of bands on the road as we write this. We know how difficult it can be to keep track of when all your favourite artists are touring, so we're here to help. Thus, we've prepared a list of the rock and metal bands touring throughout 2025 so...

Who said you need walls of distortion to crush skulls and melt souls? 🧠💥 Strip away the amps, dial down the decibels, and some tracks still hit harder than a pint of Snakebite at last orders 🍺⚰️. Whether it’s the raw emotion, lyrical venom, or just the sheer weight of what’s being said, these acoustic tracks prove you don’t need...

A Riff Report Blog Dive Into the Lush, the Loud, and the Load-ed 😈 Ahh, Load and Reload — the Marmite of Metallica’s catalogue. Some fans think they’re underrated Southern rock masterpieces, others treat them like that one time Lars wore eyeliner. But no matter where you stand, there’s no denying they sound very different from the thrash-tastic glory of...

This ain’t just a list—it’s a mullet-powered, Marshall-stacked salute to the loudest, proudest legends who shaped the Decade of Decadence. From Sunset Strip shredders to British heavy metal gods, here’s who ruled the roost, melted faces, and rewrote the rules of rock in the 1980s. Buckle up, butt — it’s about to get radical 🚖🔥 🎤 1. Freddie Mercury (Queen)...

Sometimes bands break up... and sometimes they just reorganise like your dodgy pub quiz team after one player forgets it's Thursday. What do you get when almost everyone from a band sticks together but one person vanishes (or gets booted)? You get these musical near-reunions that are so close, yet completely different. Here's to the 9 bands that carried on...

Opal in Sky proves metal's not just noise – it's got heart, crayons, and ambition Right, listen up! We’re used to viral metal bands smashing faces with breakdowns and banshee screams, but this time the loudest shout came from a 12-year-old with a pencil case full of dreams and a future brighter than a pyro blast at a Rammstein gig....

When it comes to making rock history, most musicians would kill for one legendary claim to fame. Just one! But Ilan Rubin — the newest full-time drummer for the Foo Fighters — didn’t just tick that box. He did it twice, before most of us had figured out how to play a power chord without slicing our fingers open. 😅...

“Your love is what’s carrying me right now.” The world’s still spinning, but for Kelly Osbourne, it’s been rocked to its core. In the days following the tragic passing of her legendary father, Ozzy Osbourne, Kelly has broken her silence — and her words are as raw and heartfelt as a Sabbath solo. In a touching post shared across her...

Ahh, the ol' Use Your Illusion saga – two albums, one hell of a legacy, and now… a Dolby Atmos remix that’s not happening, apparently. Why? Because Guns N’ Roses reportedly vetoed the whole thing. Yup, even in 2025, GN’R still know how to stir up some rock ‘n’ roll drama. 🎤🔥 What Actually Happened? 🤔 Progressive rock wizard and...

Well, slap a sticker on your boombox and crank the volume to 11, because Metallica’s iconic self-titled 1991 release — The Black Album — has just done something monumental. It's now the fourth album in history to spend 800 weeks on the Billboard 200. That’s right — EIGHT. HUNDRED. WEEKS. 😱🔥 Let’s break it down, shall we?That’s 15.4 years on...

Because even legends needed a leg-up once 1. Ozzy Osbourne Took Metallica on Tour (1986) Back when Metallica were just thrashing it out in dingy clubs and hadn’t even touched a stadium, Ozzy Osbourne saw something special. In 1986, he took them out as support on his Ultimate Sin tour. It was Metallica's first arena tour, and it exposed them...

Add this to the “WTF is happening on the internet this week” pile — ATILLA frontman and chaos connoisseur Chris Fronzak is going toe-to-toe (digitally, at least) with none other than YouTube titan MrBeast 🥊🐙 It all kicked off after MrBeast (aka Jimmy Donaldson — king of viral stunts, last-man-standing challenges, and giving away more money than a scratchcard addict...

Ah, Maynard James Keenan – the man, the myth, the winemaking, genre-defying frontman who’d probably roundhouse kick your iPhone into the next dimension if you filmed his gig. 😤 Once again, the Tool / A Perfect Circle / Puscifer legend has stirred the pot (or should we say, decanted the bottle?) by doubling down on his stance against mobile phones...

...Because Some Riffs Never Die. There are iconic songs… and then there are songs that become warhorses — the kind of tracks so essential to a band’s identity they’ve been played live more times than you’ve had hot dinners. 🍽️ Some of these beasts have been roared out over 1,500 times, burned into setlists, blasted through dodgy festival PAs, and...

Turns out you can’t keep The Prince of Darkness down — not in the charts, not in the press, and certainly not in a museum. The ‘Ozzy Osbourne: Working Class Hero’ exhibition in Birmingham has smashed expectations, drawing in nearly 100,000 visitors since opening, and now it’s been extended by almost four months due to overwhelming public demand. Birmingham, you’ve...