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Big hair. Bigger riffs. Leather trousers. Screaming guitar solos. Enough hairspray to punch a fresh hole in the ozone layer. Welcome back to the glorious world of GLAM METAL, butt. 🤘😈 A massive countdown celebrating the 111 Best Glam Metal Songs has been making the rounds online, courtesy of glam-metal fanatic Felix Mertens, and one particular entry caught our attention...

Well… this definitely wasn’t how anybody expected the night to end. Black metal legend ABBATH has found himself at the centre of a storm after his headline appearance at SaariHelvetti Festival in Tampere, Finland, on Friday 14 August 2026, came to an abrupt halt only minutes after it began. Fans had gathered expecting a full dose of frostbitten Norwegian black...

One of Reading & Leeds Festival’s most important launchpads for new British music is disappearing in 2026 — and while the festival insists new talent remains at the heart of its future, the loss of the dedicated BBC Introducing Stage feels like the end of an era. For nearly two decades, the BBC Introducing Stage wasn’t where you necessarily went...

Another piece of classic Slipknot history has officially left the building. After weeks of rumours, speculation and the sort of online detective work that would make the FBI pack up and go home, Slipknot have confirmed that longtime turntablist and keyboardist Sid Wilson is no longer associated with the band. And if fans were expecting a heartfelt essay looking back...

Former Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg has opened up about the creative restrictions he faced during a major chapter of his career, revealing that legal limitations prevented him from collaborating freely with other artists — and admitting that part of his creativity felt like it was “dying” as a result. For a musician, being told not to make music with other...

On August 16th, 2010, Iron Maiden unleashed their fifteenth studio album, The Final Frontier, via EMI Records — a sprawling, ambitious heavy metal voyage packed with huge riffs, progressive twists, sci-fi atmosphere and classic Maiden storytelling. Sixteen years later, it still feels like one of the most adventurous records of the band’s modern era. And considering this is Iron Maiden...

On This Day In Rock History – 16 August 1977 There are dates in music history that feel bigger than a line on a calendar. 16 August 1977 is one of them. On this day, the world lost Elvis Presley, the man who became known simply as The King of Rock ’n’ Roll. He was just 42 years old. Nearly...

Black metal chaos in Finland as Abbath’s highly anticipated SaariHelvetti headline appearance comes to an abrupt and bewildering end. Well… that escalated quickly. 😳🔥 Norwegian black metal legend Abbath was scheduled to bring the frostbitten fury to SaariHelvetti Festival in Tampere, Finland, on Friday 14 August 2026 — but instead, fans reportedly witnessed one of the shortest and strangest headline...

Joey. Chris. Craig. Jay. And now Sid. Bloody hell, mun. Slipknot have officially confirmed that longtime DJ and turntablist Sid Wilson — #0 himself — is no longer part of the band, ending a run stretching all the way back to 1998. And while lineup changes are hardly unusual in rock and metal, when you look at what has happened...

There’s a quote doing the rounds that might just be one of the finest pieces of financial advice ever delivered to a rock fan: “Don’t be afraid to spend money on live music and beers with friends. Be afraid of growing old and realising the only place you ever went was work.” And frankly… YES MUN. 🤘🔥 Forget motivational posters...

16 August 1986. Donington Park. Around 70,000 rock fans. Six bands. One absolutely monstrous day of heavy music. Today marks the 40th anniversary of Monsters of Rock 1986, a festival that still reads like somebody raided a metalhead’s record collection and decided to book the entire thing in one go. The running order? Bad News. Warlock. Motörhead. Def Leppard. Scorpions....

Disney’s Hollywood Studios | Walt Disney World, FloridaOpened: 26 May 2026The Riff Report Rating: 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸 / 5 There are certain combinations in life that just make sense. Beer and festivals. Greggs and questionable motorway decisions. Guitars and unnecessarily large amplifiers. And apparently… THE MUPPETS AND A BLOODY GREAT ROLLER COASTER. 😂🎢🤘 On 26 May 2026, one of Walt Disney World’s...

Swansea has said an emotional goodbye to one of Wales’ most recognisable voices, as fans, friends and loved ones gathered to pay their respects to Bonnie Tyler. There are some voices you recognise before your brain has even had time to process the song. That unmistakable rasp. That power. That enormous chorus arriving like somebody has just kicked the doors...

Sometimes the biggest ideas begin with something incredibly personal. Not in a boardroom. Not with a massive marketing campaign. Not with somebody waving a clipboard around and using words like synergy. Sometimes they begin with two people simply asking: “How can we make this more inclusive?” For engaged couple Cathal Cully and Rebecca Wilson, that question initially centred around their...

Peace, Love, Mud & Absolutely Monumental Riffs 🤘🌼🔥 There are music festivals… and then there’s Woodstock. Held from 15–18 August 1969 on Max Yasgur’s dairy farm near Bethel, New York, the Woodstock Music & Art Fair became far more than another weekend of bands playing in a field. More than half a million people descended on the site for four...