Because the only ringing we want after a festival is the sound of the encore echoing in our heads… not tinnitus, butt! If you’ve ever staggered out of a festival after three days of blistering guitar solos, thunderous kick drums and enough singalongs to lose your voice twice over, you’ll know the feeling. The music […]

The Gallagher brothers’ Britpop monster has officially moved ahead of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band 🔥🇬🇧 Right then, rock fans — put the kettle on, crack open something cold and prepare for one of those music-chart stories guaranteed to start an argument in every pub across Britain. Oasis have officially overtaken The Beatles in […]

Tony Iommi has shared a deeply moving tribute to his lifelong friend and Black Sabbath bandmate Ozzy Osbourne, revealing that he still watches videos of the Prince of Darkness on YouTube because it makes him feel as though Ozzy is still here. One year after the world lost one of heavy metal’s most unmistakable voices, […]

The Red Rocker’s legendary Cabo Birthday Bash returns for three nights of riffs, surprises and tequila-fuelled chaos Most people celebrate their 79th birthday with a nice meal, a few cards and perhaps an early night. Sammy Hagar is not most people. The Red Rocker is preparing to celebrate his 79th birthday by throwing three massive […]

The heavy music community is rallying around Hellfekted drummer Connor, who has announced that he is stepping away from the band following a diagnosis of temporal lobe epilepsy. In an emotional statement shared through the band’s social media, Connor explained that he was diagnosed in December after experiencing absence seizures that can leave him completely […]

“This isn’t the damn gold medal karate match!” Spiritbox frontwoman Courtney LaPlante has earned another mountain of respect from the heavy music community after bringing the band’s set in Phoenix to a halt when a fan allegedly became violent in the crowd. The singer stopped proceedings before Spiritbox launched into “Soft Spine”, directing venue security […]

Birmingham has never needed an excuse to celebrate heavy metal. After all, this is the city that gave the world Black Sabbath, helped shape the sound of an entire genre and produced one of rock’s most unforgettable characters in Ozzy Osbourne. But for Ozzy Day, Birmingham has gone one step further. Standing proudly inside Birmingham […]

Before the enormous arena tours, the outrageous stage costumes, the prog-rock masterpieces and the multi-million-selling albums, Genesis were just another young British band trying to make themselves heard in crowded university halls. And judging by the memories of founding guitarist Anthony Phillips, those early days were not exactly one long rock ’n’ roll party. Reflecting […]

Today marks one year since the world lost one of the most important, influential and unmistakable voices in rock and heavy metal history. Ozzy Osbourne passed away at the age of 76, leaving behind a career that did far more than entertain millions of people. He helped reshape the entire sound, image and attitude of […]

The Riff Report Remembers One of Modern Music’s Greatest Frontmen Some voices define a generation. Some singers leave behind unforgettable albums. And then there are artists like Chester Bennington—people whose music becomes part of people’s lives, helping them through heartbreak, anxiety, depression, joy and everything in between. Today marks nine years since Chester’s passing, yet […]

Some songs gently introduce themselves. Some take a few listens before the chorus finally gets its claws into you. And then there is “Du Hast.” A track that arrives like an industrial wrecking ball, kicks the speakers through the wall and sets fire to whatever remains. On this day in 1997, German metal titans Rammstein […]

For years, the humble compact disc has been treated like the forgotten relic of the music world. Streaming took over. Vinyl became cool again. Cassettes somehow returned from the dead wearing sunglasses and charging £18 for six songs. Meanwhile, CDs were left rattling around in car gloveboxes, stacked beside old PlayStation games and buried inside […]

The Broken Lizard crew finally buried a decades-old joke by joining Fred Durst and the lads for a gloriously chaotic blast of “Break Stuff” There are festival cameos… and then there are moments so completely bonkers that they feel like somebody has accidentally flicked over to a comedy film halfway through the set. That is […]

Music festivals are supposed to be places where people escape real life for a few days, throw on their favourite band shirt, grab a pint, lose their voice and spend the weekend surrounded by music, mates and absolute chaos. For many of us, that chaos is part of the magic. The roaring crowds. The thunder […]

After more than five decades of deafening riffs, exploding cannons, sweaty stadiums and Angus Young sprinting around stages like a schoolboy possessed by the spirit of rock ’n’ roll, you might assume performing with AC/DC had become routine. Apparently not, butt. According to Brian Johnson, the legendary Australian rockers are currently enjoying themselves more than […]