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What’s occurring, butt!?In an age where popstars summon billions with a single TikTok soft-launch, the latest global touring stats have dropped… and three mighty beasts of rock still stomp among the Top 25 most popular touring acts of the entire 21st century: Metallica. Iron Maiden. Bon Jovi. Three names heavier than a Newport hangover. Three bands proving rock doesn’t just...

What’s occurring, butt!?Strap on your studded belt, spill some cheap lager on your Docs, and prepare to vanish into the glorious paper-cut universe of 1980s Italian punk — because a MASSIVE new archive has just detonated onto the internet, and it is pure DIY gold dust. 💥📰 Bologna punk archivist Paolo Palmacci has undertaken the kind of project that only...

We’ve lost a real one today, butt. Tetsu Yamauchi, the legendary bassist who held down the low-end thunder for Free and later The Faces, has passed away at the age of 79, his family have confirmed. A soft-spoken soul with a groove that could crack pavement, Tetsu never needed the spotlight… because his basslines did all the talking. Proper job....

🔥Grab the tissues, grab the leather jacket, and grab your emotional support battle vest — because we’re diving head-first into the most chest-pounding, heart-shredding, lighter-raising power ballads ever forged in the fires of Mount Riffmore. These aren’t soft…These aren’t guilty pleasures…These are weapons-grade emotion with distortion pedals, butt! 🤘😭🔥 Let’s get stuck in… 🎤 1. Metallica – Nothing Else Matters...

🎸Tidy news for metalheads and rum goblins everywhere! Raise your tankards, ye scurvy dogs — because Iron Maiden have just dropped a drink so iconic, even Eddie himself looks like he’s about to stagger off the shipwreck and ask for a double. Introducing: THE RUM OF THE ANCIENT MARINER — a premium Caribbean dark rum inspired by the band’s legendary epic. This...

Good Things Festival, Melbourne — pure scenes, pure chaos, pure festival silliness. Alright butt, gather round — because the internet’s blowing up over a very Australian showdown at Good Things Festival yesterday. And before we go ANY further: 👉 Justice for Beach Ball Guy. 👉 FREE THE BALL. 👉 HE WAS JUST VIBING, MUN. Let’s get into it… 🎤 THE...

The Riff Report Blog Edition — where even the history lessons come with riffs and chaos December 5th might look like any other chilly winter day… But in the world of rock ’n’ roll? This date is absolutely heaving with legendary moments, iconic releases, outrageous musical milestones, and one very important rock-baby arrival. Grab your battle-jacket, pour a festive pint,...

Tidy little throwback for you, butt… because 12 years ago today, Five Finger Death Punch wrapped up their 2013 UK tour in proper style, storming the stage at Birmingham’s LG Arena — the very city where metal itself was forged in the fires of Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, and every riff that ever melted a face. 🖤⚒️ And let me...

“Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin…” 🤘 The psychedelic shamans of rock are officially back in the shops, and they’ve brought a sonic time machine with them. The brand-new THE DOORS – IMMERSED 1967–1971 Blu-ray collection has finally landed, and butt… it is lush as hell. 🥵✨ This beast of a box set unleashes all six classic...

Metalheads of the world, unite — because the Prince of Darkness might finally be getting the holiday he deserves! A massive fan movement, spearheaded by @ThisDayInMetal, has blown past 10,000 signatures on a petition calling for July 22nd to be officially recognised worldwide as Ozzy Osbourne Day. And honestly? Long overdue, mun. Very long overdue. The man who gave us...

C’MON BUTT… gather round the merch table, because we need to shout this from the mountaintops of Cymru to the backstreets of Leeds… VERSUS ARE AN ABSOLUTE TIDY BUNCH OF LEGENDS. 🤘😄 Not only did they sit down with us for a proper lush interview, but they also sent the entire Riff Report crew a haul of their merch so...

🎶🔥 FAMOUS SONGS WITH LYRICS WE ALL GET WRONG — WHAT’S OCCURRING, MUN?! 🔥🎶Welcome back to The Riff Report, where we lovingly ruin your favourite tunes by telling you what they actually mean. Strap in, butt — some of these are proper “WTF?!” moments. 🤘😂 👀 THE POLICE — “EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE” The vibe people think it is:A lush...

If your Christmas playlist has been feeling a bit too polite, too cosy, not enough catsuits and falsetto shrieking… worry not, butt — The Darkness have arrived like glitter-covered elves armed with Flying Vs to save the season! 🤘✨ Yup, our favourite glam-rock mischief-makers have unleashed a life-affirming, over-the-top, gloriously daft cover of Cliff Richard’s ‘Mistletoe and Wine’, and it’s...

How Do You Go From Three #1 Albums To… THAT? Only in 2025, butt… only in 2025 would THE BEATLES — the biggest band in human history, the group who invented half the modern music industry by accident — drop the fourth entry in their legendary Anthology series and somehow debut at… #48. Forty. Eight.For The Beatles.Honest to god, I...

Tidy philosophy for life, innit? Alright butt, gather round the merch pile — it’s time for a public service announcement from The Riff Report:Metalheads AND Rockers do NOT age.We simply respawn with more black T-shirts, more leather jackets, more gig scars, and a collection of tour laminates that would make a museum curator weep with jealousy. If you’ve ever woken...