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🎅🎸 INTRO: THE CHRISTMAS DEBATE THAT WON’T DIE (HARD) Every December, like Mariah Carey on a sugar rush, the same question bursts through the roof tiles: “IS DIE HARD A CHRISTMAS MOVIE?” And every year, without fail, someone in your family — usually Uncle Dai after three Snowballs — yells: “OF COURSE IT IS, YOU ABSOLUTE WEAPON!” Here at The...

C’mon butt, gather round the wireless – because tonight is one of those proper Welsh rock-and-roll moments that makes you want to crack open a can, crank the volume, and yell TIDY! at the moon. At 7pm sharp, our very own Benji Webbe — the metal-dreaded, neon-jacketed, endlessly charismatic frontman of Skindred and beloved hero of Cymru — is stepping...

What’s occurring, riff warriors? December is usually a time for tinsel, turkey, and terrible Mariah covers in Tesco — but not for us lot. For the metal faithful, December 2025 was about doom rituals, gothic theatrics, and melodic firestorms to close the year louder than Santa’s sleigh hitting a Marshall stack. Let’s rip into the final chaos of the year....

December ain’t just mince pies, awkward family dinners, and Mariah Carey taking over the radio again. Oh no, mun — it’s also the month a bunch of absolute rock & metal legends blew out their candles (or set fire to the whole cake 🤟). From the Prince of Darkness to whiskey-fuelled road warriors, December’s packed tighter than a sweaty pub...

A Riff Report Round-Up of Winter-Born Legends Who Keep It LOUD 🤘🔥 Baby, it’s cold outside… but these December-born rockers bring the HEAT. As the year wraps up with fairy lights, frozen toes, and far too many awkward office parties, the rock and metal world celebrates some of its loudest, weirdest, and most legendary icons. From doom pioneers to glam gods, December...

Tidy little Riff Report special incoming… strap in, butt! If you’ve ever blasted The Diary of Jane at 3am like a melodramatic goblin (we’ve all been there, don’t lie), you’ve probably wondered at some point: “Oi… why are they called Breaking Benjamin anyway?” Did it come from some dark childhood moment? A philosophical epiphany? A cosmic alignment of riffs and...

Tidy scenes for the clergy, butt — the unholy sermon just levelled up. If you’ve seen Ghost live this year, you already know why Revolver Magazine just handed them the Best Live Band of the Year award. For everyone else… grab a cuppa (or maybe something stronger), because Papa and the Nameless Ghouls have been out here absolutely annihilating stages...

30 November 1979 — A night so loud even the Clyde probably vibrated. Ohhh Glasgow, what’s occurring?! On this day back in 1979, Queen marched into the legendary (and slightly terrifying) Glasgow Apollo for the first of two nights on their ‘Crazy Tour’ — and the place absolutely erupted. If you’ve ever been in a crowd where the balcony literally...

If you thought today’s moral panics were wild, butt… let’s rewind to 1976, when Rod the Mod dropped what looked like a gentle slow-dance tune — “Tonight’s the Night (Gonna Be Alright).” A bit of romance, a bit of groove, a bit of Rod swagger. What could possibly go wrong, eh? EVERYTHING.And the BBC absolutely lost its mind. 😭🔥 🎧...

If there’s one date etched into the sacred stone tablet of rock ’n’ roll history, it’s 29 November 1975 — the day the UK singles chart bowed, kneeled, and offered a ceremonial cuppa to Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, the most gloriously bonkers song ever written. And aye butt, it didn’t just hit No.1… it moved in, redecorated, and stayed for NINE...

“If you can build a metaverse, you can feed a kid.” — YUNGBLUD, coming in hotter than a Download Festival pyro blast 🎇 C’mon butt, strap in — because our lad YUNGBLUD has decided he’s had ENOUGH of billionaire boys’ toys, and he’s fired a shot straight across the bows of the richest men in tech. And honestly… tidy. 👏 The...

Well well well… here we go again! Stranger Things drops a new season and suddenly the entire planet remembers that the ’80s absolutely slapped harder than a cymbal in a Slipknot rehearsal. 🥁💥 And this time? Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” is running up every chart going. Tidy. Absolutely tidy. 📈 THE NUMBERS ARE GOING MADDER THAN THE UPSIDE...

Crank the amps, grab a pint, and bow down to the quietest legend in rock, because John Deacon has officially been crowned the King of the Bassline — and honestly, it’s about time, butt! 🏴🤘 In a massive public vote that cut through genres, decades, playlists, and a few thousand arguments in pubs across Britain, Queen’s iconic 1980 belter “Another...

THE FULL, UNFILTERED, WELSHIFIED RIFF REPORT BLOG POST C’mon butt, gather round the digital campfire — because this one’s a belter. After more than FIFTY YEARS of screeching, swaggering, scarf-swinging excellence, Aerosmith have FINALLY claimed their first ever UK Number 1 album, and they’ve done it by partnering with the most wonderfully feral goblin in British rock: Yungblud. Yes. Steven...

Grab your sunnies, your picnic blanket, and maybe a cheeky cider (or three), because the guitar wizard himself — ERIC BLOODY CLAPTON — has announced a massive outdoor headline show for August 2026 as part of the legendary Heritage Live concert series. And trust me, butt… this one’s gonna be lush as you like. 🤘🔥🏴 Clapton under the open sky?...