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Tidy bit of metal history for you, butt! 🏴🔥 When people talk about “lightning in a bottle,” they’re usually exaggerating — but in February 1970, Black Sabbath literally bottled a storm. Their entire debut album was recorded in one single day, played live in the studio like a sweaty midnight club gig, and unleashed onto a world that had no...

Released: 15 November 1983 There are album anniversaries… and then there are werewolf-shredding, moon-howling, heavy-metal milestones. Today marks the release of Ozzy Osbourne’s third solo album, Bark at the Moon — a record that didn’t just keep the Prince of Darkness alive, but dragged him claw-first into a new era. 🐺 A NEW CHAPTER AFTER TRAGEDY The early ’80s were...

C’mon butt, gather round — we’re diving back to 1954, when teenagers first pulled off the ultimate stealth mission: sneaking rock ’n’ roll past their parents. 😈📻 Before streaming, before Walkmans, before iPods… there was the Regency TR-1, the world’s first commercially produced transistor radio. And tidy mun, this little beige beauty changed everything. 🧨 The Day Teens Broke Free...

What’s occurring, festive rockers? Strap in, grab a mince pie, and whack the kettle on, because the legendary Brian May has swooped down like a glam-rock Father Christmas and gifted us a brand-new Christmas song — and he’s teamed up with the wonderfully talented Talia to deliver something proper tidy for the holidays! 🎅🔥 This isn’t your average “jingle bells...

Strap in, butt — Queens of the Stone Age are about to blast a hole clean through the internet, and they’re doing it live from Austin City Limits! 🎸🔥 The desert-rock warlords are firing up a special livestream on Tuesday, November 18th at 8pm, and honestly… tidy stuff like this should be illegal. If you’ve ever wanted to watch QOTSA...

Well butt, here’s one for the “Only in Norway, mun…” files — a group of Norwegian black metal musicians have reportedly gone missing during a late-night forest hike, prompting a full-scale search operation deep in the woods. And yes, before you ask, it was definitely dark, cold, and spooky enough to count as an unofficial album-cover photoshoot. Search teams armed...

Alright butt, strap in — we’re taking a mad little sprint back to the year 2000, when low-rise jeans were a threat to society and pop-punk was absolutely everywhere. And in the middle of that glorious chaos, The Offspring lobbed their sixth studio album into the world: Conspiracy of One. Tidy! 🏴🤘 This record is peak Offspring — a proper...

A full Riff Report blog post, loud, cheeky, and ready for the pit… 🥁 INTRO: A FEUD NO ONE SAW COMING (BUT WE’RE ALL LOVING) What’s occurring, butt? Strap in because the latest episode of The Osbournes Podcast just dropped a bombshell so big it could headline Download. Sharon, Kelly and Jack Osbourne — the First Family of Chaos —...

What’s occurring, Melbourne?! Fed Square turned into absolute bedlam last night after hordes of fans smashed through the barricades, pushing the iconic venue way over capacity – and forcing the cancellation of Amyl and the Sniffers’ free gig. Proper mayhem, mun! 😅 The band were set to tear the place apart in the musical sense… but the crowd beat them...

Ahhh MTV UK… back when the channel actually blasted riffs, bangers, music videos and late-night chaos that felt like living inside a teenage bedroom plastered with Kerrang! posters. Tidy days, butt! 🏴🔥 Before the reality shows multiplied like gremlins after midnight, MTV UK was the sound of a generation – our generation – a neon-soaked fever dream of guitars, pop-punk,...

🎃C’mon butt… the gates of the underworld just creaked open again – and this time, Slayer are dragging us straight back into the flames with a monstrous 40th-anniversary reissue of their 1985 classic Hell Awaits. Tidy! This isn’t just a re-release… it’s a full-blown summoning ritual stacked with goodies, rarities, demos, live cuts, posters, flyers, and vinyl variants hotter than...

C’mon butt, gather round — because Megadeth have just lobbed a proper metal grenade into the universe, and the shockwave is huge. The legendary thrash titans have unleashed a brand-new single titled ‘I Don’t Care’, and it comes with a twist sharp enough to cut through a stack of Flying Vs… This track is from what the band are calling...

Well what’s occurring, streamers? Grab a cuppa (or a can of Monster like a true goblin), because this one’s proper hilarious. Spotify finally rolled out its long-awaited “lossless” tier — the mythical feature they’ve been teasing longer than a Tool album cycle — and instead of crowning themselves HD audio gods, they… wait for it… BOOSTED QOBUZ’S USER COUNT BY...

C’mon butt… this one stings. Sharon Osbourne has opened up about something no rock fan ever wanted to hear — the possibility that a sudden fall Ozzy suffered may have set off the chain of events that ultimately led to his passing. And honestly, mun… diolch for the memories, Prince of Darkness, because this one hits harder than a Sabbath...

By The Riff Report – where all roads lead back to loud amps and daft chaos. Tidy! What’s occurring, metalheads? Gather round, because this one’s a proper job of an origin tale — part myth, part mischief, part “only at a festival, mun.” This is the true story of how Bat Sabbath — the most gloriously unhinged Black Sabbath tribute...