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Oldschool Sunday: POSSESSED [New Album Details & Single]

Pat 'Riot' Whitaker March 17, 2019 Oldschool Sunday: POSSESSED [New Album Details & Single] https://www.riffrelevant.com/2019/03/17/oldschool-sunday-possessed-new-album-details-single/ Article By: Pat ‘Riot’ Whitaker, Senior Writer/Journalist ‡ Edited By: Leanne Ridgeway, Owner/Chief Editor Very few bands within the historical timeline of heavy metal have a distinction referencing them as the originators of an all-new musical style that would become a stand alone genre. San Francisco’s POSSESSED are such a band, one that formed in 1983, [...]

Oldschool Sunday: FORCED ENTRY

Pat 'Riot' Whitaker March 10, 2019 Oldschool Sunday: FORCED ENTRY https://www.riffrelevant.com/2019/03/10/oldschool-sunday-forced-entry/ Article By: Pat ‘Riot’ Whitaker, Senior Writer/Journalist ‡ Edited By: Leanne Ridgeway, Owner/Chief Editor Depending on who you ask, the origins of Seattle, Washington’s FORCED ENTRY date back to either 1983 or 1984, when they were known as Critical Condition. Formed by the duo of guitarist / vocalist Brad Hull and bassist / vocalist Tony Benjamins, [...]

Oldschool Sunday: PURGATORY

Pat 'Riot' Whitaker March 3, 2019 Oldschool Sunday: PURGATORY https://www.riffrelevant.com/2019/03/03/oldschool-sunday-purgatory/ Article By: Pat ‘Riot’ Whitaker, Senior Writer/Journalist ‡ Edited By: Leanne Ridgeway, Owner/Chief Editor *Not to be confused with the pre-Iced Earth band Purgatory There are repeated examples of bands that operated under the name PURGATORY, but today’s Oldschool Sunday subjects hailed from Cleveland, Ohio and first formed in 1984. That is the year that Jeff [...]

Retro Riffs: SOUNDGARDEN ‘Superunknown’ Album Review & Stream

Brett Schacht February 24, 2019 Retro Riffs: SOUNDGARDEN ‘Superunknown’ Album Review & Stream https://www.riffrelevant.com/2019/02/24/retro-riffs-soundgarden-review/ Article By: Brett Schacht, Staff Writer ‡ Edited By: Leanne Ridgeway, Owner/Chief Editor After the runaway success of ‘Badmotorfinger‘ and its full-on realization of SOUNDGARDEN‘s unique musical style, the only possible direction for the follow-up was BIGGER. Much bigger, in fact. The final disc ended up as a 70-minute monster that, unlike many of the [...]

Oldschool Sunday: HYDRA VEIN [To Play BROFEST 2020 After 30+ Year Absence]

Pat 'Riot' Whitaker February 24, 2019 Oldschool Sunday: HYDRA VEIN [To Play BROFEST 2020 After 30+ Year Absence] https://www.riffrelevant.com/2019/02/24/oldschool-sunday-hydra-vein/ Article By: Pat ‘Riot’ Whitaker, Senior Writer/Journalist ‡ Edited By: Leanne Ridgeway, Owner/Chief Editor It is the middle of one of metal’s most productive decades, the 1980’s, when the bassist for UK thrashers Deathwish, Damon Maddison, decides to leave the band to pursue recording his own material. He manages to convince Nathan Maddison, the drummer of [...]

Oldschool Sunday: ESOTERIC [Doom Legends Recording New Album]

Pat 'Riot' Whitaker February 17, 2019 Oldschool Sunday: ESOTERIC [Doom Legends Recording New Album] https://www.riffrelevant.com/2019/02/17/oldschool-sunday-esoteric-new-album/ Article By: Pat ‘Riot’ Whitaker, Senior Writer/Journalist ‡ Edited By: Leanne Ridgeway, Owner/Chief Editor It is 1992, in Birmingham, England, the home of such legendary acts as Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Electric Light Orchestra, The Moody Blues, Napalm Death, Godflesh, and many others. A collective of musicians have gathered together and united themselves under the name [...]

Retro Riffs: KISS Debut [45th Anniversary] Album Review & Stream

Brett Schacht February 10, 2019 Retro Riffs: KISS Debut [45th Anniversary] Album Review & Stream https://www.riffrelevant.com/2019/02/10/retro-riffs-kiss-review/ Article By: Brett Schacht, Staff Writer ‡ Edited By: Leanne Ridgeway, Owner/Chief Editor Ever heard the saying “Sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good”? Well, that may be true, but sometimes you have to make your own luck, and that only comes through hard work. No matter the sins of Gene Simmons and [...]

Oldschool Sunday: SCAVENGER

Pat 'Riot' Whitaker February 10, 2019 Oldschool Sunday: SCAVENGER https://www.riffrelevant.com/2019/02/10/oldschool-sunday-scavenger/ Article By: Pat ‘Riot’ Whitaker, Senior Writer/Journalist ‡ Edited By: Leanne Ridgeway, Owner/Chief Editor In the world of one album wonders, perhaps one of the metal realm’s best bands to gain such a recognition would be Belgium’s SCAVENGER. Yet, before their story can begin, we must go back to the real start of the band – [...]

Riot’s Revelation: ‘The Land Of Enstrangement: Vol. 1’ Desert Records Sampler [NYP Item]

Pat 'Riot' Whitaker February 5, 2019 Riot’s Revelation: ‘The Land Of Enstrangement: Vol. 1’ Desert Records Sampler [NYP Item] https://www.riffrelevant.com/2019/02/05/riots-revelation-the-land-of-enstrangement-sampler/ Article By: Pat ‘Riot’ Whitaker, Senior Writer/Journalist ‡ Edited By: Leanne Ridgeway, Owner/Chief Editor Our latest Riot’s Revelation segment is one spotlighting the newly released Desert Records label sampler, ‘The Land Of Enstrangement: Vol. 1‘, released January 18th. The 22-song compilation features tracks from twenty-two current, active bands based in the state of New Mexico, and [...]

Oldschool Sunday: BLACKTHORNE

Pat 'Riot' Whitaker February 3, 2019 Oldschool Sunday: BLACKTHORNE https://www.riffrelevant.com/2019/02/03/oldschool-sunday-blackthorne/ Article By: Pat ‘Riot’ Whitaker, Senior Writer/Journalist ‡ Edited By: Leanne Ridgeway, Owner/Chief Editor It is early into the turn of a new decade, the last one of the second millennium, when the (mostly) American supergroup BLACKTHORNE first form in the early 1990’s. The band consists of British vocalist supreme Graham Bonnet (Alcatrazz, Rainbow, Impellitteri, MSG), [...]

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