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Oldschool Sunday: ENGINE

Pat 'Riot' Whitaker August 25, 2019 Oldschool Sunday: ENGINE https://www.riffrelevant.com/2019/08/25/oldschool-sunday-engine/ Article By: Pat ‘Riot’ Whitaker, Senior Writer/Journalist ‡ Edited By: Leanne Ridgeway, Owner/Editor Six Degrees Of Separation, also known as Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon in the trivia game playing sect, is the idea that all people are six relating social connections (or fewer) away from each other. I have long said that one place [...]

DESCENDANTS OF CROM III – Pat Riot’s Top Must-See Bands: ICARUS WITCH

Pat 'Riot' Whitaker August 22, 2019 DESCENDANTS OF CROM III – Pat Riot’s Top Must-See Bands: ICARUS WITCH https://www.riffrelevant.com/2019/08/22/descendants-of-crom-2019-must-see-bands-icarus-witch/ Article By: Pat ‘Riot’ Whitaker, Senior Writer/Journalist ‡ Edited By: Leanne Ridgeway, Owner/Editor It’s almost Fall again and, more importantly, music festival season! It goes without saying, but I will say it regardless, Riff Relevant takes great pleasure participating in bringing great bands to the masses. This has happened annually, thanks to our untiring auricular [...]

Oldschool Sunday: NINEFINGER

Pat 'Riot' Whitaker August 18, 2019 Oldschool Sunday: NINEFINGER https://www.riffrelevant.com/2019/08/18/oldschool-sunday-ninefinger/ Article By: Pat ‘Riot’ Whitaker, Senior Writer/Journalist ‡ Edited By: Leanne Ridgeway, Owner/Editor Musician Mike Dean is best known as a founding member of North Carolina’s long running crossover heavy rock, metal, hardcore hodgepodge, Corrosion Of Conformity. In C.O.C., Dean has been the bassist on every studio album release save one, 1991’s ‘Blind‘, and is [...]

Oldschool Sunday: ACRIMONY

Pat 'Riot' Whitaker August 11, 2019 Oldschool Sunday: ACRIMONY https://www.riffrelevant.com/2019/08/11/oldschool-sunday-acrimony/ Article By: Pat ‘Riot’ Whitaker, Senior Writer/Journalist ‡ Edited By: Leanne Ridgeway, Owner/Chief Editor Time warping back to the Palm Desert, California region of the U.S. in the year 1991, where the band Sons Of Kyuss (previously known as Katzenjammer from 1987-1989) shorten their name to the matter-of-fact Kyuss. Nearly simultaneously across the pond, in the [...]

Oldschool Sunday: SAD IRON

Pat 'Riot' Whitaker August 4, 2019 Oldschool Sunday: SAD IRON https://www.riffrelevant.com/2019/08/04/oldschool-sunday-sad-iron/ Article By: Pat ‘Riot’ Whitaker, Senior Writer/Journalist ‡ Edited By: Leanne Ridgeway, Owner/Chief Editor Guitarist Bernard Rive forms The Netherlands based band SAD IRON in 1979, with Dirk Ooms (bass), Gerrit Soering (drums), and Jan Palenstijn (vocals), completing its initial line-up. In one of their earliest live appearances, SAD IRON participates in a Battle Of The [...]

Retro Riffs: MORBID ANGEL ‘Altars Of Madness’ Album Review & Stream

Brett Schacht July 28, 2019 Retro Riffs: MORBID ANGEL ‘Altars Of Madness’ Album Review & Stream https://www.riffrelevant.com/2019/07/28/retro-riffs-morbid-angel-altars-of-madness-review/ Article By: Brett Schacht, Staff Writer ‡ Edited By: Leanne Ridgeway, Owner/Chief Editor It may make for splashy headlines, but art that depends on shock value rarely has any lasting relevance; the goalposts of what is considered taboo or too outlandish constantly being moved by relativity and the passage of time. I mean, who’s to [...]

Oldschool Sunday: BLACKWATER PARK

Pat 'Riot' Whitaker July 28, 2019 Oldschool Sunday: BLACKWATER PARK https://www.riffrelevant.com/2019/07/28/oldschool-sunday-blackwater-park72/ Article By: Pat ‘Riot’ Whitaker, Senior Writer/Journalist ‡ Edited By: Leanne Ridgeway, Owner/Chief Editor Long before the album of the same name came from Opeth in 2001, there was the heavily blues flavored progressive rock band from Berlin named BLACKWATER PARK. The band’s name was taken from that of a gothic mansion setting in 18th century [...]

Oldschool Sunday: CAIN

Pat 'Riot' Whitaker July 21, 2019 Oldschool Sunday: CAIN https://www.riffrelevant.com/2019/07/21/oldschool-sunday-cain-seventies-rock-n-roll/ Article By: Pat ‘Riot’ Whitaker, Senior Writer/Journalist ‡ Let’s be honest, musicians during the earliest days of rock and roll selected some very mediocre, or lame, or just terrible names. The Beatles, The Doors, The this, or The that… and in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota circa 1967-ish, there was the [...]

Oldschool Sunday: BURNING TREE

Pat 'Riot' Whitaker July 14, 2019 Oldschool Sunday: BURNING TREE https://www.riffrelevant.com/2019/07/14/oldschool-sunday-burning-tree-la/ Article By: Pat ‘Riot’ Whitaker, Senior Writer/Journalist ‡ Edited By: Leanne Ridgeway, Owner/Chief Editor Most folks do not associate the mecca that is Los Angeles, California with being some kind of urban hotbed overrun with incredible blues artists or bands. While it remains debatable that perhaps it is or perhaps it is not, there is no [...]

Oldschool Sunday: SOLAR EAGLE

Pat 'Riot' Whitaker July 7, 2019 Oldschool Sunday: SOLAR EAGLE https://www.riffrelevant.com/2019/07/07/oldschool-sunday-solar-eagle/ Article By: Pat ‘Riot’ Whitaker, Senior Writer/Journalist ‡ Edited By: Leanne Ridgeway, Owner/Chief Editor It is 1987, in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada, when a quartet of musicians – bassist Zsolt “Pinnochio” Henczely, drummer Rob Orton (aka Rob Straughan), singer “Axe” Renwick, and guitarist The Smash (real name unknown) – form the metal band SOLAR EAGLE. Influenced by [...]

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