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Oldschool Sunday: RELEASE

Pat 'Riot' Whitaker August 20, 2017 Oldschool Sunday: RELEASE https://www.riffrelevant.com/2017/08/20/oldschool-sunday-release/ (By Pat ‘Riot’ Whitaker, Lead Journalist/Writer, RiffRelevant.com) I absolutely dislike writing pieces, where either no, or next to no, information exists about a band, especially Oldschool Sunday articles. Call it perfectionism, a desire to be thorough, whatever… Hell, call it OCD if you want, it doesn’t matter. The subjects of today’s OSS are exactly that [...]

RIFF RELEVANT Presents: EMBER ‘271’ EP In-Studio Recording Visual Series

Pat 'Riot' Whitaker August 18, 2017 RIFF RELEVANT Presents: EMBER ‘271’ EP In-Studio Recording Visual Series https://www.riffrelevant.com/2017/08/18/riff-relevant-ember-ep-in-studio-recording-series/ (By Pat ‘Riot’ Whitaker, Lead Journalist/Writer, RiffRelevant.com) This promotional announcement is the realization of a project I have wanted to do for several years. It pre-dates my joining on during the launch of Riff Relevant, but it is here it shall come to be. As the title and image suggests, Riff Relevant has partnered with Birmingham, [...]

FOUR ON THE FLOOR #3: MARIO TRUBIANO of BORRACHO – Brendan Burns’ Drummer Spotlight

Leanne Ridgeway August 16, 2017 FOUR ON THE FLOOR #3: MARIO TRUBIANO of BORRACHO – Brendan Burns’ Drummer Spotlight https://www.riffrelevant.com/2017/08/16/four-on-the-floor-3-mario-trubiano-borracho-brendan-burns-drummer-spotlight/ (By Brendan Burns of Wasted Theory, Guest Columnist, RiffRelevant.com) For as long as I can remember, it’s always been about the guitar player or the lead singer. That lethal concoction of singers and axe-swingers like Page and Plant. Mick and Keith, Tyler and Perry, Daltry and Townsend, the list goes on and on… But [...]

Oldschool Sunday: PARAMAECIUM

Pat 'Riot' Whitaker August 13, 2017 Oldschool Sunday: PARAMAECIUM https://www.riffrelevant.com/2017/08/13/oldschool-sunday-paramaecium-2/ (By Pat ‘Riot’ Whitaker, Lead Journalist/Writer, RiffRelevant.com) The orchestrally enhanced doom band Paramaecium originally got their start in Melbourne, Australia in the early 1990s. In less than a year from their formation, the trio of bassist / vocalist Andrew Tompkins, guitarist Colin ‘Mosh’ Maynard and drummer Steve Palmer issued their first recordings. The independently issued [...]

Oldschool Sunday: PROFESSIONAL MURDER MUSIC

Pat 'Riot' Whitaker August 6, 2017 Oldschool Sunday: PROFESSIONAL MURDER MUSIC https://www.riffrelevant.com/2017/08/06/oldschool-sunday-professional-murder-music/ (By Pat ‘Riot’ Whitaker, Lead Journalist/Writer, RiffRelevant.com) At the height of Nu-Metal’s hey-day in the mid to late 90s came one of the genre’s more unique entities, one that branched far outside the confines of Nu-Metal itself, Professional Murder Music. It was in those late Nineties, 1999, to be specific, when former Human Waste Project [...]

Riot’s Revelation: FREE New Damage Records Summer Sampler (Inc’s Devin Townsend Project, Vattnet, Powerflo, Comeback Kid, Sparrows & More)

Pat 'Riot' Whitaker August 4, 2017 Riot’s Revelation: FREE New Damage Records Summer Sampler (Inc’s Devin Townsend Project, Vattnet, Powerflo, Comeback Kid, Sparrows & More) https://www.riffrelevant.com/2017/08/04/riots-revelation-free-new-damage-records-summer-sampler-more/ (By Pat ‘Riot’ Whitaker, Lead Journalist/Writer, RiffRelevant.com) Okay, like all Riot’s Revelation segments, this is about getting you something you need in some way. Be it the awareness about a particular band or something else music-related, whatever and today is no different. In fact, today is all about REALLY getting you something and the [...]

FOUR ON THE FLOOR #2: MICHAEL WALTER of WO FAT – Brendan Burns’ Drummer Spotlight

Guest Contributor August 3, 2017 FOUR ON THE FLOOR #2: MICHAEL WALTER of WO FAT – Brendan Burns’ Drummer Spotlight https://www.riffrelevant.com/2017/08/03/four-on-the-floor-2-michael-walter-of-wo-fat-brendan-burns-drummer-spotlight/ (By Brendan Burns of Wasted Theory, Guest Columnist, RiffRelevant.com) For as long as I can remember, it’s always been about the guitar player or the lead singer. That lethal concoction of singers and axe-swingers like Page and Plant. Mick and Keith, Tyler and Perry, Daltry and Townsend, the list goes on and on… But [...]

Oldschool Sunday: GALLOWBRAID

Pat 'Riot' Whitaker July 30, 2017 Oldschool Sunday: GALLOWBRAID https://www.riffrelevant.com/2017/07/30/oldschool-sunday-gallowbraid/ (By Pat ‘Riot’ Whitaker, Lead Journalist/Writer, RiffRelevant.com) We aren’t going all that far back in Heavy Metal history for today’s spotlight band, Salt Lake City, Utah’s Gallowbraid. In fact, truth is, Gallowbraid was (or is?) not an actual band really, not in the multiple member sense of the word, as it is a one-man project. [...]

FOUR ON THE FLOOR – Brendan Burns’ Drummer Spotlight #1: BRIAN COSTANTINO of THE OBSESSED

Guest Contributor July 26, 2017 FOUR ON THE FLOOR – Brendan Burns’ Drummer Spotlight #1: BRIAN COSTANTINO of THE OBSESSED https://www.riffrelevant.com/2017/07/26/four-on-the-floor-burns-drummers-brian-costantino-the-obsessed1/ (By Brendan Burns of Wasted Theory, Guest Columnist, RiffRelevant.com) For as long as I can remember, it’s always been about the guitar player or the lead singer. That lethal concoction of singers and axe-swingers like Page and Plant. Mick and Keith, Tyler and Perry, Daltry and Townsend, the list goes on and on… But [...]

Oldschool Sunday: PULKAS

Pat 'Riot' Whitaker July 23, 2017 Oldschool Sunday: PULKAS https://www.riffrelevant.com/2017/07/23/oldschool-sunday-pulkas/ (By Pat ‘Riot’ Whitaker, Lead Journalist/Writer, RiffRelevant.com) Back in the late 1990’s when Nu Metal was hitting its stride and straddling such sub-genre labels as “groove metal” and “alternative”, London’s Pulkas came to be. Formed in 1998, the band were quickly scooped up by Earache Records after only a handful of live shows. The [...]

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