Article By: Leanne Ridgeway, Owner/Chief Editor The headliner alone is legendary. A personal favorite and pretty much guarantees a raining sulfur fire reaction to the…
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(By Leanne Ridgeway, Owner/Chief Editor, RiffRelevant.com) The Maryland Doom Fest 2018 event tickets are still on sale. The lineup is announced, the merch is ready, and…
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(By Pat ‘Riot’ Whitaker, Senior Writer/Journalist, RiffRelevant.com) U.K. metal with tinges of southern groove and sludge is a nice segue into this delivery on Manchester’s…
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(By Leanne Ridgeway, Owner/Chief Editor, RiffRelevant.com) The Maryland Doom Fest 2018 event tickets went on sale in December. Riff Relevant has announced the lineup, a beautiful fest…
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(By Leanne Ridgeway, Owner/Chief Editor, RiffRelevant.com) David ‘Sunshine’ LaMay has been with Riff Relevant since soon after I started this ship of mayhem. We unknowingly…
Riff Relevant 2017 Releases – (Staff) PAT ‘RIOT’ WHITAKER Shares 25 LP / 25 EP Favorites
(By Leanne Ridgeway, Owner/Chief Editor, RiffRelevant.com) Oh, where to start… first off, Pat ‘Riot’ Whitaker is essentially a walking mountain (literally and figuratively) of heavy…
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(By Pat ‘Riot’ Whitaker, Lead Journalist/Writer, RiffRelevant.com) For many of you here reading this, NOLA band The Mystick Krewe Of Clearlight (sometimes known solely as…
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(By Pat ‘Riot’ Whitaker, Lead Journalist/Writer, RiffRelevant.com) North Carolina’s The Asound are currently experiencing a mercurial rise within the heavy music underground. The band itself, Chad…
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(By Pat ‘Riot’ Whitaker, Lead Journalist/Writer, RiffRelevant.com) 2017 has undeniably, and without a doubt, been the year of The Obsessed. Although recent events originally began…
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(By Pat ‘Riot’ Whitaker, Lead Journalist/Writer, RiffRelevant.com) Capitalizing on the huge embrace and critical success of their long awaited studio return “Sacred“, The Obsessed will…
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(By Pat ‘Riot’ Whitaker, Lead Journalist/Writer, RiffRelevant.com) In one of the most diversified tour bill announcements, Clutch have scheduled a Winter 2017 U.S. trek as…
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(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…