Metal is a genre that prides itself on its technicality – but sometimes a meaty guitar riff is all you need to serve a great song. Getting faces scrunched and heads banging is one of the best things a ...

As rock and metal fans, we bow down at the altar of the almighty riff! These are our picks for the Greatest Riff Lords of all time! One simply can’t speak about riffs without mentioning Black ...

The riff. It's everything to metal. You can strip away pretty much any other element that has come to define the genre over the years - haunting atmospherics, scorching wails and guttural screams, ...

The 1980s was riff heaven for metalheads. With the advent of thrash and the New Wave of British Heavy Metal further advancing to metal’s forefront, a golden age of music ruled the decade. Though ...

It’s a slow month for noteworthy new metal, so we’re going to try something different this month. First up: a quick rundown of tracks from January’s handful of standout heavy releases. Then, we’ll ...

When you think about metal’s riff masters, who do you have in your Mount Rushmore? Tony Iommi, Dave Mustaine, Jeff Hanneman, K.K. Downing… all masters in their own right. But for my money, one dude ...

The band’s latest EP, Smoke & Mirrors (released March 2025 via Woe to You Music and distributed by Foundation Media), has been building worldwide momentum from rock and metal fans tired of ...

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