Riot Act

Horns up...? Yeah, why not. It's another episode of Riot Act, where Steve and Sam have spent the week diving into all manner of heavy metal goodness... and some not so goodness. We catch up on some of the some prominent releases in metal from Behemoth, Clutch, Ozzy Osbourne, The Devil Wears Prada, The Hu, Stake, Megadeth, END & Cult Leader, Blackbraid and Sabotor.Sam also saw Machine Head and Amon Amarth in Nottingham, and we talk about the news that Mark Chapman has been denied parole once again and think back to some significant support slot refusals after hearing the news that The 1975 decided not to open for Ed Sheeran.This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis:Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

Welcome back to another episode of Riot Act, a podcast about music. This week Steve is once again joined by Sam Sleight to chat about all the big issues and events over the last week. There's new albums from The Callous Daoboys, JID and 156/Silence to get through, there's also some pretty depressing news from various angles regarding Scott Kelly's disgraced retirement from music, Pras from The Fugees getting tied up in a money laundering scandal, fire starting destruction at Reading and Leeds festivals and... this isn't so bad, Cradle of Filth and Ed Sheeran's collab effort drawing ever closer. We then look back at the Human Rights Now! tour, which began on this day back in 1988 and featured a bill of Bruce Springsteen and The E-Street Band, Peter Gabriel, Sting, Tracey Chapman and more. All put on to raise awareness of Amnesty International, which it succeeded in doing in spectacular fashion. We track the progress of the ambitious tour and look at the genesis of the Benefit Concert, from Handel playing Messiah for a children's charity back in the 18th century, to Ariana Grande's One Love for Manchester concert set up in the aftermath of the terror attack on her Manchester Arena show in 2017. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

Welcome to a very special episode of Riot Act, the alternative music podcast. This week we are delighted to once again team up with our good friends Tom Dare and Matt Rushton from the excellent Hell Bent For Metal Podcast, for the finest crossover since... er... Suicidal Tendencies. We warm up by chatting about new music in over two decades from Botch, the sad passing of former Cradle of Filth guitarist Stuart Anstis, and looking at new albums from Soilwork, Ether Coven and *sigh*... Muse. Before getting into the real reason we've teamed up; for Steve and Tom to talk the much more youthful Matt through some of the highlights of the longest running televised music contest in history, The Eurovision Song Contest. Expect high camp drama, a Terry Wogan love in, some bizarre stage costumes, some of the finest pop music in history and one of the hottest takes on ABBA you are ever likely to hear in your life! This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

Hello, yes, welcome back to another episode of Riot Act, a podcast all about music. This week Steve is joined by Gaz Jones, 90's Brit-rock enthusiast and the host of the very excellent Track One, Side One podcast. Together we cast our critical eye over some cracking new music from Russian Circles, The Spielbergs, Danger Mouse and Black Thought and The Interrupters, before reacting to the heart warming news that the two remaining members of Depeche Mode have shared a picture from the studio. We end by talking about the upcoming Reading and Leeds festival, you may have heard that Rage Against the Machine have pulled out and been replaced by The 1975... it hasn't gone over so well. So we look back at our withered memories of the festival and try and work out when it changed, what it used to be and preview the line up for this year. Have a listen to our findings here... This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

Welcome back to another informative look at the world of music from us here at Riot Act. It's the final week of lovely Sam Sleight's stand in tenure, and as such we have given him free reign to run us through his 20 favourite albums of all time. And there are some absolute cracking picks in there, if we do say so ourselves. Before we get to that Steve and Sam talk about brand new albums from both Jack White and Working Men's Club, discuss the relative merits of the recent Mercury Mercury Prize nominations, cross their fingers for both a Kinks and Pulp reunion in 2023 and then recoil in horror at the new that there is another Red Hot Chili Peppers double album careering our way. Have we really not suffered enough?! This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

We are back with another episode of Riot Act, your weekly Duran Duran love in... sorry, dose of alternative music news. Steve is joined once more by Sam Sleight, who actually does have to listen to Steve ranting on about seeing Duran Duran live last week, alongside Nile Rodgers, Pearl Jam, Pixies and Warmduscher at the BST shows in Hyde Park. We also talk about the reformation of Porno for Pyros, pretty good, and the proposed reformation of, can't believe we're writing this, Pantera, which is far from good. There's also album reviews from the new releases by Black Midi and Interpol, before Sam picks four albums that we have yet to cover on RA thus far this year from FKA Twigs, Final Light, Totally Unicorn and Wormrot. Nice. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

Welcome back to your favourite music podcast, so we heard anyway, it’s Riot Act isn’t it. Obviously. Steve and Remfry have been taking part in what has been one of the most memorable weeks of live music Britain has seen for many years, it’s been Glastonbury, which we watched loads of on the tv (shout out the BBC), Steve saw Elton John at Hyde Park and Remfry saw Converge’s Blood Moon show at Alexandra Palace Theatre. There is also chat on the new albums from Conjurer, Greg Puciato and Blood Command. Plus we discuss the return of one of the most brilliant and influential metal bands of our lifetime; Knuckles of Ice are BACK! This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

Welcome back to another very fine, if we do say ourselves, episode of Riot Act, the alternative music podcast. Steve and Remfry return with a packed show this week, part of this is because we’re happy Kate Bush is going to be number one in charts around the world, part of it is because we’re intrigued to see how the upcoming Taylor Hawkins tribute concerts will play out, a little because some girl did some metal shouting on America’s Got Talent this week, and also because there are new records by Foals and Prison Religion to talk about. Mainly though, our show is a long one because they’ve seen a lot of live music in the past fortnight, and we’ll tell you about it all on the show. Recent gigs from the likes of Deftones, Meshuggah, Will Haven, Run The Jewels and Genesis Owusu all get a good going over, plus Steve attended the Download festival. Which gives us the perfect opportunity to shit all over Alestorm again. Which we do. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

Welcome back to another Riot Act. Your weekly fix of alternative music chat. Remfry is having a well earned break this week, so Steve is joined by our good friend and former Stereoboard writer Sam Sleight. The two of them saw the big My Chemical Romance shows in Milton Keynes, so they talk about that before moving on to chat new records by Liam Gallagher, Murkage Dave, Malevolence and Harry Styles. Plus we react to the recent news that only 13% of headliners in this years UK festival market are female. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

Welcome to another Riot Act, your weekly dose of alternative music news and reviews. This week Steve and Remfry get all misty eyed at the news that Apple are discontinuing the iPod, it ends up in a big nostalgia trip all the way back to Soda Streams. Those were the days eh! There is also reviews on the latest releases from Arcade Fire, Moon Tooth and God Mother, plus there are live reports from recent shows from Foals and, you guessed it, Tool. We also talk about the recent Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees and reflect on the sad passing of Black Dahlia Murder frontmant Trevor Strnad and Nick Cave’s son Jethro Lazenby. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

After a week absence Riot Act returns with an absolutely bumper show. Steve and Remfry are kind of delighted that Machine Gun Kelly has decided that he’s not going to make rock music anymore. That’s alright innit! But they’re more interested in telling you about the music that they have seen/listened to in the last fortnight. So, there are reviews on a pretty massive bunch of releases from the likes of Rammstein, Pusha T, Fontaines D.C., Daniel Johns, Bob Vylan, Dalek, Somali Yacht Club and Samora Pinderhughes. Plus you finally get the compare and contrast of both nights of the recent Devin Townsend two night run at the Royal Albert Hall, and Remfry’s review (sans too many spoilers, chill out) of the start of Tool’s run around Europe. All in all, it’s a pretty big return to form if we don’t say so ourselves, and, hey look at this!, just the one mention of Jimmy Savile! We’re definitely BACK!!! This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

(Originally released via https://www.patreon.com/riotactpodcast (https://www.patreon.com/riotactpodcast) 22 October 2020) As suggested by Dougie Vale, Steve and Remfry take a deep dive into the 2010 self-titled album by Norweigan black n' rollers Kvelertak, an album that has oft been heralded as one of the finest debut albums of the 2010s. But the landscape of heavy music has changed somewhat in the prevailing years and Kvelertak never quite garnered the reputation that they were expected to amass (at least ... in the UK that is). What (if anything) went wrong? This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

Welcome to another weekly dose of your alternative music fix from us here at Riot Act. You know it’s been a pretty quiet week when Steve and Remfry are chatting about David Draiman and Lil Nas X being mates and trying their hardest to just ignore the Grammys. So we decided to cast our mind back to a long lost festival that we believed had plenty of potential but, due to some pretty unusual circumstances, never managed to last longer than a handful of years. Tattoo the Planet/Earth was a touring metal festival that ran between 2000 and 2002, then it vanished, on this episode we look at what might have been by fantasy booking its 2002 and 2003 line ups to see if we could have saved it from extinction. We also review new records from Health, Pup and Steak. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy