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Album Review: Fishbone "Give a Monkey a Brain and He'll Swear He's the Center of the Universe"

August 17, 2023 Add Comment

Los Angeles' FISHBONE are one of the wildest, most energetic bands I've ever seen live. A shame, then, that their sprawling array...

Photo: Lemmy, 1991, Japan

May 01, 2022 Add Comment

Lemmy at Nakano Sun Plaza, Tokyo, 10th June, 1991. Photo: Fred Varcoe

Album Review: Sepultura "Chaos AD"

March 29, 2022 Add Comment

The Boys from Brazil are well established in the thrash camp, but they're not afraid of experimenting. Even on their heaviest tracks...

ALBUM REVIEW: SAXON, "CARPE DIEM"

March 12, 2022 Add Comment

In my UFO reviews , I expressed concern that SAXON was signalling that they were done because they released a covers album called In...

Interview: Glenn Tipton, Judas Priest

October 03, 2021 Add Comment

HELL IS HOME FOR PRIEST If heavy metal music is a dinosaur, then Judas Priest must be the Tyrannosaurus Rex of the genre. Despit...

Preview: Firewind 2011

August 24, 2021 Add Comment

Heavy metal groups are notorious for their complex genealogies, as members switch bands and moonlight for other outfits. Greek metal wa...

Album Review: Alcatrazz, "No Parole From Rock 'n' Roll"

July 17, 2021 Add Comment

Alcatrazz are like the YARDBIRDS of the 80s, giving a start to YNGWIE and STEVE VAI, with GRAHAM BONNET on vocals. I've always found it ...

Interview: Ronnie James Dio

July 16, 2021 Add Comment

NEVER SAY DIE Ronnie James Dio is a legendary figurehead in the world of rock music, He has worked with some of the heaviest bands in the b...

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RIFF RAFF was a legendary rock magazine based in London in the late 1980s and 1990s. Unfortunately, it was just too R n' R for its own good. A genuine working class rock mag, written, edited, and translated into 16 European languages in a drug-n-Jack-Daniels-fuelled haze, often on the back of motorbikes, with spell checking by our staff of attentive rock bimbos (chosen purely for their blondeness and big knockers), it soon fell behind more nerdy and woke publications like Q, Kerrang, Mojo, Metal Hammer, and Horse & Hound. This website is an archive and kind of shrine dedicated to the writing of its greatest writers... BUT it is also a place for new talent to rise and shine. So, don't be shy! In the words of the immortal Fly, send in your "news, blues, and reviews" - and even interviews if you've got the balls to buttonhole your heroes!