RIFF RIOT NEWS - EN

"In my opinion, it is important to do what a person enjoys, to do it honestly, without calculation, and to persevere. For me, music is not a race, but a feeling. When I was younger, I was afraid that this feeling might one day fade or weaken, but today I know that I look forward to every concert and enjoy...

The band GRAVERY belongs among those formations that follow their own path without any need to adapt to trends or the expectations of the scene. Their music stands on a combination of different metal subgenres, fused into a raw, dark, and aggressive sound.

Dimenzia X do not feel like a band created out of ambition to fit in. They feel more like something that simply had to happen. Four guys from Bratislava — Mišo, Jaro, Rasťo, and ŽeHo — came together not to create a "project," but to give shape to everything building up inside them. And when it explodes, it doesn't sound polished. It sounds real....

If you were more familiar with Theory of a Deadman, you might pause for a moment during your first listen and feel a similar kind of energy or atmosphere in this band's music. But this story is not about the Canadian rock formation. This story belongs to INÝMI SLOVAMI, a Slovak band steadily building its own identity on the local music scene....

At first glance, they looked like an ordinary group of guys from the outskirts of Prague — Modřany and Horní Počernice — connected since their elementary school days and reunited later in adulthood with beers in hand and heads full of heavy music. But from this seemingly unremarkable combination emerged a band that has kept the spirit of old-school...

Young Slovak indie rock band The Spants, coming from Humenné, feels like a story straight out of a fairytale. Step by step, the band has been building its own place on the local music scene. The five-piece lineup — Natália (guitar), Paťo (guitar), Dominika (vocals), Tono (bass), and Samo (drums) — moves somewhere between indie rock and pop rock,...

On the Slovak underground scene, bands are emerging that do not simply try to fit into existing genres, but instead naturally create their own space. One of them is Arilade — a band that has been part of the Slovak rock and metal scene for quite some time now. To be more precise, they have been with us for over...

French band Personal War brings a sound to the metal scene that refuses boundaries and simple definitions. Their music exists at the crossroads of hardcore, sludge, thrash, death metal, and melodic elements, with each song seemingly living a life of its own. At times it is raw and aggressive, at others melancholic or rhythmically complex. The...