RIFF RIOT NEWS - EN

Our chief editor Marko managed to interview Drown In Malice, a band that represents modern metalcore while fearlessly combining raw intensity, technical precision, and a wide spectrum of musical influences. Their music grows from the roots of the early 2000s hardcore and metalcore scene, yet over time the band has developed its own distinctive...

The Czech band Innersphere belongs among those names that are gradually building a stable position on the metal scene not only at home, but also abroad. The formation from Plzeň has been active since 2016, and their musical signature moves on the boundary between melodic death metal, doom, thrash, and progressive elements. We spoke with vocalist...

The story of the band RIZON did not begin with big plans or ambitions to become something "huge." It started in a completely ordinary way — during a school break, when a simple question was asked about whether anyone would like to join a band. The answer was just as simple: "Sure, why not." And it was this...

In the black metal scene, a new underground project is emerging, but few projects from the very beginning feel as clearly defined as Hednablod. Even the name itself suggests that this is not just about music, but about a deeper connection to identity, spirituality, and the heritage of the North. Behind the project stands a musician who decided to...

Some bands are built on technique, others on brutality. Novelization exist somewhere in between – in a space where death metal heaviness meets black metal atmosphere and emotion that sounds just as intense as the riffs themselves. Their music is not only about aggression, but also about tension, melancholy, and contrast that turns chaos into...

Some bands are built on technique. Others on perfection. Hashtronaut are a band that builds on something much simpler and more honest — noise, the weight of riffs, and energy that doesn't need explanation. Their music is not calculated or polished. It is the sound of amplifiers pushed to the limit, vibrating strings, and the feeling that the world...

Some bands sound like an explosion. Others like a perfectly engineered mechanism. Sinner Self exist somewhere in between — in a space where chaos does not become an accident, but a language. Their music is not just a sequence of breakdowns, aggression, and technique. It is pressure that slowly builds beneath the surface until it finds a way out.

Some bands are born out of ambition, others out of boredom and a few drinks. Last Tale sit somewhere exactly in between. The Košice four-piece — Michal Barančik, Igor Žovtik, Eduard Koval, and Patrik Perháč — started quietly: with cover songs, rehearsal sessions without big expectations, and more of a friendly kind of chaos than any real vision...

Despite Exile doesn't sound like a band that was created just to fit in. Their story is built around music that doesn't ask for permission to enter a space — it kicks the doors open, leaving behind noise, pressure, and a strange sense of beauty within destruction. They draw from deathcore and modern death metal, but their music...