In an uncharacteristic move, Steve and Remfry are singing Paramore songs, probably due to the release of the debut solo album by Hayley Williams, which is reviewed alongside new albums by The Hirsch Effekt, Winterfylleth and Fake Names. Meanwhile Broken Records is laced with a thin film of smut as the boys dissect Slick Dogs and Ponies, the third and thankfully final album by perma-erect San Diego rock band Louis XIV See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This podcast uses th...
May 08, 2020•2 hr 9 min
Steve and Remfry are reviewing a veritable feast of new releases this week by the likes of Car Seat Headrest, Gold Key, Flies Are Spies From Hell and Umbra Vitae, whilst our broken record comes courtesy of arena rock behemoths Queen (and Paul Rodgers) with their 2008, 16th studio album 'The Cosmos Rocks'. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy
May 01, 2020•1 hr 59 min
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Apr 28, 2020•35 min
Another week, another episode of friction and tension between the boys Riot Act, as Remfry and Steve review new releases by Trivium, Elephant Tree, Elder and Katatonia, as well as throwing in a review of Fiona Apple's 'Fetch the Bolt Cutters' an album that, since its release last week has garnered such strong critical praise, it seemed remiss not to cover it in some fashion on the show. Elsewhere, there's an insight into John Dolmayan's opinion on whether we'll ever get new System of a Down mate...
Apr 24, 2020•2 hr 27 min
It's about bloody time Riot Act discussed Radiohead, the critically-lauded British art rock Oxfordians who changed the face of modern music forever. Seeing as we've never really talked all that much about them on the show before, Remfry greedily picks two albums which may (or may not) be interlinked in a manner that conspiracy nuts go crazy for. This first part concentrates on the undisputed classic OK Computer, the band's third album released 21st May 1997. Routinely considered one of the best ...
Apr 20, 2020•2 hr 19 min
There's a charged frisson of disagreement regarding a couple of the records this week with reviews of new releases by Enter Shikari, Oranssi Pazuzu, The Black Dahlia Murder, Sugar Horse and Wild Cat Strike. But that's nothing compared to the righteous anger of Ticketmaster customers, after the US website discreetly changed the wording of their terms and conditions to state that customers could only get a refund if shows were completely cancelled, a pretty contemptible move at a time when so many...
Apr 17, 2020•2 hr 18 min
Steve and Remfry discuss 1998's Mezzanine, the third and most commercially successful album from Bristol Trip-Hop trio Massive Attack. The album heralded a far darker, heavier edge for the group and caused fractures within their ranks. But it undoubtedly became a milestone for a very brief but interesting scene that has influenced many different musicians way beyond the electronica sphere. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This podcast uses the following third-party serv...
Apr 14, 2020•36 min
Steve's upset this week at the thought of having to review the new double album from Nightwish ... but should he be? There are also reviews of new albums by Azusa, Dool and Vasudeva and Broken Records covers the 2004 sophomore album by indie 'house' boresters Dirty Vegas See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy
Apr 10, 2020•1 hr 46 min
Steve and Remfry chewed the fat with Conrad Keeley and Jason Reece, the core duo behind alternative art rock band ... And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead ahead of the penultimate show of their lengthy European tour. Seeing as it's their 25th year as a band, the Riot Act boys took the opportunity to ask them questions pertaining to their entire career, as well as drill down on the making of their new album X: The Godless Void and Other Stories See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out i...
Apr 08, 2020•30 min
It’s Steve’s pick for a classic album this week, and he has chosen to finally dip into an album that we here at Riot Act have been threatening to do since the very inception of the podcast; Pink Floyd’s 1979 prog-rock opera The Wall. In the first part of our mammoth 2 part look at the project, we are joined by Haggard Cat man, friend of the podcast and Pink Floyd megafan Matt Reynolds. The boys discuss their various feelings about the band, their previous work, the lead up to the record (includi...
Apr 06, 2020•1 hr 55 min
Second week of isolation finds Steve and Remfry coming to terms with technology a little bit better than they were last week (apologies again for the delay) and finally, they're starting to get the hang of this recording remotely schtick. New releases are reviewed this week by Testament, Maserati, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs and tētēma, whilst our entry in Broken Records is the self-titled debut album by X-Factor 2008 second runner-up Eoghan Quigg See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt...
Apr 03, 2020•1 hr 53 min
Remfry and Steve's enforced bout of self-isolation means that the podcast is being recorded remotely for the first time in Riot Act's almost two year history ... the boys give you the skinny on the latest releases by Pearl Jam, Nine Inch Nails, Milk Teeth, Igorrr and Irist all the while grappling with 21st century communication technology. And this week's Broken Record comes courtesy of Lou Reed's regular 'worst album ever' poll mainstay Metal Machine Music from 1975 See acast.com/privacy for pr...
Mar 29, 2020•2 hr 3 min
In the first of our new Riot Act Classic Albums series, Steve and Remfry discuss not one, but two records released on September 17th 1991 by unquestionably the biggest band in the world at that time ... Guns N' Roses. They talk about the extravagances of the 'blockbuster album' era, the relative merits and failings of each record individually, Izzy Stradlin's often underappreciated contribution to G N'R, the controversies that dogged the band at this time, the firing of original drummer Steve Ad...
Mar 23, 2020•2 hr 20 min
Steve and Remfry discuss COVID-19, how it's affecting the music industry and how it'll affect Riot Act (don't worry, we're not going anywhere). They also review new albums by Myrkur, Hyborian, Telepathy and Birthmarks and live reviews of Palm Reader, Employed to Serve, A.A. Williams and Turnstile. Plus, our first album for Broken Records is Six Feet Under's Graveyard Classics II See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This podcast uses the following third-party services for an...
Mar 20, 2020•1 hr 42 min
Riot Act's gone all controversial ... or more controversial than usual at least, with the contentious likes of Varg Vikernas, Ian Watkins and Charles Manson all being discussed in some fashion on the show this week ... lovely stuff! Away from dubious characters, Remfry and Steve review new releases by Haggard Cat, Hilary Woods, Human Impact, Video Nasties and Lauren Auder plus we bid adieu (for the time being) to Trade-off but we go out with two cover albums from big hitters in the shape of The ...
Mar 13, 2020•2 hr 9 min
We've teased you long enough about how great this record is, so here it is, Riot Act's review of Code Orange's 4th LP Underneath, released via Roadrunner Records on Friday 13th March, which just happens to be Steve's birthday. And in the spirit of celebration, not only are we doing a deep dive review into what is sure to be one of the most divisive records of the year but we also bring you an hour long chat that Steve and Remfry had with Reba and Jami back in January 2020 about the record and fo...
Mar 09, 2020•2 hr 25 min
New albums reviewed this week come courtesy of Body Count, JFDR, My Dying Bride and Today is the Day and Remfry went to see London-based promoter Chaos Theory's '10 Years of Chaos' all-dayer as well as the curious sight of seeing furious Brit hardcore crew Ithaca open for American indie folk rock starlwarts Big Thief. Plus, Trade-off returns for it's penultimate bow, As Remfry brings in Vessels' 2008 debut album 'White Fields and Open Devices', whilst Steve puts forward Earth Crisis' 'Breed the ...
Mar 06, 2020•2 hr 14 min
Steve and Remfry are joined by Employed to Serve mic-abuser and Holy Roar Records impresario Justine Jones this week to review new albums by Five Finger Death Punch, Nova Twins, Sightless Pit, Toundra and Intronaut. Steve waxes lyrical about one of the best new bands he's seen live in a long long time and there's discussion around a topic raised last week of musicians who had better careers solo than in bands See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This podcast uses the follow...
Feb 28, 2020•2 hr 16 min
Reviewed this week are new releases by Ozzy Osbourne, Agnes Obel, InTechnicolour and Greg Dulli. Plus Steve had a miserable time at The Brits and Remfry went on tour with Glasweigan instru-mentalists(!) Vasa and made a stop off at The Netherlands' premier post-tech-rock festival Complexity Fest See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy
Feb 21, 2020•1 hr 49 min
Steve and Remfry are joined this week from Vlad and Dave from In Technicolour whose debut album Big Sleeper is released next week on Big Scary Monsters. Together they review new releases by Tame Impala, The Broken Islands, Kvelertak, Suicide Silence and Vasa. There's also talk on Reading Festival and Rage Against the Machine's return to the UK. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartab...
Feb 14, 2020•2 hr 13 min
It's a gluttony of reviews this week as Remfry and Steve bin off Trade off (again ... sorry we WILL come back to it) and instead review a plethora of new releases from Loathe, Green Day, Stone Temple Pilots, Sepultura, Sylosis, Spanish Love Songs, Napalm Death and Vennart ... phew! There's also live reviews of Sleep Token, Five Finger Death Punch and the Backyard Babies / The Wildhearts co-headliner. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This podcast uses the following third...
Feb 07, 2020•2 hr 8 min
Remfry and Steve are joined this week by Kadeem and Erik of Liverpudlian progressive metal genre manglers Loathe. They discuss their forthcoming album, I Let It In and It Took Everything, which will be reviewed next week. In terms of this week's reviews, the quartet look at new releases by Squarepusher, envy, Leeched and The Guru Guru See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/pri...
Jan 31, 2020•1 hr 36 min
Remfry's lost his voice this week after screaming along to Slipknot and Behemoth at the big ole' metal arena show in Nottingham. Steve went to see Darkest Hour, which isn't quite as exciting, but decent none the less. They also review new releases by Caspian, Higher Power, Pinegrove and Holy Fawn and trade-off couldn't be more diametrically opposed with The Enemy's Streets in the Sky and Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Th...
Jan 24, 2020•2 hr 18 min
This week Steve and Remfry review new releases by ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, Poppy, Garganjua and Pressure Cracks and they pay tribute to Rush's Neil Peart, who passed away on 7th January from glioblastoma. In addition to that, this episode sees the return of Trade-Off after a long absence with Paradise Lost's One Second up against John Fruciante's Shadows Collide With People. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This podcast uses the following third-part...
Jan 17, 2020•1 hr 58 min
Riot Act is back to it's original scheduled programming and this week, Steve and Remfry are reviewing new released by Bring Me The Horizon, Beach Slang, Mono & A.A. Williams and Aiming For Enrike See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy
Jan 10, 2020•1 hr 33 min
Our mammoth list-a-thon concludes with Steve and Remfry's second part of their Albums of the Decade. This week, they count down numbers 10 - 1 which include albums from the likes of Deftones, Coheed and Cambria, Code Orange, Arcane Roots, Manchester Orchestra, letlive., Caspian, Touché Amoré and Baroness. See https://acast.com/privacy (acast.com/privacy) for privacy and opt-out information. This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/priva...
Jan 03, 2020•3 hr 13 min
It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year according to Andy Williams so Steve and Remfry are doing their best to ruin every one's festive season by hosting the second Riot Act Big Fat Alternative Quiz of the Year! 8 guests pit their wits against some (pretty tough) questions related to the years music shenanigans. Listen in sheer astonishment as 10 people get progressively more drunk over the course of several hours and marvel at the sheer amount of edits it must have taken to make this thing sou...
Dec 27, 2019•2 hr 10 min
As it you hadn't had enough of lists already, now it's time for Steve and Remfry to decide and designate their favourite albums released between 2010 and 2019 (or in Remfry's case, 2010 - 2018, much to the chagrin of Steve). This week, they count down numbers 20 - 11 which includes albums from the likes of Grave Pleasures, And So I Watch You From Afar, Black Peaks, Devin Townsend Project, Her Name is Calla, The Black Queen, Agent Fresco, Destrage and Against Me! See acast.com/privacy for privacy...
Dec 24, 2019•2 hr
It's our penultimate show of 2019, and as the music industry has more or less shut down for Christmas, we've decided to do something a little different and let you ask Steve and Remfry ANY question you like. What artist has caused the biggest divide between Steve and Remfry? What constitues a typical day for them? Does listening to music for a living take the fun out of listening to it? Are Ginger Nuts the best biscuit to dunk in tea? All the vitally important questions are answered See acast.co...
Dec 20, 2019•2 hr 33 min
It's part 2 of our Albums of the Year 2019, which means we are closer than ever to the inevitable back-tracking of Mr. Stephen Hill and his admission that Weezer's Teal Album is not only the best album of the year, but quite possibly the best piece of art ever created in the history of mankind. But will that actually happen or will he default to his usual position and claim that Fucked Up's Does Your Dreams is in fact the best record of 2019 (despite coming out in 2018). Will Remfry relent and p...
Dec 13, 2019•2 hr 39 min
