Through the storm of life's obstacles the guys successfully continue to raise the flag in honor of the RIOT legacy of music, fallen band mates and the fans who have been demanding RIOT for years. This new onslaught headlined sold out shows in Germany, Greece, Spain and Italy and rocked the prestigious festivals Sweden Rock Festival (Sweden), Rock Fest Barcelona (Spain), Loud Park (Japan), Keep It True, Metal Assault, Headbangers Open Air (Germany), Fall of Summer (Paris), Metal Apocalypse, Bang Your Head with Twisted Sister/Anthrax, Metal Days with Megadeth/Volbeat, two appearances onboard 70,000 Tons of Metal Cruise and top it off with appearances with Judas Priest, Motley Crue, Def Leppard and, Journey to name a few! RIOT V just headlined this years Skulls of Metal Festival (Spain), Blast from the Past Festival (Belgium) and appearances at Bang Your Head 2017 (Germany) and will do one last Europe Tour in early December! 2018 will see RIOT V headline Germany’s Headbangers Open Air as well as appearances at Loud Park 2018 (Japan), Rock Fest Barcelona and Leyendas del Rock 2018 (Spain) a tour of the UK and more tour dates to be announced! With reissues on Sony, EMI & Metal Blade, RIOT are consitently on radio and metal charts worldwide, as well as being a part of New York City's Top 20 Most Influential Metal Bands, 100 Best Metal Albums of All Time, 100 Best Metal Bands of All Time and numerous mentions on VH1’s That Metal Show with Eddie Trunk and staff sighting RIOT as one of the innovators of Metal music in America and beyond! RIOT truly are Metal Soldiers and will keep marching and fighting the good fight to bring you the music you’ve come to know, love and expect from RIOT V.....Shine On!

Long before British metal legends Iron Maiden picked up on the concept, a pack of Huntington Beach, CA-based teenagers, collectively known as LEATHERWOLF, pioneered and perfected the heavy metal three guitar assault, nicknamed the Triple Axe Attack, while sharing the bill with Orange County contemporaries Metallica and Slayer at long since defunct venues such as the Concert Factory, Radio City, and the Woodstock. Their much lauded eponymous 1984 debut EP for Tropical Records, expanded to a full-length LP, titled ‘Endangered Species’ for international release, and a pair of stunning albums for Island Records, ‘Leatherwolf’ (’87) and ‘Street Ready’ (’89), which yielded the MTV videos ‘The Calling’ and‘Hideaway’, respectively, saw LEATHERWOLF fly the flag for decidedly European rooted metal amidst a sea of formulaic L.A. glam and sleaze. After a self-imposed break during the 1990s grunge and alt rock craze, the band’s classic line-up resurfaced in 1999 with a storming live album, ‘Wide Open’. In 2006, LEATHERWOLFemerged with a revamped line-up to once again turn the metal world on its ear with the well received ‘World Asylum’, the band’s heaviest effort to date, mixed by Danish studio whizJacob Hansen of Volbeat fame. It was followed by the quasi ‘Best of’ ‘Unchained Live’ in 2013. Having survived line-up shake-ups and the Corona pandemic unscathed, LEATHERWOLF are finally set to unleash their long awaited fifth studio album, ‘Kill The Hunted’, a record as uncompromising and deadly as the title suggests. It marks the latest chapter in the band’s storied history as founding member/drummer Dean Roberts and long-time guitarist Rob Math are joined by fierce new vocalist Keith Adamiak, young shredder Luke Man, guitarist/keyboardist Wayne Findlay, and bassist Barry Sparks, the latter pair alumni of the Michael Schenker Group. Produced by Dean Roberts, the band’s primary driving force for many years, ‘Kill The Hunted’ took the better part of three years to complete, from the initial writing and demo sessions in 2019 when the band first introduced Adamiak on ‘The Henchman’, a multi-tier epic and key track on the album (including a fleet fingered guest appearance by Joel Hoekstra of Whitesnake).  An 11-course metal feast for the senses, ‘Kill The Hunted’ runs the gamut from visceral daggers such as the in-your-face opener ‘Hit the Dirt’ and shinkickers ‘Madhouse’ and‘Medusa’, to the anthemic ‘Only the Wicked’, and the tense and brooding ‘(Evil) Empires Fall’ whose vibes recall the crushing ‘Kill and Kill Again’ off the band 1984 debut EP. In a classic full circle moment, LEATHERWOLF re-connected with engineer/producer Randy Burns (Megadeth, Kreator, Helstar) who had manned the boards for the aforementioned EP all those years ago. Burns was eager to jump aboard and apply his mixing expertise to ‘Kill The Hunted’ before the files were put into the hands of L.A. mastering legend, Tom Baker (Judas Priest, Mötley Crüe, Pantera), for the final polish. The eye catching ‘Kill The Hunted’ artwork was created by noted artist Marc Sasso whose credits include Dio, Halford and Rob Rock.

Progressive Metal from Chicago, IL. Acracy-- n. In political philosophy, the negation of rule or "government." A society with the absence of coercion; one of voluntary order. This is the very idea behind the recently formed metal band to hail from the Chicagoland area: one that writes and performs music without boundaries, without the standard rules of order, and without the impetus to follow the stylistic trends of popular music.