ProDigy!

DisTurbeD!!!

linkin Park To reuniTe?

The ToP 40 Tracks of The week!

Drumming

arTicles banDs songs album anD many more...

meeTchesTer benningTon!!

february 2010 issue 1 £2.00

The new scene for rock-meTal!

The Teenage

INSIDE COVER

conTenTs issue no: 1 february 2010

LETTERS 04 Star Letters

NEWS 06 Next tour for Deftones 08 The Top 40 Tracks of the week 12 New Girl Singer looking for a band 14 Papa Roach back back on track!

FEATURES 16 Special tribute to ‘The Rev’ of Avenged Sevenfold 18 Paramore set to win over 10 awards

20 Drumming Prodigy- SCOTT!!! 22 Chester Bennington & Linkin Park to reunite?!

24 POSTERS Linkin Park Disturbed Bullet for my Valentine

WIN!!! 28 Meet Chester Bennington 29 Win! A signed guitar by Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park 30 Win!!! Tickets to the next taste of Chaos

QUIZZES & EXTRAS 31 Inside Hayley Williams Mind 32 How rock are you?

rioT!! This week

Hey there people, this is a new magazine called RIOT! its dedicated to thefi nest of Rock & Metal music. So carry on reading and i hope you like it. Hopefully this will be the fi rst of many great issues. Enjoy! XX

Laura Editor

Drumming ProDigy 20

The ToP Tunes of The

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08 The ToP 40 Tracks

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s“ how i wenT from a normal sTuDenT aT ams To a Drumming ProDigy” arTicle by laura sTacey scoTT!!!

“he has a naTural TalenT for The

business”

every banDs

favouiTe session

Drummer

Scott Melville, the new kid on in town talks about drumming, Academy of Music and Sound (AMS) and his future in this industry he adores. The big topic is his age. He is only 16 years old! That is why every famous band has called this guy ‘The Drumming Prodigy’. RIOT! Had the fortunate opportunity to meet this genius...

Hey Scott, thank for giving us this interview, we really appreciate this. So why did you start drumming in the fi rst place?

‘Hey, Glad to be here, this is my very fi rst interview and i’m kind of nervous, so yeah, this should be fun. Erm... the reasons why i started drumming was because i think that hitting things is fun (laughs) and its to try something different. It all started out when i was in a band at my old school with two of my best friends, and our old drummer was forced

to switch to guitar so i could do the drumming instead, and from then on i realised that i had a good thing go-ing.’

Ok then, very cool story indeed. So you went from this to playing drums for the rest of your life, how did you know that this was for you?

‘Well, at fi rst i self taught myself, and i kept on getting compliments from people telling me how good i was, so i took it into account and had proper lessons.’

Fair point, good choice on your part there, so you had a band in school, but now that you left school your at the Academy of Music and Sound, what’s it like studying there?

‘On the whole, it’s ok and quite fun, but the theory side just makes it a real pain in the ass. And thanks to Live Performance Workshops

and End of Term gigs, i found that its really fun play-ing live.’

So are there any plans for your no doubt excellent future ahead of you?

‘Well the plan is hopefully settle down and get married to the one person i love and truly meant to be with, and making money and a good living doing something i love’

Awww so sweet, ok then, what’s your favourite genres of music?

‘ Erm.... wow there’s alot here. Ok we got Rock, Heavy metal, Classic Rock, Nu-Metal, Black Metal, Death Metal. I could go on forever but there’s way to many i know thanks to AMS’

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s“ how i wenT from a normal sTuDenT aT ams To a Drumming ProDigy” arTicle by laura sTacey scoTT!!!

“he has a naTural TalenT for The

business”

every banDs

favouiTe session

Drummer

Scott Melville, the new kid on in town talks about drumming, Academy of Music and Sound (AMS) and his future in this industry he adores. The big topic is his age. He is only 16 years old! That is why every famous band has called this guy ‘The Drumming Prodigy’. RIOT! Had the fortunate opportunity to meet this genius...

Hey Scott, thank for giving us this interview, we really appreciate this. So why did you start drumming in the fi rst place?

‘Hey, Glad to be here, this is my very fi rst interview and i’m kind of nervous, so yeah, this should be fun. Erm... the reasons why i started drumming was because i think that hitting things is fun (laughs) and its to try something different. It all started out when i was in a band at my old school with two of my best friends, and our old drummer was forced

to switch to guitar so i could do the drumming instead, and from then on i realised that i had a good thing go-ing.’

Ok then, very cool story indeed. So you went from this to playing drums for the rest of your life, how did you know that this was for you?

‘Well, at fi rst i self taught myself, and i kept on getting compliments from people telling me how good i was, so i took it into account and had proper lessons.’

Fair point, good choice on your part there, so you had a band in school, but now that you left school your at the Academy of Music and Sound, what’s it like studying there?

‘On the whole, it’s ok and quite fun, but the theory side just makes it a real pain in the ass. And thanks to Live Performance Workshops

and End of Term gigs, i found that its really fun play-ing live.’

So are there any plans for your no doubt excellent future ahead of you?

‘Well the plan is hopefully settle down and get married to the one person i love and truly meant to be with, and making money and a good living doing something i love’

Awww so sweet, ok then, what’s your favourite genres of music?

‘ Erm.... wow there’s alot here. Ok we got Rock, Heavy metal, Classic Rock, Nu-Metal, Black Metal, Death Metal. I could go on forever but there’s way to many i know thanks to AMS’

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