Interview with Riot V [ ] - Metal Express Radio

RIOT V (Live at Trillians, Newcastle, U.K., July 30, 2018) — Photo: Mick Burgess

It took them over 40 years to come but Riot, now called Riot V, finally made it over to tour the UK. Metal Express Radio’s Mick Burgess caught up with bassist Don Van Stavern and guitarist Mike Flyntz to talk about the tour, the transition from Riot into Riot V and the continuation of the legacy of founder and friend Mark Reale.

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Mick Burgess

Mick is a reviewer and photographer here at Metal Express Radio, based in the North-East of England. He first fell in love with music after hearing Jeff Wayne's spectacular The War of the Worlds in the cold winter of 1978. Then in the summer of '79 he discovered a copy of Kiss Alive II amongst his sister’s record collection, which literally blew him away! He then quickly found Van Halen I and Rainbow's Down To Earth, and he was well on the way to being rescued from Top 40 radio hell! Over the ensuing years, he's enjoyed the Classic Rock music of Rush, Blue Oyster Cult, and Deep Purple; the AOR of Journey and Foreigner; the Pomp of Styx and Kansas; the Progressive Metal of Dream Theater, Queensrÿche, and Symphony X; the Goth Metal of Nightwish, Within Temptation, and Epica, and a whole host of other great bands that are too numerous to mention. When he's not listening to music, he watches Sunderland lose more football (soccer) matches than they win, and occasionally, if he has to, he goes to work as a property lawyer.
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