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Riot Entertainment

The Home for Metal in Australia!!

About Me

Riot Entertainment is an Independent Entertainment Distributor with the main office in Sydney, Australia. Riot is independently owned and has its product distributed via Aztec Music / Aztec International based in Melbourne. Riot actively distributes: Compact Discs, DVD's, LP Vinyl and Merchandise, throughout major chain stores, independent retailers and on line stores throughout Australian and New Zealand. Riot is also active in Licensing!
Riot are the exclusive Australian distributor for such labels as: SPV, Nuclear Blast, Relapse, Earache, Spitfire, Regain, Spinefarm, Inside Out, Frontiers, Cleopatra, LMP, Hydrahead, AFM, Rise Above, Dockyard 1, Eleven Seven, MTM, Noise, Favored Nations, Rock Candy, Black Lodge, Golf, Black Mark, Karmageddon and more!
Riot also recently formed its own touring company - Alliance Touring Australia who are paving the way to open the Australian market to bands in the Hard Rock and Metal genre's.
Riot also has its own promotion and publicity division which does pre and on ground media / press for bands on our roster for other promoters to further increase awareness to the core fan base of these artists.
Riot is open to interest from any other labels and bands wanting distribution ot licensing! Please feel free to contact us!

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Member Since: 11/21/2007
Band Website: riotact.com.au
Band Members: Riot has 10 dedicated staff all who possess amazing musical knowledge and know how and are skilled in all fields of the music industry. We are backed with additional staff from our distribution partner Aztec Music / Aztec International.
Influences: Metal, Rock, Hard Rock, Progressive Metal, Power Metal, Black Metal, Death Metal, Gothic Metal, Thrash Metal, AOR, Melodic Metal, Hardcore and all genres within!
Sounds Like: Black Label Society, Halford, Anthrax, Annihilator, Alice Cooper, Iced Earth, Helloween, Dillinger Escape Plan, Hammerfall, Meshuggah, Drowning Pool, Manowar, Gamma Ray, High On Fire, Pig Destroyer, Alabama Thunderpussy, Baroness, Birds of Prey, Mastodon, Burst, Cephalic Carnage, Dying Fetus, The End, Genghis Tron, Gadget, Leng Tch'e, Necrophagist, Misery Index, Skinless, Rumpelstiltskin Grinder, Symphony X, Angra, Axel Rudi Pell, Demons & Wizards, Dio, Fozzy, Heaven & Hell, Kamelot, Kreator, Metal Church, Moonspell, Motorhead, Rage, Rhapsody of Fire, Sepultura, Saga, Saxon, Skid Row, Skinny Puppy, Savatage, Sodom, Type O Negative, Yngwie Malmsteen, ESP, Mortal Sin, Vanishing Point, Tristania, Whitesnake, Akercocke, The Berzerker, Biomechanical, Bolt Thrower, Carcass, Cathedral, Cult of Luna, Decapitated, Deicide, Entombed, Evile, The Haunted, Morbid Angel, Municipal Waste, Jesu, Pelican, Severe Torture, SSS, Black Majesty, Pain Division, Painmuseum, Anarion, Crimsonfire, Voyager, Eyefear, Ayreon, DeadSoul Tribe, Evergrey, Flower Kings, OSI, James LaBrie, Derek Sherinian, Sieges Even, Spock's Beard, Vanden Plas, Pain of Salvation, The Duke, Agnostic Front, All Shall Perish, Amorphis, Avantasia, Blind Guardian, Candlemass, Children of Bodom, Death Angel, Deathstars, Destruction, Dimmu Borgir, Edguy, Epica, Exodus, Nightwish, Gotthard, I, In Flames, Kataklysm, Mnemic, Nile, Sirenia, Soilwork, Sonata Arctica, Sonic Syndicate, Testament, Therion, Threshold, Threat Signal, Thunderstone, Behemoth, Dark Funeral, Gorgoroth, Vader, Allen / Lande, Jorn Lande, Dismember, Marduk, Richie Kotzen, Great White, Hardline, Jeff Scott Soto, Primal Fear, Winger, Glenn Hughes, Harem Scarem, House of Lords, Journey, Toto, Michael Kiske, Night Ranger, Soul Sirkus, Place Vendome, Ted Poley, Pink Cream 69, Starbreaker, Styx, Joe Lynn Turner, Talisman, At Vance, Circle II Circle, Masterplan, Krokus, Doro, Elvenking, Lion's Share, Rose Tattoo, Rob Rock, UDO, Bathory, Edge of Sanity, Lump, Enter Twilight, Ensiferum, Fintroll, Moonsorrow, Norther, Hellfueled, Death Breath, Big Business, Cave In, Witchcraft, Orange Goblin, Electric Wizard, Grand Magus, Scissorfight, Converge, Botch, Coalesce, Xasthur, 5ive, Oxbow, Planet Smashers, Jimmy Eat World, Less than Jake, Poison Idea, Will Haven, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Hit the Lights, Hell is for Heroes, Boy Hits Car, Marilyn Manson and the Spooky Kids, Circulus, L.A. Guns, White Lion, Warrant, 69 Eyes, Bang Tango, Cinderella, Hollywood Rose, Lynch Mob, Stephen Pearcy and plenty more.......
Record Label: Riot
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Drowning Pool / Puddle Of Mudd Australian tour 2008

ALLIANCE TOURING, RIOT ENTERTAINMENT, AND CHANNEL V PRESENT DROWNING POOL WITH SPECIAL GUESTS PUDDLE OF MUDD 2008 AUSTRALIAN TOUR For Texan modern rockers Drowning Pool, their third a...
Posted by Riot Entertainment on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:37:00 PST

HELLOWEEN: HELLISH ROCK AUSTRALIAN TOUR FEBRUARY 08

Alliance Touring &  Riot Entertainment Present:  HELLOWEEN: 'HELLISH ROCK' AUSTRALIAN TOUR FEBRUARY '08 The Keepers of the 7 Keys are finally on their way to Australia! The Legen...
Posted by Riot Entertainment on Mon, 17 Dec 2007 05:48:00 PST