RIOT ACT – Closer To The Flame (2022)
“Closer To The Flame” is the highly anticipated debut album from RIOT ACT, the band initially formed by ex classic era RIOT members Rick Ventura and Lou Kouvaris, a full length studio recording which is sure to please fans of the early ’70s / early 80’s era of RIOT as well as Montrose, Y&T, Tesla, Rival Sons, and fans of classic hard rock everywhere.
The release also comes with a 12-track bonus CD of classic Riot songs re-recorded by RIOT ACT. These feature the final ever recordings of Kouvaris, who tragically passed away of Covid-19 in early 2020.
This is one of the best ‘classic hard rock’ music we heard in recent time; the RIOT ACT original songs have that ’80s lovely feeling, and the classic RIOT songs like ‘Rock City’, ’49er’, ‘Swords And Tequila’, ‘White Rock’, etc, are timeless pieces of pure US hard rock very well re-created…