Rock News 2024-12-31

• "Strong evidence that classic rock as an ongoing and healthy genre is worth checking out": The Temperance Movement don't reinvent the wheel on A Deeper Cut, but they sure keep it spinning in the right direction
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• “I’m really, really stoked about where this one’s going. It’s gonna be cool.” Myles Kennedy talks new Slash and the Conspirators album
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• David Lee Roth continues to move in mysterious ways with new blues song Forgiveness
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• “There’s an unlimited amount of bad things happening in the world, real and imagined. It’s not hard for us to come up with stuff”: The story of Cannibal Corpse’s Gallery Of Suicide, the album that helped keep 90s death metal alive
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• Classic Rock's Ultimate 2024 Playlist
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• One of Erik Grönwall’s questions to himself – “Were you loyal to those you care about?” – “Without a doubt.”
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• “Biker festivals booked us for some reason… Four songs in, when we were actually about to die, we’d launch into some Status Quo to save our lives”: When the unclassifiable Haze finally got to play for a prog audience, they found it refreshingly easy
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• "We'd be up for days drinking, getting stoned and making music": How the Rolling Stones channelled chaos to make the final album with their most potent line-up
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• “We weren’t ready to go into the studio… we got the feeling the label didn’t care about us any more”: Despite an uneasy line-up change, a lawsuit and no idea about singles, the Moody Blues returned to superstardom with Long Distance Voyager
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• "We have lost friends, to ODs, suicide. And we see each other out there still holding it down." How Papa Roach survived the rise and fall of nu metal to be bigger than ever in 2024
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• “If it wasn’t working, I could see the point of changing. But we were more successful than ever. It was incomprehensible”: The tumultuous story of Sepultura’s Roots album and their bitter split
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• Stolen Prayer unleash video for new single “Move On You” from EP ‘Stolen Prayer II’
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• Prog metal heroes Nevermore tease reunion with cryptic social media vignette
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• “At one point he brings out his death ray and starts randomly firing it at people. It’s just totally insane!”: Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett’s five favourite cult horror movie villains
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• Made famous by The Doors, the historic Morrison Hotel has been destroyed by fire
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• "I wasn’t fired, they just didn’t call me back. I didn’t even get a note from David saying it’s time to move on": The unlikely story of George Murray, the David Bowie bassist who became a school superintendent
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• Gypsy Pistoleros share video for new single “Shadow Walker”
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• “It was us and them.… We got away with it mostly, but in certain songs you can hear a bit of a wobble”: Given Barclay James Harvest’s difficult personal and financial relationships with orchestras, why did John Lees do it again?
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• “I called Gene Simmons. He said: ‘How the hell did you get this number?!’ That was when I got the idea that we weren’t going to be best buddies”: Dee Snider’s wild tales of Robert Plant, Frank Zappa, Freddy Krueger and Kiss
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• "Could they be our human pods, like those from the Matrix?": Kate Bush draws parallels between Impressionist painter Monet and AI in annual Christmas message
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• "This is one of the greatest songs we've ever written." Ukraine metal sensations Jinjer pick the five songs that have defined their career so far
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• "They are honouring Chester's memory but also creating their own legacy." How Linkin Park pulled off the biggest comeback of 2024
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• “Bob Rock would say: ‘You could do better. You’re halfway there. More Springsteen! More Ian Hunter!’”: The major Mötley Crüe hit that took Nikki Sixx eight attempts to write
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• Merry Christmas and cast your votes for the Sleaze Roxx Readers’ Top 20 Albums of 2024!
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• “It’s only a matter of a couple weeks before everybody converges on to the studio”: Megadeth are working on their next studio album
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• “This band works like a ouija board. No one’s fully in charge of how it operates, but you keep looking at the letters and seeing what they spell”: How Pearl Jam made Lightning Bolt and embraced their inner Pink Floyd
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• Cracking prog, Gromit! Some of Aardman Animations’ best-loved movies were made to a soundtrack of Jeff Wayne, Tangerine Dream, Focus, Goldfrapp, Alan Parsons and more, says veteran sculptor Jim Parkyn
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• “They politely said, ‘We will never air this. You are banned from MTV.’” Scott Ian reveals which song got Anthrax banned in the 80s
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• "Every night of our tour, we'd get a report about weapons being confiscated." We went backstage with Powerwolf, Hammerfall and Wind Rose on the power metal tour of the year - and it was even more ludicrous than we'd imagined
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• ‘A Celebration of the Music and Life of Jack Russell’ to take place at the Whisky A Go-Go on January 14th
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• “Last time we did an album with solos was eight years ago. That’s a long time to ask people in a prog band to not have solos”: Why Frost* revisited dazzling debut Milliontown on Life In The Wires
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• Crystal Steel drop video for new single “Crystalized”
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• Ellefson unveil cover of Donnie Iris’ “Ah! Leah” featuring Enuff Z’Nuff and Kik Tracee singers
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• "I cut grass all day long." What Joey Belladonna did when he was fired by Anthrax
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• The Dirty Denims’ “oldest new rookie” Han Ernest provides his highlights of 2024
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• “Everyone was singing about Satan back then, but I don’t believe in Satan so I needed something that was real to me”: How Amon Amarth became the world’s favourite 21st century Viking metal berserkers
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• "What a man! What a life!What a loss!": Peter Gabriel pays heartfelt tribute to 'the rock'n'roll president' Jimmy Carter
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• “We did ask him… he replied, ‘You can’t afford me!’” Steven Wilson didn’t work on Opeth’s new album, but Ian Anderson did – while fans are still processing the return of growl vocals after 16 years
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• "You can get clean and live a life beyond anything you’ve ever dreamed of." Lamb of God's Mark Morton shares inspiring message as he celebrates 6 years clean
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• The DDR Music Group reveals its ‘Top 35 Glam, Sleaze, and Hard Rock releases’
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• "Most of my favourite bands, their fourteenth album was shit": Opeth's Mikael Åkerfeldt on ABBA, nearly buying a record shop, and their awesome 14th album
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• “If you look at the leads he was doing and when he was doing them, he kind of innovated a lot of that stuff”: Slayer’s Kerry King names metal’s most overlooked guitarist
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• “Emphatically proves that the current line-up is the band’s best since their mid-70s heyday”: Hawkwind’s Live At The Royal Albert Hall is much more than just another live album
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• Nazty Gunz drop lyric video for track “My Fire” from new album ‘Hot Mess’
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• “I could be listening to Abba one minute and then Morbid Angel. It doesn’t seem strange to me”: How Porcupine Tree reinvented progressive rock for the 21st century metal generation
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• The people behind Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown are planning a Syd Barrett movie
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• “Thank God we had strippers! They make great money”: Former Guns N’ Roses drummer Steven Adler on the chaos and carnage of making Appetite For Destruction
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• "Rock and roll is all about being defiant." Do rappers belong in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? Absolutely, says Offspring guitarist Noodles
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• Premiere of AFFÄIRE’s cover of Alleycat Scratch track “Take A Bite (Outta Me)” on Sleaze Roxx
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• Antimatter share video for brand new single Angelic
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• "People said, 'You're going to be a one hit wonder.'" How Higher cemented Creed as rock's new superstars
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• “Ian’s flute solo got stretched out… Martin Barre and I would sit and play cards on stage, with a pot of tea. He had no clue what was happening”: Former Jethro Tull members share their favourite moments
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• The Metal Voice House Band launch video for track “Excalibur”
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• “We jammed with Zeppelin. John Bonham said, ‘Let’s play that song of yours I like.’ That was Supernaut”: Tony Iommi on the rivalry between Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin – and their lost jam session
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• "I was in the hallway with Slipknot and I got screamed at." Vended might have big links to heavy metal royalty, but that doesn't mean they're getting an easy ride
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• Gentle Giant announce reimagined, remixed and remastered version of 1977 live album Playing The Fool
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• “We were pot-smoking hippies and Rick Wakeman was a pub guy. The angle twisted and we went off in a new direction”: The epic story of Yes and the three albums that changed the course of music
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• The 26 best rock reissues of 2024
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• Massive Attack hope to release new music next year: “It’s good – I’m looking forward to it!”
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• Ravenøus launch debut video for new single “Streets”
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• Why Robert Trujillo hasn’t written much Metallica music: “These guys write amazing songs, and I’m not going to suddenly insert myself”
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• “It’s a very dark record. Randy had a lot to get off his chest. You can hear a real mania in the way we played”: The chaotic story of Lamb Of God’s New American Gospel, the album that kickstarted 2000s metal
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• Dixie Dragster unleash video for track “Show & Tell” from upcoming EP ‘Dixie Dragster Comes Alive’
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• “Plenty have paddled in the same murky waters, but few have done it with such eye-popping vigour”: Seven Impale’s City Of The Sun: 10th anniversary edition
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• Lady Strange release two EPs in the same year
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