Rock News 2025-01-02

• "It’s actually Sid Wilson’s favourite Slipknot song." Inside nu metal's greatest deep cuts
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• “It was me being a complete and utter dunderhead”: Manic Street Preachers’ James Dean Bradfield on the guitar solo where he went full method
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• “I got him a drink and it went from there”: how Damon Albarn and Noel Gallagher buried the hatchet and became unlikely friends and collaborators
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• Merry Christmas and cast your votes for the Sleaze Roxx Readers’ Top 20 Albums of 2024!
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• Gypsy Pistoleros share video for new single “Shadow Walker”
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• "There's a nod to Thin Lizzy's unmistakable dual guitars in there": Gary Moore's son Jack Moore releases debut solo single In My Shoes
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• “I was fired after two months because I was playing guitar with a dildo and being an idiot”: The wild life and crazed career of Devin Townsend, metal’s misunderstood maverick
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• "My anger is a gift. But it's consuming me." Inside the rebirth of Jason Aalon Butler's genre-splicing punk machine, Fever 333
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• Stolen Prayer unleash video for new single “Move On You” from EP ‘Stolen Prayer II’
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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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• Antimatter share video for brand new single Angelic
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• “Some thought it inspired; others heard an epic train wreck… His palette broadened, the songs lengthened, the lyrics became more personal”: The prog credentials of Sufjan Stevens’ The Age Of Adz
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• "Glastonbury is now under corporate control": Neil Young pulls out of UK's biggest festival, citing BBC interference
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• The Dirty Denims’ “oldest new rookie” Han Ernest provides his highlights of 2024
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• “I thought, I gotta have some real track marks before I quit heroin.” The Lemonheads' frontman Evan Dando knows that he's lucky to be alive
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• Ravenøus launch debut video for new single “Streets”
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• “I chose to leave, to focus on myself… It was a very difficult, painful, sad time for everyone”: Vincent Cavanagh had to quit Anathema to become The Radicant
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• “When I found out you could do the Hawaii Five-0 theme in chicken noises, that became the challenge”: Robert Ramsay’s silly and serious album Confound And Disturb
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• Made famous by The Doors, the historic Morrison Hotel has been destroyed by fire
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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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• “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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• "We just went in and just destroyed San Francisco, and that was it": Jimmy Page on Led Zeppelin's historic arrival in America
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• Crystal Steel drop video for new single “Crystalized”
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• Watch Alanis Morissette celebrate the new year, and the 30th anniversary of her hugely successful Jagged Little Pill album, on Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve show
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• "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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• Premiere of AFFÄIRE’s cover of Alleycat Scratch track “Take A Bite (Outta Me)” on Sleaze Roxx
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• 25 things we’re looking forward to in 2025
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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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• “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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• Ellefson unveil cover of Donnie Iris’ “Ah! Leah” featuring Enuff Z’Nuff and Kik Tracee singers
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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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• "He was trying to numb the past, dull the present and look for comfort in the future. He found it there and it killed him": Dan Aykroyd on the tragedy of John Belushi and the making of The Blues Brothers
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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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• “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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• "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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• “Bowie comes in wearing a black jumpsuit, holding a can of Heineken and a big bit of cheese”: Simple Minds on the night David Bowie and Iggy Pop invaded their studio
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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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• Watch Billy Corgan sing Take Me Out To The Ballgame for 40,000 fans in an icy stadium in Chicago
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• Broadcasting legend Johnnie Walker dead at 79
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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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• “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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• “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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• Mystic Festival is boasting one of 2025's best lineups and one of the most unique and great value metal festival experiences in the world
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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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• Prog metal heroes Nevermore tease reunion with cryptic social media vignette
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• Nazty Gunz drop lyric video for track “My Fire” from new album ‘Hot Mess’
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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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• "When I first played Jump for the guys nobody wanted to have anything to do with it": How Eddie Van Halen became a superstar and the real story of Van Halen's biggest-selling album
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• The DDR Music Group reveals its ‘Top 35 Glam, Sleaze, and Hard Rock releases’
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• “Who is gonna sing that to who? Cos you sure ain’t singing it to me and I sure ain’t singing it to you”: the reason that Prince turned down Michael Jackson’s request to do a duet on an 80s classic
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• Metal Hammer's 50 best albums of 2024
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• "It'll be a setlist for the ages": Bruce Dickinson promises fans things they've never seen before on Iron Maiden's Run For Your Lives tour
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• Former Skid Row singer Erik Grönwall has taken Europe's euphoric anthem The Final Countdown and made it "slow and dark"
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• The decade the blues mutated: A beginners' guide to 80s blues in 10 essential albums
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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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• In Memoriam: A tribute to the musicians we lost in 2024
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• “The combination of music and sex was something I had never encountered in any other group”: How the Rolling Stones married sex, blues and rock’n’roll and launched themselves to notoriety
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• “We once did a gig for deaf kids. They sat at the front of the stage, put their ears to the ground and soaked up the vibration. They loved it!”: An epic interview with Angus and Malcolm Young, the heart and soul of AC/DC
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• We celebrate 50 years of Yes's Relayer on the cover of the new issue of Prog, which is on sale now!
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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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• Lady Strange release two EPs in the same year
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• The Metal Voice House Band launch video for track “Excalibur”
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• Howzat unveil video for new single “Revolution”
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• Dixie Dragster unleash video for track “Show & Tell” from upcoming EP ‘Dixie Dragster Comes Alive’
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• “She was like, ‘This will not be tolerated. I spent years building a profile and you’re not going to throw my hard work away’.” The Libertines' Pete Doherty reveals how intrusive media attention soured his relationship with supermodel Kate Moss
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