Rock News 2025-01-04

• “It shouldn’t work but it comes out brilliant… You can spend hours studying what they did and still not fully get it”: Nik Kershaw’s passion for Gentle Giant
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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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• Reactivated Nevermore holding open auditions for new singer and bassist
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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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• Ellefson unveil cover of Donnie Iris’ “Ah! Leah” featuring Enuff Z’Nuff and Kik Tracee singers
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• Metal Hammer's 50 best albums of 2024
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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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• “Welcome textures and colours… but the overall mix lacks depth and coherence”: White Willow’s remaster of fourth album Storm Season
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• “Another day and I’d be playing drums with Lemmy in Heaven”: Scorpions and former Motörhead drummer Mikkey Dee was hospitalised with sepsis last month
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• Ravenøus launch debut video for new single “Streets”
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• A Limp Bizkit-inspired IPA called “Fred Thirst” exists now
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• The Cure’s new album could be out this summer, and Robert Smith has just detailed two songs set to appear on it
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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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• Thundermother share lyric video for new single “Bright Eyes”
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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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• “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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• Crystal Steel drop video for new single “Crystalized”
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• “I wanted to explore melody even more than we have in the past”: Employed To Serve’s next album inspired by In Flames
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• "We got **** in the press, we got bullied...but we’ve had the same trajectory." Bullet For My Valentine and Trivium are together on the cover of Metal Hammer for the first time ever
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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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• “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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• "He’s basically a juvenile delinquent who’s out of control." Bass legend Tony Levin reveals which studio session was the most significant of his storied career
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• Stolen Prayer unleash video for new single “Move On You” from EP ‘Stolen Prayer II’
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• Merry Christmas and cast your votes for the Sleaze Roxx Readers’ Top 20 Albums of 2024!
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• “The world my kid is going into is insane. I can’t write positive lyrics”: How In Flames defied the haters and the apocalypse to make A Sense Of Purpose
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• Gypsy Pistoleros share video for new single “Shadow Walker”
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• Watch rare, newly unearthed, footage of an unmasked Slipknot soundchecking for a hometown club show in 2000, plus footage of that wild Des Moines gig
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• 25 things we’re looking forward to in 2025
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• Broadcasting legend Johnnie Walker dead at 79
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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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 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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• Don’t forget to cast your votes for the Sleaze Roxx Readers’ Top 20 Albums of 2024!
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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 decade the blues mutated: A beginners' guide to 80s blues in 10 essential albums
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• Simon Godfrey announces new Fine Modern Gentleman record label
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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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• Premiere of AFFÄIRE’s cover of Alleycat Scratch track “Take A Bite (Outta Me)” on Sleaze Roxx
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• “People would say, ‘He took a trip and now he’s weird.’ He wasn’t weird at all”: Mick Rock’s “surprisingly simple” friendship with Syd Barrett, and other psychedelic adventures
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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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• "It's adrenaline-filled and balls-to-the-wall": Tony Iommi and Glenn Hughes have recorded a song with Robbie Williams
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• "He does things his own way and that’s why we love him." Neil Young to headline Glastonbury, following U-turn on his recent decision to pull out of the festival
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• Dixie Dragster unleash video for track “Show & Tell” from upcoming EP ‘Dixie Dragster Comes Alive’
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• Ex-Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg is making a solo album
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• “We’re gonna be doing stuff we’ve never, ever done before”: Bruce Dickinson promises Iron Maiden’s 2025 tour will have a “setlist for the ages”
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• "I like those guys in concept." Watch legendary former Police drummer Stewart Copeland create a magical new foundation for a classic nu metal anthem
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• Celebrating 50 Years Of Rush: an exclusive new interview with Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson - only in the new issue of Classic Rock
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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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• “The lowest on my list of things we’ve ever done”: M. Shadows names the Avenged Sevenfold song he considers a “throwaway”
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• Ghost Of The Machine share first music from upcoming album Empires Must Fall
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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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• "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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• Former Iron Maiden man Tony Moore announces UK tour dates
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• The DDR Music Group reveals its ‘Top 35 Glam, Sleaze, and Hard Rock releases’
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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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• A Multitude Of One announce epic new concept album A Templar’s Tale
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• Watch Rush, Chris Cornell, Dave Grohl, Heart, Tom Morello, John Fogerty, Chuck D and more jamming on Robert Johnson's blues classic Crossroads in 2013
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• How Jimmie Rodgers changed the face of popular music – and built a song franchise in the process
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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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• “As pictorial histories go, it’s as smart and surprising as Cardiacs themselves”: A Big Book And A Band And A Whole World Window by Aaron Tanner
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• The Dirty Denims’ “oldest new rookie” Han Ernest provides his highlights of 2024
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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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• Howzat unveil video for new single “Revolution”
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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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• "It’s actually Sid Wilson’s favourite Slipknot song." Inside nu metal's greatest deep cuts
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• No Favors’ new album ‘The Eleventh Hour’ now available
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