Rock News 2025-01-11

• Listen to entrancing new Lacuna Coil single Gravity
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• “Burn Hollywood Burn is a protest song. Has nothing to do with families, losing everything they have in a natural disaster.” Public Enemy's Chuck D calls out edgelords using his song to soundtrack online footage of devastating Los Angeles fires
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• John Dallas’ video for his track “Drive Me Tonight” now available
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• Hear ex-Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo team with wife Paula and current Slayer guitarist Gary Holt to cover Scorpions’ Animal Magnetism
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• Bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclipse Of The Heart was originally written for a Nosferatu musical: “If anyone listens to the lyrics, they're really like vampire lines. It's all about the darkness, the power of darkness and love's place in the dark"
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• "That song has been my passport, my bank manager and my lover down through the years": Cutting Crew's Nick Van Eede on (I Just) Died In Your Arms, gangster rap and Tanzanian bandits
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• The Hourglass Effect's gorgeous new EP Inner Ocean is the burst of country-fried rock 'n' roll you need to get you through winter
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• Tigertailz’s box set ‘For A Few Dollarz More (The Archives Vol 1: 1984–1991)’ available on January 24th
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• Big Big Train announce very first Canadian live dates
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• The blow that ended it all: How the return of Jane's Addiction was floored not by musical differences, but by a punch thrown by their singer
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• Weite share video for the compelling Roter Traum ahead of European dates
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• "I just thought it was a good Queen gig. I was more interested in The Who": Photographer Neal Preston on being onstage with Queen at Live Aid
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• “I knew The Poison was going to be massive!” Metal Hammer releases exclusive Trivium x Bullet For My Valentine bundle – featuring a t-shirt you can’t get anywhere else!
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• "A humorous and bewildered look at the modern world from a man who has never quite seemed a part of it": Julian Cope rediscovers melody on mischievous 37th solo album Friar Tuck
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• "We've been to hell and back, and we came out the other side": Bullet For My Valentine almost broke up, but a billion streams says they're ready to celebrate
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• "Snarling, fast and furious, full of meaty hooks and exasperated observations": Lambrini Girls gleefully mix subversion with humour on debut album Who Let The Dogs Out
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• "Johnny Rotten came in, turned to Iggy and said, Oo the f***'s that – your manager or something?" David Bowie on his first encounter with the Sex Pistols
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• Robin McAuley unveils lyric video for new track “Soulbound”
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• “I’ve been sober for a few years now, so it’s kind of about that”: Jinjer singer Tatiana Shmayluk names her favourite song on upcoming album Duél
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• Ablaze to bid farewell to band co-founder and guitarist Matty D
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• "Each of the dozen tracks is based on a gigantic riff": Mark Tremonti finds a way to expand his palette on The End Will Show Us How
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• "Unless your guitars and your attitude resemble these nuggets then you can kiss my tubular bells." Oasis' Liam Gallagher shares his love of the Sex Pistols, revealing how "all heaven broke loose" when he first heard the punk legends
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• "I was definitely doing too much Bolivian marching powder." Hollywood star Rob Lowe reveals that he once "cut a demo" with AOR superstars Toto, which might just be the most '80s thing ever
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• "Cannibal Corpse have made it to a level where they’re playing to thousands." Gatecreeper want to make death metal as big as possible
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• “Dave Mustaine can’t help but stick his foot in his mouth”: Slayer’s Kerry King explains his relationships with Metallica members old and new
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• "It just seemed like another really good way to bring people together": How Slash re-electrified the blues for the hard times
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• Lady Beast share new single “Inner Alchemist” from upcoming album ‘The Inner Alchemist’
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• "It's about man's insatiable addiction to discover and use”: Manic Street Preachers on their new single People Ruin Paintings
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• "They’d usually freak, there’d be a lot of threats, a lot of aggression." Why shoegaze legends My Bloody Valentine had to hire their own security guard to protect audiences from angry security guards at their gigs
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• The 20 best metal albums of 2024 - as voted by the readers of Metal Hammer
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• "They seemed to come out of some New York film where it was all flick-knives on the street." The Damned's Dave Vanian on the gig that changed his life
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• Ethel Cain nosedives into the haunting depths of a sexually tormented and guilt-ridden mind on the dark, disquieting Perverts
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• Stephan Pearcy reveals when he played guitar in Ratt and whether he enjoyed it or not
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• “A lot of bands were bigger than us, but few can claim to have sucha diverse catalogue of music… I know it’s all been worthwhile”: Gryphon’s Dave Oberlé looks back
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• Squid share new Japan-inspired single Building 650, announce UK tour
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• “Grand Designs is inspiring – it highlights the human spirit”: Alter Bridge singer and certified Anglophile Myles Kennedy names his favourite British TV shows
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• PUP announce UK tour, pay tribute to "the unsung heroes who run the merch table" with their brilliantly inventive lyric video for new single Paranoid
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• Steve Hackett shares new live clip of Defector track Jacuzzi
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• Thundermother share lyric video for new single “Bright Eyes”
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• Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor nominates one of 2024's biggest hit singles as his favourite song of the year
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• Adam Bomb announces European dates for ‘Livedream Tour 2025’
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• "Snoop Dogg said he’d had over a billion streams and made less than $43,000 – that should scare the **** out of everyone." Ice-T on Body Count, dream collabs and more
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• Caligula's Horse vocalist Jim Grey guests on Voidchaser's new single Trust
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• The Darkness reveal track listing for their upcoming studio album ‘Dreams On Toast’
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• “Chris Squire was super fun. I love it when musicians retain their childlike qualities; that’s where music comes from”: Tal Wilkenfeld’s prog connections include David Gilmour, Todd Rundgren and Trevor Rabin
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• Three days left to cast your votes for the Sleaze Roxx Readers’ Top 20 Albums of 2024!
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• Steven Wilson announces screening and shares trailer for new movie for The Overview
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• Metallica’s James Hetfield names who he deems the “master craftsman at lyrics” – and it’s not a metal musician
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• Jethro Tull share first music from upcoming album Curious Ruminant
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• SUiCiDE BOMBERS, Trench Dogs and Continental Lovers to embark on UK tour
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• "System Of A Down isn’t working right now, so do you want me to just sit around and wait?" How Shavo Odadjian ditched nu metal for deathcore with Seven Hours After Violet
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• Andy Bell collaborates with Michael Rother on new single i'm in love
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• “It’s a story about artistic authenticity in an increasingly synthetic world.” Succession star Jeremy Strong talks about his experiences working on the forthcoming Bruce Springsteen biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere
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• "Slash is the reason I picked up a guitar, when I was nine": Meet Grace Bowers, the teenage guitar sensation who's getting the attention of the A-list
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• "He sang 'Squeeze My Lemon' and we're like, 'Oh, we must leave, we must leave the premises'": Heart's Wilson sisters once walked out of a Led Zeppelin show because Robert Plant was too suggestive
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• KK Wilde launch video for new single “Love Is A Weapon”
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• Stryper clarify the “official” dates for their album releases
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• Evick drop new single “Your Last One”
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• Jon Anderson and The Band Geeks announce further US tour dates for April and May
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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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• Pop megastar Halsey booked hardcore shows when she was 16
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• Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine announce pop-up shops for UK tour – and you can get tattooed there if you’re brave enough!
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• “People prefer to deal with the shadows rather than dealing with the truth”: 10 epic songs that showcase Orphaned Land’s ferocious pursuit of a better world
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• Orphaned Land share emotive reworkings of their very first song The Beloved's Cry
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• "At the time I was very interested in drugs. Drugs was chic." Blondie's Debbie Harry on the 'fashionable' drug scene she found in 1960s New York
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