Rock News 2025-01-18

• “We didn’t know we were creating a new style… we took sounds from anywhere and everywhere”: Tony Visconti, Roger Dean and the making of Osibisa’s debut album
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• Haken guitarist Charlie Griffiths unveils new Tiktaalika project
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• "My friend’s mom had connections with the Grateful Dead and could score good acid." Kyuss legend Brant Bjork was destined for a life in rock'n'roll
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• Last day to cast your votes for the Sleaze Roxx Readers’ Top 20 Albums of 2024!
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• “Turn the lights off, put the music on, close your eyes and start to have a waking dream… it might even inspire people to create movies that could be scored with this music”: John Carpenter’s second career in prog
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• “Iron Maiden’s tough, because it’s a very different vibe between Killers and Number Of The Beast”: Slayer’s Kerry King names his five perfect metal albums
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• “All you have to do is turn on the TV and you’re inundated by complete lies from people who are supposed to be running this country”: How distortion, chaos and a world gone mad shaped R.E.M.’s game-changing album Document album
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• “I thought Bowie was talented even though he lacked direction. I could hear the star quality in his voice”: Tony Visconti’s tales of David Bowie, Marc Bolan, Phil Lynott and U2
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• Why does metal love Vikings so much? We interviewed Grand Magus, Wardruna and a college professor to find out
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• "We were even rebelling against the people who embraced us": A brief history of cult Paisley Underground psychonauts The Dream Syndicate
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• "My first concert was The Black Crowes, but my second was ZZ Top. That would've been the cooler answer!" Brat's Liz Selfish: 10 Records That Changed My Life
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• “It was too Rod Stewart”: the huge Radiohead song that the band have distanced themselves from… and no, it’s not Creep
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• Löanshark unleash video for new single “Another Man In The Trunk”
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• Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rod Stewart, Stephen Stills, Stevie Nicks, Green Day, Joni Mitchell and more confirmed for FireAid benefit concerts
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• "Just as Dave pioneered a genre with Megadeth, we wanted to pioneer something new in the world of wine": Dave Mustaine's wine company is now offering luxury wine-related excursions
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• "Being sober was a real different experience from a band that was always wrecked": How Mötley Crüe cleaned up and made their biggest album
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• “We were weeping like little babies, trying to figure out whether to continue, and if so how”: How HIM pulled back from the brink to make their final album Tears On Tape
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• "We can't quit, we don’t know how, we've come too far": Those Damn Crows release thumping new single No Surrender
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• "I sometimes struggled to convey what we were just talking about, and not everyone understood it": A story of Ghost's concert movie, logistical complexity and Hollywood finance
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• Deraps to release sophomore album in a few months
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• "I thought, What is this? I don't understand what I'm hearing, but wow!" Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor on the "life-changing" record which blew his teenage mind, and why soft rock legends Barry Manilow and Billy Joel may have influenced his songwriting
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• Former Skid Row lead vocalist Erik Grönwall unveils his plans in 2025 for music releases and livestreams
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• “I borrowed an iPod for a flight and put Moonmadness on it. Flying through the clouds, I was listening to Air Born thinking, ‘This is great!’” Why Baroness ex Peter Adams loves Camel
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• "I did have a multitrack tape of that, but it got mislaid": The secret history of Led Zeppelin’s lost masterpiece
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• Gyasi launches new single “Cheap High” from upcoming album ‘Here Comes The Good Part’
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• Super Deluxe edition of classic Yes album Close To The Edge on the way
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• Watch masked enigmas Imperial Triumphant become the first metal band to play New York’s iconic Chrysler Building
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• Watch Dream Theater's prog metal legend Mike Portnoy attempt to play along to Taylor Swift's Shake It Off with absolutely no idea what he's listening to
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• “It’s the most spontaneous thing I’ve ever been involved in”: the story of Mad Season, the grunge supergroup that Mike McCready hoped would save Layne Staley
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• “He couldn’t understand amidst the noise that I was the other singer! I almost enjoyed it better that way”: The underwhelming moment when Yes’ Jon Davison met predecessor Jon Anderson
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• The Dust Coda announce departure of old frontman, new frontman already in place
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• Dirkschneider launch lyric video for classic track “Balls To The Wall” featuring Joakim Brodén
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• “I’d rather be remembered for our legacy than returning as the top Rush tribute band”: Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee are jamming together – but they have no plans to resurrect Rush with a new drummer
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• 4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month
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• Eagles donate $2.5 million to upcoming LA wildfires relief concert
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• Trixy Tang unveil current 2025 show dates
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• Dirty Honey drop live video for track “When I’m Gone” from upcoming album ‘Mayhem & Revelry Live’
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• “Hendrix took a look at my first album and said: ‘I’ll try it this way’. I don’t appreciate that. But then I can’t play the guitar like him”: The chaotic story of Arthur Lee and Love, the 60s renegades who helped invent the LA scene
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• "The whole evolution of electric guitar-driven, album-oriented music can be traced directly back to him": The Bob Dylan albums you should definitely listen to
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• "The sound of a man running wild in his own imagination": Frank Black's Teenager Of The Year still sounds brilliant 30 years on
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• "When you're young you've got all this violence in you, and that music released it for me." U2's Bono on the "genius" musician he considers an "exorcist"
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• "I first heard it when I started taking acid": Devin Townsend picks the soundtrack of his life
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• Rikki Rockett feels rock and metal outlets are quickly becoming the “soundtrack of the grumpy”
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• Gotthard share video for new single “Thunder & Lightning” from upcoming album ‘Stereo Crush’
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• "He said, 'The last thing I want is you guys going on David Letterman and the freakin’ drummer’s singing." How Mastodon left sludge metal behind for cosmic prog metal on Oblivion
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• It's the return of Prog's Tracks Of The Week! Cool new proggy sounds from Coheed & Cambria, Don Airey, Wardruna and more
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• Thundermother unveil video for new single “Can’t Put Out The Fire”
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• “Wordless vocals wail around the memory of his lost love, manifesting a grief too terrible to put into words”: David Crosby’s solo debut proved his prog credentials
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• Wheels of Fire to release new album ‘All In’ on March 21st
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• "Right now nobody gives a flying **** when your record drops or the next concert is!" Motley Crue's Tommy Lee isn't impressed by tone-deaf musicians self-promoting while Los Angeles is burning, but there's a plot twist
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• New Zealand groove metallers Alien Weaponry announce new album Te Rā, launch epic Mau Moko video
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• “You have to destroy things in order to create things. And I did destroy a really beautiful life.” Lucy Dacus announces new album Forever Is A Feeling, shares two new singles and North American tour dates
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• Michael Sweet jokingly suggests starting a Stryper tribute band and his reasons for doing so
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• “Metal fans are still stigmatised. So I try and write lyrics with meaning, rather than standard metal lyrics”: How Megadeth‘s Dave Mustaine set out to bust a few myths with Super Collider
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• "Dance, drink, and be merry!" Green Day's "glorified karaoke" side-project The Coverups host a joyously messy party in London
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• Scorpions postpone Las Vegas residency to allow Mikkey Dee to recover from illness
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• Michael Sweet aiming to finalize and release ‘inspirational / worship’ album
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• “He was wearing a red satin suit and he’d closed his eyes to do existential-style doodles. Then he got ink on his suit and was pissed off”: Why Captain Beefheart is The Primevals frontman Michael Rooney’s prog hero
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• Desperate to master “the art of growling”? This Dutch university offers degrees in heavy metal music. Seriously.
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• "You know, at my age, it hurts my shoulders to do all this": Sammy Hagar says he doesn't want to tour anymore
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• “Something we did do was throw out the rulebook”: Arch Enemy discuss “chaotic” new album Blood Dynasty
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• Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown is an enthralling depiction of the emergence of a singular musical genius and cultural disruptor, with Timothée Chalamet superb as a young Dylan
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• Former 24-7 Spyz vocalist and Black Rock Coalition co-founder Peter 'P. Fluid' Forrest, murdered in New York
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• Spread Eagle to release EP ‘The 1989 Demos’ and to hit the road for ’35th Anniversary Tour’
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