Rock News 2025-01-21

• 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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• Guitarist Bruce Kulick recalls playing bass on KISS’ track ‘Psycho Circus’
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• "When I heard her sing that for the first time, I had tears streaming down my face." Jinjer on their emotional new album - and why it's taken so long to get here
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• "Every night I was living out my teenage fantasy." Lzzy Hale talks joining childhood heroes Skid Row
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• “At my level Spotify would be like a turkey voting for Christmas”: Billy Sherwood, Big Big Train,and other artists who pay it forward helped John Holden return to prog after he’d abandoned his ambitions
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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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• Vivian Campbell misses first Def Leppard show of 2025 to recuperate from cancer treatment
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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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• Kraftwerk to celebrate 50th anniversary of classic Autobahn album with reissues in March
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• "It's about the legacy of Lynyrd Skynyrd, and what it stands for": Lynyrd Skynyrd announce UK tour with Blackberry Smoke
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• Garth Hudson, one of the men who helped Bob Dylan go electric, has died
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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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• “The director came up with this idea of flying at me with a helicopter. I thought, This will be the last thing I ever do.” Guns N' Roses guitar hero Slash on the making of the epic music video US President Donald Trump considers the greatest of all time
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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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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• Crazy Lixx drop video for new single “Hunt For Danger” from upcoming album ‘Thrill of The Bite’
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• "The Boston Symphony hasn't changed its name, so why should Foreigner?": Mick Jones looks back on 50 often fractious years with one of rock's most successful bands
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• “It was the most explosive diarrhoea you’ve ever seen in your entire life!” The ballad of Heriot’s Debbie Gough and the guitar shop window pooper
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• "Or are we too addicted we can’t log off even for one week?": R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe encourages fans to stay off social media in protest of the "gross" far-right
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• "I terrified and annoyed countless people for decades." Lamb Of God's Randy Blythe on the karma of being cornered by drunks
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• Gotthard share video for new single “Thunder & Lightning” from upcoming album ‘Stereo Crush’
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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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• "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 Thin Lizzy and Whitesnake guitarist John Sykes dead at 65
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• Bulletproof frontman Nemanja Stojanović releases solo album ‘Emotional Metastasis’
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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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• The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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• Best portable CD players 2025: Revive your CD library with these powerful portable players
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• Rikki Rockett feels rock and metal outlets are quickly becoming the “soundtrack of the grumpy”
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• “Witness fulfilled so many dreams… I was in doubt about where to go after that”: VOLA’s battle to find a direction for latest album Friend Of A Phantom
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• Michael Sweet jokingly suggests starting a Stryper tribute band and his reasons for doing so
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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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• “I become a Colossus of Maroussi, I can do anything!”: Michael Stipe on the period when R.E.M. became a stadium band and he embraced his inner showman
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• Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson finishes 13th in fencing tournament, watch him compete
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• “Our producer chopped down the songs to four minutes… the originals were much longer and stretched out”: King Crimson fan and Saxon vocalist Biff Byford narrowly missed out on being a prog musician
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• "Don’t call it a happy album!" Katatonia and the story of Sky Void Of Stars
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• "I hadn’t heard of him, to be honest": Steve Jones on the return of the Sex Pistols and how new frontman Frank Carter joined the fun
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• “They were a gang!” The first band Metallica supported on tour didn’t think the thrashers had a chance in hell of making it big
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• “I should have been dead that night!”: Ace Frehley looks back on Kiss' wild on-stage mishaps, including the trick that doctors warned could have left him in a wheelchair
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• Deraps to release sophomore album in a few months
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• “The producer was saying, ‘You guys suck! You can’t play!’ I don’t know if that was a tactic to get us to perform better!”: How Cathedral reinvented doom metal for a new generation
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• Dirkschneider launch lyric video for classic track “Balls To The Wall” featuring Joakim Brodén
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• "It’s a break from touring, it’s not a permanent stop." Floor Jansen on Nightwish, Yesterwynde and what comes next
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• Thundermother unveil video for new single “Can’t Put Out The Fire”
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• “It’s the perfect encapsulation of youthful anger… It still sounds feral and savage to this very day”: The cult 1980s classic Ghost frontman Tobias Forge calls the perfect extreme metal album
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• “Our best friends were drug dealers. We identified with them because we felt like outcasts, menaces to society”: The chaotic story of Aerosmith’s early years
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• “This song is nuts! It’s a very violent, angry call for being a champion of all who deserve it”: Matt Heafy on the classic Trivium song inspired by Muse
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• Autograph guitarist Steve Lynch’s autobiography ‘Confessions of A Rock Guitarist’ coming out in May
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• Löanshark unleash video for new single “Another Man In The Trunk”
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• "The last Tool record ... sounded like spa music." Hatebreed's Jamey Jasta gives brutally honest appraisal of prog metal giants' Fear Inoculum
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• Scorpions postpone Las Vegas residency to allow Mikkey Dee to recover from illness
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• "Jean-Michel Jarre said he loved my music, but that I was too acoustic for him. That got me thinking": Urged on by fans, Mike Oldfield’s final album was a look back to his early years
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• "A small subset of fans had a practice of showing up to gigs in Nazi regalia." System Of A Down's Serj Tankian on why supporting one iconic metal band was like "rock 'n' roll boot camp"
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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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• "We could wear wigs and it would be cool instead of corny": Stryper frontman Michael Sweet lists 10 reasons why his life would be much easier if he was actually fronting a Stryper tribute band
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• "You sound sexy": Watch Kid Rock once again prove to be one of the most cringeworthy rockers on the planet as he attempts to flirt with a BBC News reporter during a live TV interview
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• R.I.P. former Whitesnake, Thin Lizzy and Blue Murder guitarist John Sykes (1959-2025)
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• "After shaking her hand, I went out and had like five cigarettes in a row just to calm myself down. I get starstruck easily": Opeth's Mikael Åkerfeldt on the time he met ABBA's Agnetha Fältskog and had dinner with her
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• Kamenar set to embark on ‘Just Like An Animal Tour 2025’
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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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• "A unique album, bursting with intelligence, creativity, and shining musicianship": Bob Dylan creates a watershed in the history of music with Blonde On Blonde
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• "We would just take each song and try to raise it to the standard of a rock classic": The albums produced by Mutt Lange you should definitely listen to
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• “I was on my way to Vegas to marry a French boy, who was asleep on my lap, and I was listening to this song thinking, I'm living the dream. Then he woke up and said, I can't marry you.” Du Blonde on the eight songs that changed her life
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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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• Spread Eagle to release EP ‘The 1989 Demos’ and to hit the road for ’35th Anniversary Tour’
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