Rock News 2025-02-06

• Adam Bomb’s new live record ‘Livedream’ out on February 6th
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• "While I survived the 90s, not all of me did." Alice In Chains icon Jerry Cantrell on riffs, extreme metal and the best rock record to come from Seattle
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• "I remember it like some people remember the Kennedy assassination. It made me want to be weird." How watching one episode of iconic US TV show Saturday Night Live in 1980 changed future Foo Fighters leader Dave Grohl's life forever
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• “It was a really angry time; there was lots of litigation between me and the guys. So It was a much-needed release”: Once Fish escaped his Marillion train wreck, he scored a Top 5 album
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• Crashdïet to play ‘Rest In Sleaze 20th Anniversary’ show in Stockholm, Sweden on September 19th
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• "I was exhausted, I had a lot of doubt, and I was a nightmare": Elton John announces collaborative album with Brandi Carlile
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• Sisters Doll share video for title track of their new album ‘Scars’
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• They've toured with Slipknot, become unlikely ambassadors for Ukraine and smashed main stages at festivals. Now Jinjer have made their darkest, angriest album yet with Duél
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• Breakker unveil cover of Wild Dogs track “Stick To Your Guns” and ‘live session’ video for “Cast The Stone”
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• House of Lords launch video for new single “Cry of The Wicked”
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• “You couldn’t put a bigger band in a smaller room”: The story of the greatest Metallica live album you’ve (probably) never listened to
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• "Fear is not a good mindset for musicians. Rock 'n' roll was not born out of fear." From Igor Stravinsky to Public Enemy, here are 10 bold, brilliant albums to inspire and fire revolution
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• Black Sabbath to reunite to play final show at blockbuster Birmingham event this summer, with Metallica, Slayer, Gojira, Anthrax and many other metal icons supporting
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• Solstice storm the Prog Magazine Readers' Poll and announce new studio album Clann
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• Video footage and setlist from Airbourne’s opening night of their ‘Europe 2025’ tour
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• "It was crazed, almost Charles ­Manson–like." Before he started Def Jam, and produced everyone from Slayer to Johnny Cash, Rick Rubin played guitar in a noise-rock band called Hose, and recorded one of the worst Led Zeppelin covers ever committed to vinyl
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• 4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month
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• Celebrating 50 years of Iron Maiden with exclusive all-new interviews - only in the new issue of Classic Rock
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• Wildness drop video for title track of new album ‘Avenger’
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• Helloween unleash live video for track “Future World” from album ‘Live At Budokan’
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• Even Spotify is getting in on the Spiritbox jokes, calling Courtney LaPlante ‘Poppy’ on its Kickass Metal playlist
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• Black Sabbath albums ranked, from worst to best
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• The Dead Daisies unveil “revamped” video for track “I’m Gonna Ride” outlining March tour dates
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• Jethro Tull consider "all God's children" on new Curious Ruminant track The Tipu House
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• “Being dramatic is their charm, but here they let go of a degree of preciousness, allowing themselves to react to the audience’s gusto”: Riverside are charged up on Live ID
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• Steven Wilson's return to the prog fold features on the front cover of the new issue of Prog Magazine, which is on sale now!
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• “He wasn’t too pleased about that song. I can understand why… I wish we’d never done it”: By the time Barclay James Harvest upset The Moody Blues, they already had form
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• “I came into the studio on the last day and said, ‘I think you better hear this one.’ It was kind of a curse.” When Kansas cracked the charts with a song they didn’t want to record
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• "I wondered if he had brought sandwiches": Jimmy Page only agreed to take part in the Led Zeppelin movie after a seven-hour meeting and an unexpected trip to a boathouse
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• Arctangent 2025 announces headliners Wardruna and Tesseract, adds over 50 bands to the lineup
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• Black Sabbath’s original members to reunite for concert in Birmingham, UK for Ozzy’s final performance
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• The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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• Hawkwind announce new studio album There Is No Space For Us
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• "Countless musicians and friends lost everything." Nick Cave, PJ Harvey, Jarvis Cocker, Primal Scream, Red Hot Chili Peppers duo and more donate unreleased songs to new benefit album to aid Californian wildfire relief
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• "Ted Nugent came down to the dressing room and said ‘Guys! You have to calm down!'": The turbulent story of the Scorpions
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• "They take your song and put it on the radio and it ends up becoming f***ing propaganda." How Scars On Broadway's They Say helped Daron Malakian move on from System Of A Down
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• Are Tenacious D back?! Jack Black and Kyle Gass confirm first new music together since going on hiatus last year
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• Order your limited edition Steven Wilson x Prog bundle – featuring a coloured vinyl version of The Overview and a signed art print!
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• "There was a rumour that I had a secret underground water park in my backyard": Papa Roach's Jacoby Shaddix on overnight success, the path to sobriety and the nu metal resurgence
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• Wig Wam launch video for new single “Human Fire”
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• R.E.M, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Chelsea Wolfe and more to appear on Good Music To Lift Los Angeles, a 90-song benefit album to help victims of the Californian wildfires, available for one day only
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• Nine albums you should listen to by the members of Guns N' Roses... and one you should ignore
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• "People characterised both of our bands as being arrogant and cocky." How Bullet For My Valentine and Trivium helped revitalise metal in 2005
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• Beabadoobee lines up North American headline shows around her Coachella and Bonnaroo festival performances
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• “Pigeonhole this band at your own peril”: Why you should adore Katatonia – and where you should start with their enormous back-catalogue
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• "The goal is world domination." Spiritbox are on the cover of Metal Hammer as one of the most exciting bands in modern metal prepare to unleash Tsunami Sea
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• Nadine Shah, Lankum's Darragh Lynch, Lisa O'Neill among guest vocalists joining The Pogues for their first UK headline tour in 13 years
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• “If I were you, I’d get a haircut and disappear”: When author William Burroughs gave Daevid Allen permission to call his band The Soft Machine
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• Junkyard frontman David Roach diagnosed with and battling aggressive form of cancer
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• "They would literally laugh in my face": From Haitian voodoo to slavery, sex and school shootings, Lower is the album Benjamin Booker's old label didn't want him to make
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• Rick Wakeman announces The Return Of The Caped Crusader Pt 2 tour dates for October
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• I front a metal band and this is what it's like having hundreds of phones pointed at you every night on stage (spoiler: it's really weird)
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• W.E.T. drop lyric video for new track “Where Are The Heroes Now” from upcoming album ‘Apex’
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• "Sh*t happens, and you just have to move through it": The Black Keys announce first US tour since cancelling last US tour
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• “Support your local artists, support your local bands”: Watch Gojira accept the Grammy Award For Best Metal Performance that they’ve deserved for many, many years
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• "This is one of my favourite songs in the whole world": Watch Steven Tyler return to the stage with Nuno Bettencourt and Mick Fleetwood
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• "The daddy of prog metal drumming finally came home with the milk." Mike Portnoy is back with Dream Theater, and he's helped them make a banger of an album in Parasomnia
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• Everything you need to know about the Black Sabbath reunion show at Villa Park
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• Footage of Bill Murray singing Bob Dylan has gone viral and it's fair to say Timothée Chalamet won't be losing any sleep
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• "He was the backbone of Soft Machine." Founding member and keyboard player Mike Ratledge dead at 81
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• Spiders share video for new single “Mess With My Emotions” from upcoming album ‘Sharp Objects’
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• "The business has changed so much, and not for the better": Uriah Heep's Mick Box on why he's calling time on Uriah Heep as a touring act
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• The Allmans' legacy continues as The Brothers announce first live shows since 2020
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• "I’d listen to that song and dream about my future": The Struts' Luke Spiller picks the soundtrack of his life
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• Brian Vollmer looks back at Helix’s album ‘Back For Another Taste’ and its two hit singles
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