Rock News 2025-02-07

• New book sheds further light on the rise of Marillion, Pallas, Twelfth Night, and the 80s prog revival
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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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• Nine albums you should listen to by the members of Guns N' Roses... and one you should ignore
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• "It doesn't wholly demystify them, but it reveals the human brilliance at their heart": Becoming Led Zeppelin strips away the mystique to present the birth of a legend
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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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• 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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• "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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• House of Lords launch video for new single “Cry of The Wicked”
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• The Allmans' legacy continues as The Brothers announce first live shows since 2020
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• L.A. Guns share video for lead single “Taste It” from upcoming studio album ‘Leopard Skin’
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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 best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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• Everything you need to know about the Black Sabbath reunion show at Villa Park
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• 4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month
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• "The demos we made were closer to what we dreamed of than our later sessions": Queen are releasing their De Lane Lea demos on vinyl for Record Store Day
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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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• Breakker unveil cover of Wild Dogs track “Stick To Your Guns” and ‘live session’ video for “Cast The Stone”
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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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• "He was the backbone of Soft Machine." Founding member and keyboard player Mike Ratledge dead at 81
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• Junkyard frontman David Roach diagnosed with and battling aggressive form of cancer
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• Spiders share video for new single “Mess With My Emotions” from upcoming album ‘Sharp Objects’
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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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• “Tom Morello is going to play with the drummer from Tool and they’re going to have Billy Corgan with them”: Sharon Osbourne spills details on running order for Black Sabbath’s farewell show
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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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• Harem Scarem launch lyric video for new single “Reliving History”
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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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• 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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• “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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• “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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• Video footage and setlist from Airbourne’s opening night of their ‘Europe 2025’ tour
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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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• Arctangent 2025 announces headliners Wardruna and Tesseract, adds over 50 bands to the lineup
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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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• "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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• "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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• W.E.T. drop lyric video for new track “Where Are The Heroes Now” from upcoming album ‘Apex’
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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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• "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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• 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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• Wig Wam launch video for new single “Human Fire”
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• Crashdïet to play ‘Rest In Sleaze 20th Anniversary’ show in Stockholm, Sweden on September 19th
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• Adam Bomb’s new live record ‘Livedream’ out on February 6th
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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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• “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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• “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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• 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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• Hawkwind announce new studio album There Is No Space For Us
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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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• "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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• Brian Vollmer looks back at Helix’s album ‘Back For Another Taste’ and its two hit singles
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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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• Black Sabbath albums ranked, from worst to best
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• Jethro Tull consider "all God's children" on new Curious Ruminant track The Tipu House
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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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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• Helloween unleash live video for track “Future World” from album ‘Live At Budokan’
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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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• “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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• "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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• Even Spotify is getting in on the Spiritbox jokes, calling Courtney LaPlante ‘Poppy’ on its Kickass Metal playlist
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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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• Solstice storm the Prog Magazine Readers' Poll and announce new studio album Clann
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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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• The Dead Daisies unveil “revamped” video for track “I’m Gonna Ride” outlining March tour dates
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