Rock News 2025-02-08

• “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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• "I found myself preoccupied by death." Meet Ante-Inferno, the British band bringing black metal to the seaside
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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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• Ten reasons why Tears For Fears made two of the most influential albums ever
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• "It was a show none of us will forget." If you're still devastated about missing Imagine Dragons on their Loom world tour, dry your eyes: a film of their orchestra-enhanced show at LA's iconic Hollywood Bowl is coming soon to a cinema near you
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• “His vocals were often trammelled in Nightwish… but here he lets loose throughout”: Marko Hietala blends love and instinct on Roses From The Deep
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• Sisters Doll release lyric videos for multiple songs from their new album ‘Scars’
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• “We’ve got one song with Serj from System Of A Down and we just finished a second Babymetal collab”: Polyphia are making a “heavy” new album stacked with special guests
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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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• 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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• New book sheds further light on the rise of Marillion, Pallas, Twelfth Night, and the 80s prog revival
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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 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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• Oasis ticket fiasco rumbles on as thousands of fans have tickets cancelled in Ticketmaster 'bot' crackdown
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• “I played bass in the guitar war between Hendrix and Johnny Winter. It was so loud!”: Stephen Stills’ wild stories of Neil Young, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page and Public Enemy
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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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• "There's a rejuvenated feel to this reunion album": Dream Theater's dream team return with a sharper-edged heaviness to the sound on Parasomnia
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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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• "Oh my God, this is mind-blowing": The makers of Becoming Led Zeppelin say they found some amazing unseen footage from later in the band's career
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• “Almost overnight after the Sex Pistols, prog rock came to a halt”: 1977 was the supposedly the year punk killed prog. The truth is very different
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• Harem Scarem launch lyric video for new single “Reliving History”
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• "They put a sad cone over my vomit!" A Complete Unknown star Elle Fanning reveals why Timothée Chalamet thought she was "wasted" at her first Bob Dylan show, and why she was bummed when an invite to meet the iconic musician wasn't at all what she expected
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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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• Cool new proggy sounds you must hear from McStine & Minnemann, Gleb Kolyadin, Marko Hietala and more in this week's Tracks Of The Week
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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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• "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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• The Allmans' legacy continues as The Brothers announce first live shows since 2020
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• "This song is for everyone who's ever felt defeated but chose to fight another day": Watch the video for Bryan Adams' muscular new single Roll With The Punches
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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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• Adam Bomb’s new live record ‘Livedream’ out on February 6th
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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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• Black Sabbath albums ranked, from worst to best
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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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• "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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• 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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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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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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• 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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• “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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• Helloween unleash live video for track “Future World” from album ‘Live At Budokan’
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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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• L.A. Guns share video for lead single “Taste It” from upcoming studio album ‘Leopard Skin’
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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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• "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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• "Behind those dark glasses and unsmiling visage, he presented an inscrutable presence." Soft Machine's Mike Ratledge remembered
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• Def Leppard unveil video for their cover of the classic track “Stand By Me”
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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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• House of Lords launch video for new single “Cry of The Wicked”
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• “There were death threats flying around. They were burning my effigy at punk bonfires”: The tumultuous story of Peaceville Records, the underground label that helped shape extreme metal
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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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• "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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• Spiders share video for new single “Mess With My Emotions” from upcoming album ‘Sharp Objects’
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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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• “In six months, we got through 300 bottles of vodka, 400 bottles of whiskey and cases of beer. It was insane”: The unbelievable story of Def Leppard’s 80s hard rock masterpiece Hysteria
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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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• "He immediately tore open the doors of what could be." Gene Simmons recalls being blown away by Ace Frehley's Kiss audition
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• Jethro Tull consider "all God's children" on new Curious Ruminant track The Tipu House
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• Geoff Tate reveals his upcoming album ‘Operation: Mindcrime III’ has a “strong early Queensrÿche vibe”
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• Junkyard frontman David Roach diagnosed with and battling aggressive form of cancer
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• Crashdïet to play ‘Rest In Sleaze 20th Anniversary’ show in Stockholm, Sweden on September 19th
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• “Most is more than familiar… but there’s a sense of excitement in having this chemistry back in place”: Dream Theater’s Parasomnia largely lives up to the hype
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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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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
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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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• “She blends her beloved characteristics with those of King Crimson, Genesis and Porcupine Tree”: Tori Amos’ From The Choirgirl Hotel is prog in its truest sense
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