Rock News 2025-02-16

• “I’ve always wanted to be in a metal band… Pantera and Dream Theater are great”: Carl Palmer on his desire for a life beyond classic prog, the final ELP show, and why he wishes they’d had a guitarist
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• “When I met Bono for the first time, I was like, ‘I used to sing Pride (In The Name Of Love) in my rock band growing up!’” Lady Gaga used to front a classic rock band who covered U2 and loved Led Zeppelin
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• "Fuelled by despair as usual but also simplicity, the songs are rock throughout": Manic Street Preachers show that rage never sleeps on Critical Thinking
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• Babylon A.D. launch lyric video for latest single “Pain”
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• Former King Crimson bassist Peter Giles now a gold medal-winning athlete at the age of 80
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• Watch video for Billy Morrison's Gods of Rock N Roll featuring Ozzy Osbourne
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• “I think this is all happening out of necessity. The boys and I have expressed our need to play music again.” Letlive announce 2025 reunion tour with US, UK, Europe and Australia dates
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• Lacuna Coil fans! Pick up this exclusive Metal Hammer bundle with an art card signed by Cristina and Andrea, only available here
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• HoneyBombs share lyric video for new single “Berserk” from upcoming sophomore album
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• ‘Farewell Tour’ — Winger to embark on first and final ever Australian tour featuring original line-up
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• “Things come more difficult to him than to anyone I’ve ever met…he doesn’t con himself into thinking he knows what he’s doing”: Peter Gabriel, in the words of his collaborators and admirers
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• “Way Of The Exploding Dickhead is a modern parable, without the parable bit.” Noise-rock veterans mclusky announce first album in over 20 years, share two new songs, and reveal UK and Australia tour plans
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• I'm going off the rails for these early Presidents' Day deals on Ozzy merch, Lego sets, Bluetooth speakers & more
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• Chris Holmes claims W.A.S.P.’s live album ‘Double Live Assassins’ was recorded in a studio
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• “Paul McCartney was an unusually dour person and John Lennon was drunk and inanimate”: Todd Rundgren’s wild tales of The Beatles, New York Dolls, Grand Funk Railroad and more
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• "His voice is extraordinary": Nine albums by Paul Rodgers you should listen to... and one you should ignore
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• How to watch highly anticipated new Sly & The Family Stone documentary Sly Lives!
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• Shiraz Lane resign with label Frontiers Music Srl & to release new single “Dangerous” on February 26th
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• Ace new prog you must hear from Solstice, Vennart, John Lodge, Dim Gray and more in this week's Tracks Of The Week
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• New single “You’re Gonna Burn” from Jizzy Pearl’s Love/Hate now available
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• “Ozzy called me a rock-and-roll icon, and I was like, Whoa!” Having helped honour Ozzy Osbourne at last year's Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame ceremony, Billy Idol admits he's “knocked out” to be among the nominees for induction this year
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• “Axl only wanted to play industrial and Pearl Jam-sounding crap”: the story of Slash’s Snakepit and how it marked the beginning of the end for Guns N’ Roses mark one
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• "Do you know Led Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love?": Over in Santa Monica, a Lithuanian guitarist and a Ukrainian violinist are busking their way to YouTube fame and fortune
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• Helloween to release compilation album ‘March of Time (The Best of 40 Years)’ on March 28th
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• "It was the ‘giggle grass’, so everything struck me as hysterically funny for about three hours." Grand Magus frontman J.B. Christofferson on laughing fits, Beowulf and heavy metal's next generation
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• “I would hide out before the show, play the set, hide out after, not be sociable, not have fun, and that just started wearing thin on me”: Jesse Leach explains his 2002 Killswitch Engage exit
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• Roadkill share video for track “Road To Hell” from new digital EP ‘Xmas… Is Hell’
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• “I bought some fake diamond earrings for 28 dollars”: What Linkin Park spent their money on after Hybrid Theory sold 14 million copies will definitely surprise you
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• Asia to perform first three albums over three nights at Trading Boundaries in April
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• “A classic style of hopeful, melancholy which will pleasantly trigger Moody Blues fans”: John Lodge’s Love Conquers All EP
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• Happy Valentine's Day to goths everywhere as Bauhaus frontman Peter Murphy hooks up with Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor for new single Swoon
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• “We ended up hating Rick Rubin. He didn’t get what made this band happen”: The rollercoaster story of Wolfsbane, the British metal band who should have been superstars
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• New six-disc edition of Tangerine Dream's Phaedra to be released to celebrate the album's 50th anniversary
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• W.A.S.P. announce digital release of ‘Bonus Tracks & B-Sides’ from their ‘The 7 Savage’ Boxset
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• “They said, You boys will never do this show again!” The Doors' Robby Krieger and John Densmore share their memories of being banned from America's most legendary TV show
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• “You deserve more and we have more.” Pulp announce summer arena shows in the UK and Ireland, and frontman Jarvis Cocker is teasing more news to come
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• “Death happens to everyone and if it hasn’t happened yet it’s going to happen. So what better way to deal with it?”: How Mastodon found light in darkness with The Hunter
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• Prophets of Addiction unveil video for track “Walk The World”
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• Michael Wilton & Eddie Jackson have decided they’re going to continue with Queensrÿche into their 80s
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• Thom Yorke unveils new collaboration with electronic artist Mark Pritchard
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• "Thank you so much for really changing my life with your music": Watch Paramore's Hayley Williams do a surprise performance of crushcrushcrush with Finneas at his show in Nashville
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• 40 years ago, The Breakfast Club annoyed me for many reasons – but mostly for the way it ruined Simple Minds
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• First-ever pic of classic Police line-up revealed as Stewart Copeland announces his Wild Concerto
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• "A ninth album would have been about riffs - interestingly constructed riffs and hypnotic music": Jimmy Page looks back on the tests and turmoil of Led Zeppelin's final albums
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• Vanity Insanity drop video for new single “Voluntary Enslavement of The Mind”
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• "Roses are pink, violets are blue, I love Whitesnake and these are for you!" David Coverdale would like to wish you a Happy Valentine's Day
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• “Anybody down there on acid seeing this figure flying down with flames coming out of his head must have thought God was coming”: The crazy life of Arthur Brown, the wildman who set rock’n’roll on fire
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• Sebastian Bach drops video for new single “To Live Again”
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• “We listened to it and said, No, that's crap, and put it aside.” Brutally dismissed by one music critic as “like a turd floating down a river of ****”, one of rock's most romantic songs is getting a 50th anniversary re-release today
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• “For one complete tour I had an FBI agent in every town”: Lacuna Coil’s Cristina Scabbia once had so many stalkers that the feds had to step in
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• Steven Tyler's recent live performance got Aerosmith fans' hopes up –but the vocalist will never tour again
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• Five truly brilliant and cruelly underrated British rock albums turning 25 this year which I can't believe no-one else is banging on about
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• "My funeral was cancelled, so I’m taking the show on the road instead." Halsey announces 32-city North American tour with Evanescence, The Warning and more among the "ensemble cast" supporting
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• "It was a once-in-a-lifetime thrill to play these amazing iconic songs with the man who composed them": Jimmy Page & The Black Crowes detail massively expanded edition of Live At The Greek
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• Foxy Roxx re-release debut album ‘Shake The Foundation’ w/ bonus tracks + record ‘Mixed Up World’
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• “Amid the turmoil over the increased use of synths, there’s a perfect balance of both sides of their character”: 12 great Rush songs of the 80s
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• "My disability restricted me so much." How Alt Blk Era beat the odds to become Britain's most exciting new alternative band
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• "We all appeared on stage wearing robes and holding candles:" Joe Satriani on G3 pranking, handling Yngwie Malmsteen and the Halloween costume he'd rather forget
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• “Even at their most blistering there’s a blazing technicality to everything they do”: Jinjer’s virtuosic Duél is not for the faint-hearted
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• "I was debagged on a regular basis. And in Chicago I barely held on to my underpants": From Genesis to revelations with Peter Gabriel
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• Soundgarden, Oasis, The White Stripes, Joy Division/New Order among new nominees for the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
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• “The wolves are howling with great soul, great passion... it's jazz, the jazz wolf of the Arctic tundra.” Former Police drum legend Stewart Copeland on recording his new album with wolves, hyenas and a black-footed albatross
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• Striker’s album ‘Ultrapower’ nominated for Juno Award for ‘Metal / Hard Music Album of The Year’
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• “You’re getting ’druff everywhere, dingwad!” This shampoo advert about a metal band with dandruff is the cringiest thing you’ll see today, or your money back!
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