Rock News 2025-02-21

• "He would have been perfect! Maybe it's not too late!": Ozzy was once asked to audition for Pirates Of The Caribbean but Sharon wouldn't let him
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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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• "I could have said a few words if Rick Wakeman would have shut up": Bill Bruford on the "civil war" at the heart of Yes's tumultuous induction into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame
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• Striker’s album ‘Ultrapower’ nominated for Juno Award for ‘Metal / Hard Music Album of The Year’
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• Everything you need to know about the Black Sabbath reunion and Ozzy Osbourne’s final concert
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• "Our band’s chemistry was really coming together. This whole new world opened up to us and we were off drugs. And then Jeremy died": The anarchic early years of one of rock's most enigmatic groups, The Mars Volta
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• "The vocals make David Vincent sound like Sabrina Carpenter." This Consequence is the heaviest Killswitch Engage album in over a decade. And it absolutely slaps
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• Genesis share 2025 remaster of Lamb Lies Down On Broadway title track as box set release shifts to June
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• King Crimson percussionist Jamie Muir has died aged 82
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• Killswitch Engage fans! Grab the new issue of Metal Hammer with an exclusive cover and t-shirt, only through Louder
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• Staying in Birmingham to see Black Sabbath? Local hotels have increased their prices by up to 725%
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• The 50 metal albums you need to hear in 2025
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• "It’s gory and romantic and brutal and I think that’s what keeps people coming back again and again." Why metal is obsessed with vampires
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• “History shows it’s often the combination of art and science that overcomes the greatest challenges we face”: Massive Attack to headline London’s first fully battery-powered festival this summer
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• Babylon Shakes unveil new single “Scarlet Sins”
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• Placebo frontman Brian Molko charged after labelling Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni a "piece of s***, fascist, racist” and a "Nazi" during festival appearance
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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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• Thirteen minutes of previously unseen Led Zeppelin footage has surfaced after lying in a drawer for 45 years
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• Prophets of Addiction unveil video for track “Walk The World”
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• Spiritbox, Babymetal, Gojira, Architects and more announced for the most metal WWE videogame soundtrack in years
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• Steeleye Span announce Spring tour and update on new studio album
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• New single “You’re Gonna Burn” from Jizzy Pearl’s Love/Hate now available
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• Tesla unleash video for electric version of track “All About Love”
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• Goth is the coolest it’s been in decades – and these 9 rising metal bands prove it
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• "Wrapping blues tradition in boundary-breaking innovation": Every Led Zeppelin album ranked from worst to best
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• Machine Gun Kelly made guitar “cool” again, claims Polyphia’s Tim Henson
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• Rick Buckler, drummer from The Jam, dead at 69
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• “I hate that I had to write the previous album. It became dangerous to play the music and stab myself in the heart”: Swallow The Sun had to escape from Juha Raivio’s personal hell. The solution was new album Shining
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• “Posh tossers singing about nothing because they had nothing to protest about… it was part of the job to destroy Genesis and Yes”: Punk pioneer Captain Sensible loved plenty of prog – but had to hide it
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• “Sometimes you guys need to shut the **** up and enjoy or not enjoy”: Skunk Anansie’s Skin gives her unfiltered thoughts on hate comments
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• Great new prog you must hear from Karmakanic, Earthside, Bjørn Riis and more in this week's Tracks Of The Week
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• The Dead Daisies launch video for new single “Love That’ll Never Be”
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• “It’s a slam-dunk lost classic”: How Rush and Pink Floyd led James Dean Bradfield to Man – a band he’d previously dismissed
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• "He was such an interesting man. A funny combination of intensity and craziness." King Crimson's Jamie Muir remembered...
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• "There's never been a blueprint for the dictatorship of the proletariat": That time Aerosmith appeared on Saturday Night Live with Tom Hanks and discussed the decline of communism in Eastern Europe
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• "Something that was a big event for me had become an instrument of ridicule": The Kinks' Dave Davies on the double-edged sword of solo success
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• Machine Head announce new album Unatoned, hear ferocious single Unbound here
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• Buckcherry frontman Josh Todd provides some insight on how he became and has stayed sober
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• “People talk, a couple of hundred quid changes hands – and you’re in the charts. That got us going”: The Yes Album was very nearly Yes’ final release. But fate intervened three times
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• BulletBoys to release 5 CD Box Set ‘The Albums 1995-2009’
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• John Lydon is "pissed off" about the Sex Pistols replacing him with Frank Carter: "they’re trying to trivialise the whole show to get away with karaoke"
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• "This is the first time in my career we’ve had to speak to the local police about civil unrest": Mark Tremonti on the political climate, being a guitar hero and Frank Sinatra
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• Listen to Spiritbox’s Courtney LaPlante guest on re-recording of Pvris’ My House
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• This nu metal band want YOUR ideas for song titles and lyrics: “If we pick yours we’ll give you a shoutout on the album credits”
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• A mysterious new band has been added to Download 2025 and the internet is convinced it’s Sleep Token-related
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• "It’s not like anything else. I liked it for that. We'd always take a different path": The story behind The Kinks' brilliantly subversive classic Lola
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• Sebastian Bach drops video for new single “To Live Again”
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• Chester Thompson teams up with Neal Morse in new group Cosmic Cathedral. Listen to their first new music here...
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• The Rock’n’roll Activist: Nine albums by Tom Morello you should listen to... and one you should ignore
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• Tygers of Pan Tang guitarist Francesco Marras’ new solo album ‘Out of The City’ now available
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• “As I was leaving the stage, I put my arm around Niall and said, ‘I think we got away with it’”: And So I Watch You From Afar were brave enough to debut their album Megafauna in full at a festival
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• I used to work in concert ticketing. When did it become such an utter hellscape?
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• “I don’t believe I have to forgive them. They replaced me when I was sick. They even said I had ruined the band”: Styx fired Dennis DeYoung in 1999, but he still wants a reunion for the fans
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• "When I met him he was this hippie dude, living up in the hills taking magic mushrooms." The making of Bon Scott: AC/DC frontman, sun-worshipper and night-crawler
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• Rich Kid Express drop lyric video for new single “The Rules of Love”
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• Cradle Of Filth's Dani Filth compares Spotify to "daylight robbery", says he "owes it" to his fellow metal artists to not have an account on the platform
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• "It couldn't get any better than that, and it didn't": David Lee Roth teaches a lesson in how not to conduct a solo career in five albums
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• Bloodstock festival announces one-day Winter Gathering event headlined by doom legends Candlemass
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• Kiss may have retired, but you can now buy a 24-karat gold edition of Strutter for just $50,000
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• HoneyBombs share lyric video for new single “Berserk” from upcoming sophomore album
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• "It’s timeless. It was always in its own world; it didn’t fit into any category.” Tangerine Dream and the story of Phaedra
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• Löanshark’s new album ‘No Sins To Confess’ now available
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• “He’s really, really good, and he’s definitely more melodic than me”: Slayer’s Kerry King names the guitarist who “plays circles” around him
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• "The lyrics were hastily written in the pub, hence the fact that it lacked a final verse": Recorded in secret, Sweet's Fox On The Run was given a second life by the Guardians Of The Galaxy
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