Rock News 2025-02-28

• “The busker in my high street is terrible! He never gets any better. I had this idea: he doesn’t realise he’s dead and carries on”: Steven Wilson’s desperate desire to believe in ghosts inspired his last fully prog album
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• “ELO, Judas Priest, my dad’s piano playing – that’s prog!” Tennis hero Pat Cash discovered Saga in Steve Harris’ private pub, introduced Tony Iommi to Bigelf and got Robert Plant to take up his sport
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• "You can only be what the public thinks you are for so long before it becomes boring": The story of how Metallica got themselves an orchestra – and the album that followed
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• "I started crying. I was completely overwhelmed by how special it was that we were there": How a band of Dutch retro-rockers ended up recording at two legendary recording studios
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• "We killed every night. So I knew I had something": The epic saga of one of rock's great live acts, Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band
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• "We came out and started rocking and almost everybody in the club walked out": Nita Strauss remembers the worst gig of her life
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• Previously unreleased 1981 Klaus Schulze concert from Hamburg to be released
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• Queensrÿche guitarist Mike Stone recalls singing the KISS song “Forever” at Paul Stanley’s wedding
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• Stranger Things star Jamie Campbell Bower shares gorgeous cover of Sleep Token’s Euclid
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• Kurt Cobain's hair and GG Allin’s blood-signed used underwear is going up for auction
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• Tommy London shares video for new single “Wicked Ways” from album ‘Emotional Fuse’
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• Dokken share video for track “Saving Grace”
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• “An already fabulous performance feels even more vital… sudden twists and turns are thrillingly kinetic”: Camel’s 3-disc reissues of Mirage and Moonmadness
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• Sleep Token have shared sheet music for what might be a new song - here's what it sounds like
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• Slipknot's Corey Taylor and Bad Omens' Noah Sebastian have covered Kansas' Dust In The Wind and it's the most gorgeous song you'll hear all week
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• "Much darker and more despondent album than the raucous title track might suggest": Little Feat successfully capture a grim early-70s vibe on Dixie Chicken
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• The sons of Kiss icons Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons have recorded 10 songs together
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• Phil X & The Drills unleash video for new single “Fake The Day Away” from upcoming album
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• David Ellefson recalls needing to “get clean or it’s over” during Megadeth’s ‘Rust In Peace’ era
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• Crosson drop video for new single “Nobody Wins” from upcoming album ‘Guilty of Rock’
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• “Want to scare people these days? Forget about Satan and drugs. Bring on the evolutionary biologist”: Nightwish were accused of seeking to shock by working with Richard Dawkins. Instead they explored the poetry of science
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• An unreleased solo album by Ghost mastermind Tobias Forge seems to have leaked on Youtube
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• "Combining the existential dread of Black Sabbath with the larger-than-life theatricality of Ghost." Green Lung look set to take the doom metal throne with massive hometown gig at London's Kentish Town Forum
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• Shiraz Lane drop video for new single “Dangerous”
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• Avenged Sevenfold, Deftones, Bring Me The Horizon, Sleep Token, Bad Omens, Evanescence and more announced for Louder Than Life 2025
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• The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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• Watch Toyah Willcox run her fingers seductively through Robert Fripp's hair as they perform Blondie's One Way Or Another
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• Nandi Bushell is back, and this time she's playing Led Zeppelin in stilettos
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• Trio of rock, funk and punk guitarists team up with Til for new range of online lessons
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• “The music industry is 80 percent, 90 percent kids who are privately educated”: Sam Fender says music is “rigged” against working class
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• Pink Floyd At Pompeii to be released on film, vinyl and CD with new Dolby Atmos mix
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• “It was awkward – Yes sort of told me never to come back”: Oliver Wakeman had to tour with the prog progenitors while knowing he’d been replaced. Surprisingly, he genuinely enjoyed the trip
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• Breaker featuring Midnight Malice member Caleb Beal to release debut EP on April 4th
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• “Peter Gabriel started singing over my solos. I was pissed off – ‘You’re singing on my bit!’ But that half-minute is probably our peak”: How Genesis made Supper’s Ready, arguably their greatest song
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• Big Big Train announce new Scop EP as companion to upcoming Bard reissue
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• “The last six years have been full of some of the worst times I’ve been through”: A documentary about Ozzy Osbourne will hit Paramount Plus later this year
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• Gotthard launch lyric video for new single “Rusty Rose”
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• "People are baffled if I say I love Taylor Swift." Modern metalcore icon Chris Motionless on being a Swiftie, ice hockey and why Motionless In White are taking their time on a new album
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• Architects sound absolutely livid on The Sky, The Earth & All Between - and it's made for one of the best metal albums of 2025 so far
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• "What’s seen me through is that unflinching belief in the music": Billy Idol launches Dream Into It, his first album in over a decade
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• Rockin’ Dave’s Rough Cutt featuring drummer Dave Alford to play debut gig on April 3rd
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• Full lineup announced for Rocklahoma 2025 festival
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• Disturbed announce arena-scale The Sickness 25th-anniversary UK and Europe tour, Megadeth opening
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• "There was a decadent, hedonistic atmosphere in Berlin. It was a great time for making music": Marillion look back on the making of the album that tore the band apart
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• "There are some things AI can’t replace, and that is drinking two-litre bottles of cider and ****ing yourself in a field." We're going to miss Ithaca dearly, and this interview with Djamila Azzouz shows why
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• Pre-order your exclusive The Darkness Dreams On Toast Classic Rock bundles, with limited edition signed vinyl and glow-in-the-dark cassette variants
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• Every Pink Floyd album ranked from worst to best
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• Get new Skunk Anansie album The Painful Truth on white splatter vinyl, exclusively through Classic Rock
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• “I wish Kurt Cobain were here so he could hold our wondrous grandchild”: Skate legend Tony Hawk reflects on “transformative” Nirvana show he saw in 1991
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• “Haven’t we been f***ing great tonight?!” Prog metal legends Opeth bring a career-spanning setlist, staggering visuals and more than a little self-confidence to sell-out London show
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• Lady Beast unveil new single “Off With Her Head” from upcoming album ‘The Inner Alchemist’
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• "A five-year spell that did a fine job of revitalising one of rock's finest frontmen": The albums that found Ian Gillan riding NWOBHM's slipstream into the charts, together at last
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• Smith/Kotzen unleash video for new single “Black Light”
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• Limp Bizkit to play Reading and Leeds 2025, more than 25 new names also added
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• “I was thinking, he has to go.” Architects vocalist Sam Carter initially wanted guitarist Adam Christianson fired following 2024 controversy
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• “Strap in for one of the most fun summer shows of your life!” Killswitch Engage, Parkway Drive, I Prevail and Beartooth to co-headline ultra-stacked US metalcore tour
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• Rocket Queen launch video for new single “One Last Night”
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• "We wade through sweet treacle every day, to make things for others to love": The Darkness ponder their place in the world on pumping new rock tune Walkin' Through Fire
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• “It wasn’t even worth asking John about the reunion tour”: Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones hasn’t spoken with John Lydon since 2008
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• "Vibrant, electric, mystical and powerful": Jimmy Page and the Black Crowes release cover of Led Zeppelin's The Lemon Song
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• Udo Dirkschneider explains why he ended up re-recording Accept’s album ‘Balls To The Wall’
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• The Sheepdogs have announced a short UK tour - and they may visit some pubs while they're at it
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• "Join us as we celebrate the Summer of Democracy!" Neil Young announces European and North American dates with the Chrome Hearts
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• Status Quo announce long-awaited expanded edition of classic Status Quo – Live! album
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• Pretty Boy Floyd shooting video for single “Love Sick” at upcoming gig in North Hollywood on February 28th
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