Rock News 2025-03-05

• Slayer are teasing a return to the UK
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• “We got pelted with glass bottles and dead rabbits. We stood our ground”: Slipknot’s Corey Taylor and Machine Head’s Robb Flynn’s wild tour stories of bust-ups, injuries and urine-soaked tobacco
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• “V is coming”: Ghost tease new era with Las Vegas billboard and mysterious livestream
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• The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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• Dokken share video for track “Saving Grace”
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• New animated video from Jizzy Pearl’s Love/Hate for latest single “You’re Gonna Burn”
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• "I'd like to think that everything people think about me is a misconception": An interview with the New York Dolls' David Johansen
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• Rick Wakeman announces huge The Official Broadcast Collection
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• "Like remembering your 16-year-old self watch your parents dance at a wedding": Bad Company fail to recapture old glories on Desolation Angels
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• The Dead Daisies share video for new single “Crossroads”
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• “I wrote to Vincent Price. I didn’t expect a reply, but he knew who I was. He really got stuck into the role”: The twisted story of Alice Cooper’s shock rock classic Welcome To My Nightmare
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• Heavy metal, classic rock, prog and beautiful Mediterranean sunshine collide at Spain’s Rock Imperium - one of the most stunning and unique festivals in the world
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• Neil Young & The Chrome Hearts announce massive London show
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• Think you know rock music? Test yourself with The Classic Rock Quiz
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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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• “We were whisked off in a limo and I joined them on their Learjet. I overslept in Jon’s hotel suite because they’d been very generous with spliffs”: My 39 days as a cosmic brother of Yes, by Gryphon’s Brian Gulland
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• "Will we let the machines take the stage, or will we fight for the irreplaceable magic of human artistry?" Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page hits out at UK Government's Artificial Intelligence proposals
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• Queensrÿche guitarist Mike Stone recalls singing the KISS song “Forever” at Paul Stanley’s wedding
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• "Verifies the theory that Big Big Train are a band for whom eloquent inspiration and a prolific brilliance comes naturally." Big Big Train's English Electric Part 2
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• "A band who could contend with Bring Me The Horizon and Sleep Token as the next zeitgeist-setting metal act." Spiritbox have unleashed another absolute stunner with Tsunami Sea
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• “I was sitting in the studio, thinking, ‘I don’t think we can pull this together, we’re just going to have to split up’”: how Radiohead pulled themselves out of the depths to make The Bends
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• Inglorious unleash video for new single “Testify”
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• Badfinger guitarist Joey Molland dead at 77
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• “A lot of bands, it’s nepotism that gets them anywhere – go to the right party and make the right friends. For us, that wasn’t an option”: How Disturbed defied the odds to become nu metal superstars with The Sickness
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• Queensrÿche guitarist Mike Stone recalls what it was like working with Peter Criss in the early ’90s
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• “I was eating tons and tons of painkillers. It was as hard to kick as heroin. It was really, really bad”: How High On Fire’s Matt Pike pulled back from the edge of darkness to make De Vermis Mysteriis
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• Slayer announce two monster UK shows with Amon Amarth, Anthrax, Mastodon and more
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• “You see people who are into the glamour and ego of it. Music has nothing to do with ego. Music is like being a bank clerk – it’s work”: How Kate Bush smashed the barriers and became a star like no other
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• “It’s such a good party trick – ‘So you think you’re heavy? Listen to this song from 1969!’” Enslaved’s Ivar Bjørnson argues King Crimson are the gateway from metal to prog
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• “It was embarrassing”: Metallica’s …And Justice For All pushed bass players “to the back” in the 1990s, claims thrash legend
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• “Don’t relationships always get nasty in the end? A few knives get stuck in and before you know it, it’s out of control”: How Judas Priest reunited with Rob Halford to regain the metal throne with Angel Of Retribution
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• “Our manager overheard one of Pink Floyd say something about our keyboardist and he threatened to break their legs”: Andy Fairweather Low’s wild tales of Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Roger Waters and Tom Jones
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• R.I.P. New York Dolls frontman David Johansen (1950-2025)
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• "I felt sad to see such joy in Neil’s face when we were down to the last few bars of our last song we played together": A Farewell to Kings - Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson look back on 50 years of Rush
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• Watch Bring Me The Horizon’s Oli Sykes join You Me At Six to play Bite My Tongue in Sheffield
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• "She’s so kind to do this. She’s one of the biggest stars in the world right now": Watch a pink sparkly cowboy hat-wearing Elton John perform Pink Pony Club with Chappell Roan at his Oscars viewing party
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• “We always wanted to celebrate this album, and to end our live shows at an iconic venue is the perfect way to finish”: After an epic-length search for lost tapes, Clannad passed into Legend alongside Robin Hood
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• David Johansen, New York Dolls singer, dead at 75
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• Rocket Queen launch video for new single “One Last Night”
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• The Offspring announces every punk rock-lover's dream tour with Jimmy Eat World and New Found Glory
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• 4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month
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• "Not safe for work. Or the bus. Or brunch with your parents. Or your jealous boyfriend": Watch Halsey walk a latex-wearing man around like a dog in their new NSFW music video for Safeword
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• "We've managed to bring a little light to a time when we need it": This stunning father-daughter version of Supper's Ready may be the cutest, most wholesome performance of the year
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• The Flower Kings announce new album and a European tour with Neal Morse & The Resonance
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• “The first time I ever got high was with Alex. He was just a terrific pothead, and a terrible influence on me”: The chaotic story of Rush’s early years and their journey from high school stoners to prog icons
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• “What they talk about is political, and there’s not many bands that do that”: Elton John heaps praise on Ireland’s breakout hip-hop stars Kneecap
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• Breaker featuring Midnight Malice member Caleb Beal to release debut EP on April 4th
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• “It has pissed me off over and over again through the years that most fans who are real fans don’t really get the record”: the story of the album that was meant to be Smashing Pumpkins' fantastic farewell until it all went wrong
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• “A universe of strangeness and charm”: Parts Of The Process – The Complete Godley & Creme is a trip into a subversive, mischievous world of erratic genius
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• Phil X & The Drills unleash video for new single “Fake The Day Away” from upcoming album
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• Eric Clapton announces run of US 2025 autumn tour dates
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• "It's very hollow and astoundingly creatively unfulfilling." Why Wolfgang Van Halen won't make his living by performing Van Halen songs
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• “Some of the guys in the band are like, ‘**** that, we’ll never play it!’” Watch Slipknot play one of their deepest cuts for the first time ever in Melbourne on Friday night
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• Why System Of A Down bassist scrapped a collaboration with Korn’s Jonathan Davis: “I want him to work on this with us, not just have a part that he’s done 10 years ago and have that regurgitated”
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• "The only way I could approach this was making it up as I went along": Eric Bell on the controversial recording of Thin Lizzy's "new" album The Acoustic Sessions
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• Watch drummer Kenny Aronoff hear and drum along to Yes's Changes for the very first time
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• Sex! Jazz! LSD! The Doors' Robby Krieger and John Densmore on their extraordinary ride - only in the new issue of Classic Rock
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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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• R.I.P. Riley’s L.A. Guns — Bassist Kelly Nickels announces that the band has called it quits
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• Dellacoma unveil lyric video for title track of new EP ‘Leave A Light On’
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• "We were so fired up to go on before Jim checked out that we didn't acknowledge his death and grieve": When the music's over - the story of The Doors' strange afterlife
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• Great new prog you must hear from Cosmograf, O.R.k., Jenny Hval and more in this week's Tracks Of The Week
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• Shiraz Lane drop video for new single “Dangerous”
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• The new issue of Metal Hammer features FIVE cover to choose from: Electric Callboy, Jinjer, Slaughter To Prevail, Bambie Thug and Bloodywood!
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