Rock News 2025-03-24

• “If you don’t like Bringing It All Back Home, you don’t like music. You should hand your ears back.” Bob Dylan’s game-changing album is 60 today and still astonishing
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• “I feel like we’re more than a pile of bones and flesh. I don’t believe in the end of the spirit or soul”: How Gojira emerged from darkness and turned tragedy into strength with Magma
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• “It did sound like the nightmare Tony McPhee was trying to describe. Prog usually has softness and intricacy, but this wasn’t a record you disappeared into”: New Order’s Peter Hook hails Groundhogs’ Split
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• “We have a lot of cool songs in Blink, it’s weird to me that’s the one!”: Blink-182 on the making of the “pretty little ballad” that became their biggest ever hit
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• “The live recording sees the piece come to life… amid the sepulchral gloom there are moments of real beauty”: Roger Water’s Super Deluxe Box Set of his Dark Side Of The Moon Redux
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• “It’s not about selling 12 million copies … the songs still touch me when I sing them or talk about them to this day”: Jethro Tull’s struggle to make Aqualung, in their own words
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• "It was a middle finger to everyone who’d told us we wouldn’t do anything." A track-by-track guide to Bullet For My Valentine's The Poison
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• Dirty Skirty to release new single “1995” along with seven other tracks on April 6th
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• Every Lacuna Coil album ranked from worst to best
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• “I agreed to join the band when I was drunk. I’ve not much recollection of what went on!”: The chaotic story of Black Sabbath’s Born Again and the tour that inspired Spinal Tap
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• “It’s not like anything else I’ve written… I sank into it, and before I knew there was nothing of me there. That’s when magic happens”: How Roger Hodgson created Supertramp’s most ambitious song, and why he won’t say what it means
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• “The conservatism of what’s called progressive rock these days appals me”: The life and times of Steve Hillage, the maverick guitarist who helped shape the sound of prog
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• Ever wondered what it's like putting on a metal festival? Music podcast Two Promoters One Pod reveals all
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• "It's fun to hang out in a room and write something that you think is heavy as f**k." A cast member from award-winning TV show The Bear has started a new hardcore punk band with Alexisonfire guitarist Wade MacNeil
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• "Lars Ulrich came barging in. He’s like, ‘Hey, I’m Lars!’ F*** yeah you are!" Bullet For My Valentine's Matt Tuck recalls meeting his heroes for the first time (and regrets falling out with Rob Zombie)
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• Wardruna just led a Nordic ritual in London’s most beautiful venue, and I’ve never seen anything like it before
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• "The music’s pretty progressive, but it’s not Rush is it? It’s not exactly Dream Theater." TesseracT's journey to debut album One
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• "I don't know how we did it. Well, I do actually. We snorted a lot of cocaine": Elkie Brooks looks back on wild times with Vinegar Joe and six decades of rock'n'roll
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• “It felt like there were dark times hanging over this album”: How hard rock supergroup Chickenfoot restarted the party on their second album, III
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• 10 brilliant new Irish artists you should listen to before next St. Patrick's Day rolls into view
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• “The KKK were phoning my house and threatening me”: Propagandhi have been infuriating fascists for 40 years – and they still have plenty to say
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• “I think it could happen... I could have the beginnings of a Queen song right there in front of me now": Brian May speaks about the possibility of new Queen music
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• Udo Dirkschneider reveals the two singers that were unavailable for ‘Balls To The Walls Reloaded’
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• Fifty reasons why three Canadian oddballs became a treasured part of rock history
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• The Black Keys release extremely groovy single Babygirl
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• "We were all basket cases! But we created this thing called Metallica that’s been our refuge." Kirk Hammett on 40 years in one of the biggest bands in the world
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• Guns N’ Roses and drummer Frank Ferrer part ways
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• “We took it badly – ‘No one wants us any more!’ We’d never been through the school of hard knocks. We didn’t know what it meant to work hard”: When ELP collapsed, Carl Palmer’s career-long lucky streak ended. But he didn’t give up
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• Metallica’s Kirk Hammett announces new book with help from Jason Momoa: “I hope all of you enjoy this journey as much as I did!”
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• The Brian Fallon and Gaslight Anthem albums you should definitely listen to
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• “Fans can fulminate over the tracklisting – ‘Where the hell is The Fountain Of Lamneth?!’ – but it hits all the right beats”: Rush’s R50 is a luxurious celebration with an emotional punch at the end
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• “I’m not a role-playing games guy. I’m not about drinking beer and singing folk songs. I’m all about sex, blood and rock’n’roll”: How Finnish glam-goth metal icons The 69 Eyes blazed a trail for HIM
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• Liliac to take a year off in 2026
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• Höt Föxx unleash video for debut single “Risky Business”
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• "Thank God that genre went away." Megadeth's Dave Mustaine has no love for nu metal
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• Buckcherry drop video for title track from upcoming album ‘Roar Like Thunder’
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• "About ten years later I just needed to get rid of the leg, it was just too much pain": Six things you need to know about Shaman’s Harvest
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• “People are intimidated, or say I give off some bad vibe. But if you want to get a reaction out of a crowd, you better have an ego”: How Disturbed’s David Draiman became the metal star the press loved to hate
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• Guns N' Roses announce the arrival of their seventh drummer
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• Mädhouse drop video for new single “Shotgun Rider” from upcoming album ‘Plead The Fifth’
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• Deraps share ‘home studio’ video for their new single “Last Fall”
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• Jack Starr launches video for track “Rise Up” from upcoming solo album ‘Out of The Darkness Part II’
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• "There will never be another to occupy her throne": Last year Iron Maiden's iconic Ed Force One 747 was scrapped – but now you can wear it
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• "Those sultry licks get weirder and weirder, until they resemble the sound of a UFO taking off." Masked metal weirdos Imperial Triumphant go straight on new album Goldstar
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• Guns N’ Roses announce Isaac Carpenter as their new drummer
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• Metalville Records to release compilation album ‘In Memory Of’ to honour deceased singer Paul Di’Anno
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• "The band thanks Frank for his friendship, creativity, and sturdy presence": Guns N' Roses announce departure of long-serving drummer Frank Ferrer
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• “There was chicken-wire around the stage. Al Jourgensen was climbing around like a caged beast. I knew this was a guy for me”: Billy Gibbons’ wild tales of Jimi Hendrix, Keith Richards, Muddy Waters and Ministry
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• Twiddly Iron Maiden harmonies, thrash riffs, horror, rapping (kind of) and sexy goth allure: The Screaming Of The Valkyries is peak Cradle Of Filth
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• Ron Keel outlines booking difficulties due to his decision not to perform under the band name Keel
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• Cool new prog you must hear from Matt Berry, Swallow The Sun, Alex Henry Foster and more in our all-new Tracks Of The Week
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• “He came up three times gasping for help. The others thought he was goofing around. He wasn’t”: How doomed Beach Boy Dennis Wilson made his solo masterpiece Pacific Ocean Blue
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• Gene Simmons cancels 17 solo shows as Kiss announce unmasked reunion gig to mark fan club's 50th anniversary
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• Ronnie Romero unveils video for cover of Dio’s “Rainbow In The Dark” from upcoming live album
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• "Friends of mine were saying, Give up on the dream, it's not happening." Tobias Forge recalls how forming Ghost helped him deal with a dawning realisation that his dream of becoming a successful musician wasn't ever going to become a reality
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• “That song was a sad, minor key drone…”: the 2000 single that is one of Pearl Jam’s oddest releases ever
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• "Katatonia should have been laid to rest!" Anders Nyström hits back after Katatonia split
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• “I was so sick. I had tunnel vision and couldn’t walk. I was crawling to the toilet and I thought I was going to die”: The unbelievable rise of Opeth, the band who went from death metal no-hopers to prog royalty
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• Babylon A.D. to play show in Greece for first time and to embark on UK tour
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• Eddie Vedder releases anguished version of Neil Young classic The Needle And The Damage Done
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• “It’s a pleasure and a privilege to be here with these legends tonight.” Frank Carter leads the Sex Pistols for 'secret' celebratory return to London's iconic 100 Club
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• Giant share lyric video for new single “Hold The Night” from upcoming album ‘Stand and Deliver’
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• "It’s a moody, beautiful song." Watch Fontaines D.C. blend Nirvana and Bring Me The Horizon classics into one beautifully atmospheric, synth-led cover
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• Actual space scientists and Prog Magazine discuss prog, space and the new Steven Wilson album
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