Rock News 2025-03-25

• “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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• Bad Marriage to release new album ‘Match Made In Hell’ via RFK Media during the summer of 2025
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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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• Watch Living Colour's Corey Glover deliver a killer performance of the band's signature anthem Cult Of Personality on The Kelly Clarkson Show
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• “Every record was a battle… I was listening, like, ‘This is amazing!’ but Robert Fripp was reliving the pain and trying to find his way through that”: What Steven Wilson learned from remixing King Crimson
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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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• “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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• "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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• “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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• “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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• Eddie Vedder releases anguished version of Neil Young classic The Needle And The Damage Done
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• Udo Dirkschneider reveals the two singers that were unavailable for ‘Balls To The Walls Reloaded’
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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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• "Instrumental albums are often made by musicians for musicians, so we wanted to keep things tuneful and hold the listener’s attention" How Animals As Leaders broke the mould with The Joy Of Motion
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• “We spent seven months on David Gilmour’s boat and almost bankrupted ourselves. But Bob encouraged us to dream big”: How Bob Ezrin brought out the prog in Kula Shaker
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• “London, are you ready to howl with us?” German werewolf power metallers Powerwolf announce biggest-ever UK show at 12,500-cap. Wembley Arena
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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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• Höt Föxx unleash video for debut single “Risky Business”
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• "It’s absolutely insane to us that we are booked in these huge, historic and legendary venues!" Malevolence announce Where Only The Truth Is Spoken UK and European tour, featuring their biggest ever headline shows
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• Carlos Cavazo to play live once again with former Ratt bandmates Stephen Pearcy and Warren DeMartini
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• Mick Fleetwood and Lindsey Buckingham are working together again
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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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• “We embrace the spirit of early 70s prog as being the way that you should always approach music." Mastodon and their prog epic Crack The Skye
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• “This new album is as powerful as any of my work to date.” Bauhaus frontman Peter Murphy announces Silver Shade, his first solo album in 11 years, featuring collaborations with Trent Reznor, Tool's Justin Chancellor and Boy George
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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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• Arch Enemy promised they'd throw out the rule book for Blood Dynasty. They didn't go quite that far, but this is the boldest album of the Alissa White-Gluz era - and it kicks ass
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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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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• “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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• Previously unseen Led Zeppelin artwork discovered by same man who found slice of George Harrison's leftover toast
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• Guns N’ Roses and drummer Frank Ferrer part ways
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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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• The Black Keys release extremely groovy single Babygirl
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• "I'm not as humourless as my music!" Steven Wilson announces comedians as support acts for upcoming London Palladium shows
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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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• Metallica’s Kirk Hammett is open to making another Load-style album: “We might just say, ‘OK, let’s go back to the ’90s again.’ It’s not a bad idea.”
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• In these troubled times, what we really need is a honky tonk single from The Darkness tackling the issue of male flatulence during lovemaking
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• Foreigner's farewell tour will visit Canada with a singer and actor from Nova Scotia as frontman
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• Video footage and setlist from Lynch Mob’s final show
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• “It was wonderful, ecstatic, thrilling, boring, horrible, oppressive, heartbreaking." The Pogues' Jem Finer on life in a band with the "maddening" Shane MacGowan
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• The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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• Psychic tests! Pet wolves! Chicken coops! Guns N' Roses and the wild ride towards Chinese Democracy
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• Ghost’s Tobias Forge says he’s “technically a solo artist”: “My job is a group effort”
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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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• “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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• "Not just one of the best British rock albums of all time, but one of the best debut albums ever made": That time The Darkness added a riot of colour to a grey musical landscape
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• Dirty Skirty to release new single “1995” along with seven other tracks on April 6th
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• “The live recording sees the piece come to life… amid the sepulchral gloom there are moments of real beauty”: Roger Waters' Super Deluxe Box Set of his Dark Side Of The Moon Redux
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• "It's embarrassing to be American now." Heart's Nancy Wilson hits out at America's "salacious billionaire culture" and says it's embarrassing to be an American in 2025
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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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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• “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 was crying reading the text." Adolescence star Stephen Graham reveals the "beautiful" text message he received from "working class hero" Bruce Springsteen
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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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• Gene Simmons cancels 17 solo shows as Kiss announce unmasked reunion gig to mark fan club's 50th anniversary
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• Guns N’ Roses announce Isaac Carpenter as their new drummer
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• Liliac to take a year off in 2026
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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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• How to watch Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown starring Timothée Chalamet
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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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• Deraps share ‘home studio’ video for their new single “Last Fall”
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• "Exul ended up being recorded at 10 different studios over two and a half years." Ne Obliviscaris and the heroic story of their fourth album
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• Hear Jack Black and Dave Grohl team up with Ozzy Osbourne’s producer on joyously heavy new song I Feel Alive
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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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• Metalville Records to release compilation album ‘In Memory Of’ to honour deceased singer Paul Di’Anno
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