Rock News 2025-04-01

• "Lemmy was the real deal, right to the end." Metallica's Kirk Hammett on his love for Motorhead
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• "This is a song that I always always go back to, it’s one of my favourites ever.” Watch pop superstar Dua Lipa cover a classic INXS anthem, live in Sydney
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• GoFundMe set up to assist cancer stricken Junkyard frontman David Roach with his medical expenses
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• "The haters won’t stop us from doing what we do": Geoff Downes on Asia's new lineup and the band's future plans
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• Deafheaven transcended black metal and the elitists hated them for it - now they've embraced it again with their heaviest album yet
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• "It's the father and mother of The Dark Side Of The Moon!": The full inside story of Pink Floyd's Live At Pompeii - only in the new issue of Classic Rock
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• “This is less a concert than a hard rock workout”: Bloodywood’s energetic Indian folk/nu metal fusion makes for one of London’s sweatiest gigs in recent memory
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• “Our manager said Mick Jagger and Jeff Beck were in the crowd. I had to put it out of my mind and play”: The epic story of Living Colour, the band that revolutionised 80s hard rock
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• Her Grammy-slaying supergroup boygenius may be on hiatus, but the much-anticipated Forever Is A Feeling finds Lucy Dacus looking to the future with optimism instead of dwelling on the past
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• "I got Bowie’s microphone with his lipstick on it!" Sex Pistols' Steve Jones on stealing David Bowie's musical equipment from a London stage on the night before the final Ziggy Stardust performance
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• Watch Ed Sheeran cover Chappell Roan's Pink Pony Club on the New York subway while disguised as an emo busker
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• Kissin’ Dynamite’s video for “Money, Sex & Power” reaches one million views
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• “We were a bit drunk, and I slurred to Ronnie, ‘Do you fancy doing an album?’ It was as simple as that”: How Heaven & Hell resurrected Black Sabbath’s other classic line-up with The Devil You Know
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• “We don’t write love songs, we write hate songs”: how Skunk Anansie gave 90s British rock a shock to the system
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• The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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• Bleed From Within's new album Zenith doesn't just raise their own bar, but dares everyone else in the modern metal scene to match it
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• New album ‘Magic Power: All Star Tribute to Triumph’ to be released on June 6th
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• “It got to the point where I didn’t want to go in. It was painful”: the story of the lost Supergrass album that led to their split
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• Linkin Park launch "the best song we've ever made" Up From The Bottom
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• “It’s not about that guy from Rush any more,” says Alex Lifeson. But with four and a half solos, it’s great to have him using those colours again on Envy Of None’s Stygian Wavz
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• Prog and Metal Hammer partner with this year's post-rock and prog metal two-day event Pelagic Fest
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• “I was living a couch, with no food and no money, just hoping the band would come through this”: The epic story of Meshuggah’s rise from thrash metal wannabes to tech metal giants
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• Carlos Cavazo to play live once again with former Ratt bandmates Stephen Pearcy and Warren DeMartini
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• "I had Nails, Oathbreaker, Power Trip, Billie Eilish and Labrinth on my writing playlist.” From being chummy with members of Slipknot to the worst show ever, here's what we learned in five minutes with Heriot's Debbie Gough
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• “Justin Hawkins has got a crazy brain. He kept giving me all of these great lines”: How The Darkness persuaded a Hollywood A-lister to appear on their new album
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• “Musicians can get upset with each other, but you’re family. Chris Squire and I were like brothers – he was Darth Vader and I was Obi-Wan Kenobi!” Jon Anderson’s time-travelling solo album 1000 Hands
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• "I thanked Corey Taylor for existing!" From collabing with Babymetal to hanging out with Bollywood stars, Bloodywood are breaking down barriers
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• “She was looking at her pill bottles. I knew she was going to die so I was like, ‘Put it down. Live right now’”: Mastodon’s Bill Kelliher wrote songs for Emperor Of Sand at his mum’s deathbed
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• "Discover the lasting influence of a band that changed the face of rock music." Kurt Cobain Unplugged exhibition to open in London
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• W.E.T. unleash visualizer video for new single “What Are We Fighting For”
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• The Gems drop video for new single “Live and Let Go”
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• The Dead Daisies to release new album ‘Lookin’ For Trouble’ on May 30th
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• "Refused are f**king dead, and this time they really mean it." Swedish hardcore legends Refused announce last ever UK and European tour
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• Gentle Giant share brand new live video for Free Hand
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• “Kenneth Anger laid a terrible curse on me. It was written out in blood. I burnt it at a crossroads”: Marianne Faithfull’s wild tales of Keith Richards, John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan and more
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• "We have a very, very simple goal, to make this the greatest day in the history of heavy metal." Tom Morello reveals what we can expect from Black Sabbath's Back To The Beginning mega-gig, teases added surprise from "huge superstars"
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• Deraps unveil lyric video for new track “Setting Sun”
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• "I consulted with high-end industry pros, undertaking a meticulous dismemberment process to ensure this is built to last." Ice Nine Kills' singer Spencer Charnas launches Pretty Evil cosmetics range, "for those who live for the limelight or the moonlight"
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• Wild Talk unveil lyric video for new single “Hold Me Down”
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• "The soundtrack to the greatest rock'n'roll soap opera ever": The mightiest Fleetwood Mac line-up albums in one handy box
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• Listen to Sum 41's ferocious cover of Rage Against The Machine hit Sleep Now In The Fire
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• Foreigner will complete their Historic Farewell Tour with four different singers – and one of them has recorded Spanish versions of their hits
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• "This song is our tribute to Winnipeg": Bachman-Turner Overdrive team up with Neil Young for first new song in 40 years
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• "This collection embodies both the best and worst of Townshend the artist and arch conceptualist": An overview of the solo career of Pete Townshend, the man who never meant to have a solo career
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• Babymetal announce new album Metal Forth, featuring collaborations with Poppy, Spiritbox, Tom Morello, Polyphia, and more
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• My Bloody Valentine announce first UK headline tour in over a decade
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• The Conjuring star Vera Farmiga announces debut album with her heavy metal band The Yagas
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• Harem Scarem share video for track “Better The Devil You Know” from upcoming album ‘Chasing Euphoria’
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• “She was literally getting onto the plane. I felt awkward about it, but I’ve got a bad enough reputation and so has she”: The classic Megadeth song that was originally supposed to feature Lisa Marie Presley
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• “You’ve no idea how cold it was – totally freezing. I know we’re a doom band, but this was suffering way beyond the call of duty”: How Candlemass changed metal forever with doom landmark Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• W.A.S.P. unleash lyric video for track “Paint It Black” from digital album ‘Bonus Tracks & B-sides’
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• "I am deeply disturbed and hurt by all of this": Kevin Cronin slams REO Speedwagon concert organisers after being "knowingly excluded" from hometown show
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• “It came very close to where I wasn’t going to do the album; I didn’t feel that what we’d agreed was fair”: How Pink Floyd made The Division Bell
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• Junkyard frontman David Roach’s health takes an unexpected turn
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• Watch Bruce Springsteen unleash his inner guitar hero, and jam with Flea, Johnny Depp and R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe, in powerful tribute to Patti Smith at New York's iconic Carnegie Hall
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• Ablaze share video for new single “Next Train Out”
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• A rare studio recording of Yes playing a wild version of The Beatles' Eleanor Rigby has surfaced online
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• Ministry announce summer headline shows in the UK and Europe
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• "John Paul Jones' production rounds the edges a little but that's not necessarily a good thing": The Datsuns back themselves into a musical cul-de-sac on Outta Sight / Outta Mind
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• "Everybody needs this band right now. America is screaming out for a band like the Sex Pistols." Sex Pistols, with Frank Carter, announce first North American tour in over two decades, starting at a venue where they had pig hooves thrown at them in 1978
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• "We wanted something raw." The Young Gods announce imminent arrival of their 14th studio album, Appear Disappear, share its hard-hitting title track, and reveal UK/Europe tour dates
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• Toyah and Robert Fripp return to action with spirited cover of Tina Turner's evergreen sporting anthem The Best
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• Sleazy Sweet drop new single “Don’t Shoot”
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• The Dirty Denims launch video for new single “We Won’t Stop” from latest album ‘Party On!’
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