Rock News 2025-04-03

• "I am the Pistols, and they’re not.” John Lydon is getting ever more salty about the success and acclaim currently being enjoyed by his revitalised former Sex Pistols bandmates
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• "Lots of my records melted in the blaze": John Lydon lost part of his vinyl collection after his kitchen was accidentally set on fire - right after his insurance was cancelled
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• A new trailer for "the Citizen Kane of British pop movies" has been released
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• “With deference to everybody in Beat, my function is to amuse myself and hopefully you. I can’t do music from 45 years ago”: Why Bill Bruford demoted himself from the King Crimson, Yes and Genesis league
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• “Contains love songs of every stripe: stressed-out, gooey-eyed, gratuitously horny, blissed out, obsessive and mysterious.” Wet Leg announce second album Moisturizer, share new single Catch These Fists
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• “It’s getting ridiculous. We’re the last men standing, unless some new wave of rock comes along…” The rise, fall and resurrection of The Darkness, the band on a mission to save rock
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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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• This WWE icon once invited a fake Sammy Hagar backstage and watched him snort so much cocaine his nose bled
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• The Dead Daisies to release new album ‘Lookin’ For Trouble’ on May 30th
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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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• “I thought, ‘This is boring. I play these songs all the time! Where’s the audience to cheer me up?’” Richard Thompson’s battle against barking dogs, overhead planes and leaf blowers to make Acoustic Classics
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• "There's not a doubt in my mind that when I'm gone that song will live on forever": Dee Snider on the Twisted Sister song that transcended its era
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• Bruce Soord details 10th anniversary edition of debut solo album
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• "So much happened during those 12 months that it's hard to pack the impact into mere words": The greatest year in heavy metal history, revisited
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• Kissin’ Dynamite’s video for “Money, Sex & Power” reaches one million views
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• Junkyard frontman David Roach’s health takes an unexpected turn
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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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• Babymetal announce new album Metal Forth, featuring collaborations with Poppy, Spiritbox, Tom Morello, Polyphia, and more
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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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• Tobias Forge says most Ghost songs aren’t about the Devil: “They’ve always been about mankind’s relationship with the concept of life and death”
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• "How anyone can be 'deeply disturbed and hurt' by this is beyond me": REO Speedwagon charity show bickering continues as Bruce Hall fires back at Kevin Cronin
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• Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox promised fans a new version of a King Crimson classic but gave them bunny rabbits
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• The Hives announce new Josh Homme/Mike D-assisted album The Hives Forever Forever The Hives, and share punchy new single Enough Is Enough, plus UK and European tour dates
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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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• “If I talk about Donald J. Trump, I may be one of those returning to America who is barred or put in jail to sleep on a cement floor” Neil Young thinks Donald Trump is the worst president in US history, but fears that saying so could have consequences
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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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• FnA Records release double album from pre-Lillian Axe band Stiff
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• Wild Talk unveil lyric video for new single “Hold Me Down”
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• The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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• Ablaze share video for new single “Next Train Out”
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• “I didn’t just walk away from Nightwish. I walked away from everything, so I could figure out what the problem was”: Marko Hietala had to adjust to a new normal, and the result is Roses From The Deep
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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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• “If it wasn’t for those four guys, we might still be wandering around in the dark”: While Kirk Hammett hails Black Sabbath as metal’s founders, Ghost’s Tobias Forge names the “neglected” aspect of their sound
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• Machine Head toured America six days after 9/11: “Everybody in the front row was like, ‘Why am I here? Tell me it’s gonna be OK’”
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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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• Mixing Sepultura groove with Gojira stomp, Alien Weaponry step up into the metal A-league with Te Rā
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• "I'm not a dictator. I'm a good king": Tobias Sammet on the democracy of Avantasia, the late Tony Clarkin, and whispering Bruce Dickinson
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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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• Harem Scarem share video for track “Better The Devil You Know” from upcoming album ‘Chasing Euphoria’
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• W.E.T. unleash visualizer video for new single “What Are We Fighting For”
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• "Quitting alcohol cost me friends, but quitting nicotine was much harder": Bob Mould on addiction, reconnecting with his audience and social media confusion
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• “All these men were like, ‘Lose your brother, lose the band, lose your buddies – you should be in pop’”: Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale reveals industry pressure to start a solo career
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• The Gems drop video for new single “Live and Let Go”
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• More than a shredbot: The Joe Satriani albums you should definitely listen to
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• A beginner's guide to Sweet in 10 brilliant songs, from chart hits to deep cuts
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• King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard announce unique UK and European tour, split between 'rave sets' and orchestral shows
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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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• Sleazy Sweet drop new single “Don’t Shoot”
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• "The thing about rock, if it’s real, is that it will always be relevant": Kula Shaker's Crispian Mills on mass psychosis and the best way to solve writer's block
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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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• This is the Metallica song that makes Kirk Hammett cry – and it’s really not the one you’d expect
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• H.E.A.T launch video for new single “Running To You”
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• “Many names are familiar; a lot of material isn’t. An evening in with the lava lamp beckons”: Middle Earth: The Soundtrack Of London’s Legendary Psychedelic Club 1967–1969
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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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• "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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• The new issue of Metal Hammer features Ghost on the cover – and comes with three exclusive gifts!
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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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• "Touring Australia with the Sex Pistols was horrendous. Seeing the audience doing Nazi salutes really wore me down, and Johnny Rotten didn’t say anything." Skunk Anansie's Skin recalls "violent" 1996 tour with the Sex Pistols
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• Deraps unveil lyric video for new track “Setting Sun”
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• Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan lines up shows to celebrate the anniversaries of three classic Smashing Pumpkins albums, but he'll be performing with his new solo band, not Smashing Pumpkins
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• 4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month
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• GoFundMe set up to assist cancer stricken Junkyard frontman David Roach with his medical expenses
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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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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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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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• “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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