Rock News 2025-04-09

• "Ozzy and I were like a couple of naughty schoolkids." Zakk Wylde shares his favourite (not so) wholesome memory of hanging out with The Prince Of Darkness
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• Danko Jones shares lyric video for new single “What You Need”
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• "What I learned from Ozzy Osbourne and Lemmy is that they're real people, and they'll be like that until they die": Ice-T on his heroes and the music he loves most
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• “I saw right away that he wrote a lot about urban culture, youth culture and violence. That inspired me to create moodier songs”: The story of Iron Maiden guitarist Adrian Smith’s forgotten 2010s side project
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• Junkyard frontman David Roach out of hospital and back at home
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• Rocket Queen’s new studio album ‘One Last Night’ now available
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• “I was begging for tickets, now I turn out to be hosting”: Jason Momoa reveals how he got the job compering Black Sabbath’s final show
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• Dirkschneider & The Old Gang share video for new track “It Takes Two To Tango”
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• "We haven’t adjusted it for the taste of modern kids. This is how it's meant to be heard": An interview with the makers of Becoming Led Zeppelin
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• Dirty Skirty unleash video for new single ‘1995″
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• Hardcore sensations Turnstile announce first album in four years, Never Enough
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• Watch Slipknot's Corey Taylor perform a cover of Chappell Roan's Pink Pony Club at a horror convention in Florida
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• “He was riding a bicycle on stage. I had my camera on a tripod and, gee, what a coincidence – almost every night he’d knock it over!” Tony Levin on the differences between Peter Gabriel and Robert Fripp
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• Video footage & setlist from Stephen Pearcy and Warren DeMartini’s first show together in seven years
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• "Abba were in matching white fur coats, looking like polar bears. Sid went running over. ‘Abba!’ Then he vomited. They were horrified." John Lydon on the day Abba met the Sex Pistols
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• “Satanized is a song about love”: Ghost’s Tobias Forge breaks down every track on new album Skeletá
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• "There will be no event called 'Fyre 2' in Playa del Carmen." Grand plans to revive disastrous event come as a surprise to the resort city supposed to be hosting it
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• Watch video for new Babymetal track 'from me to u' featuring Poppy
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• Exclusive Employed To Serve bundle with limited edition t-shirt on sale now
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• "I got taken in by a group of older witches."How Bambie Thug went from ballet and Catholic school to witchcraft, Eurovision and touring with Babymetal
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• Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs hone their dream to be as potent a live band as Download festival favourites Vengaboys
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• Ghost’s Tobias Forge comments on recently leaked solo album Passiflora: “If you write a love letter and that just disappears into the void, you would try to distance yourself from it as soon as possible”
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• New-look Katatonia announce 13th album Nightmares as Extensions of the Waking State – watch their video for Lilac
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• “I’ve gone from having the greatest time of my life, to wanting to kill myself.” An audience with a tired, homesick, and somewhat irritable Red Hot Chili Peppers on the final night of their One Hot Minute world tour
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• “They’re outlaw bad boys who’ve got no business with fanciness or politeness!” Amon Amarth, Grand Magus, Wardruna and more explain why metal loves Vikings so much
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• "It seemed to sum up the existential crisis I was having." Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan on the Metallica song that saved his life
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• Richie Kotzen says he almost joined Nine Inch Nails but his glam metal past got in the way
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• "We've been so very lucky to have had the Ace of Bass in our lives": Former Gang of Four and Shriekback bassist Dave Allen dead at 69
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• H.E.A.T launch video for new single “Running To You”
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• Sven Gali launch live video for their cover of Motörhead’s classic track “Ace of Spades”
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• "It took a decade to write this book, grappling with the beauty and sorrow of a lifetime." Patti Smith announces new memoir Bread of Angels
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• This was the one “beneficial” thing from the Norwegian black metal church burnings, according to Wardruna’s Einar Selvik
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• "Five were f***ing horrible." Skunk Anansie icon Skin shares what it was like being buddies with David Bowie and Lemmy, and run-ins with 90s boybands
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• Britny Fox guitarist Michael Kelly Smith to play short live set at record store on May 31st
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• Paul Stanley, Billy Idol and Gwen Stefani are the stars of a series of ads for a corporate AI platform
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• "This band has always been out of sync with whatever is going on": The Black Crowes albums you should definitely listen to, and one to avoid
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• “If somebody offered me something I’d take it first and ask afterwards what it was. I’d swallow a pill and have to be carried back to my room”: The life and death of Jimmy Bain, the bassist who brought the rock’n’roll to Rainbow and Dio
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• Midnight Steel release debut self-titled single
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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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• "We were always badass, if by that you mean sex, drugs and rock'n'roll... we were very bad": The wild story of Canned Heat, the badass blues band that death couldn’t kill
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• Slayer announce only North American headline show of 2025, with Knocked Loose and a host of thrash metal legends supporting
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• An introduction to John Lee Hooker in nine essential albums
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• I got Metal Hammer’s writers to name the ‘bad’ metal albums they can’t get enough of
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• Blink-182 announce Missionary Impossible tour dates, with a former member's band in support
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• FnA Records release double album from pre-Lillian Axe band Stiff
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• "It is the commission of my life!" Killing Joke's Jaz Coleman announces new choral work based on the teachings of The Wickedest Man in the World
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• “People condemned us, attacked us because we weren’t the hip of the hip. But we held our course”: The epic story of Journey‘s Escape, the early 80s masterpiece that changed the course of rock
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• Video footage and setlist from Rockin’ Dave’s Rough Cutt’s debut gig
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• "Clem was not just a drummer; he was the heartbeat of Blondie." Blondie drummer Clem Burke dead at 70
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• "We are the haven for the outcasts and the downtrodden – bring us your losers, because we’re all in this together." Blink 182's Mark Hoppus explains why being in a punk rock band is the most fun you can have with your clothes on, and off
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• "I’m uncontrollable when I drink, so I don’t know what happens next." How Jinjer's Tatiana Shmayluk found peace after years of unrest and turmoil
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• Airbourne’s storage locker in Melbourne broken into with thieves stealing gear including six guitars
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• "They still call it Sepultura, but everybody knows that it's not the same." Max Cavalera isn't getting sentimental over the end of Sepultura, says fans feel that he and his brother Iggor carry the true spirit of the band
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• “We started performing rituals to conjure entities. From that point on it was all about making music that would please these gods”: The unholy story of Morbid Angel and the birth of death metal
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• The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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• "Siouxsie Sioux gone Black Sabbath." Messa mix jazz, doom, goth and so much more - and are the coolest band you'll hear this week
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• “We’d all seen The Wall; we knew there were good rock movies out there”: Inspired by Pink Floyd, Marillion made a film out of their 1994 concept album Brave. It didn’t go well
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• "Ozzy jumped from one subject to another with astonishing rapidity, like some frantic pigeon": A mind-mincing encounter with Black Sabbath on the Sabotage tour
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• "They're incredibly good-looking, just like me": You can buy an Alice Cooper-branded reel-to-reel recorder for just €27,000
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• “It was so inspiring to see them put animosity to one side and just go on stage to play”: Sepultura’s Andreas Kisser explains his love for Yes and Steve Howe
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• Wild Talk unveil lyric video for new single “Hold Me Down”
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• "Eventually you run out of steam because you have no money and you’re eating Pot Noodles on Christmas Day." Dr Who and The Thick Of It star Peter Capaldi shares his memories of his David Bowie and Cramps-influenced punk band, The Dreamboys
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• “Certain things force you to progress… I’m free to do other things, but how much of a leap do I take?” Matt Berry on whether he prefers making music to comedy
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• "Their music is as aggressively and pretentiously dull as their choice of band name": The Band's second album is an acknowledged classic, but there are some dissenters
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• Watch trailer for new documentary Metallica Saved My Life, directed by Lords Of Chaos’ Jonas Åkerlund
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