Rock News 2025-04-22

• “He was, without question, the best rock drummer in the world”: What Black Sabbath drummer Bill Ward really thought of Led Zeppelin’s John Bonham
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• Alice Cooper to release new album ‘The Revenge of Alice Cooper’ with original members
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• Mädhouse unveil video for new single “Wicked Hearts”
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• "The record company should’ve offered counselling - we could've been the next Journey!": The high hopes and shattered dreams of melodic rock's nearly men, Giuffria
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• Zak Starkey shares epic unreleased studio recording of Guns N' Roses, Ringo Starr and Elton John covering T. Rex's Children Of The Revolution
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• "Metal's messiah has officially returned - and his name is Tobias Forge": Stand aside Jesus - Ghost’s devilish Skeletour show is the perfect Easter resurrection
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• “I’ve been going through some challenging times”: Def Leppard’s Rick Allen is still traumatised by Florida attack two years ago
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• "After all of these years we've buried a lot of hatchets": The original Alice Cooper Band reunite for new album after 50-year break
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• "Chris Cornell was the first rock star to consume the contents of my stomach." How Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder and Soundgarden's Chris Cornell inspired the youth of America to drink vomit in the early '90s
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• Kickin Valentina unveil new single “Wild Ones”
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• “When my friend turned to me with a face as scrunched-up as Jim Carrey’s Grinch, I knew this band were special”: Why you need to care about Glassing
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• "I couldn't care less about other people's opinions." M. Shadows of Avenged Sevenfold says they'll keeping pushing artistic boundaries
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• Rich Kid Express launch new single “It’s Bad To Be Good”
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• The Lazys to embark on ‘Hot Under The Collar Tour 2025’ across Europe with special guests Junkyard Drive
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• “He thought that the band should be a democracy, and it was more like a brutal dictatorship as far as he was concerned”: The tangled story of Dire Straits, the million-selling band who quit at the height of their fame
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• “To keep a standard up so long is an achievement. This album crowns that. Now people can play something other than A Whiter Shade Of Pale!” Procol Harum didn’t expect 50th anniversary album Novum to be their last
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• The Hair Metal Fan ranks his Top “52” Glam/Sleaze Metal Revival albums
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• “I had to focus on something or I wouldn’t get through those next few months. I thought of Lennon wearing his army jacket: I went to war against the illness”: The turbulent story of The Alarm, the band who could have been the new U2
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• Teaser Sweet drop video for track “Turn Me On” from upcoming album ‘Night Stalker’
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• “It was a great antidote to American earnest rock bands who seemed to think it was all about them”: Supergrass on the making of their timeless Britpop classic I Should Coco
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• "He threw me in the lake and I had to learn to swim": Remembering Dickey Betts, southern rock pioneer
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• “I’ve had dreams about a meteor hitting us. It’s only a matter of time. We deserve it, to be honest”: Doom high priests Electric Wizard are the perfect band to soundtrack the end of the world
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• “Everything I’m doing is purposely very different. If I’d wanted to keep doing what Dream Theater do, I’d still be in Dream Theater”: How Mike Portnoy reinvented himself after the trauma of leaving two massive bands
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• "We were just hanging out on the beach and sipping cool libations; Keith Richards was totally living the rock’n’roll lifestyle": Billy Gibbons’ wild tales of The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Muddy Waters and Ministry
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• "I grew up loving watching Roy Keane!" Linkin Park on their new football-inspired remix of Numb, their upcoming Champions League final show, Lionel Messi, Roy Keane, and America's chances of winning the next World Cup
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• “He’s gone from being unable to do the shows to clearly being unwilling to do shows with us”: Faith No More drummer Mike Bordin doesn’t see estranged singer Mike Patton rejoining the band any time soon
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• Watch Dave Grohl perform Foo Fighters classic Everlong with a choir and the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra during surprise Coachella festival appearance
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• “We blew this whole scene open, I don’t care what anybody says. We did all the work, and now all these other bands are popping up”: How Korn changed up their sound and left the copycats behind with Follow The Leader
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• "This is their best album yet and a major contender for album of the year." Employed To Serve are officially taking their seat at UK metal's big table with the brilliant Fallen Star
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• Royal Honey launch video for new single “Tallahassee” from upcoming EP ‘Leather Hearts’
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• In the age of dystopian catastrophe Hawkwind are still looking to space
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• "Expect glorious spectacles of foot-stomping, guitar-wailing and face-melting, high-octane joy. Tell your mates. Tell your mum." The Darkness announce North American tour in typically low-key fashion
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• “They sounded like screams of anguish, screams of war, screams of where humanity is headed – they were perfect”: The feral story of Discharge’s Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing, the punk album that changed metal
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• Lost Circus unleash video for their cover of Alanis Morissette’s track “Uninvited”
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• “Onstage everything had to be exaggerated. I took that to heart and overdid it… I was like Benny Hill with a flute!” Ian Anderson on Jethro Tull’s one-legged hammy past – and potential future as a stripped-down four-piece
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• Vinnie Vincent thinking of releasing limited edition EP “if the numbers are there and fan support… are high”
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• The Screamin’ Lords share new track “Steppin’ Over You”
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• The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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• "She’s survived it all with grace and grit": The Bonnie Raitt albums you should definitely listen to, and one to avoid
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• “Driven by a mammoth riff that could give Black Sabbath a run for their money, they never recorded anything so primitive or heavy again”: Four songs that will make you rethink everything you know about Queen
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• Watch Slayer legend Kerry King make his Wrestlemania debut as he plays Damian Priest to the ring for the most metal WWE entrance ever
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• Charli XCX wants Turnstile to be one of the artists of the summer
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• "In a word, Viagr Aboys is chaos." Swedish post-punks Viagra Boys get weirder, looser and messier than ever on their fourth album
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• Watch Love on the Spectrum star James B. Jones meet his metal heroes Disturbed
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• Breakker’s debut self-titled EP to be re-released via Heaven and Hell Records
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• After six albums of Beelzebub-bothering, Ghost's melodic metal is more tempting than ever
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• “In walked this clown, dressed in silk pyjamas, huge shades on. I shouted, ‘Get out!’ and pushed him into the corridor. That was Steven Tyler”: Randy Bachman‘s wild tales of Pete Townshend, Neil Young, Little Richard and Frank Sinatra
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• "It sounds like Dream Theater doing a pastiche of Bon Jovi songs": Did Extreme over-egg the funk-rock pudding on III Sides To Every Story?
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• Hear Halestorm return with rousing single Darkness Always Wins
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• Savaged share video for new single “Stars Are Falling” from upcoming album ‘Rising’
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• The Cure launch mammoth Mixes Of A Lost World album, donate royalties to charity
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• Judas Priest and Alice Cooper announce co-headlining tour across North America
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• “I had a massive animosity towards those fans”: Soundgarden’s manager thought it would be a great idea for them to support Guns N’ Roses, the band disagreed
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• Joey Jordison’s original Slipknot logo design revealed via social media
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• “I don’t think anybody can be prepared for how big the crowd was. A sea of denim and leather as far as you can see”: The epic story of Monsters Of Rock, the greatest heavy metal festival of them all
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• “Power and momentum allied to a vivid, panoramic sound”: Hawkwind’s late-career purple patch continues with There Is No Space For Us
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• "There have been some communication issues": Zak Starkey returns to The Who just days after being dismissed
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• "Why should I be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame? Because I’m f**king incredible!" Billy Idol thinks he deserves your vote for induction into the Rock Hall
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• Those Damn Crows score their first UK No.1 album with God Shaped Hole
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• “I was always hoping that I would be taken away by aliens at some point”: The strange story of Devin Townsend’s Ocean Machine: Biomech, the album which launched his solo career
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• “Everyone in our circle was listening to a lot of West Coast hip hop, and it was minor key and dark. If you could take that to the next level, you could make it heavy metal”: How hip hop changed metal forever
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• “Whether any illicit cigarettes were involved isn’t clear, but this is the sound of Maiden floating in space”: Four Iron Maiden songs that sound nothing like Iron Maiden
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• Lorraine Lewis reveals her new line-up for Femme Fatale
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• Fontaines D.C. announce huge Belfast show with local heroes Kneecap
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