Rock News 2025-04-30

• "It's no longer about how talented you might be, but how good at social media you are": Rosalie Cunningham on breaking through in a shallow scene
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• "Britpop was the Make America Great Again of its day, xenophobic, misogynist, just horrible. We hated it, and it fuelled our anger." Compulsion were the greatest '90s band you never listened to, and now they kinda understand why
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• Beast mode: how Beast In Black, Diablo IV and Berserk have created 2025's ultimate metal-gaming-manga team-up
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• Despite what you might have heard, Jack Black is not in the Weezer film but here’s everything else we know about it
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• Sammy Hagar unveils video for song “Encore, Thank You, Goodnight.” inspired by Eddie Van Halen
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• Rare video of AC/DC frontman Brian Johnson singing Toto's classic Hold The Line is going viral
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• Primal Fear drop video for new single “Far Away” from upcoming album ‘Domination’
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• “People have brains. They should use them instead of becoming like the machines they’re trying to play”: From experience, Hawkwind’s Dave Brock is against AI. Surprisingly, he’s also against the prevalence of legalised drugs
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• The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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• Confess announce line-up changes including the return of bassist Lucky
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• “You see people behaving properly and think: ‘I’d like to be part of the blowing of the whistle – even if it’s only writing a poem or a song or whatever”: Roger Waters changed tone, but not topic, on Is This The Life We Really Want?
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• "Dumb done well is lots of fun": Twisted Sister start their own party on You Can't Stop Rock 'N' Roll
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• “The revolving stage was great fun, especially when it broke down and we got the audience to push it”: If anything mostly worked out during Yes’ Union era, it was the accompanying tour
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• Kneecap issue defiant statement amid news that counter-terrorism police are analysing footage from two past shows, as calls for the Irish band to be removed from UK festival bills escalate
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• Slayer’s Kerry King admits he isn’t close with Tom Araya: “He’s not the guy I started the band with”
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• "Come up to the bedroom now, honey!" Things get steamy in the Fripp-Willcox kitchen as Robert and Toyah tackle Rod Stewart's Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?
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• “I came from a subculture of rock that didn’t quite get what all the fuss is about.” Soundgarden's Kim Thayil originally didn't see the point of the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, but says Chris Cornell would be “stoked” about Soundgarden being inducted
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• Sleep Token are on the cover of Metal Hammer’s 400th issue – and there are two collectible covers to choose from
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• "Life has simply caught up with me": Devin Townsend is taking an indefinite break from touring
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• Sven Gali to release new live album ‘Live At The El Mocambo’ on June 13th
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• Family of late Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison launches Kickstarter campaign for unreleased Vimic album Open Your Omen
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• Sammy Hagar thinks he knows why Alex Van Halen is angry at him and it's nothing to do with music
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• "He can’t wait. None of us can wait.” Oasis start rehearsals next month for their sold-out world tour and Noel Gallagher says he and Liam are mad for it
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• King Crimson's Jakko M. Jakszyk announces his new solo album will be released in June
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• Kurt Deimer drops video for new single “Sunset Boulevard” from upcoming album ‘And So It Begins…’
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• Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale says it’s an “honour” to be the only woman performing at Black Sabbath’s farewell show
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• Hit horror movie Sinners is inspired by Metallica track One
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• “It’s the age of unreason… You can tackle it in a Roger Waters style, but you’ll alienate people. Music should bring people together”: How Big Big Train took on modern issues in old ways on Grimspound
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• "Our message to the government is clear: we’ve only got a summer to save music. Act now." MP Jeremy Corbyn's Peace & Justice Project declare A Summer To Save Live Music in the UK
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• Yngwie Malmsteen’s new CD/DVD ‘Live In Tokyo’ now available
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• “I feel like I’ve woken up from a coma”: how With Teeth brought Trent Reznor back from the brink and revitalised Nine Inch Nails’ career
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• "A rollercoaster of epic musical detours, great songwriting and completely unhinged twists and turns": Halestorm announce upcoming album details and mammoth tour
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• Cult US proggers Happy The Man's first two albums to be remastered and reissued
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• Sharon Osbourne remembers first thoughts when she laid eyes on Ozzy: “What the f*ck?!”
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• Metallica are going to re-release their Load
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• Tangerine Dream announce new From Virgin To Quantum Years: Coventry Cathedral 22 live album
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• Ambush share video for title track of upcoming album ‘Evil In All Dimensions’
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• Ron Keel reconnects with former Lust and Steeler bandmate / bassist Tim Morrison
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• Deraps unleash video for title track from upcoming sophomore album ‘Viva Rock N’ Roll’
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• “I craved my father’s attention, so I sang louder and louder.” Watch the trailer for Bono: Stories of Surrender, a new documentary based on U2 frontman Bono's one-man show
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• "I want to expand my horizons": Rather than gaze backwards with Rush, Alex Lifeson is looking towards a bright future with Envy Of None
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• I sing anti-fascist songs in a thrash band – why aren’t more metal musicians angry about the state of the world?
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• “Fidel Castro hadn’t decided if it was going to work for him or not”: the time Audioslave made a historic visit to Cuba and got the green light from Castro himself
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• “It would be unfair to describe the message as cliché, but might there be a more inventive way of conveying it?” Neal Morse’s supergroup Cosmic Cathedral reassert their beliefs on debut album Deep Water
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• "I hit a wall. I am not built to do that." Ghost's Tobias Forge reached burnout in 2024. This is how Skeletá brought him back to life
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• "They completely destroyed the bar we were playing and broke a waitress’s leg. It was a trainwreck." Inside the chaos and carnage of Acid Bath - the great lost Louisiana sludge metal band.
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• Cassidy Paris shares video for new single “Butterfly”
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• "Much as I appreciate you, I am not going to play Pinball Wizard!" Watch Roger Daltrey engage in lively conversation with entitled heckler
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• These are the 12 new metal songs you need to check out this week
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• Machine Head's Unatoned has so many crushing riffs that it should come with a health and safety certificate. This is a band back in peak condition
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• Jerry Cantrell has an amazing solo song on the Sinners soundtrack and no one seems to be talking about it
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• The new Yungblud single is basically The Streets meets Blur meets Oasis: watch the entertainingly lairy Britpop-influenced video for Lovesick Lullaby now
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• LAPD release video of events leading up to the shooting and arrest of Weezer bassist's wife
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• Peter Criss on his upcoming new solo record: ‘It’s an album I’ve always wanted to do”
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• Available now: The limited edition Luke Spiller Classic Rock bundle
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• Regina Rand reveals her husband / Autograph bassist Randy Rand’s last moments before he passed away
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• "In Russia, when you see a bear, it's not ****ing funny." Alex Terrible is a bear-wrestling, bareknuckle fighting controversy magnet. He's also made Slaughter To Prevail unlikely metal icons
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• The Alarm's Mike Peters has died after a 30 year battle with blood cancer
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• "I was talking with Kurt, and he said, You should join my band." The night that Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon, and DinosaurJr's J. Mascis realised that newcomers Nirvana were going to change alternative rock forever
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• “There was a girl who wrote letters to Fish in her own blood, and there was an American you could imagine having a John Lennon moment with. You have to be careful”: Steve Rothery’s life and times with Marillion
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• Ghost may have banned phones from their 2025 tour, but you can see footage of their latest shows in the new music video for Peacefield
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• Alex Cole to release new EP ‘Swimming In The Honey Pot’ on May 1st
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• White Devil Detroit’s lost glam metal EP ‘Stay Calm, It’s Only Napalm’ now available
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• H.E.A.T launch video for latest single “Call My Name” from new album ‘Welcome To The Future’
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• The 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees have been announced
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