Rock News 2025-05-10

• "I could have done a poor imitation of Brian May, but I just figured it would be better to get the real thing": Bumblefoot on wrangling famous guitarists, his new album, and the celebrity hot sauce community
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• "I really hate America. If Adolf Hitler came back and said 'I won't raise taxes', he'd win in a landslide." In 1988 R.E.M. were so disgusted with the state of the US that guitarist Peter Buck said he felt like shooting people, starting with President Bush
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• Kissin’ Dynamite launch video for new single “Queen of The Night” from album ‘Back With A Bang’
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• "If we’d kept things together and stopped arguing, we could have all been multi-millionaires!" The story of Hawkwind's most prog-friendly album, Warrior On The Edge Of Time
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• Helix launch video for their newly recorded 2025 version of “Rock You”
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• "I chased him down the hall with my d**k in my hand." How an epic fistfight with racist skinheads turned hip-hop superstar Ice Cube and Ministry's Al Jourgensen into unlikely allies
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• “Trent Reznor started out as a roadie for us, next thing I know he’s on the cover of Rolling Stone.” Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan interviewed Ministry legend Al Jourgensen and the results are as brilliant as you’d expect
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• Warrant’s 1995 album ‘Ultraphobic’ remastered and to be released on vinyl for the first time
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• Stars of the 80s prog scene line up for book launch live event
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• Motörhead’s “lost” album from 1976 getting released as ‘The Manticore Tapes’
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• "His Midas touch is confirmed": Bernie Marsden covers the greats on posthumously released album
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• KIX to release ‘Kool Atomic Kix’ 8CD Box Set on July 18th
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• Steve Hackett announces The Lamb Stands Up Live At The Royal Albert Hall double live album
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• David Lee Roth announces first tour since announcing retirement from touring
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• Soundgarden's Kim Thayil names the rock and metal bands he believes should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the legendary prog band he can't believe hasn't been inducted already
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• "I'm very clear on what I want to do, which can be really annoying for other people": Steven Wilson on being a control freak, the wonder of space, Porcupine Tree and more
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• "This tour will be about fond memories, love and laughter": The Who announce North American farewell tour
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• "Even In Arcadia might divide longtime Sleep Token fans, but it will almost certainly expose metal to its biggest audience yet." Sleep Token's new album is ambitious, intense and painfully honest
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• “I’ve heard Robert Fripp say no to everybody. David Bowie, Peter Gabriel, you name it, he always has an excuse not to play… He’s a wonderful husband but professionally it’s done me no favours”: Toyah Wilcox is more than just Mrs King Crimson
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• “I don’t know how anyone can be in that band for more than a couple hours”: The story of Slayer guitarist Kerry King’s short but whirlwind stint in Megadeth
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• WWE wrestler Penta has a new entrance theme featuring Tool’s Adam Jones on guitar
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• Yungblud announces world tour in support of forthcoming album Idols
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• Hear Quicksand/Rival Schools frontman Walter Schreifels cover Pink Floyd for forthcoming animal welfare benefit album featuring exclusive tracks from Killswitch Engage, Snapcase, Orange 9mm, Testament's Alex Skolnick and more
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• "I had an idea for an album about people bottling Jesus's vomit." Rivers Of Nihil's Adam Biggs on concept records, working with Cannibal Corpse and not buying the hype for Metallica and Rush
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• "The hype was so great that we were never going to be able to fulfil it." The "nightmare" birth of the Stones Roses' wildly-expensive and long-delayed second album Second Coming, by those who were there, and those who quit
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• Frontline’s new EP ‘Back With A 6-Pack’ now available
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• "A project with no limitations." Yungblud announces Idols, a "love letter to life in all its madness" and part one of an ambitious double album
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• Ablaze to release new album ‘Sink Ya Teeth In’ on August 1st and to embark on tour of UK / Europe
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• Judas Priest’s Rob Halford is “gutted” to not be playing Black Sabbath’s final show: “I had no idea it was happening!”
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• "It obviously didn't work!": Ann Wilson says Paula Abdul was hired to teach Heart choreographed dance moves "like Prince and the Revolution"
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• If you're after some catchy as hell nu metal brimming with angst, you need the new Tetrarch album in your life
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• Millstöne share video for debut single “Wild and Untamed”
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• “I dreamed everything went wrong on stage and we all turned to dust.” Geezer Butler is having nightmares ahead of Black Sabbath's final show
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• "On arrival Izzy had to be loaded into a baggage cart to be wheeled through Customs and Immigration": Behind the scenes on Guns N' Roses' first trip to Japan
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• Jailhouse’s album ‘Demos 1989-1990’ now available via FnA Records
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• Notörious unveil new single “It’s My Time”
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• Dirkschneider & The Old Gang launch video for new single “Time To Listen”
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• Meet Gore.: the metalcore group featuring a NASA space walk engineer and aiming for the stars
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• "I didn't even know Elton John knew what golf was!" US Masters golf champion Rory McIllroy admits that getting a message of congratulations from Sir Elton John blew his mind
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• “I remember wondering how many people could get into this progressive, extreme violin metal”: How Ne Obliviscaris became the first band to successfully crowdfund a world tour
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• “You can see we were stoned. Dave and I were completely out of our brains”: The epic story of Pink Floyd’s Live At Pompeii, the prog classic recorded next door to a volcano
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• "System Of A Down made me feel like I belonged in the metal scene." Lowen's Nina Saeidi: 10 records that changed my life
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• Bowers & Wilkins Px7 S3 headphones review
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• "The director was like, ‘Hey, you guys want a porn star in your video?’" How Atreyu's Right Side Of The Bed helped create modern metalcore
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• It's back! Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week!! Cool new proggy sounds from Katatonia, Nosound, Hedvig Mollestad Trio and more...
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• “Van Halen were opening for us and they were killing us every night. But they were making us be a better band”: How Journey found Steve Perry and made Infinity, the album that set them on the road to superstardom
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• "We’re the last ones standing from the scene." Employed To Serve are fostering the next generation of British metal talent
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• Pup's Who Will Look After The Dogs? is a mantra for the down-but-not-out generation trying to survive in this burning shitheap of a world
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• David Lee Roth announces US tour dates after his first show in five years
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• “I have pride for what I did and I want to see that come out”: Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil wants to release final recordings featuring Chris Cornell
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• Photo gallery: we threw a big party for Metal Hammer's 400th issue
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• The Joe Perry Project announces North American tour dates for August
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• "This is a monster of a line up!" Killswitch Engage announce 25-date tour of the UK and Europe, with Hatebreed, Fit For An Autopsy, and Employed To Serve among supporting cast
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• "On stage, I'd surrender to the ritual. It was like a meditation": Robby Krieger and John Densmore remember life with Jim Morrison and tell the acid-fuelled story of The Doors
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• SatchVai unveil video for second single “I Wanna Play My Guitar” featuring Glenn Hughes on vocals
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• “This gentleman was someone we looked up to before the Ramones." Watch Pearl Jam rock Nashville with one of the biggest rock stars of the '70s
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• "There was a lot of rejection, because I was a skinny Black girl trying to be the singer of a rock band." How Skunk Anansie's Skin went from Bob Marley-attended basement parties to a Glastonbury-headlining Britrock icon
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• Jimmy Page is being sued again by the man who wrote Dazed and Confused – a track made famous by The Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin
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• “You ride into town with your gang, stealing money, drinking as much as you can and being gone before the law catches you”: How Bon Jovi hit the jackpot with Slippery When Wet, the album that turned them into the hottest hard rock band of the 80s
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• Skull Fist frontman Zach Schottler drops video for his cover of The Beatles’ “I Saw Her Standing There”
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• 7 bands that defined Incineration Festival 2025
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• "It's the life of the artist. You never retire. You become relentless": The Pretenders albums you should listen to... and one to avoid
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• "Biafra got caught with his hands in the till and wants to blame us." Despite offers, Dead Kennedys won't be reuniting with estranged vocalist Jello Biafra anytime soon says guitarist East Bay Ray
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• “By the power of music and death metal, I pronounce you husband and wife!” Watch this extreme metal band marry two of their fans onstage during a concert
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