Rock News 2025-05-19

• "It makes me just want to die!" The Kate Bush song that makes Kate Bush cringe with embarrassment
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• “Working with Nick Mason built my confidence. People recognised me as the guitarist I am”: How Gary Kemp came back from his post-pop wilderness to join the Pink Floyd family, and what Saucerful Of Secrets might do next
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• Mädhouse launch video for new single “We Run Riot” from upcoming album ‘Plead the Fifth’
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• "A lot of fun making this." Listen to Ed Sheeran's guitar-heavy hard rock collaboration with Dave Grohl and John Mayer
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• “I’m not angry – I’m shocked and disappointed”: Foo Fighters fire drummer Josh Freese two years after he joined the band
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• Motörhead’s “lost” album from 1976 getting released as ‘The Manticore Tapes’
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• “I will retire before I become a human-jukebox caricature of myself”: How American guitar icon Bonnie Raitt helped carry the blues into the 21st century
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• Texan psych-Americana band Lord Buffalo forced to cancel European tour after Mexican drummer Yamal Said is "forcibly removed" from flight by US Customs and Border Protection officers
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• SatchVai unveil video for second single “I Wanna Play My Guitar” featuring Glenn Hughes on vocals
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• "I was on the floor, and he had his boot on my throat. I was like, That's great Elvis, that's great." The surreal story of the night Alice Cooper met Elvis Presley
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• "Driving in the middle of the night in North Ontario, someone flags us down. At that same moment, I smell smoke": Six things you didn't know about The Damn Truth
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• “It was such a foundational thing. It helped me start my record collection. I’d really love to hear the original jam”: Drive-By Truckers’ Patterson Hood hails The Edgar Winter Group’s Frankenstein
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• “I have my own ways of ritual magick, but not in the typical way that most people would imagine. We’re not all Victorians, are we?”: The otherworldly story of goth mystics Fields Of The Nephilim
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• Cassidy Paris’ UK leg of tour postponed due to departure from two band members mid-way through
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• Matt Hughes unleashes lyric video for new single “Something For Nothing”
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• "Getting kinda saucy already. Jeez!" Fleetwood Mac's Lindsey Buckingham analysing a Charli XCX video with his daughter is the joyous, uplifting online content that the world needs right now
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• “It’s time to restore a dynamic vision for the future that’s not just about recycling our garbage and all that”: Disillusioned by the 21st century, Jean-Michel Jarre aims to inspire a new hope
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• “We exhausted ourselves trying to help Scott and be a friend. He wanted no part of that”: the story behind Stone Temple Pilots’ ill-fated sixth record, as told by the band themselves
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• “The depression lasted quite a long time. At the end of it, when I felt I was coming out of a long tunnel, I wrote God Gave Rock And Roll To You”: The epic story of Argent, the forgotten early 70s band who inspired one Kiss’ biggest hits
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• “Their songs are empowering. They’re not afraid to write songs that are about where you have to own up to your mistakes”: Yes, Nicolas Cage the actor is a big fan of Nicolas Cage Fighter the Australian hardcore band
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• “This has been far from a singular endeavour”: your guide to every player who’s ever passed through Nine Inch Nails, from Pretty Hate Machine to now
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• Nine Inch Nails duo Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross are launching a new festival celebrating and showcasing film soundtrack scores, with John Carpenter and Danny Elfman among "a stacked lineup of visionaries doing something you might not see again"
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• Sleep Token's Even In Arcadia has officially reached number one in the UK album charts
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• Trash Stars’ new EP ‘It Ain’t Pretty Being Easy’ now available
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• "I mean, we got invited to the White House. It’s like, ‘Why the **** do you want to talk to us?!'" Sharon Osbourne on how The Osbournes show grew too big and ridiculous, even for rock's first family
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• American Federation of Musicians wades into Bruce Springsteen's war of words with Donald Trump
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• "I'm going to live." Alice In Chains' Sean Kinney shares health update with fans after show cancellations, joking "The bad news is that I'm going to be fine"
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• "It genuinely changed my brain chemistry." Turnstile's new guitarist Meg Mills explains how Freaky Friday inspired her to pick up a guitar
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• “We need him much more than he needs us. Prog as a genre owes him a huge debt of gratitude”: The lasting impact of Brian Eno, the glorious anomaly who’s a genre unto himself
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• “Explicitly Satanic and utterly primal, their ritualistic assault influenced many later groups”: These 4 obscure black metal bands deserve to be as big as Emperor and Dimmu Borgir
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• “A work of towering vitality, a raised fist and even a raised finger”: Gong’s 10th anniversary edition of I See You casts Daevid Allen’s final work in a new light
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• SUiCiDE BOMBERS drop video for ballad “Where Time Always Goes”
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• We rank every Architects album from worst to best
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• "I see this lump in the bed, and I go, Oh God, who's this?" The day Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher woke up to find British light entertainment legend Alan Partridge in his hotel bed
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• Millstöne share video for debut single “Wild and Untamed”
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• Mammoth share video for new single “The End”
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• "That's legendary status right there." Watch Zakk Wylde, Trivium, Within Temptation, Ice-T, Lacuna Coil, Jesse Leach, Hanabie and more celebrate 400 issues of Metal Hammer
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• "We wanted to go straight to the source – into the room with people known for their songwriting": The Black Keys detail new album No Rain, No Flowers
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• The legacy of Chris Squire remembered on the cover of the new issue of Prog, which is on sale now
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• “Bright and clear – but polite and unobtrusive almost to a fault”: Anthony Phillips’ remastered, extended Sail The World is literally yacht music
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• "Ask any Quo fan and they’ll agree. The rawness was the reason they liked it": Status Quo's classic Live! gets a deluxe, multi-disc makeover
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• Fairport Convention and The Stranglers is one of the more unlikely collaborations you'll hear this year!
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• Faster Pussycat drop new single “Motorbike”
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• "Their stage aura had me totally captivated." Genre-smashing sister duo Alt Black Era on how Trent Reznor, The Prodigy, Billie Eilish and more changed their lives
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• "It was like seeing the future." The band who took Sleep Token on their first US tour recall hearing them for the first time
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• Steve Rothery and Thorsten Quaeschning share first new music as Bioscope with new single Kaleidoscope
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• "Pure manna for a fanbase denied any whiff of a reunion": Dire Straits' 30-million-selling Brothers In Arms celebrates its 40th birthday with energised extras
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• Orianthi shares video for new single “Attention” from upcoming album ‘Some Kind of Feeling’
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• Nightwish offshoot Auri to return with third album III - Candles And Beginnings in August
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• Jaywalk announce debut album and launch video for “Knocked Out By Your Love”
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• Gotthard share video for new single “Burning Bridges”
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• Jailhouse’s album ‘Demos 1989-1990’ now available via FnA Records
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• “He got up, smashed the table and said, ‘I’ve got the power and I’m never gonna give it up!’ I prayed for sales to bomb. I was happy to see the thing die”: The turbulent story of Twisted Sister’s Stay Hungry, the 80s metal classic that tore the band apart
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• “A wolf in sheep’s clothing, full of smart and deceptive songwriting… oddball dispositions lurk in every darkened corner”: You may not have realised, but Deftones’ Diamond Eyes is a cunning prog masterpiece
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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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• "Nobody has ever sung a heavy metal song better than Ronnie did": A tribute to Ronnie James Dio
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• “He does worship the Devil. It’s his religion. The rest of us are really worried about what forces he may unleash, without meaning to do so!”: My weird night sleeping on King Diamond’s floor surrounded by human skulls and a Satanic altar
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• “I was in a club and Duran Duran’s Simon Le Bon came up to me and said, ‘I hear we’re in the running for the prize for spending the most time and money in a studio!’”: The epic story of Foreigner 4, the AOR masterpiece that helped shape 80s rock
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• Who had Trivium's road crew saving a litter of kittens from a diesel generator on their 2025 metal bingo card?
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• "You can hear how much bigger it sounds!" How Amorphis went large with 2018's Queen Of Time
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• New horror sequel Final Destination Bloodlines features music by thrash metal veterans Evile
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• “The sex session did happen. What you hear on the song is real porn action”: The debauched story of Guns N’ Roses’ Appetite For Destruction, the album that electrified 80s rock
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• “At that point in our life the party never stopped. It usually degenerated into a drunken brawl by the end of the night”: The wild story of Goo Goo Dolls’ A Boy Named Goo, the album that turned three punk kids into A-list stars
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• It's Prog's Tracks Of The Week!! Essential new proggy sounds from Peter Baumann, AVKRVST, Raphael Weinroth-Browne and more...
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