Rock News 2025-05-28

• "Skunk Anansie's most musically ambitious album yet": Skin & Co's The Painful Truth is their best work in decades
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• Fire In The Rodeo share video for new single “Viper’s Kiss” from debut self-titled album
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• Hot Shöt featuring members from Dangerous Toys and Dirty Looks to release two-song EP on May 24th
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• The nine bands that defined Wide Awake festival 2025
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• "The rock gods gave me gifts": Love/Hate frontman Jizzy Pearl on new album Punk Rock Fiesta and rock'n'roll's magic carpet ride
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• "I'm scared for my life and career at this point." Dream Theater's Mike Portnoy jokes he's worried about his job after spate of drummer firings
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• Legendary guitarist and singer Rick Derringer dies at 77
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• Rare brain condition leads Billy Joel to cancel string of tour dates
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• Giles, Giles & Fripp remastered reissues coming on vinyl and CD in July
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• Queen icon Freddie Mercury had a secret daughter, according to a new biography
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• “David Coverdale’s had to become a pop singer to get success. There’s your glamour bands and your denim-clad groups. And your denim-clad groups survive”: How AC/DC swam against the 80s hair metal tide and made an underrated gem in Blow Up Your Video
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• Tekkno no more! See Electric Callboy get “darker” and “more serious” with twisted new song/video Revery
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• “The time was right. Metal had died a horrible death, grunge had killed the mainstream off, so it felt like a revolution”: The unholy story of Cacophonous Records, the underground 90s label that changed black metal
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• Music agent Dave Shapiro and ex-Devil Wears Prada drummer Daniel Williams die in San Diego plane crash
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• “Nothing Else Matters exposed the vulnerability behind what previously seemed to be a bulletproof heavy metal machine”: The five least metal Metallica songs
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• “It’s a strange thing to look back on – they were such difficult, miserable times”: Big Big Train once hated 2002 album Bard. But the dark secret has become a rare gem
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• The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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• SUiCiDE BOMBERS’ ‘The Hottest Tour to hit the UK this year’ – Tour Diary Part 2
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• “I was a budding arsonist – I tried to recreate the cover of Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here by setting fire to my mate’s back”: The prog world of Nightwish’s Troy Donockley
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• Erik Grönwall performs three songs live with H.E.A.T in Madrid, Spain
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• “I didn’t really get the music, to be honest. It was a bit too prog for me”: The prog superstars who tried to steal drummer Roger Taylor from Queen
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• “In the studio I was freaking out and bawling. I had no idea Ross Robinson was getting it all on tape until I came back a couple of days later and he said, ‘Listen to this...’”: Korn break down their iconic debut album track by track
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• All 20 Ronnie James Dio album ranked, from worst to best
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• Jim Root wants Slipknot’s new album to be made like the debut and Iowa: “I would like to revisit the raw energy of how those first two records were recorded”
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• “We solemnly pledge to get to the bottom of this horrific headline-making crime against Redditors”: Ice Nine Kills issue sarcastic apology for using AI-generated promo picture
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• SUiCiDE BOMBERS’ ‘The Hottest Tour to hit the UK this year’ – Tour Diary Part 3
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• “It was one of the most vibrant and exciting live albums of its day. The new version raises the bar”: Gentle Giant’s Playing The Fool – The Complete Live Experience is an exceptional work
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• Iron Maiden have played a surprise-stuffed first show of their 50th Anniversary tour - watch videos now
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• “I had no inkling Tom would go so early. I always wondered who would go first. I’m still grieving”: Mike Campbell on life as Tom Petty’s right hand man and the highs and lows of being a Heartbreaker
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• Sebastian Bach on other Skid Row singers after him: “I’ve never listened to any of them — ever”
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• Cool new proggy sounds from Jakko M. Jakszyk, Phase Transition, Barrens and more in Prog's new Tracks Of The Week!
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• SUiCiDE BOMBERS’ ‘The Hottest Tour to hit the UK this year’ – Tour Diary Part 4
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• Watch Metallica rip through Enter Sandman on tour in Virginia, USA
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• Mark Boals recalls the recording of Yngwie Malmsteen’s album ‘Alchemy’ being done the “old school way”
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• SUiCiDE BOMBERS’ ‘The Hottest Tour to hit the UK this year’ – Tour Diary Part 5
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• SUiCiDE BOMBERS’ ‘The Hottest Tour to hit the UK this year’ – Tour Diary Part 1
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• "That scene really embraced me, but I never really felt I fitted into that box": Chantel McGregor may have been welcomed by the blues scene, but her next step may surprise them
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• Black Sabbath - The Farewell Interview: Ozzy, Tony, Geezer and Bill, only in the new issue of Classic Rock
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• "I was afraid something inside of me was dying. Leaving was an act of survival": Life in the fast lane and the turbulent tale of the Eagles
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• “That day was probably the most important day of our lives”: the story of the first ever gig by the Appetite For Destruction-era Guns N’Roses
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• Watch metalcore pioneers Converge play chaotic new song WWNTS live
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• “Most celebrities are dullards. I met a lot of these clowns and you assume they’re smart. They are not!” Why the Pretenders’ Chrissie Hynde is one of the last rock stars unafraid of saying what’s on her mind
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• ”Three highly gifted men with the capacity to behave like spoilt brats in each others’ company”: Emerson, Lake & Palmer often didn’t work. But then, neither did projects that featured just two of the trio
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• "I fear for the world": Bonnie Raitt on winning Grammys, working with Prince, and why we need to work together
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• Doro unveils new single “Warriors of The Sea”
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• Former Hawkwind and David Bowie violinist and keyboardist Simon House has died, aged 76
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• "Different; not necessarily better or worse but definitely less interesting": The Tubes bring in the big producer on The Completion Backwards Principle, with mixed results
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• “The most dangerous tour I ever did was the one with Mötley Crüe in the 80s. It was nuts. I said to my tour manager, ‘One of us is gonna die’”: This is what happened when Avenged Sevenfold’s M Shadows interviewed Ozzy Osbourne for Metal Hammer
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• Fifty-two years after it was first released, Lynyrd Skynyrd have finally made a video for Free Bird
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• “We were in New York on 9/11 – it felt like the whole world was falling down”: Incubus reflect on playing two NYC shows days after the World Trade Center attacks
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• “We showed up and Dire Straits were opening for us. The press slaughtered us, accusing us of being dinosaurs”: The epic story of Styx’s Pieces Of Eight,the pomp rock masterpiece that began to tear them apart
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• Circus of Rock launch video for title track from upcoming album ‘Hellfire’
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• “The idea is that one night like that it worth 1,000 hours of drudgery”: the meaning behind The Cure’s classic 1987 hit Just Like Heaven
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• "Bands who should probably never have made it out of the garage, let alone onto a major label": It's not just the familiar names on the Young & Wild glam metal compilation
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• “These are perilous times. We are staring down a dark channel that could lead to totalitarianism”: Even yacht rock icon Michael McDonald is criticising Donald Trump and the US government
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• “I’d have been in the corner with a bottle of Jack Daniel’s and a mound of coke. I was out of my tree. I needed help”: How Judas Priest rose above darkness and death to make Turbo, their most divisive album
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• “It remained in the domain of teenyboppers, but prog elements are within its grooves”: What if I told you A-ha’s Hunting High And Low is really a prog album?
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• Tesla drop video for acoustic instrumental “From The Heart”
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• Blackie Lawless feels W.A.S.P.’s album ‘K.F.D.’ is the “most creative record I’ve ever made”
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• “London’s must-attend event for fans of all things ‘post-’”: The six bands that defined the final Portals festival
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• "In a recent moment when I was really struggling, I picked up my guitar and wrote a song": Sheryl Crow releases new single in support of Mental Health Awareness Month
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• Cougar Toyboy unveil debut album ‘Cougar Business’
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• “I thank God every day, and Metallica, for saving us”: Virginia family say taking their daughter to see Metallica saved them from deadly truck crash
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• “A lot of nu metal was made for a drunken frat party, slutty dudes feeding off their own testosterone. There wasn’t a lot of room for emotion”: How Linkin Park defied the haters to make Hybrid Theory, the album that changed metal
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