Rock News 2025-06-02

• "Those solos wrote themselves!" Kirk Hammett picks the Metallica album where he got his playing "spot on"
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• "It’s been a minute, and I thank you immensely for your patience." A.A. Williams announces UK and European tour
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• "It's the least metal thing I've ever heard. You could put this in your hand luggage and it'd go through the scanners." TV presenter Richard Osman of Pointless and House of Games fame has discovered Sleep Token, and he's more than a little confused
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• "I'd never experienced heartbreak before." How Coheed And Cambria's The Suffering helped Claudio Sanchez translate personal turmoil into a pop metal banger (via space operas and Ray Harryhausen)
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• Blackie Lawless wasn’t convinced W.A.S.P.’s debut would stand on its own prior to ‘Album ONE Alive’ tour
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• SUiCiDE BOMBERS’ ‘The Hottest Tour to hit the UK this year’ – Tour Diary Part 9
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• UFO’s album ‘No Place To Run’ to be expanded, remastered and reissued as Double CD and Triple Vinyl
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• "Prime Minister, what will you choose? Complicity in war crimes, or the courage to act?" Wolf Alice, Massive Attack, Primal Scream join actors, artists, directors, doctors and TV personalities urging Keir Starmer to take action to ease suffering in Gaza
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• "I'm working on a power metal record." Svalbard's Serena Cherry on videogames, picking up the guitar and dream projects
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• “Genuinely, I listen to the early stuff and I shudder when I hear my vocals”: How IQ singer Peter Nicholls learned to stop hating his voice, love songwriting and keep albums shorter
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• "After nearly 50 years, this album still packs a punch - vital, visceral and contemporary as hell": Ian Dury becomes an unlikely pop star on New Boots And Panties!!
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• SUiCiDE BOMBERS’ ‘The Hottest Tour to hit the UK this year’ – Tour Diary Part 7
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• "It’s the sound of four men who feel like their lives depend on it." Bono gives update on U2's next album
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• SUiCiDE BOMBERS’ ‘The Hottest Tour to hit the UK this year’ – Tour Diary Part 8
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• "He was very grumpy, ignoring people." Why teenage guitar prodigy John Frusciante walked away from an audition to join Frank Zappa's band before hooking up with Red Hot Chili Peppers
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• "I said Never Take Me Alive should be the single and the record company looked at me like, ‘That's commercial suicide!’ Luckily, it was a hit…” Spear Of Destiny's Kirk Brandon on hits, heart attacks and Theatre Of Hate
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• "What the **** are you saying, bro?!" System Of A Down's Shavo Odadjian on the Serj Tankian lyrics that confused him the most
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• “I became a punk – I hid my Pink Floyd records and I now had an uneasy relationship with the music”: Siobhan Fahey’s lifelong passion for prog is only hinted at in Bananarama’s name
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• John Fogerty does a Taylor Swift and remakes his Creedence Clearwater Revival classics
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• The Dirty Denims share video for new single “Hell of A Night” from album ‘Party On!’
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• Styx share first new music from upcoming new album Circling From Above
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• Grab your exclusive Louder x Yungblud T-shirt featuring handwritten lyrics by Dominic Harrison
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• “Our goal is to help lead the next generation!” Babymetal are on the cover of the new Metal Hammer as they prepare to unleash star-studded new album Metal Forth
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• “Rock'n'roll is a volatile thing... this is not an accounting office”: the story of Rated R, Queens Of The Stone Age’s strange, brilliant breakthrough record
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• “One of the most aggressive forces to ever scratch its way out of thrash metal’s womb – but not always”: The essential slow Slayer songs
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• Ex-Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer avoids jail after entering plea in vehicular manslaughter case
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• “Is this a feel-bad experience? There’s something freeing about giving voice to these emotions”: Bruce Soord’s 10th anniversary edition of his self-titled debut solo album
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• Babymetal get skull-smashingly heavy with Slaughter To Prevail on new single Song 3, postpone album release yet again
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• “We want to finish on a decisive high, having released four albums that we are 100 percent proud of”: UK post-metal dynamos Svalbard to break up in 2026, announce farewell tour
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• Roland Grapow recalls when Helloween were not allowed to play “I Want Out” and “Future World” live
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• Metallica’s ‘Black Album’ certified 20x platinum and ‘Master of Puppets’ certified 8x platinum by RIAA
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• “I thought you really had to work to make a song great. That’s actually a load of crap – the best songs I’ve written took 10 minutes”: When The Pineapple Thief began to break through with Someone Here Is Missing
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• "We're all going to lose somebody, and it hurts. How do you move on?": How Alice In Chains came back from the brink
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• Why the Adore tour was the messiest, most all-over-the-shop moment in Smashing Pumpkins’ history (and it’s not just because some bloke wee’d on my foot at one of the gigs)
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• Jean-Michel Jarre to release Live In Bratislava in September
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• Animalyze to release debut album ‘Powerhouse’ on June 9th
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• "I wish you nothing but a very sore arm!" Iron Maiden manager on fans who ignored plea not to use mobile phones
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• “In 1989 I paid a scalper $400 for a ticket to see The Who play Tommy. It was worth every cent”: Mike Portnoy on his top prog songs and artists, and why the Rolling Stones have the greatest-ever prog album sleeve
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• Dangerous Curves unleash video for new single “Dancin’ Dirty” featuring Chris Poland
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• 4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month
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• "We found the sweet spot in the middle of our Venn diagram of Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Smashing Pumpkins." How Thornhill are bringing 90s cool to a new generation
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• "You’ve been doing this for 15 years without giving up." Babymetal's Moametal reveals the touching message she'd give her younger self
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• Boneyard launch video for new single “Compass Points To War”
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• "An Iron Maiden gig quite unlike any other we've seen." The first night of Iron Maiden's Run For Your Lives tour packs big surprises, lashings of nostalgia and a state-of-the-art new show
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• Johnny O’Neil shares video for new single “When Janie Moved Into Town”
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• “A lot of dreams that came to fruition in the 70s were born in the 60s. The Mahavishnu Orchestra was just one. Shakti was another”: John McLaughlin doesn’t know why his music sold so well. In fact, he knows he knows nothing
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• "It was the day I'd been waiting for my whole life, but I was dismayed": How Skid Row and Sebastian Bach Went To War
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• CMAT, Black Country, New Road, Katy J Pearson and more join the bill for The Maccabees' All Points East show
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• “An essential live experience for the modern metalhead, equal to anything you’d see from KISS, AC/DC or Rammstein.” Babymetal’s biggest ever UK headline show at London's O2 Arena proves they’re future festival headliners
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• "Lookin' For Trouble hits its mark as often as it misses": Supergroup the Dead Daisies kick back down south with uneven blues covers album
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• "We’re putting together something real special for you." Yungblud announces Up Close And Personal club tour, with additional shows already added due to demand
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• "It took Bring Me The Horizon 10 years to get into arenas. Sleep Token did it in less than five." Inside the rise of Sleep Token, by those who were there
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• “Bad moods, sickness, the lot… we weren’t enjoying the show like we normally do”: Toto finally released a live DVD after two previous attempts had failed for Spinal Tap style reasons
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• Six bands that defined Slam Dunk 2025
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• “His carefree aesthetic is wonderfully captured – yet for the highs come genuinely frustrating and irritating lows”: Kevin Ayers And The Whole World’s Shooting At The Moon
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• SUiCiDE BOMBERS’ ‘The Hottest Tour to hit the UK this year’ – Tour Diary Part 10
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• Watch Linkin Park thrill fans at UEFA Champions League final in Munich
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• "Shirley Manson takes aim at cruel ideologies and bigots of all shapes and sizes": The electro-goth revival continues on Garbage's Let All That We Imagine Be The Light
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• “If you don’t get it, you’re all idiots!” He conquered the charts and now – with a double concept album in two parts – he wants to compete with the greats. Is Yungblud the rock star we need right now?
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• Download festival comments after artists speak out over “unsafe” toilets for trans people: “We stand with all members of our community and want everyone to feel safe”
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• Watch John McLaughlin wow the Montreux Jazz Festival with an emotive version of Abbaji
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• ZFM featuring members of Kik Tracee & Enuff Z’Nuff unveil single “Poppy” from upcoming debut album
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• Great new prog from Nad Sylvan, Ihlo, Jonathan Hultén and more in Prog's new Tracks Of The Week!
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• Höt Föxx unveil video for new single “(Walking Out On) Memories”
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