Rock News 2025-06-03

• “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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• Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt explains why Steven Wilson stopped producing their albums: “I could hear some ideas in my head that I like to think he would have brought up”
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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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• "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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• “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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• "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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• “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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• "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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• "It’s a story about resilience, finding ways to cope, and not giving up." Watch the trailer for Every Time You Lose Your Mind, a new documentary saluting cult alt.rockers Failure, featuring interviews with Maynard James Keenan, Hayley Williams and more
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• "We had already split up and still had to do a tour." How Within Temptation became one of symphonic metal's biggest success stories
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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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• "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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• "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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• "It’s a completely different thing to a band where I’m hiding in the back." Lars Fredrik Frøislie and the story of his debut solo album Fire Fortellinger
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• Höt Föxx unveil video for new single “(Walking Out On) Memories”
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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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• The Dirty Denims share video for new single “Hell of A Night” from album ‘Party On!’
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• 4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month
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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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• The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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• "I don’t want to pretend everything’s hunky dory." Shirley Manson says that she feels "isolated" in Garbage, admits "there's very little proper communication about anything at all"
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• SUiCiDE BOMBERS’ ‘The Hottest Tour to hit the UK this year’ – Tour Diary Part 8 of 11
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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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• “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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• “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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• "We didn't want to become known as a ballad band. That's how you become Air Supply": Night Ranger look back on their sudden rise, equally sudden fall, and return to mid-level happiness
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• "Partially responsible for hastening the demise of nu metal." We've ranked every Killswitch Engage album from worst to best
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• SUiCiDE BOMBERS’ ‘The Hottest Tour to hit the UK this year’ – Tour Diary Part 11 — The Final Instalment
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• ZFM featuring members of Kik Tracee & Enuff Z’Nuff unveil single “Poppy” from upcoming debut album
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• Jean-Michel Jarre to release Live In Bratislava in September
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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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• "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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• Watch Linkin Park thrill fans at UEFA Champions League final in Munich
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• Grab your exclusive Louder x Yungblud T-shirt featuring handwritten lyrics by Dominic Harrison
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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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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• “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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• "Ritchie Blackmore gave me a wave as he fell backwards. That was my cue to do a ten-minute keyboard solo": Don Airey on Rainbow, Deep Purple and his awesome solo album Pushed To The Edge
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• "There would be shootouts down the street." Machine Head's Robb Flynn takes us on a tour of Oakland, California - and 30 years of metal history
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• Six bands that defined Slam Dunk 2025
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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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• "I remember showing the lyrics to my grandmother, saying, Look at this, this is like poetry!" Gavin and Stacey and Would I Lie To You? star Rob Brydon on his life-long love of Bruce Springsteen
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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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• SUiCiDE BOMBERS’ ‘The Hottest Tour to hit the UK this year’ – Tour Diary Part 10 of 11
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• "Those solos wrote themselves!" Kirk Hammett picks the Metallica album where he got his playing "spot on"
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• "He's got a way of reaching into my soul": The soundtrack of Samantha Fish's life
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• DAZR’s debut self-titled EP now available
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• Johnny O’Neil shares video for new single “When Janie Moved Into Town”
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• Boneyard launch video for new single “Compass Points To War”
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• SUiCiDE BOMBERS’ ‘The Hottest Tour to hit the UK this year’ – Tour Diary Part 9 of 11
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• The pretentious gatekeeping around Sleep Token points to a toxic heavy music culture - as a metal guitarist of over 25 years, I've seen this movie before
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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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• "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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• Roland Grapow recalls when Helloween were not allowed to play “I Want Out” and “Future World” live
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• “Knowingly progressive and endearingly archetypal in a way that only two young pop historians could fathom”: If you thought Ween were taking the piss with The Mollusk, you were wrong
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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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• "There’s a lot less ‘James Hetfield strangling a goat’ in the singing department." New Volbeat album God Of Angels Trust won't surprise you, but it will get you banging that head
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• SUiCiDE BOMBERS’ ‘The Hottest Tour to hit the UK this year’ – Tour Diary Part 7 of 11
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• "These are films I've waited years to work on": 40 minutes of newly scanned footage of Led Zeppelin playing in Tokyo in 1971 has appeared online
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• “My hand ran off the keyboard… I ground to a halt, threw my hands in the hair, and everyone looked at me. My father thought I was taking a bow and was very proud!” Genesis’ best and worst moments on stage
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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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• "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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• Animalyze to release debut album ‘Powerhouse’ on June 9th
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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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• Dangerous Curves unleash video for new single “Dancin’ Dirty” featuring Chris Poland
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