Rock News 2025-06-06

• Previously unseen pro-shot footage of Captain Beefheart performing live in Paris in 1972 has surfaced online
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• Roger Waters shares clip of Wish You Were Here as he announces new This Is Not A Drill - Live From Prague The Movie
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• On the road with America's loudest survivors: Aerosmith, Kiss, and the making of Honkin' On Bobo
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• Does a new-look Katatonia mean a bold new era? Of course not, but Nightmares As Extensions Of The Waking State is a gloomily gorgeous listen all the same
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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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• “Bands change; people move on. But when everything Jonas Renkse touches turns to gold, the present and future will always outweigh the past”: Katatonia’s new era begins with Nightmares As Extensions Of The Waking State
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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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• SUiCiDE BOMBERS’ ‘The Hottest Tour to hit the UK this year’ – Tour Diary Part 11 — Final Instalment
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• Overdrivers launch video for self-titled track from their new album ‘Glory or Nothing’
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• Crashdïet sign with Ninetone & back in studio with ‘The Unattractive Revolution’ album producer
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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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• "Partially responsible for hastening the demise of nu metal." We've ranked every Killswitch Engage album from worst to best
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• “It still doesn’t feel real that we’re supporting Slayer”: Neckbreakker released one of 2024’s most exciting metal debut albums. Now they’re about to live their biggest dream.
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• Get the new issue of Metal Hammer with a Volbeat cover – and a t-shirt you won’t find anywhere else
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• The Best of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells I, II & III tour announced for February and March 2026
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• "Shave my head, let’s just go for it!" How Hollywood superstar Matt Damon channelled his inner Henry Rollins to make a surprise cameo as an obnoxious punk rock singer in cult teen comedy EuroTrip
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• Roland Grapow feels ‘Chameleon’ was more like a solo album by three Helloween members
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• “They’ve always ignored the rule book in favour of new, often over-the-top ideas”: These are Muse’s proggiest moments
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• Reunited Original Alice Cooper Group unveils video for new single “Wild Ones”
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• Indian rock band go viral after flying across the world to cover Adele on America's Got Talent
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• The biggest tour in the history of deathcore? Slaughter To Prevail announce 2026 European tour with Suicide Silence, Dying Fetus and reforming Annotations Of An Autopsy
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• “A tad dated today – but there’s no denying the compositional prowess”: Greenslade’s Large Afternoon returns in an expanded edition
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• "Wild Ones isn't just a song, it's a statement": Watch the first footage of the reunited Alice Cooper Band recording together
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• "Five middle-aged, slightly hungover geezers miming along to something." Opeth share new band performance video of §1
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• The Dirty Denims share video for new single “Hell of A Night” from album ‘Party On!’
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• "Eddie Van Halen literally ran away from me!" Yngwie Malmsteen's wild tales of Lemmy, Ronnie James Dio, Metallica and more
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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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• "They could certainly all have been in Fleetwood Mac": Stevie Nicks likes Haim so much she's working on a new song with them
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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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• "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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• Triumph to perform three-song set live without Mike Levine prior to Game 2 of NHL Playoff Finals
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• "The build up to the album has reached its zenith and you are elevated to the top of the soaring tomb." Katatonia share new video for Wind Of No Change
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• "There were multiple shows that I would show up for fully black-out drunk. I don’t remember them." From addiction and alcohol abuse to parenthood and poetry, here's everything The Used's Bert McCracken has learned
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• Höt Föxx unveil video for new single “(Walking Out On) Memories”
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• Dangerous Curves unleash video for new single “Dancin’ Dirty” featuring Chris Poland
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• "He told me, You've got this opportunity to be a rock star because you're not afraid to say the things other people won't." Yungblud reveals the career advice he received from a machete-wielding rock star who sees him as a kindred spirit
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• "I can allow myself to be a bit sexier and say what’s on my mind": How Taylor Hawkins and a nameless girl inspired The Struts frontman Luke Spiller to make his brilliant and beguiling solo album
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• "We went to abandoned cemeteries at night, stole everything we could find." Black magic, human skulls and Aleister Crowley – the twisted story of Tobias Forge’s favourite cult horror-metal band, Death SS
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• Animalyze to release debut album ‘Powerhouse’ on June 9th
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• "An album as full of joy as it is of craft": The Doobie Brothers bring back Michael McDonald on Walk This Road
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• Watch pro-shot video of a full King Crimson set from Adrian Belew, Tony Levin, Steve Vai and Danny Carey
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• This Black Sabbath song has “one of the best riffs of all time”, according to Employed To Serve’s Sammy Urwin
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• "Hardcore's answer to Nirvana's Nevermind." Turnstile's Never Enough is a landmark record for alternative music and an instant, undeniable classic
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• A beginner's guide to 70s AOR in 10 essential albums
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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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• "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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• “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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• "He's got a way of reaching into my soul": The soundtrack of Samantha Fish's life
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• The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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• A new photo exhibition featuring stunning life-size portraits of some of the most iconic guitars in rock history is opening in London next week
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• “It’s just not as fun, unfortunately”: Wolfgang Van Halen reveals he doesn’t listen to Van Halen anymore
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• DAZR’s debut self-titled EP now available
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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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• Ozzy Osbourne to make public appearance at Comic Con days after retirement gig
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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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• 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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• "These instruments are more than just tools of our trade - they're extensions of our musical souls": Nancy Wilson offers "no questions asked" reward for return of stolen Heart guitars
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• Slipknot’s Jim Root once asked Diamond Rowe of nu metal up-and-comers Tetrarch for guitar lessons: “I was like, ‘OK, dude, come on!’”
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• Coheed And Cambria announce October European and UK tour
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• Steve Perry launches sale of personal artefacts to raise funds for victims of Los Angeles fires
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• Lemmy’s hometown may get new music venue in memory of late Motörhead leader
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• "We have lift off." Oasis have started rehearsals for their world tour, and Liam Gallagher says it's "spiritual" playing with his brother Noel once again
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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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• Fistfights with John Lydon, sword fights with the Sisters of Mercy, gangsters, goth and Ferris Bueller: The epic story of Flesh For Lulu
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• “We never ever wanted a hit, so it was irrelevant”: Quantum Jump didn’t write the longest prog single, but they took the longest word in the dictionary to Number 5 via their 1979 track The Lone Ranger
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