Rock News 2025-06-10

• 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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• 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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• "People need to know the sacrifices bands are making to play a live show.” UK metallers Vexed are showing everyone just how much it costs to be a touring band - and the numbers are eye-watering
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• Notörious launch third single “Into The Night” from upcoming EP
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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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• "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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• “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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• "It's an album of soul food, and I've never been so grateful, right here, on planet Earth": Glenn Hughes announces first album in nine years
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• “The first time I played Rush’s YYZ I almost broke my fingers!” Epica bassist Rob Van Der Loo’s prog timeline, from Jon Lord to Dream Theater
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• “We went on our lunch break and when we got back, Tony had come up with the Paranoid riff. It was literally 25 minutes of work. People went nuts about it!”: How Black Sabbath made Paranoid, the iconic album that rubber-stamped their greatness
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• Crashdïet sign with Ninetone & back in studio with ‘The Unattractive Revolution’ album producer
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• The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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• Roland Grapow feels ‘Chameleon’ was more like a solo album by three Helloween members
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• Airbourne unleash new track “Gutsy”
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• Amorphis drop first new music from upcoming album Borderland with anthemic new single Light And Shadow
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• "The All-American Boy just didn't translate as a solo artist": Rick Derringer's debut album might contain his biggest hit, but is that enough?
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• Mean Mistreater drop video for title track from new album ‘Do Or Die’
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• "I really like Slipknot." Watch Babymetal reveal their three favourite metal bands ever and discuss some of the surprising collaborations on new album Metal Forth
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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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• New Pink Floyd book celebrates the band's career with unpublished interviews and Syd Barrett's letters of the time
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• "It should have gone out with a fricking bang that shook the world, and it was more like a whimper." Michael Anthony on his Van Halen regret
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• DAZR’s debut self-titled EP now available
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• “This one was really hard, we had massive arguments”: Radiohead on the making of Hail To The Thief, the record that got away from them
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• “In the last 10 years no one has stepped up. Being the sole songwriter is sometimes very lonely”: Jonas Renske hopes Katatonia’s new era includes more input from his bandmates
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• Watch Turnstile perform two songs on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon ahead of today's release of new album Never Enough
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• “Suddenly we’re at a 24-hour Esso garage with a red TR7. Pickled Onion Monster Munch and Quatro for everyone!”: Jeff Wayne didn’t just fight Martians – he sold you the 80s via his TV music
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• "Lucky gal right here!" Watch three absolute metal queens unite on stage as Sharon den Adel and Simone Simons surprise Cristina Scabbia for her birthday in the middle of a Lacuna Coil set
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• Eddie Trunk explains bassist Mike Levine’s absence for Triumph’s first live public gig in 17 years
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• Grimm Jack share video for new single “Knife Fight”
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• The 12 new metal songs you need to hear this week
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• "Ma, I'm real sick. I need help. I got to come home": The trauma and triumph of Stevie Ray Vaughan
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• “No, man! If we had had this level of success in the 70s we would not be here now. We would never have survived it”: The wild story of Aerosmith’s Pump, the album that turned them into superstars all over again
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• Watch Bruce Springsteen and Paul McCartney covering The Beatles onstage in Liverpool last night
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• "I want it to be like a religious experience." Yungblud announces UK and Ireland arena tour
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• “Not the work of the blues bruiser some supposed him to be, but of an expert in judging precisely when to hang back and when to hit hard”: Jack Bruce’s Harmony Row
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• Watch video for new Scars On Broadway track Killing Spree
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• “I love what they have brought to the metal scene. They have a completely different spin on a genre that often runs on the same cart tracks”: Why Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello loves Babymetal
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• Watch pop superstar Chappell Roan absolutely kill it with a brilliant cover of Heart’s Barracuda
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• Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne's farewell gig in Birmingham next month will be livestreamed globally: find out how you can watch the greatest metal show ever
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• Guns N’ Roses announce 13 tour dates in Latin America for the fall of 2025
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• Pioneering psychedelic soul legend Sly Stone dead at 82
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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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• Dirkschneider & The Old Gang share video for new single “Hellbreaker”
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• Overdrivers launch video for self-titled track from their new album ‘Glory or Nothing’
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• Guns N' Roses announce more 2025 tour dates
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• Reunited Original Alice Cooper Group unveils video for new single “Wild Ones”
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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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• “You have to know Donald’s sense of humour. It was a total set-up”: Did Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen really tell the people behind the Yacht Rock movie to “F*** off”?
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• Sideburn drop video for new single “Devil’s daughter” from upcoming compilation album ‘Loaded (Best Of)’
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• Watch Robert Plant play five Led Zeppelin classics in official pro-shot video
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• “They use their standing to its fullest potential, both as entertainers and campaigners”: Massive Attack’s LIDO festival extravaganza was protest art at its finest
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• Watch Creeper preview their forthcoming album Sanguivore II: Mistress Of Death with punky new single Headstones, which explores "the dark perils of rock ’n’ roll, sins of the flesh, and pure evil"
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• “He saw what everybody saw: they could play, they had a ton of energy and they were authentic”: The weird story of Frank Zappa and AC/DC
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• "We are missing one of our brothers." Watch Slipknot play to a massive crowd headlining Rock Am Ring festival without founding member Shawn Crahan
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• Rush announce limited edition box set of their final four albums
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• “The reason Rush could rock while referencing Bertrand Russell and Elizabethan drama”: Neil Peart’s most powerful lyrics
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• "Me and Ozzy were a team. I never thought, 'What about me?'" We chat to Sharon Osbourne about growing up in the music industry, her "confrontational" father, feuding with Iron Maiden and Billy Corgan and a whole load more
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• "It felt like a revolution could happen." Pulp's Jarvis Cocker on the '90s indie-rock explosion, and why he hates the word Britpop
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• “Sometimes I think, ‘This has become so big that I can’t handle this monster any more.’ I have some trouble comprehending it”: How Nightwish became the planet’s most epic symphonic metal band with Endless Forms Most Beautiful
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• "We're gonna warm you up!" You can watch Spiritbox's entire, pro shot, rain-soaked Rock Am Ring 2025 set right now
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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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• Babylon A.D. recall feeling pressured to record song “Psychedelic Sex Reaction” prior to second album
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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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• “Nothing in this band does what it's supposed to do”: how R.E.M. showed the world they were the real deal on 1985’s Fables Of The Reconstruction
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• Cool new proggy sounds from Jakko Jakszyk, We Lost The Sea, Raphael Weinroth-Browne and more in Prog's new Tracks Of The Week!
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