Rock News 2025-06-22

• The truth vs hearsay — Michael Sweet lays out the “facts” in relation to Stryper
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• Meet Erja Lyytinen, the Finnish blues guitarist inspired by seventies classic rock, eighties thrash and the pursuit of happiness
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• “It’s not about fame or money. It’s about fulfilling your dreams, and if someone gets joy from it, you’ve won”: Solstice’s 45-year journey to success with their positive prog
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• "What a treat this album remains": Steve Harley shows who's boss on the 50th Anniversary edition of The Best Years Of Our Lives
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• Freaks’ Elite unveil video for track “011”
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• Britny Fox’s album ‘Live From Wembley’ released via the Zelly Recording Group
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• “The ultimate anti-everything symbol”: How heavy metal found its fashion sense
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• "Total bollocks!" Contrary to what you may have heard, Rick Wakeman wasn't responsible for the Sex Pistols getting dumped by their record label in 1977, just seven days after signing their contract
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• Babylon A.D. recall making a pact to never play the song “Psychedelic Sex Reaction” in a live setting
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• "Fired up, furiously fashioned and bug-shit crazy": His Lordship define rock'n'roll on Bored Animal
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• “No one else does this with such a lightness of touch yet such a definitive sense of purpose – a double victory”: Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe’s Luminal and Lateral
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• Massive Jeff Wayne's Musical Version Of The War Of The Worlds box set to be released in October
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• "I’m not an idiot." Johnny Marr reveals why he turned down a recent offer of "an eye-watering amount of money" to reform The Smiths
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• We celebrate 30 years of Marillion's Afraid Of Sunlight on the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now
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• How to watch the Isle of Wight festival 2025: Catch live sets, highlights and more from anywhere
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• Atomik Train unleash video for new single “Supersonik Speedway”
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• "Clone me, you bastards!": If you've ever wanted to clone Ozzy Osbourne for future generations to enjoy, we have good news
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• Steve Hackett shares new live clip of Fly On A Windshield with Marillion's Steve Rothery
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• “Someone made up something and said, ‘If you believe in this, you’ll be better off when you die’”: Paradise Lost won’t offer any religious enlightenment on new album Ascension
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• Watch The Offspring play one of the biggest pop-punk anthems of the '90s on Jimmy Kimmel Live
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• Hollywood Star John C. Reilly stars in new Jack White video after convincing him to make it
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• WildHeart share video for new single “We Are The Ones”
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• “The band had already drifted from its original vision. The group broke up…Somehow we absorbed the fact and kept going”: The story of King Crimson’s remarkable Beat era
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• Helloween launch video for first single “This is Tokyo” from upcoming album ‘Giants & Monsters’
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• Velveteen Queen unveil video for first single “Liar” from upcoming album
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• Metal Hammer has teamed with rock festival Radar to design the cat pyjamas your wardrobe is incomplete without
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• "This line-up represents the present and future of heavy music." Trivium announce Ascend Above The Ashes tour with Jinjer and Heriot in support
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• Suicide Star release video of their entire set opening for Gene Simmons Band in Niagara Falls, ON, Canada
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• "I was terrified that Ed was going to kill himself": Chaos and carnage with Pearl Jam at Lollapalooza 1992
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• The Blue Stones: How the films of Christopher Nolan and the Netflix drama Suits helped create a big Canadian noise
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• “His previous work only hinted at a distinct musical personality… now he seems determined to prove he can sound unlike Genesis”: Nad Sylvan’s Monumentata
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• “Their version was very Middle America”: The Kinks could never fully get on board with Van Halen’s cover of You Really Got Me and here's why
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• "It's been a mission statement from day one": Why Sparks continue to do things other bands don't
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• Javier Bardem once saw a Bruce Springsteen show with Brad Pitt after being invited along by Bono, is cooler than you in every way
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• “In Nazareth the crew do everything for us. But he’s there himself half the day, for the sheer love of his instrument”: Carl Sentance isn’t much of a prog fan, but his respect for Don Airey is limitless
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• Deluxe nine-disc box set of Hawkwind's Hall Of The Mountain Grill to be released in August
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• "This is how you make a comeback, not pandering, not acquiescing to expectations, but reconfiguring your art with fearlessness and quiet confidence." Nine Inch Nails' Peel It Back tour is a breathtaking spectacle, and a personal triumph for Trent Reznor
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• "It was some extreme magic": How Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham saved Fleetwood Mac
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• Linkin Park fans in Switzerland left heartbroken by last-minute cancellation
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• "Its perfection is that it loves the cracks that we all fall down." U2 frontman Bono on the Lady Gaga song that saved his life
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• "It's supposed to be like a gnarly fever dream": Noah Weiland releases extremely trippy video for cover of Velvet Revolver's Slither
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• Six of the newest, coolest proggy sounds around from Sam Vallen, Heather Findlay, Esoterica and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week
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• "I was looking for something darker." Bruce Springsteen reveals that he's never been happy with his world-conquering Born In The USA album, and says the 30-million-selling collection didn't "connect" like his other records
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• How Dire Straits outsold everyone, hijacked MTV, and accidentally made a classic: Only in the new issue of Classic Rock
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• The 16 greatest Glastonbury Festival performances ever
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• "They could be on the brink of becoming the next big shock success story in heavy music." Malevolence have put together another absolute crusher of a record with Where Only The Truth Is Spoken
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• Deep Purple celebrate 50th anniversary of Made In Japan with another mammoth box set
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• Pine Street’s debut album now available
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• "It was a very slow descent, but it was a descent - we were going in the wrong direction": How Skunk Anansie saved themselves from sickness and uncertain times
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• Local council leader hopes to cancel Bournemouth date of Marilyn Manson UK tour due to sexual misconduct allegations
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• Invasion launch video for new single “Loaded Gun”
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• Enuff Z’Nuff release video for new single “Heavy Metal” from upcoming album ‘Xtra Cherries’
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• Sunset Strip meets Nashville as Mötley Crüe and Dölly Partön team up for unexpected version of Home Sweet Home
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• "He's going to repair the entire world." Watch the first trailer for Bruce Springsteen biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, starring Jeremy Allen White from The Bear
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• Wings of Steel share video for new single “Winds of Time”
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• Primal Fear unleash video for new single “The Hunter” from upcoming album ‘Domination’
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• Korn say Sleep Token “shut up” the haters with Download festival headline set: “They went bigger than a Slipknot stage”
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• “The rest of the band saw something there, something real from deep inside”: James Hetfield says that Mama Said was never meant to be a Metallica song
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• 10 classic rock and metal tunes you (probably) forgot were released as movie tie-ins
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• “Perhaps the strangest recording session of the era”: Peter Gabriel, Robert Fripp, Sandy Denny, Phil Collins and the novelty single no one talks about
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• M.I.C. drop video for track “You Make Me Feel So” from new album ‘7th Heaven’
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• Did someone say free music? Right now, you can score an impressive 4 months FREE of Amazon Music Unlimited
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• Muse share suitably bombastic new single Unravelling, their first new music for four years
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• “Obviously there’s some songs you get bored with. We go off on tangents, then come back into the old vocal refrain. That’s the way out”: What’s left for The Mighty Hawkwind to achieve? They have a few ideas
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