Rock News 2025-06-28

• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
  80s Metal Rules
• "He has no job security, no savings, no pension, and when he can't work, no income": Fundraiser set up for leading rock music journalist after heart attack
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• "Futique is an exploration of ideas, objects or relationships that exist across time." Biffy Clyro announce new album Futique
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• "Won't miss being in a sh*t band with horrible humans." Ex-Mastodon guitarist Brent Hinds hits out at his former bandmates on social media
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• “I don’t worry about labels and I’ve ended up in the premier prog band of all time. If I’d listened to haters I’d have stopped after my first record”: Billy Sherwood’s journey to Yes started with the wayward World Trade
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• “It’s an invisible bond that can’t be broken”: Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne are on the cover of the new Metal Hammer
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• Wolfgang Van Halen backs out of Black Sabbath farewell show
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• Invasion launch video for new single “Loaded Gun”
  Sleaze Roxx
• Watch Good Charlotte play new single Rejects on Jimmy Kimmel Live as they announce their first new album in seven years, Motel Du Cap
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• The 50 best Led Zeppelin songs
  Louder
• WildHeart share video for new single “We Are The Ones”
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• Guitarist Jasmin Pabst decides to step away from All For Metal
  Sleaze Roxx
• “He was bedrock to the Yes sound; an incredibly creative player who has inspired so many. It’s unlikely that we’ll see his like again”: Chris Squire’s greatest musical moments, by bandmates, friends and fans
  Louder
• "I could have died three times since 2010": It's been 18 years since the last King Diamond album and he's getting impatient
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• When Sabbath had the blues: Black Sabbath's early recordings as Earth to be released as The Legendary Lost Tapes
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• “My uncle would drink, say he was possessed and run after people with knives”: Why heavy metal is turning its back on booze
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• "Baba Yaga is my spirit animal." How Hollywood star and horror icon Vera Farmiga discovered a love for metal with The Yagas
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• "It's beautiful, pensive and immersive, then turns into doolally dynamite": Mike Oldfield's softly spoken follow-up to Tubular Bells now sounds better than the big beast
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• Junkyard frontman David Roach very sick and back in a hospital hoping for a miracle
  Sleaze Roxx
• The Zombies announce documentary screenings for June and July
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• “After King Crimson ended there was a kind of inertia. I’d lost confidence musically, like, ‘Who am I now?’”: Jakko Jakszyk’s return with solo album Son Of Glen
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• Get an exclusive Marillion Afraid Of Sunlight t-shirt you can’t buy anywhere else, with Prog!
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• Who are Patchwork? The whole world is trying to guess the identity of the mystery artist playing a secret show at Glastonbury festival this weekend
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• Gentle Giant's Derek Shulman to publish career-spanning memoir, Giant Steps, in October
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• Former L.A. Guns guitarist Stacey Blades looking for “established working gig”
  Sleaze Roxx
• Vangelis's epic 1492: Conquest Of Paradise soundtrack to be reissued on coloured vinyl and CD
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• Atomik Train unleash video for new single “Supersonik Speedway”
  Sleaze Roxx
• "I don't sit around listening to Metallica." Kirk Hammett has a new book, a new album in the works and absolutely no plans to retire
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• Enuff Z’Nuff release video for new single “Heavy Metal” from upcoming album ‘Xtra Cherries’
  Sleaze Roxx
• I have my Glastonbury weekend TV schedule sorted - here's how to plan ahead so you don't miss a thing
  Louder
• "I've actually talked about it a few times." After years of shooting down the idea, Josh Homme now says that a Kyuss reunion is "possible"
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• “Lyric-led, with music that may seem in contrast with the King Crimson work he’s best known for”: Jakko M Jakszyk’s Son Of Glen is a companion piece of sorts to his memoir
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• “No government on stolen land should have the power to decide who is 'legal' and who is 'illegal', or who lives and who dies." Rage Against The Machine slam US politicians over "racist terror" caused by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) raids
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• Great new prog you must hear from Karnivool, Nad Sylvan, Sonechko and more in this week's Tracks Of The Week
  Louder
• AC/DC, Kiss, Stryper, Judas Priest, Mötley Crüe and more collide in ultimate hell-themed mashup
  Louder
• Oasis say additional tickets for their sold-out reunion tour could go on sale "in the coming days"
  Louder
• Pine Street’s debut album now available
  Sleaze Roxx
• "It made me feel empowered!" That time pop superstars Beyoncé, Britney Spears and Pink dressed up as gladiators and covered Queen's anthemic classic We Will Rock You now seems like a weird fever dream
  Louder
• The 10 best artists to see at BST Hyde Park, London this summer from Olivia Rodrigo and Beabadoobee to Neil Young and Stevie Wonder
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• Babylon A.D. recall Arista Records pulling their tour support and then dropping the band in February 1993
  Sleaze Roxx
• How to watch Biffy Clyro at Glastonbury no matter where you are in the world
  Louder
• Watch Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong join forces with Frank Carter and the Sex Pistols to perform Anarchy In The UK
  Louder
• How to watch Deftones at Glastonbury 2025, from anywhere in the world
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• "This collection is a breathtaking gift that Springsteen acolytes will cherish": Bruce Springsteen's staggering Tracks II - The Lost Albums makes you wonder why lesser records were released instead
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• The Lazys share new single “Hot Under The Collar” in advance of Canada and UK/Europe tours
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• Freaks’ Elite unveil video for track “011”
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• The sound of glorious pandemonium: Two nights with The Darkness in Ireland
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• Premiere of The Midnight Devils’ video for their new single “Shock The World” on Sleaze Roxx
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• Pelagic Fest share their 2024 After Movie celebrating last year's post-rock and prog metal event
  Louder
• "My mom was a shaman." Japan's Kuunatic mix doom, psychedelia and folk with sci-fi concepts - and are one of the most brilliant bands you'll hear this year
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• Bangalore Choir to release new album ‘Rapid Fire Succession: On Target Part II’ in late 2025
  Sleaze Roxx
• How to watch Alanis Morissette live at Glastonbury 2025
  Louder
• AC/DC add more dates to Australian PWR⚡️UP tour
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• How to watch The 1975 live at Glastonbury - no matter where you are
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• R.I.P. Bad Company and Mott The Hoople founding member / guitarist Mick Ralphs (1944-2025)
  Sleaze Roxx
• "He's the real deal. He came in reeking of pot": Johnny Van Zant on Lynyrd Skynyrd's new live album, life without Gary Rossington and new music
  Louder
• Femme Fatale launch video for new single “Living Like There’s No Tomorrow”
  Sleaze Roxx
• "After I saw him live I wanted to give up playing the guitar. It took me about a year to get over that": This is the soundtrack of Robin Trower's life
  Louder
• How to watch Weezer at Glastonbury 2025, from anywhere in the world
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• "Brutal, high-velocity, downright mean and no-nonsense hard-rockin'": 1976 Motörhead sound like the real deal on The Manticore Tapes
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• Black Sabbath offer first glimpse of rehearsals as they prepare for bow-out concert Back To The Beginning next week
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• Native James just brought grime metal to Glastonbury - and Glasto lapped it up
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• AFI announce 24-date North American tour
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• "I told him, 'You saved my life.'" Faith No More's Mike Bordin recalls his words of support to Ozzy Osbourne in 1990
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• "I knew that if it failed then I would have no one to blame but myself": How Boston were almost pulled apart by turmoil and tragedy
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