Rock News 2025-07-02

• “We became the pariahs of the Christian community. They hated me. I still get mail going: ‘Come back to Christ’ There’s no way I’m going back to that”: The incredible story of King’s X, the greatest band the world doesn’t know about
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• "It’s refreshing to experience music so pure." Legendary 'Godfather of Grunge' Neil Young closes out Saturday night at Glastonbury, still burning, not fading away
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• Here’s the line-up of every major festival in 1995… and it actually isn’t very different to how they’ve shaped up 30 years later
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• Generation Landslide to release new album ‘Existence’ via RFK Media
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• Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp return to action with maniacal Ramones cover
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• "This is a generational, once-in-a-lifetime moment for a heavy band at a festival that has an awkward history with rock, punk and metal." An awestruck Glastonbury discovers Charli XCX was bang on the money when she predicted the coming of Turnstile Summer
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• “At one point, he held up an inflatable doll with an erection, dressed like a bee." From orgasmic laugh yoga to shamanic drumming for Mother Earth, here’s what really happens at Glastonbury Festival beyond the music
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• Marilyn Manson UK show cancelled following protests
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• Babylon A.D. recall Arista Records pulling their tour support and then dropping the band in February 1993
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• Former L.A. Guns guitarist Stacey Blades looking for “established working gig”
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• “The label didn’t want me to do it, but didn’t want to piss me off. We were both famous guitarists so I thought there’d be a lot of interest. I was right all along”: Andy Summers and Robert Fripp collaborated with remarkable ease
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• Hot off stealing the show at Glastonbury festival, Turnstile announce UK/Europe tour dates with The Garden and High Vis
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• Guitarist Jasmin Pabst decides to step away from All For Metal
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• “A lost gem featuring the best of the best being put through their paces by the ever-controlling bandleader”: Frank Zappa’s unaired TV special Cheaper Than Cheep
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• "Hooks big enough to snag a kaiju and basslines so irresistible they could land people in rehab." One of the world's hottest edm bands just fcuked Glastonbury festival
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• "The health and well-being of the band has to come first": Saxon cancel 10 summer shows as Biff Byford undergoes emergency surgery
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• Founding Black Sabbath members visit Birmingham mural ahead of epic hometown show
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• The guys are dressed as good ol’ boys and the girls have gone full Cowgirl. What is it about Zach Bryan that has convinced the youth of Britain to lose their cynical minds?
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• Wes Borland cosplayed as James Hetfield during Limp Bizkit’s last concert with Metallica
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• "It polarises fans' opinions for certain, but isn't that what great music is supposed to do?": Motörhead ring the changes on Another Perfect Day, initial dismay now a distant memory
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• "What I stand for is probably closer to Jesus": Ghost's Tobias Forge on spirituality, isolation and the positive joys of fandom
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• Brann Dailor's synth proggers Arcadea return with zany new video for Fuzzy Planet
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• "If you're one of those self-satisfied old bores who thinks that music doesn't mean as much to younger generations as it does to you, you're flat-out wrong, and here's the proof." Olivia Rodrigo dazzles in the summer sun at BST Hyde Park
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• “We never thought of ourselves as pioneers. But we grew up in a parallel universe to our peers”: Voivod weren’t trying to invent prog metal – they were just trying to be like Van der Graaf Generator
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• Peter Hammill announces live dates for England and Scotland in September and October, his first UK solo shows for seven years
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• "Karla Chubb looks every inch the star." Newly signed to Sub Pop, the label who brought the world Nirvana and Soundgarden, Irish post-punks Sprints tease their next chapter at Glastonbury
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• There's a band with more than half a million monthly listeners on Spotify and they probably don't exist
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• The ‘popularity’ of an AI-generated rock band was inevitable – and it highlights a depressing fact about success in the music streaming age
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• Junkyard frontman David Roach very sick and back in a hospital hoping for a miracle
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• Andi Deris feels the Helloween-ish stuff was eradicated on the album ‘Chameleon’
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• Everything you need to know about Back To The Beginning, Black Sabbath’s reunion and Ozzy Osbourne’s final concert
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• Deftones appear to be teasing the release of new music next week
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• The 40 best Black Sabbath songs ever
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• Surprise! Glastonbury's worst-kept secret is revealed as 'Patchwork' aka Pulp remind Worthy Farm exactly why they're one of Britain's best-loved and most brilliant bands
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• "The Melbourne crew have Glasto by the baps and balls." Aussie punks Amyl and the Sniffers just ripped Glastonbury a new one
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• “A double-down on the downerism… desolately lovely, miserably minor-key music, with production being their not-so-secret weapon”: Nosound’s To The Core
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• The Beatles' albums you should listen to... and one to avoid
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• Roger Waters shares new live clip of Is This The Life We Really Want?
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• "This collaboration is a testament to Ozzy’s impact on the gothic and alternative communities": Ozzy Osbourne launches range of beauty products
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• Red Arrows, mosh pits and goth kings: our 8 favourite moments from Glastonbury 2025
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• “As great as it undoubtedly was, the bug-eyed insanity of thrash was nowhere to be heard in any of its songs”: How Metallica’s Black Album killed thrash metal
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• Premiere of The Midnight Devils’ video for their new single “Shock The World” on Sleaze Roxx
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• “As a composer I’ve needed and wanted to evolve. As I grew, hopefully my writing was growing too”: Five great Al Di Meola albums
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• Here are five brilliant sets from Glastonbury this year that you probably haven't heard about
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• Femme Fatale launch video for new single “Living Like There’s No Tomorrow”
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• "We can finally be what I've always wanted to be": Wolfgang Van Halen's Mammoth drop WVH from name after acquiring trademark
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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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• Watch Jinjer’s Tatiana Shmayluk stream a one-take vocal performance of recent song Hedonist
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• Atomik Train unleash video for new single “Supersonik Speedway”
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• R.I.P. Bad Company and Mott The Hoople founding member / guitarist Mick Ralphs (1944-2025)
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• “A homecoming for the ages”: Iron Maiden return to London’s East End for a gloriously flamboyant 50th birthday party
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• "We’re devastated." Deftones cancel Glastonbury festival appearance due to illness
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• Foo Fighters release 80-second cover song recorded across three decades, statistically working at a rate of 2.67 seconds a year
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• “We’ve been in the studio. We’ve been living in the studio, is what we’ve been doing”: Black Sabbath’s Bill Ward has two new solo albums on the way
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• K.K. Downing releases cover of Judas Priest’s track “Never Satisfied” featuring Tim “Ripper” Owens
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• Snake Bite Whisky drop video for new single “Living To Die”
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• The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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• "Peaches is voyeuristic, but it's not misogynistic": The meaning behind The Stranglers' controversial classic Peaches
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• Bangalore Choir to release new album ‘Rapid Fire Succession: On Target Part II’ in late 2025
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• "Their chaotic charm hasn’t dulled one bit." The Libertines roll back the years at Glastonbury with a classic scrappy, rough-around-the-edges set
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• Oh Lord, yeah: Black Sabbath team up with the Big Issue, Classic Rock and Metal Hammer for the Back To The Beginning official programme
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• “Wrapping this era-defining talent and power in a cloak of mystique only supercharges the legacy”: Jimmy Page or Tony Iommi? A heated debate over who is the best guitarist
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• Pre-Black Sabbath recordings to be released as ‘Earth: The Legendary Lost Tapes’ on July 25th
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• Iron Maiden release video to thank fans after huge London show
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• “If anybody brings as much noise as this, I’ll retire!” The Prodigy unleash chaos at Worthy Farm with the heaviest, most intense set of Glastonbury 2025
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