Rock News 2025-07-07

• "Shirley Manson sings like a pissed-off angel and has attitude to spare": Garbage's classic electro-grunge-goth-pop debut, revisited
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• Generation Landslide to release new album ‘Existence’ via RFK Media
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• From hardcore to hard rock to the nation’s favourite balladeers: The Goo Goo Dolls albums you should listen to... and one to avoid
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• Cool new prog you must hear from Auri, L.O.E., Gaupa and more in this week's Tracks Of The Week
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• “We knew the album would stick out like a sore thumb and we’d have to show real tenacity. But if it wasn’t for Pull Me Under there’s a strong chance we wouldn’t be having this conversation”: When Dream Theater beat the odds with Images And Words
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• "Is this Ozzy's last show? One thousand per cent": Sharon Osbourne on Black Sabbath's Back To The Beginning all-star blowout
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• Guitarist Jasmin Pabst decides to step away from All For Metal
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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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• Oasis smash Cardiff with an all-killer, no-filler reunion set - but what a disappointing crowd
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• "A classic that deserves better treatment": The Sisters Of Mercy's First And Last And Always gets a gimmicky 40th birthday makeover
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• "A reintroduction to the artist as his truest self." Kae Tempest's fifth album Self Titled cements his status as one of the most essential voices in UK music
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• Stacked bills, short sets and stumbling singers: Slayer's first UK gig in six years wasn't perfect, but their set was
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• Kelly Osbourne and Sid Wilson got engaged at Black Sabbath's final show and Ozzy's reaction was priceless
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• Former L.A. Guns guitarist Stacey Blades looking for “established working gig”
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• Snake Bite Whisky drop video for new single “Living To Die”
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• “A lot of metalheads wind up finding prog – but it’s in a lot of their favourite bands already”: Progressive metal has never been healthier, and here’s why
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• "Plant is a walking treasury of tales that stretch way back before Led Zeppelin": Paul Weller shares new single featuring vocals from Robert Plant
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• Aldo Nova suffers severe injury after fall
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• "Over the years, we’ve had moments of unbridled joy, and moments of devastating heartbreak." Foo Fighters celebrate their 30th anniversary with the release of new single, Today's Song
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• "It's not until Ozzy's actually there, thanking fans and getting tearful, that it sinks in." Black Sabbath's Back To The Beginning: our ultimate review of their triumphant final show
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• Here's everything you need to know about Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne's final ever show, Back To The Beginning, including who's playing, where you can watch it and more
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• R.I.P. Bad Company and Mott The Hoople founding member / guitarist Mick Ralphs (1944-2025)
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• "Korn got ripped off a lot." Shavo Odadjian on nu metal vs deathcore, weird lyrics and whether a new System Of A Down album can live up to their legacy
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• Judas Priest launch video for their cover of Black Sabbath’s classic track “War Pigs”
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• This Is Spinal Tap director insists Stonehenge scene was not inspired by Black Sabbath's stage prop blunder
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• "Black Sabbath invented heavy metal and in doing so, they changed the world": Lamb Of God release studio cover of Sabbath classic Children Of The Grave
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• “Their heyday is gone but their importance has grown – this is a reminder of what an inspirational band they were”: Horslips At The BBC
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• Bangalore Choir to release new album ‘Rapid Fire Succession: On Target Part II’ in late 2025
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• Andi Deris feels the Helloween-ish stuff was eradicated on the album ‘Chameleon’
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• "This is totally different from anything else we've done. This is nerve-racking." Tony Iommi explains why Black Sabbath are "all nervous" ahead of final show
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• Are you ready for "the greatest day in the history of heavy metal"? Black Sabbath share new photo featuring some of the metal legends set to honour them at their farewell show in Birmingham
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• Here's every single special guest and song played from Black Sabbath's Back To The Beginning show
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• Watch Ozzy Osbourne's good friend Yungblud absolutely nail a cover of Black Sabbath's Changes with a one-off supergroup featuring members of Sleep Token, Extreme and Anthrax, at Sabbath's last ever show
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• “Did the ending seem a bit cold to anyone?”: This is what really happened at the end of Black Sabbath’s farewell show
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• “We were so raw and fresh, we didn’t know anything”: the story of Coldplay’s debut album Parachutes, the record that introduced the biggest band of the 21st century to the world
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• "One of the scariest songs I ever heard." Slipknot's Corey Taylor pays tribute to Black Sabbath, reveals the song he listens to so he can "go some place mentally."
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• 4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month
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• Pre-Black Sabbath recordings to be released as ‘Earth: The Legendary Lost Tapes’ on July 25th
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• Watch Jack Black video for cover of Ozzy Osbourne classic Mr. Crowley
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• "Best song of the night." Liam Gallagher reacts to footage of Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong kicking a fan offstage for playing Oasis anthem Wonderwall instead of Green Day's Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)
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• “Many of these workouts sound amazingly contemporary; the mixing and matching of old and new is exemplary”: Tangerine Dream’s From Virgin To Quantum Years: Coventry Cathedral 22
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• "You want a smack in the face in the beginning." How Ghost Of Perdition went from a concept about Satanism to the defining Opeth anthem
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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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• "The last thing I remember, Iwas playing at atopless bar and had aVolkswagen bus and a hundred bucks": What former Heartbreaker Stan Lynch did next
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• "Was it worth the £4000 you paid for a ticket?" Oasis just played their first show since 2009. See the setlist and watch footage of Liam and Noel Gallagher's reunited band rocking Cardiff's Principality Stadium on the opening night of their Live 25 tour
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• Femme Fatale launch video for new single “Living Like There’s No Tomorrow”
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• Premiere of The Midnight Devils’ video for their new single “Shock The World” on Sleaze Roxx
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• K.K. Downing releases cover of Judas Priest’s track “Never Satisfied” featuring Tim “Ripper” Owens
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• "We thought it was going to be a disaster." Brian May and Roger Taylor look back on Queen's now-legendary performance at Live Aid, and share Bob Geldof's blunt pre-show advice to Freddie Mercury
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• "Without Sabbath, there would be no Metallica. Thank you boys for giving us a purpose in life." Metallica pay onstage tribute to Black Sabbath as the Godfathers of Metal return to their hometown to play their last show ever
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• "It's marketing. It's trolling. Is that wrong?" Spokesman for that fake band you've been reading about admits they're fake
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• "There was something about the way he carried himself. He quite clearly was going to shine": The early years of Soundgarden's Chris Cornell
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• Junkyard frontman David Roach very sick and back in a hospital hoping for a miracle
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• Every song on Queen's Greatest Hits, ranked from worst to best
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• Dead Daisies: John Corabi on singing BB King, band lineup changes, and those "billionaire's hobby" jibes
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• A Mass by Van der Graaf Generator co-founder Judge Smith to be premiered 50 years after it was written
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• Supertramp's Crime Of The Century and Crisis? What Crisis? to get 50th anniversary reissues
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• It's not all about Oasis, you know: here’s 10 forgotten Britpop bands worth a revisit
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• Former Pallas singers to unite on stage at Scottish prog festival
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• "Thank you for your magic, Diogo." Led Zeppelin legend Robert Plant pays tribute to Liverpool and Portugal footballer Diogo Jota, who died in a car accident on July 3, aged 28
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• “The intoxicating beauty remains 20 years on, reinforcing the notion that her softly charismatic voice can enchant in any era”: Judy Dyble’s Darkness To Light – The Recordings 2004-2006
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• "I thought, 'When I can play that, I'll finally admit I'm a good guitarist.'" Watch Sophie Lloyd pick out her five favourite guitar solos of all time
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• Snowman romances and dancing with Oppenheimer: these are the 10 best Kate Bush deep cuts
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• “There was an ambulance waiting for Ozzy. Sharon says, ‘He bit into a bat’”: Ozzy Osbourne’s ex-bassist remembers the infamous bat-biting incident
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