Rock News 2025-07-11

• Drivetrain re-release latest album ‘The Party’ with two bonus tracks
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• "All he asked for was a six-pack of beer. He was awesome!" How Derek Shulman got Jethro Tull playing with Men Without Hats
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• "The Queen Mother asked us to play something on the Moog. She was really cute": PFM on brushes with royalty, spaghetti with Aerosmith, and how to annoy America
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• The hype, buzz and fanfare may be quieter on album two, but Moisturizer is proof that Wet Leg haven't lost their spark, charm or quirkiness, still don't care what you think
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• Generation Landslide to release new album ‘Existence’ via RFK Media
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• Amazon's Prime Day vinyl and CD sale includes classics that should be in every rock and metal fan's collection – save up to 46%
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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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• "This song is written for all the families torn apart by the recent immigrant purges and kidnappings": Tom Morello releases powerful new single in support of immigrant rights across America
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• Ozzy Osbourne is doing retirement the right way – by painting abstract art with champanzees
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• Deftones announce new album Private Music: Listen to the new single My Mind Is A Mountain now
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• Tony Iommi compared Bill Ward to a Lord Of The Rings monster at Black Sabbath’s epic farewell gig: “You look like Gollum!”
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• “Asked if Going For The One was about God, spirituality or the oneness of all people, he said no – it was about putting a tenner on a horse race. You’re almost better off not knowing that!” Steve Hogarth on his hero Jon Anderson
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• Judas Priest launch video for their cover of Black Sabbath’s classic track “War Pigs”
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• Stryper guitarist Oz Fox to no longer do “extended or intense touring” based on medical advice
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• Merlin's beard! Save a wand-waving 24% and rebuild Hogwarts with this magical Prime Day Lego Harry Potter deal
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• Video footage and setlist for Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath’s sets at ‘Back To The Beginning’ event
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• “Everything blew up. ‘What do you mean you’re leaving?!’ ‘I’m not!’”: Rob Halford insists he didn’t quit Judas Priest in the 1990s
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• 30 rock and metal songs that defined the 1980s
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• I’d love to own this insane $499 ultrasonic vinyl record cleaner, but for now these are the sub-$20 vinyl care kits I’m considering in Amazon’s Prime Day sale
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• Stay on target! Recreate the iconic Death Star trench run with 29% off the Lego Star Wars TIE Fighter & X-Wing set
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• Crown Lands announce new record deal with InsideOut Music
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• “Jim would come in too drunk to sing decently. Sometimes it was a phrase at a time”: The tortured story of The Doors’ Waiting For The Sun, the album that set Jim Morrison on the path to destruction
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• "We're in our seventies and late seventies, so you can only do so much": Tony Iommi reveals the songs Black Sabbath rehearsed but didn't play at Back To The Beginning
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• Dirkschneider & The Old Gang unveil video for ballad “Strangers In Paradise”
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• Founding Monster Magnet drummer/bassist Tim Cronin dead at 63
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• This iconic guitar appeared on the cover of one of the most successful albums ever – but what’s the story behind it?
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• 10 classic albums on vinyl you can buy for under $20 this Prime Day
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• Salty Dog’s post-Geffen second album released as ‘Lost Treasure + 3 Golden Jewels’ via FnA Records
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• Ghost’s Tobias Forge originally planned to sing a Black Sabbath deep cut at the Back To The Beginning gig: “I was, like, ‘Can I do this?’ ‘No!’”
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• Babylon A.D. to release new album ‘When The World Stops’ via Kivel Records by the end of 2025
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• Members of Slipknot, Lamb Of God and Anthrax set to join the Osbournes at Comic-Con Midlands this weekend
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• "Ozzy stood up, produced a Zippo lighter from his back pocket, and set Bill Ward's beard on fire": A personal insight into the chaotic, beautiful mind of Ozzy Osbourne
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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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• Eivør signs new deal with Nuclear Blast Records and announces European tour
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• “They wouldn’t bat an eyelid at Wagner, who believed the church was linked to the downfall of civilisation. But metal is ‘wrong’?”: The metal band who made history by playing one of England’s biggest cathedrals – despite accusations of ‘blasphemy’
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• "Women get angry and we are expected to contain our rage but I allowed myself to go there." Irish alt. rockers NewDad share new single Roobosh, announce new album Altar
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• Paul McCartney is bringing his Got Back tour back to North America
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• "I said, what are you talking about? Just step over Keith Richards?!" The cult of Keef: guitar hero, blues scholar, rebel, survivor, self-parody, genius
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• Asomvel drop new single “Take You To Hell”
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• “If I’d done normal, sensible things, I wouldn’t be Ozzy”: Ozzy Osbourne to release new memoir Last Rites, centred around his recent health struggles
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• “Robert Fripp said he wanted to revolutionise rock’n’roll with us. I wasn’t sure, given what I’d just heard. But they were about to throw us out the squat”: The League Of Gentlemen led to Beat-era King Crimson
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• “The perfect fusion of metal on metal”: You can now buy an official Iron Maiden coin from the UK’s Royal Mint
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• "Honestly, I was almost in tears": Jeff Lynne's ELO forced to cancel second-to-last concert ever, minutes before showtime
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• "The music we are making at this moment has timeless teeth, muscle, bone and hair": Heart add another string of dates to 2025 schedule
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• "I am Spartacus." Former Pink Floyd legend Roger Waters risks prosecution, and a potential 14 year jail term, by voicing his support for Palestine Action, now proscribed as a terrorist group in the UK
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• K.K. Downing releases cover of Judas Priest’s track “Never Satisfied” featuring Tim “Ripper” Owens
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• Rejoice! King Crimson are currently recording their first album in more than two decades
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• “I had a terrible habit of playing bits of songs by other people”: The Pink Floyd classic that Roger Waters was worried David Gilmour had stolen from someone else
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• The Nine Inch Nails lyric that made Zeal & Ardor’s Manuel Gagneux quit his job: “I think Trent Reznor did a lot for the job market that year!”
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• You shall not pass... up on this Prime Day Lego Lord Of The Rings deal - 15% off the towering Barad-dûr set
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• "It's still a hodge-podge... largely redundant": Jethro Tull's expanded Still Living In The Past fails to produce much magic from the vaults
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• My wardrobe is stuffed full of band t-shirts, but with 20% off at Amazon this Prime Day, I can't resist adding more to the collection
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• Scorpions to release live album ‘Coming Home Live’ on November 14th
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• "He said, ‘If you play it backwards, Satan will haunt you!’" How Volbeat's Michael Poulsen went from occult-loving teenage guitar thief to leader of Denmark’s biggest metal band
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• David Crosby was not happy about being followed by Judas Priest at Live Aid: “Some heavy metal garbage”
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• The Uriah Heep albums you should listen to... and one to avoid
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• Andi Deris feels the Helloween-ish stuff was eradicated on the album ‘Chameleon’
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• Sabbra Cadabra! Celebrate Ozzy and co's triumphant final show with up to 20% off a whole pile of Black Sabbath merch this Prime Day
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• “I could have ruined metal”: The man who almost sang for Metallica has no regrets
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• Snake Bite Whisky drop video for new single “Living To Die”
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• Pre-Black Sabbath recordings to be released as ‘Earth: The Legendary Lost Tapes’ on July 25th
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• One of metal’s greatest cult bands have returned after 30 years –but what are the chances of a new album?
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• Who needs Prime Day when Marshall's epic summer sale has up big savings on portable speakers, AirPod rivals and more?
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• Embrace your dark side and take command of the Lego Star Wars Star Destroyer with up to 30% off this Prime Day
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• "We raised a ton of money for a great cause": Black Sabbath's Back To The Beginning show expected to raise millions for charity
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