Rock News 2025-07-14

• Nikki Sixx reveals why Motley Crue didn’t play Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath’s farewell gig: “We have been having health issues within the band”
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• “The album sounds incredible. A masterpiece, even though I say so myself!”: Black Sabbath are over – this is what the four members are doing next
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• All the essential new metal albums coming out in 2025 – and where to buy them
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• “Solitary confinement marks you. It tortures your soul. You’re living day-by-day in fear and uncertainty”: This is what it’s like to be jailed by a repressive regime for playing in a metal band
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• Ozzy Osbourne is doing retirement the right way – by painting abstract art with chimpanzees
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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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• "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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• Deftones announce new album Private Music: Listen to the new single My Mind Is A Mountain now
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• “Hundreds of couples have used The Winter Long as their wedding music. It’s been a wonderful ride”: Strawbs’ Dave Cousins and The Magic Of It All
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• “She left music behind – but music kept trying to find her”: What Judy Dyble did for Fairport Convention, Robert Fripp, and me
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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: July 14, 2025
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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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• “If any weird vibes existed between us, it would have been when we were much younger”: These two Swedish hard rock icons sang in the same band at different times – but would they work together?
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• Steven Wilson to release 10th anniversary coloured vinyl double vinyl edition of Hand. Cannot. Erase.
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• "One of those shows that you will be thinking about for the rest of your life": Tedeschi Trucks Band announce live album of historic Mad Dogs & Englishmen show
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• "They’re clearly the Rage Against The Machine of now." Tom Morello on Kneecap
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• “I understand people who say: ‘There is no Queen without Freddie.’ Because that’s what we felt following his death”: The epic story behind Queen’s triumphant comeback with Adam Lambert
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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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• You Can't Always Get What You Want - but if you're quick, you can get 50% off this massive Rolling Stones box set
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• Dirkschneider & The Old Gang unveil video for ballad “Strangers In Paradise”
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• Drivetrain re-release latest album ‘The Party’ with two bonus tracks
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• Stryper guitarist Oz Fox to no longer do “extended or intense touring” based on medical advice
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• “Tender and free-flowing… a potent, spontaneous moment in his career”: Jack Bruce’s Harmony Row, expanded to 4 discs
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• No Bull’s new album ‘Rock N Roll Remains Forever’ now available
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• Did David Bowie really have a hand in NINE classic albums in a three year period? Yes, he did.
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• Saga singer Michael Sadler offers new update on his health
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• Excellent new proggy sounds from Ihlo, Our Oceans, Discipline, and more in this week's Tracks Of The Week
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• Fastride release new EP ‘Goes Like Hell’
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• The 11 new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• "Carts before horses. Getting excited is somewhat premature." King Crimson manager urges caution over new studio album rumours
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• "The anxieties that Axl Rose generated were crushing him": Why Izzy Stradlin was the rock'n'roll heart of Guns N' Roses
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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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• "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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• The book that Axl Rose doesn't want you to read: Alan Niven’s incredible book takes you inside peak Guns N’ Roses like no other
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• Southbound Beretta launch video for new single “Motel Miami”
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• Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi issues update on long-awaited solo album: “I’m trying to finish off what I started”
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• 22 of the best Prime Day deals for music fans are still going strong - grab them before they're gone
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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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• Nikki Foxx’s two demos packaged as album ‘If You Ain’t Been Foxxed…You Ain’t Been F**ked!’
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• Guitar stolen from the Rolling Stones in 1972 finally turns up – at New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art
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• Uncompleted song by Jani Lane just finished by Warrant bassist Jerry Dixon & two Frontiers songwriters
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• Bring Me The Horizon have just surprise-released a new album
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• "I know there’s gotta be at least another Aerosmith gig." Joe Perry reveals band have been talking about a proper farewell
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• “I could have ruined metal”: The man who almost sang for Metallica has no regrets
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• "Lenny has that cool attitude, swagger, and vibe; just not for the entire album": Filler rears its head on Lenny Kravitz's breakthrough collection Are You Gonna Go My Way
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• Ex-Deep Purple legend Glenn Hughes says his new solo album may be his last: “If I’ve got something else to say, then I’ll let you know, but I don’t know if I will have”
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• This deal on Permission To Land… Again by The Darkness is really Growing On Me - save up to 31% on this 5LP modern rock classic
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• Strawbs founder, singer and guitarist Dave Cousins has died, aged 85
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• Hot off announcing long-awaited new album Private Music, Deftones confirm 2026 European tour dates with Denzel Curry and Drug Church
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• "It was a huge honour to be cast in this film:" Rival Sons' Jay Buchanan to appear in upcoming Hollywood movie
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• "Maybe we'll say hi to each other and take selfies a few more times..." Saga singer Michael Sadler reveals terminal cancer status
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• Scorpions to release live album ‘Coming Home Live’ on November 14th
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• Halestorm to release new studio album ‘Everest’ on August 8th
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• “Jeff is heartbroken to report that he will not be able to perform”: Jeff Lynne’s ELO cancel last ever show
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• Asomvel drop new single “Take You To Hell”
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• “I remember the urge to sing when I was out in nature. Soft, beautiful summers and dark, harsh winters. You find that in my music”: Eivør can’t escape the Faroe Islands’ influence, and doesn’t want to
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• Quick! Save up to 25% on the 5-star Sony PS-LX310BT before Amazon pulls down the shutters on Prime Day
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• 10 brilliant songs from the 90s that bands were barmy to not put on a record
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• "One of my favourite Lamb songs..." Steve Hackett shares dynamic new live clip of Genesis's Lilywhite Lilith
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• United States military used Metallica's Enter Sandman without permission in now deleted video promoting war drones
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• “She wanted to go and live in Hackney and be with the common people”: the pub encounter behind Pulp’s timeless classic Common People, the song that changed everything for Jarvis & co.
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• Paul McCartney is bringing his Got Back tour back to North America
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• “We’re starting to turn down gigs, which isn’t something we’ve ever been able to do before." How Mystery came of age with Lies & Butterflies
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• Christian Shields shares video for new track “Fall Like Rain”
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• "Thank you for a lifetime of beauty, horror, love, power, happiness, melancholy." Soundgarden salute the "majestic brilliance" of Black Sabbath, and say they were "super bummed" at not being able to play the band's Back To The Beginning show
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