Rock News 2025-08-01

• "I formed this band for God’s sake! And I helped Roger a hell of a lot because he wasn’t a musician when we started." The lost Richard Wright interview
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• “She encourages us to ask big questions: Is there a reason to believe in a god? Are art and death aspects of the same experience? Can we just enjoy sex and stop being hung up about it?” Prog stars choose the 40 greatest Kate Bush songs of all time
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• Order your exclusive Scars On Broadway t-shirt and Daron Malakian Metal Hammer cover now
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• I have to stop fighting the overwhelming evidence: nu metal and metalcore are officially dad rock now
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• Debate: what was metal's greatest decade?
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• Watch My Chemical Romance perform unreleased anthem War Beneath The Rain for the very first time
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• McNulty’s Fire drop video for track “Gonna Get Crazy”
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• Chris von Rohr reveals Krokus’ measure on making new music — ‘Is it as good as the best Krokus songs?”
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• “I’m a huge fan – why do you guys get to have all the fun?”: Jason Momoa looks back on joining the moshpit at Black Sabbath’s final show
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• Here's what happened at Ozzy Osbourne's emotional funeral procession in Birmingham
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• "What heavy music could become if it let go of outmoded notions of authenticity and genre loyalty." Babymetal's new album Metal Forth reaffirms their status as one of metal's most unique and exciting bands
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• “He does feel a bit like our saviour. It’s good to know he’s kind of protecting us”: How Mike Portnoy helped save Avenged Sevenfold after the The Rev died
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• Public Service Broadcasting announce remix album, Night Flight (The Last Flight Remixes)
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• "Iron Maiden's crew said, ‘We can't believe it. No middle fingers, no coins or shoes being thrown!'" Lzzy Hale on playing in front of one of metal's most stubborn fanbases
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• Surge to release debut full-length album in fall of 2025
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• “People saw us setting up and thought we were a ska band. Then we’d start playing and they’d just get more confused”: How nerd septet Thank You Scientist made the Oops! … I Did It Again of prog rock
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• Burning Witches share video for new single “High Priestess of The Night” from upcoming album ‘Inquisition’
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• Still outselling vinyl: A beginner's guide to the rise, fall and surprising longevity of the CD
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• Elton John stars as Spinal Tap release new version of immortal classic Stonehenge
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• Helloween launch lyric video for new single “Universe (Gravity For Hearts)”
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• Vanity Insanity launch video for new track “Fake It ’til You Make It”
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• Spike feels that the band led by Guy Griffin was never going to have The Quireboys’ name
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• Stryper unveil lyric video for new single “Still The Light” from upcoming Christmas album
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• Wings of Steel drop video for anthemic new single “We Rise”
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• "Ozzy had a chimney brush over his shoulder, a shoe on a dog leash and no shoes on his bare feet." Black Sabbath's Geezer Butler recalls his very first meeting with Ozzy Osbourne, and the start of "the most incredible journey of our lives"
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• Bangalore Choir release new single “Bullet Train”
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• "Ozzy goes, 'I thought it was some ***hole dressed as the guy from Kiss!'" Anthrax's Scott Ian reveals his most hilarious memory of the Prince Of Darkness
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• "Half of my young fans were big Swifties, and now they’re doing goth make-up." Bambie Thug on converting Taylor Swift fans, leaving the Vatican "on read" and why they have a "doodle arm"
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• “This well-dressed man walked out on stage, reached inside of his jacket, pulled out a gun, and goes pop-pop-pop. I’m thinking: ‘Oh, I’m dead’”: The epic story of the rise, fall and resurrection of the original Alice Cooper band
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• Steve Howe to release Portraits Of Bob Dylan and Natural Timbre on vinyl for the very first time
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• Slash, Halestorm, Blackberry Smoke and more line up for star-studded Bad Company tribute album
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• Peter Hammill to release 20-disc The Charisma & Virgin Recordings 1971 - 1986 box set in September
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• Foo Fighters reportedly swap drummers with Nine Inch Nails
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• "First you get slapped in the face, then you get shoved, then you get punched." Legendary record producer Andy Wallace on working with Nirvana, Rage Against The Machine, Slayer and Jeff Buckley on some of the greatest rock albums ever made
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• "I'm always looking for the rainbow I can't find": At the Classic Rock Awards in 2008, Ozzy Osbourne gave one of his most revealing interviews
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• Paramore's Hayley Williams has just released a new 17-song solo album, Ego, but you'll need to buy something from her haircare company to get it
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• Bruce Dickinson reveals some things added but nothing replaced on reimagined ‘More Balls To Picasso’
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• Fundraiser launched to help pay for Terry Reid's medical treatment as he battles cancer
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• Alice Cooper feels like the reunited Original Alice Cooper Group sounds exactly like it did back in 1974
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• Animals As Leaderscancel Mexico, South America, and Australia tour dates due to "serious injury"
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• "Can we put pressure on these Dr. Evil tech bros to do better?" King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard become most high-profile band to pull music from Spotify over CEO’s investments in military technology
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• John Mellencamp: Nine albums you should listen to, and one to avoid
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• “Various line-ups sprang into existence just because someone said, ‘I’ll be your guitarist – I’ve got money.’ They felt like drunken shags. I gave in, but I hated myself for it”: When Robert John Godfrey rebuilt The Enid after 21 wasted years
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• Google ‘Ozzy Osbourne’. You won’t regret it.
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• Mike Oldfield's The Orchestral Hergest Ridge to be released in September
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• "I felt out of place. That group didn't have much musical merit and I thought it was crap": The oddball career of Kevin Ayers, quintessential English songwriter
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• "People thought we were Nazi sympathisers, and nothing could be further from the truth." The highs, lows, controversies and epic comebacks of Slayer
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• Watch Doctor Who and The Thick Of It legend Peter Capaldi perform a surprise cover of one of The Cure's best-loved songs at his first ever solo show
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• "Sabbath were there for me before punk." Duff Mckagan on recording with Ozzy, jamming with Tony Iommi and why Black Sabbath were true punks
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• "Paul was a lovely person and good mate." Iron Maiden pay tribute to their original vocalist Paul Mario Day following his death, aged 69
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• How to watch Ozzy Osbourne's funeral procession in Black Sabbath's hometown
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• The 20 greatest power ballads you won't find on power ballad compilations
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• “You see the guy at the back playing guitar and looking awkward? I can’t even tell you his name!” Krautrock icons Can and their brief interlude as British pop stars
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• Drummer Kenny Aronoff felt like he was in Van Halen when playing on ‘The Best of Both Worlds Tour’
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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: July 28, 2025
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• A beginner's guide to Dire Straits in seven essential albums
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• "She doesn't know the animal I am when I'm drinking and using": Why Josh Todd wrote Buckcherry's Sorry to apologise to his wife
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• "He was shooting up. He’d just lost his best friend. Who wouldn’t numb that blow if they could?" Actress Ione Skye recalls the night that her ex-boyfriend, Red Hot Chili Peppers' Anthony Kiedis, learned that RHCP guitarist Hillel Slovak had died
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• "It's a rocket ship and you're just strapped to it, praying to God that you're going to survive": A Thousand Horses on their wild ride and a move back to "the southern rock thing"
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• "Bursting with heart and character": De'Wayne's June is the sound of a musician with grand ambitions
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• Babylon A.D.’s new studio album ‘When The World Stops’ to be released on September 1st
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• Toque unleash video for new single “Fighters”
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• Big Big Train announce trumpeter Paul Mitchell joins the band on a full-time basis
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• “Every time you post a snippet or a clip or some kind of teaser, it makes people more mad”: Trivium to release much-hyped new song in early August
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• David Gilmour announces Live At The Circus Maximus movie and The Luck And Strange Concerts live album
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