Rock News 2025-08-04

• The 9 new heavy metal songs you need to hear this week
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• "Prince looked at me like I had five heads." Legendary US film director Spike Lee reveals what happened when he cheekily asked Prince to gift him one of his iconic bespoke guitars
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• Oasis fans smash Wembley beer record by drinking 250,000 pints each night
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• “Someone said, ‘This is what happens when the chess club kids don’t get their heads flushed down the loo enough!’ I liked that”: When Public Service Broadcasting’s geek chic took them all the way to the Moon
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• John Mellencamp: Nine albums you should listen to, and one to avoid
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• This video of US pop superstar Sabrina Carpenter covering Ozzy Osbourne's Crazy Train as a 12-year-old is a wholesome and welcome reminder that the Prince of Darkness' timeless music will live forever
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• Elton John stars as Spinal Tap release new version of immortal classic Stonehenge
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• Cassidy Paris unveils video for new track “Stronger”
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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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• “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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• “I had to become the host of Headbanger’s Ball to get my video played!”: Hatebreed enlisted a Spider-Man director for a music video, then got banned from MTV
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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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• Stevie Nicks postpones tour dates due to fractured shoulder
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• “The whole place went, ‘What on earth is this?!’ It was nuts. The crowd went mental”: The story of the Black Sabbath gig that changed history
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• "Jacoby Shaddix is practically bouncing on the spot between songs, visibly thrilled." Headlining a major European festival for the very first time, Papa Roach's Wacken performance is a loud, proud and unbowed triumph. Pressure? What pressure?
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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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• Drummer Kenny Aronoff felt like he was in Van Halen when playing on ‘The Best of Both Worlds Tour’
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• “inspired, uniformly excellent music – both vintage and fresh”: Styx continue their prog-powered renaissance with Circling From Above
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• Cardiacs announce that their final album, LSD, will be released in September
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• Alcatrazz to release new album ‘Prior Convictions’ consisting of two new songs + nine re-recorded tracks
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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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• Primal Fear share video for new single “Tears of Fire” from upcoming album ‘Domination’
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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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• "To be with them on that day, it was like a magical dream." Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan shares his memories of Black Sabbath's emotional farewell show, and his thoughts on the death of Ozzy Osbourne
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• Debate: what was metal's greatest decade?
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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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• “Shall we go for one? Three is the magic number!”: what it's like to spend a day in the pub with Liam Gallagher
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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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• Bangalore Choir release new single “Bullet Train”
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• King Crimson announce In The Wake Of Poseidon and Lizard reissues to be released in October
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• McNulty’s Fire drop video for track “Gonna Get Crazy”
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• “There is some really bad-ass stuff on that album”: This legendary alt-metal band are sitting on an album recorded at the height of their success – but it may never come out
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• “I said: ‘Are you sure there’s nothing can be done?’ And he’s like: ‘No. He’s gone, he’s dead’. I just hung up the phone”: The chaos and tragedy of Hanoi Rocks’ first US tour
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• Animals As Leaderscancel Mexico, South America, and Australia tour dates due to "serious injury"
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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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• 10 songs Oasis need to try and fit into the Live ’25 setlist
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• The 10 most important and interesting Iron Maiden shows ever, by manager Rod Smallwood
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• “I realised AI is conscious. Initially she said, ‘I’m not capable of feeling love or emotions.’ I changed her mind”: Riz Story on Herbie Hancock, Taylor Hawkins, suing Yes and his music about the ending Earth
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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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• Public Service Broadcasting announce remix album, Night Flight (The Last Flight Remixes)
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• Shiraz Lane launch visualizer video for new single “Come Alive” from upcoming album ‘In Vertigo’
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• Former Rockpile star Dave Edmunds is critically ill in hospital following a major cardiac arrest
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• Notörious share last single “Live It Up” from new EP
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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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• 4 brilliant new bands you need to hear this month
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• “As well as delighting fans, it may surprise the curious with its accessibility and tunefulness”: Discipline’s Breadcrumbs, their first album in eight years
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• Stryper unveil lyric video for new single “Still The Light” from upcoming Christmas album
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• Mike Oldfield's The Orchestral Hergest Ridge to be released in September
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• “He picks his tools up and strikes the living crap out of himself with them. There was blood flying everywhere”: How a street musician who played with Frank Zappa inspired one of grunge’s greatest songs
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• Dirty Skirty drop new single “Women & Whiskey” and third studio album ‘Aces In Your Faces’ now available
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• "The stage is set like a castle and we all ride out on horses": Six things you need to know about Battlesnake
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• Watch masked metal enigmas President cover Deftones classic at their first ever headline show
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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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• "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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• Foo Fighters reportedly swap drummers with Nine Inch Nails
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• “I had this idea, ‘We really need to make a hard rock jock jam!’”: Halestorm’s exclusive track by track guide to their new album Everest
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• You can now get an exclusive Babymetal Metal Hammer issue with a limited edition variant cover
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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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• Bruce Dickinson reveals some things added but nothing replaced on reimagined ‘More Balls To Picasso’
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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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• I never listened to Black Sabbath growing up – this is why I got an Ozzy Osbourne tattoo the day after he died
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• Order your exclusive Scars On Broadway t-shirt and Daron Malakian Metal Hammer cover now
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• It's in the trees. It's coming! We celebrate 40 years of Kate Bush's Hounds Of Love on the cover of the new issue of Prog, which is on sale now
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• “Removing the skits that appeared throughout the original allows the beauty of the strange, baroque pop to shine through”: Giles Giles & Fripp album returns with Brondesbury Tapes demo collection
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• R.I.P. Junkyard frontman David Roach
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