Rock News 2025-08-05

• Cassidy Paris unveils video for new track “Stronger”
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• Debate: what is the greatest metal riff of all time?
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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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• R.I.P. Junkyard frontman David Roach
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• McNulty’s Fire drop video for track “Gonna Get Crazy”
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• Bruce Dickinson reveals some things added but nothing replaced on reimagined ‘More Balls To Picasso’
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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: August 4, 2025
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• "You always remember your first concert. I remember my first concert, I watched this incredible band." Watch Weezer join Olivia Rodrigo onstage at Lollapalooza to play two classic songs
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• Stevie Nicks postpones tour dates due to fractured shoulder
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• “He opened possibilities for all future post-rock”: How Editors’ Russ Leetch discovered the deep, detailed world-building of Klaus Schulze, via Vangelis and an independent record store
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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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• “Rick Rubin would say: ‘We’ll try that song a different way. You’d be sitting there going: ‘Jesus, I’m sick of this bloody thing.’”: AC/DC lost their way in the 1980s. Two killer albums put them back on top in the 90s
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• Shiraz Lane launch visualizer video for new single “Come Alive” from upcoming album ‘In Vertigo’
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• 10 songs Oasis need to try and fit into the Live ’25 setlist
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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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• “inspired, uniformly excellent music – both vintage and fresh”: Styx continue their prog-powered renaissance with Circling From Above
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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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• You can now get an exclusive Babymetal Metal Hammer issue with a limited edition variant cover
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• 4 brilliant new bands you need to hear this month
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• "Everyone who’s been in Hawkwind is a Hawklord." The current line-up of Hawklords state their case with Time...
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• The 9 new heavy metal songs you need to hear this week
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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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• “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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• "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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• “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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• “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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• "Bursting with heart and character": De'Wayne's June is the sound of a musician with grand ambitions
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• The Decline Of Western Civilisation, Part II: The Metal Years is now free to watch on YouTube
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• Stryper unveil lyric video for new single “Still The Light” from upcoming Christmas album
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• The 10 most important and interesting Iron Maiden shows ever, by manager Rod Smallwood
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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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• Michael Schenker releases first song with new singer Erik Grönwall
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• Notörious share last single “Live It Up” from new EP
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• King Crimson announce In The Wake Of Poseidon and Lizard reissues to be released in October
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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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• Oasis fans smash Wembley beer record by drinking 250,000 pints each night
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• “Character assassination”: The Who’s Roger Daltrey hits back at ex-drummer Zak Starkey
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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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• Dirty Skirty drop new single “Women & Whiskey” and third studio album ‘Aces In Your Faces’ now available
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• Babylon A.D. unleash video for title track from upcoming album ‘When The World Stops’
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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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• “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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• “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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• 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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• I just spent four days at the muddiest metal festival on the planet - here's why I'm desperate to go back
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• Motörhead legend Lemmy Kilmister was asked to review Ozzy Osbourne’s first solo album in 2011 – this is what he said
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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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• Former Rockpile star Dave Edmunds is critically ill in hospital following a major cardiac arrest
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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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• Chris von Rohr reveals Krokus’ measure on making new music — ‘Is it as good as the best Krokus songs?”
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• Watch Opeth pay tribute to Ozzy Osbourne with heartfelt cover of Black Sabbath’s Solitude
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• "Do we have any glue sniffers in the house tonight?" Amid all the life-affirming scenes of wild collective euphoria, Oasis' superb fifth night at London's Wembley Stadium shows Liam and Noel Gallagher still have punk rock souls
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• Alcatrazz to release new album ‘Prior Convictions’ consisting of two new songs + nine re-recorded tracks
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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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• Cardiacs announce that their final album, LSD, will be released in September
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• “As soon as Jimmy Page came on, the roof came off the place! Afterwards, Plant was absolutely fuming”: The epic, ego-fuelled story of Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath’s Live Aid reunions
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• "Thirty-four minutes of pure unadulterated sonic sludge": Black Sabbath tweak the formula on Master Of Reality, invent even more genres
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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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• Junkyard singer David Roach dead at 59
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• "I'm holding on tight to the love, the light, and the legacy left behind." Kelly Osbourne shares touching thank you note to all who've supported her amid the heartbreaking loss of her beloved father
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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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• Watch masked metal enigmas President cover Deftones classic at their first ever headline show
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• “I don’t follow the rules of metal, which is probably wrong, and I’m sorry”: Metallica producer Bob Rock looks back on controversial Load and Reload albums
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• How to watch The Osbournes for free: Take a trip back in time and experience the chaos and fun of rock’s most loveable family
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