Rock News 2025-08-11

• “Astonishing and formidable music”: there’s more to British jazz rock than Soft Machine, Brand X, Bruford and Nucleus
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• "Curious true metal fans who came to judge the 'pop punk' band have clearly been won over." Creeper's Bloodstock debut is a dramatic triumph
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• Black ‘N Blue have recently recorded two songs written by Tommy Thayer & Jaime St. James back in 1984-85
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• R.I.P. Junkyard frontman David Roach
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• M.I.C. launch YouTube video for new single “Stay Away With Me” featuring clips from movie ‘The Substance’
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• Texan terrors Die Spitz share video for new single Pop Punk Anthem (Sorry For The Delay) as a preview for incoming debut album Something to Consume
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• "A high point in the FZ catalogue!" Frank Zappa's One Size Fits All gets lavish 50th anniversary reissue
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• Hear Trivium return with Ascendancy-coded new single Bury Me With My Screams
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• A Sons Of Anarchy and The Walking Dead star has teamed up with Bad Omens for two weird, creepy teaser videos and the fandom are losing their minds
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• Lacuna Coil's Bloodstock set shows they are a band operating at the peak of their powers
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• Notörious share last single “Live It Up” from new EP
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• "A surprisingly vibrant, bright-side kind of album": The Black Keys sound euphoric on the dreamy 60s psych-soul sound of No Rain, No Flowers
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• "I didn't have a clear idea of what I was doing...I just felt lost." Iron Maiden legend Bruce Dickinson on the existential crisis that helped shape one of his most beloved songs
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• "Lyrically and the way he sang and played, he meant everything he did": This is the soundtrack of Orianthi's life
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• Metallica announce one of their most intimate shows ever, playing to just 250 people later this month – and you can win a ticket
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• One week left for Kickstarter campaign for Rocked Magazine co-created by photographer Mark Weiss
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• "This is the moment to rediscover Chicago": Greatest Hits Expanded charts the band's evolution from a jazz-soul-psychedelic-brassy-hippy melange into accomplished balladeers
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• “It’s a team of terrifying quality – but the result is no face-melting noodle-fest. Everything stems from musical ideas”: Gavin Harrison and Nick Johnston’s Early Mercy
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• “I thought to myself that regardless of how long I have to live after this illness, I would spend it with my old band”: In praise of Nektar, the cult prog band who inspired Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris
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• Sharon Osbourne says that reports that Black Sabbath's Back To The Beginning farewell show raised $190 million for charity are "just ridiculous"
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• Was Ozzy Osbourne's death as globally significant as the passing of Queen Elizabeth? Ex Megadeth man thinks so
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• Just when you thought vinyl couldn't get any more adorable, Black Sabbath release a 4" single
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• "We hit the trees at what seemed like 100 miles an hour": The story of Lynyrd Skynyrd and the plane that fell from the sky
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• Babylon A.D. unleash video for title track from upcoming album ‘When The World Stops’
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• Glenn Hughes shares visualizer video for new single “Into The Fade” from upcoming album ‘Chosen’
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• “Nobody walked away going, ‘That’s the last time we’ll see Ozzy’”: Metallica’s Lars Ulrich looks back on Black Sabbath’s retirement show, Back To The Beginning
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• “Any package shining further light on the their singular brilliance is to be welcomed”: Be-Bop Deluxe’s The Albums – 1974-1976
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• John Bush not sure that timing is right but looking forward to doing shows playing Anthrax songs
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• King Crimson affiliates Beat release live video for classic Frame By Frame
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• "They have a fanbase so ardent that one fella has rocked up in a band-branded suit of armour." Heriot battle technical issues but eventually win big at Bloodstock
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• One of British metal's most important bands just played their final ever UK festival show - and it was one hell of a goodbye
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• The nine best artists to see at London's All Points East festival this month, from Doechii and Confidence Man, to Warmduscher and Chloe Qisha
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• “The guy everyone is so serious about, it all started with ‘not by the hair of my chinny-chin-chin’”: How a novelty 90s comedy song gave Tool’s Maynard James Keenan his first hit
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• Watch Nine Inch Nails give live debut to new single As Alive As You Need Me To Be as they launch North American Peel it Back tour with Josh Freese back on drums
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• Roadkill unveil video for new single “Born To Be King” from forthcoming album ‘This Way To Hell’
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• "The album is packed with arena-sized intensity": Halestorm finally scale rock's summit on Everest
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• One of the most legendary cult metal projects ever finally came to the UK and put on a hell of a show...but one big thing stopped it being a classic
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• “Miles Davis is the scariest individual I’ve ever met. He makes Lou Reed look like a pussycat”: Steven Van Zandt’s wild tales of Paul McCartney, Keith Richards and Miles Davis
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• The Pogues announce expanded 40th anniversary edition of their classic 1985 album Rum Sodomy & The Lash
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• New Creeper single Blood Magick (It's A Ritual) is a cross between Belinda Carlisle's Heaven Is A Place On Earth, Ozzy Osbourne's The Ultimate Sin, and Laibach, and if that doesn't get you excited for new album Sanguivore II: Mistress of Death we give up
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• Sleep Token cameo, Black Sabbath jam, a surprise Robb Flynn...I think I might have just watched Trivium play their greatest festival set ever. Yep, even better than THAT Download one
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• Cassidy Paris unveils video for new track “Stronger”
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• "We had an artistic success, but not a financial one… but that’s another story.” Peter Gabriel's 1982 WOMAD set to be released this Friday
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• The 10 Roger Waters albums you should listen to, and one to avoid
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• Derek And The Dominos keyboard player Bobby Whitlock dead at 77
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• Dirkschneider & The Old Gang drop video for new single “Dead Man’s Hand”
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• Lamb Of God, Slaughter To Prevail and Judas Priest to headline Bloodstock festival 2026; Sepultura, Bleed From Within and 20 other acts also confirmed
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• John Carpenter announces Halloween: The Complete Expanded Collection to be released in October
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• "The thing you’re getting on your phone sucks." Maynard James Keenan's ban on filming his live shows is here to stay
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• "Machine Head live to defy expectations." Robb Flynn and co. conquer Bloodstock with an explosive, emotional headline set
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• Southbound Beretta’s new album ‘Sun’s Out Guns Out’ available on August 8th
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• “Inventive, unconventional approach sets them apart from lazy assumptions of what prog was doing in the early 70s”: Jethro Tull’s Still Living In The Past
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• Steven Wilson launches new prog rock radio show on SiriusXM
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• “There was a very unpleasant atmosphere between all of us. George Martin said he’d do another album… Instead we drove the band off the cliff”: How Stackridge conspired to swerve the success they deserved
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• "I didn't plan on making music anymore." How Paradise Slaves gave Brock Lindow a new lease of life after 36 Crazyfists
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• Watch Bad Omens' atmospheric, arty video for emotional new single Specter
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• In/Vertigo launch video for new single “Weathervane” from latest EP ‘Prevail’
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• New reissue of The Alan Parsons Project's I Robot to be released in October
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• Fury unleash video for new track “Don’t Lie To Me” from upcoming album ‘Interceptor’
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• Andi Deris feels that he and Michael Weikath helped managed to save a hit battered battleship from sinking
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• “It really doesn't have much to do with us. We gave this guy a couple of riffs and told him to run with it”: The WTF hip hop collaboration that Metallica don’t talk about any more
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• “People are so passionate about it. It’s almost more important to some of them than watching the bands”: Bin Jousting is the insane heavy metal festival sport that the Olympics needs right now
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• “I was so lucky and blessed to be a part of a very small group that got to call him ‘Dad’”: Jack Osbourne posts emotional tribute to late father Ozzy on social media
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• BBC to broadcast documentary film Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home, about final three years of Black Sabbath singer’s life, later this month
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