Rock News 2025-08-13

• 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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• Pendulum announce UK tour
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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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• “Yes showed you could write rocky prog, but UK took that further. They made complex music sound so easy, which makes me very envious”: Whitesnake ex Adrian Vandenberg’s prog inspirations
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• Debate: which is the coolest Iron Maiden Eddie ever?
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• Derek And The Dominos keyboard player Bobby Whitlock dead at 77
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• "I've never met three people that were so full of themselves. It's disgusting." Ex-Mastodon guitarist Brent Hinds hits out at his former bandmates in scathing social media post
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• Fury unleash video for new track “Don’t Lie To Me” from upcoming album ‘Interceptor’
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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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• “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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• 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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• Andi Deris feels that he and Michael Weikath helped managed to save a hit battered battleship from sinking
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• Notörious share last single “Live It Up” from new EP
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• The man who invented the 80s sound: Albums produced by Steve Lillywhite you need to know, and one to avoid
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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: August 11, 2025
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• "There is no justification for the brutality Benjamin Netanyahu and his far right government have inflicted on the Palestinian people. Our band stands in solidarity with the people of Palestine." U2 on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza
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• This video of pop superstar Sabrina Carpenter, aged 10, cosplaying Axl Rose to cover Guns N' Roses classic Sweet Child O' Mine is the cutest thing you'll see online this week
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• Did we just see Mastodon play their best ever festival show? Yes, yes we did
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• My Chemical Romance announce two massive UK shows
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• Southbound Beretta’s new album ‘Sun’s Out Guns Out’ available on August 8th
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• “No other heavy rock band has done this”: Robert Trujillo weighs in on Metallica’s potential residency at Las Vegas’ Sphere
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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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• "A perfect example of one great song overshadowing the rest of the record": Golden Earring sharpen their sound and score an MTV hit on Cut
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• In/Vertigo launch video for new single “Weathervane” from latest EP ‘Prevail’
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• “Peaceful citizens of conscience have become terrorists, at the will of a human rights lawyer turned authoritarian." Massive Attack hit out at the "moral vacuum" of Keir Starmer's government as musician Peter Perrett, 73, is arrested at London protest
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• Crowded House deny Neil Finn has erectile dysfunction after fake AI news report hits Facebook
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• Dirkschneider & The Old Gang drop video for new single “Dead Man’s Hand”
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• "I was like, This is heaven." Hayley Williams reveals the first song she ever wrote with Paramore, and the first song that made her cry as an emo teenager
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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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• “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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• “The sound of post-war German culture rebuilding itself through the prism of the avant-garde”: Cluster’s noise terrorism revisited on Cluster II
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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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• R.I.P. Kick Axe guitarist Larry Gillstrom (1955-2025)
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• "It’s a good omen that, prior to the band coming on, the entire field joins in unison to sing Ozzy Osbourne." Gojira's majestic set rounds off the greatest Bloodstock ever
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• Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale opens up about breaking up with alcohol: “I was looking for an escape in all the wrong places”
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• “I never thought his music would be my bag. But he never plays the same thing twice and your mind is blown”: The Pretenders’ James Walbourne on discovering Richard Thompson (who happens to be his father-in-law)
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• “He transcends metal, he transcends rock, he transcends music”: Iconic metal drummer says Ozzy Osbourne’s death has made just as big an impact as John Lennon’s
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• Watch Bad Omens' atmospheric, arty video for emotional new single Specter
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• "That's life: there are deaths, divorces and children born": Checking in with the oldest new band in the world
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• R.I.P. Junkyard frontman David Roach
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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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• M.I.C. launch YouTube video for new single “Stay Away With Me” featuring clips from movie ‘The Substance’
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• Trevor Horn announces live UK dates for December
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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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• 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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• Thrash legends Anthrax join 2026's stacked 70000Tons Of Metal cruise bill, as the on-sale date for tickets for next year's voyage is revealed
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• One week left for Kickstarter campaign for Rocked Magazine co-created by photographer Mark Weiss
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• "Everyone in the band at some point tried to quit during that first album": The soundtrack of Adam Duritz's life
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• Glass Hammer's Steve Babb reveals he's undergone successful surgery to remove a benign brain tumour
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• "There were a lot of tears." Metallica's Robert Trujillo shares his memories of Ozzy Osbourne's "very, very beautiful" private funeral service
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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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• "My whole life I've felt like an outsider": Connor Selby on turning negatives into positives
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• Steven Wilson and two former Marillion members walked into a band… What went wrong? The mystery of Pride Of Passion, back to try again after 40 years
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• Babylon A.D. unleash video for title track from upcoming album ‘When The World Stops’
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• "I was only allowed to walk forwards if I had a particularly important guitar solo": Meet Star Circus, the missing link between ELO and Def Leppard
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• "We headlined, but he kicked our ass": Joe Perry and Brad Whitford on the support act who blew Aerosmith off the stage
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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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• "Machine Head live to defy expectations." Robb Flynn and co. conquer Bloodstock with an explosive, emotional headline set
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• Rocket's brilliant debut at the UK's most vibrant breeding ground for new bands is proof that the young Los Angeles quartet are set to go supersonic
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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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• Linkin Park are returning to a country they haven't played for 12 years
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• A guide to every My Chemical Romance album
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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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• "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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• Glenn Hughes shares visualizer video for new single “Into The Fade” from upcoming album ‘Chosen’
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