Rock News 2025-08-28

• “I’ve got 30 years of albums and awards – but they say, ‘He’s just a one-trick pony making money off the back of Mike Oldfield’”: Robert Reed’s struggle to keep a form of music alive
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• "You are a disrespectful dirtbag!" Kelly Osbourne furiously fires back at WWE and Becky Lynch following controversial Ozzy Osbourne promo line in Birmingham
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• “I found a message from Ghost asking me if I would consider singing on their first album”: The doom metal legend who could have been Ghost’s original singer if it hadn’t been for a missed MySpace message
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• Cradle Of Filth guitarist fired following vicious statement days after keyboardist wife’s departure
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• Jet Jaguar share video for new single “Eternal Light” from upcoming album ‘Severance’
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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: August 25, 2025
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• "We’re not giving up as a band." Roger Daltrey suggests that The Who could still play shows after the conclusion of their farewell tour
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• Every Jethro Tull album ranked from worst to best
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• "We are making psychedelic music or, if you will, head music." Steve Davis, Kavus Torabi and Mike York announce new The Utopia Strong album and share new track Harpies
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• "I’m tripping my balls off and I’m going, 'Whoaaaa, this is the craziest **** I’ve ever heard!'" Will Ramos on the first time he heard Lorna Shore - the band he'd eventually front
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• We told Deftones singer Chino Moreno what ‘baddiecore’ is and this was his response
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• “We were playing things like Chuck Berry. I was just horrified, because I’m a choirboy”: How Richard Sinclair helped build the Canterbury scene with Caravan, Hatfield And The North, Camel and more
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• Die Spitz share video for Punishers, the final single from their forthcoming debut album, Something to Consume
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• John Nymann reveals ex-Tesla members Troy Luccketta and Tommy Skeoch still get paid by the band
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• Watch Phil Manzanera and Andy Mackay perform rocking live version of No Church In The Wild
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• "The apocalypse does not have to be the world going down in flames." How Dimmu Borgir reinvented black metal and broke Hollywood with Progenies Of The Great Apocalypse
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• "Korn stood side of stage looking scared but I didn't want to stop." Max Cavalera on his wildest gig, resurrecting Nailbomb and why he doesn't regret leaving Sepultura
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• “Some people were cynical – ‘The Yeggles have spoilt it all!’ We were doing a gig in Brighton and someone shouted, ‘Rick Wakeman!’ It was demoralising”: Geoff Downes’ life and times in and out of Yes
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• "This film is our love letter to all of our favourite road trip movies, ’90s nostalgia, and chasing it all no matter how ridiculous it gets." Green Day's movie New Year's Rev will premiere next month
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• “We didn’t really talk to them. I don't think they liked us, and we didn't really like them that much either”: The time the Eagles opened for a legendary British prog rock band – and hated it
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• Fans revel in downpour as Oasis kick off North American leg of world tour in Toronto
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• "He's the Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart of the riff": Gibson salutes Tony Iommi in star-studded new film series
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• "I've seen the rod of His wrath, and have been beaten with it": Glenn Schwartz was set to be one of the great guitar heroes of the 70s – but then he was lost to a horrific religious cult
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• Speed Queen to release full-length debut album ‘…With A Bang!’ on September 5th
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• Autograph’s original singer Steve Plunkett unveils reworked version of hit single “Turn Up The Radio”
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• GoFundMe campaign continues for Great White bassist Scott Snyder who is recovering from brain surgery
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• “When that album came out, everybody wanted to throw it in the bin”: Turbo may have been Judas Priest’s most controversial album, but Rob Halford hints at plans to play more of it live
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• Rate my music taste: these are my five favourite metalcore albums ever
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• "A support slot with Slipknot? We're working on it!" What do deathcore, nu metal and Switzerland have in common? One of the most exciting young bands in metal: Paleface Swiss
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• Rust N’ Rage launch video for new single “Just Like Brothers”
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• “Geddy Lee once said some very nice things about me. I think it’s about time we connected, if he’s still up for doing something”: Marco Minnemann’s prog world includes Rush, ping-pong and whisky – and he has “something” to thank Queen for
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• "I know what Dua Lipa looks like on stage, and that's as far as I get to understanding the mainstream": Back to business for The Black Keys - serving their audience and paying the bills
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• The Lazys drop video for latest single “Hot Under The Collar”
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• "I've been waiting seven years": Zak Starkey implores Axl Rose to return master tape he says could raise $2m for teenage cancer charity
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• “When we get together it opens up a portal. It’s mapping out the architecture of another dimension!” Steve Davis staged a theft to help The Utopia Strong make second album International Treasure
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• Confess to release fourth studio album via Frontiers Music Srl
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• "Steve Hogarth bursts into the studio, holding a gun": What happened when Marillion allowed a journalist to play on their new album
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• Radiohead have broken into the American charts with a single from OK Computer that was released 28 years ago
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• “We were originally supposed to be doing the song with Axl Rose, but he never turned up to the session”: The crazed early 90s techno collaboration that saved a 70s rock icon’s career – and his life
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• "I can’t imagine using that song as a political rallying theme, particularly when you seem to be the person who I’m screaming about." John Fogerty on the classic Creedence Clearwater Revival song that Donald Trump has completely misunderstood
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• John Fogerty announces Legacy tour
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• Bon Jovi drummer Tico Torres dismisses rumours that he is going to retire
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• Watch: we asked a bunch of metal artists to pick four classic metal albums
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• Nine Paul McCartney albums you should listen to, but none of them are by The Beatles
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• Big Big Train share 18-minute live version of Beneath The Masts
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• "I was like, 'I can't handle this.'" Deftones' Chino Moreno reveals why he gave up booze
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• "The fans supported us through everything. That's why we kept on going": Helloween on career longevity and proving people wrong
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• Debate: what was metal's most important year?
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• Lighting up a dank east London basement, Ecca Vandal proves that she's got the songs, the skills, the attitude and the aura to become alt.rock's next 'new' star
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• Radar Ready share lyric video for power ballad “Modern World”
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• "I will miss your crazy ass Manimal." Mastodon's Bill Kelliher pays tribute to former bandmate Brent Hinds
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• Michael Kiske describes Andi Deris as a ‘natural leader’ and Kai Hansen being all about fun
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• Watch: we asked people at Reading 2025 what the most metal thing they’ve ever done at a festival was
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• Michael Monroe recovering from ruptured meniscus so unable to join Buckcherry on upcoming US tour
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• CMAT has stolen the show at every festival she's played this summer, and Euro-Country will make Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson a genuine star
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• 10cc announce their 'And Another Bloody Greatest Hits Tour' for 2026
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• "This is the way rock stars die." The Who's Pete Townshend reveals recent addiction to painkillers
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• Bon Jovi have revamped 2024's Forever album with Bruce Springsteen, Robbie Williams, Avril Lavigne and more guesting, resulting in "a collaboration album that proves we all get by in this world with a little help from our friends" says Jon Bon Jovi
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• Sammy Hagar & The Best of All Worlds Band to release live album ‘The Residency’ on October 10th
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• “We weren’t looking for peaceful – we were looking for horrid. We gave people fits. Locked the doors and pointed strobes at the crowd, wocka-wocka-wocka”: From falling together to falling apart, Hawkwind’s early era was no hippie dream
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• Scott Dalhover reveals that Dangerous Toys will be releasing two new albums in 2026
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• Shiraz Lane forced to cancel two shows due to Hannes Kett recovering from severe case of pneumonia
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• "Satan played, and then we played, and then Antichrist played straight after us": Christian Rockers Wytch Hazel on atheism, conservatives and organised religion
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• "She pulls out these two long steel pins and I start screaming and she plunges them into her eyes": The acid-dazed adventures of the band that became Blue Öyster Cult
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• "The worst misconception that people have about Indians is that we’re terrorists." Bloodywood's Karan Katiyar on India's best metal bands, smashing preconceptions and, er, giant ducks
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