Rock News 2025-09-05

• Mike Oldfield announces double-vinyl, half-speed remaster of Amarok reissue for October
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• Babylon A.D.’s new studio album ‘When The World Stops’ now available on CD
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• The A-Z of Britpop Anthems
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• The Who announce super deluxe version of Who Are You including 71 unreleased tracks
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• “I once played with Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson. You can imagine how I was feeling… I got through YYZ. They told me I was playing too fast!” Taylor Hawkins’ love for prog stars Rush, Genesis, Yes and more
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• "We’re not just into camels and palm trees." 20 years ago, Amine Hamma was arrested for playing death metal. Now he’s helping build Morocco’s metal scene
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• Hayley Williams is low-key taking over the world, and the misogynist music industry can't do a damned thing about it
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• "I look round and there's puke all over the place, and I thought, this is not going well": How Rainbow's classic lineup came together then fell apart
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• WildHeart unleash video for new track “Sands of Time” from latest album ‘Wild ‘n Three’
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• "We are finally ready for Different Class to be heard in all its glory." Pulp announce 30th anniversary reissue of Britpop cornerstone Different Class, to include their never-before-released Glastonbury 1995 set
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• Beige Against The Machine: Grandson's Bob Vylan-assisted third album Inertia is well-meaning, angry, heartfelt and simplistic enough for pre-schoolers
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• Premiere of video for new single “We Got Rock n Roll” from Paul Lidel’s Scream Therapy
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• Watch the video for Robert Plant's new single Chevrolet, the opening track on the former Led Zeppelin frontman's forthcoming album Saving Grace
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• Mike Oldfield producer Tom Newman to release his autobiography, Fine Old Tales
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• Pre-order a gothic purple vinyl of new Creeper album Sanguivore II: Mistress Of Death with an exclusive signed art card – available via the Louder store
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• "How pathetic and out of touch you've become." Jack Osbourne issues scathing response to Roger Waters after comments about his father Ozzy
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• "Please don't put it on the internet!" Did Limp Bizkit just tease a new song in the funnest way ever?
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• "It's one of the best rock songs ever!" Queen's Brian May talks exclusively to Classic Rock about working with The Struts on their newly reimagined update of their debut single Could Have Been Me
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• Rick Wakeman announces new album, Melancholia, will be released in October
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• Watch the video for the metal collab of the year as Amy Lee, Courtney LaPlante and Poppy team up for new single End Of You
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• "There's a vulnerability to the sound, but strength too, evoking a refusal to settle or submit." Slow Crush embark on an emotional journey with seductive third album Thirst
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• Michael Schenker reveals studio album ‘Freedom of Expression’ will follow after ‘Don’t Sell Your Soul’
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• "It's so broad a concept that it's impossible to answer objectively": We asked who the 'big four' of classic rock were and you did not hold back
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• Enslaved's Ivar Bjørnson collaborates with Blackfeet Nation member Nicholas Rink on new ambient BardSpec song Eternity
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• “We were virtually given free rein. In fact, they spent so much money on studio time, there was very little left for promotion”: How Caravan’s In The Land Of Grey And Pink became an unheralded prog classic
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• Helloween drop video for new single “A Little Is A Little Too Much”
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• Crystal Steel unveil video for track “Hero” from debut EP ‘First Strike’
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• “I felt the stage fright because the band just wasn’t good enough. I said, ‘This will be our last record.’ Then things began to take off”: Even lockdown couldn’t dampen The Pineapple Thief’s spirits when they released Versions Of The Truth
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• The bloodsoaked trailer for Disney Plus series Marvel Zombies features Poppy and Babymetal collaboration From Me To U
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• "Hey Roger Waters 🦆 You!" Jack Osbourne doubles down on Roger Waters roast with emoji-powered social media post
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• Michael Kiske describes Andi Deris as a ‘natural leader’ and Kai Hansen being all about fun
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• “It’s written from the point of view of being older; mortality is the constant.” The inspiration that helped David Gilmour create Luck And Strange
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• “There are two types of bands. One is s**t. The other is The Hives”: 45 minutes with the world’s greatest band, The Hives
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• Bon Jovi to release album ‘Forever (Legendary Edition)’ featuring various guest vocalists on October 24th
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• Alter Bridge launch first new song in over two years, announce US tour
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• Sex Pistols forced to postpone North American and South American tours after Steve Jones breaks his wrist
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• Two new Autograph albums consisting mainly of unreleased demos now available via FnA Records
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• Mastodon members join The March Of Brent Hinds in Atlanta to celebrate life of late ex-guitarist
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• Life on the precipice: How Audioslave gave Chris Cornell hope
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• “He said, ‘We can’t use this – people will think we’re a Christian rock band!’ I went and got myself a drink. There was no arguing with that kind of thinking”: Marillion’s battle over the cover for Afraid Of Sunlight
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• Former Tesla bandmates Brian Wheat and Tommy Skeoch form new band together
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• Pearl Jam albums ranked from worst to best
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• "The entire world could burn and we would still absolutely love each other and love what we do." How Lzzy Hale beat her demons with a little help from her Halestorm bandmates on new album Everest
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• Get the new issue of Metal Hammer with a Helloween cover and t-shirt you won’t find in the shops
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• “I wanted to make a song I felt like a lot of women can relate to”: Scene Queen drops new single Platform Shoes one day before start of European tour
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• Michael Schenker Group shares video for title track of upcoming album ‘Don’t Sell Your Soul’
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• Heavy Pettin unveil video for title track from upcoming album ‘Rock Generation’
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• "The stench of success was horrible for a lot of people": Whipping boys of the music press in the 90s, Bush are still fighting back
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• "Who knows where this will all lead?" Radiohead announce first live dates for seven years
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• Thrilling, unsettling and definitely NSFW: Witch Club Satan's first UK show proved they're the best thing to happen in black metal in years
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• “It was such a shame to leave A Secret Wish on its own. The band still had such great potential – it was unfinished business”: Claudia Brücken and Susanne Freytag couldn’t dump Propaganda and their prog roots in the past
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• Marc Storace trying to get the publishing rights to the ‘Blue’ album that he did with Vic Vergeat
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• “We were the antithesis of Britpop – we really hated all that kind of thing." Every Idlewild album in the band's own words
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• Sennheiser SoundProtex Plus earplugs review
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• Solstice to reissue remastered version of 1984 debut album Silent Dance
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• Planning an Allman Brothers-themed holiday? You can now stay in Duane Allman's old house in Macon
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• "It shocked me because of how different it sounded": Bruce Springsteen releases long-awaited Nebraska version of Born In The USA
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• Bring Me The Horizon have 12 songs left over from their latest album ready for release
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• "One song took about seven weeks to do. It was insane": The Moody Blues on their best and worst albums, Charles Manson, and the mood-altering magic of Nights In White Satin
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• "I'm outside of the mainstream, and that's how I like it": Blaze Bayley's debut solo album flopped 25 years ago - but now he's taking it on the road
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• "I’m slowly building up towards a new album." David Gilmour hopes to have a new record out "within the next year or two."
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• Buckcherry’s album ‘Black Butterfly’ to be reissued with five bonus tracks on CD version
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• "There’s still plenty of Slipknot-style pummelling, but Tallah are spreading their wings." One of nu metal's best modern bands are evolving in style on Primeval: Obsession // Detachment
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• Bon Jovi launch video for new track “Red, White and Jersey”
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• 25 complicated concept albums explained as simply as possible
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