Rock News 2025-09-17

• "I noticed a guy in a wheelchair swinging his prosthetic leg around in the air!" How Arch Enemy wrote a revolutionary anthem for the masses with Nemesis
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• Dirty Honey launch video for their cover of Bad Company’s track “Rock Steady”
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• Highwire Saints share cover of Badlands’ classic track “Dreams In The Dark”
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• "He'd argue with me till six in the morning - he'd do whatever was needed": How Jeff Lynne built the Electric Light Orchestra
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• Iron Maiden sign up as ambassadors for National Album Day 2025
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• "More of a great thing is an even greater thing": Foreigner's 4 is absolutely deserving of the super-deluxe treatment
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• "It's karaoke time and I understand that": Graham Bonnet on the "berserk" response to Rainbow's Since You've Been Gone
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• Chrissie Hynde and k.d. lang hook up for smoky version of soul classic Me And Mrs Jones
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• Steve Hackett announces Best of Genesis And Solo Gems 2026 England and Scotland tour dates
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• “There’s inevitably repeated songs from Asia, King Crimson and UK, but plenty of variations in arrangement – and he’s in fine voice throughout”: John Wetton’s Concentus II is 10 discs of sumptuous live performance
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• All the essential new metal albums coming out in 2025 – and where to buy them
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• Yes announce first English and Scottish live dates for two years
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• Watch members of Iron Maiden and Tool jam a Jeff Beck song at a wedding last week
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• Soen announce new studio album, Reliance, will be released in January
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• Cassidy Paris drops video for new single “Getting Better” from upcoming album ‘Bittersweet’
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• “It was an absolute honour to know him and carry his belts”: Liam Gallagher pays tribute to Ricky Hatton after the boxer’s death
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• Fury unveil video for new single “On The Town”
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• Half the world away: what ex-members of Oasis are up to whilst their former group embarks on their triumphant comeback tour without them
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• The Midnight Devils frontman Sam Spade feels there’s not a lot of party bands anymore
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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: September 15, 2025
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• “I was supposed to play guitar on Sweet Leaf, then it was Changes”: Wolfgang Van Halen remembers meeting Ozzy Osbourne and reveals his original plan for Back To The Beginning
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• “I thought, ‘What would people do if they only had five months to live?’ One song is called Shagathon…” Arjen Lucassen decided to be an egomaniac, and the result is Songs No One Will Hear
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• Watch Foo Fighters return to the stage with their new drummer and a monster 25-song set
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• "Songwriting pulls you out of whatever you're going through": Warren Haynes reveals how the blues can rescue you from misery
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• “It’s a homecoming! It’s going to be big, bad and beautiful”: Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds announce huge Brighton show for summer 2026
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• At The Gates vocalist Tomas Lindberg dies aged 52 following cancer battle
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• Kiss’s Gene Simmons claims he learned humility from Ozzy Osbourne
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• Fernando von Arb provides some thoughts on Krokus’ albums in the ’90s without Marc Storace on vocals
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• Aerosmith to release first new music in over a decade - with Yungblud
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• Mädhouse launch video for new single “Mad To The Bone”
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• Gerard Way teases new project with US ska-punk band The Interrupters
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• Australian prog rockers Karnivool announce first new album for 13 years!
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• Dellacoma share video for track “Heroes” from upcoming album ‘Searching For You In The Darkness’
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• "You only get one shot to do this correctly and I think we nailed it": Joe Bonamassa announces all-star tribute to B.B. King
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• “I remember looking up at this big billboard that said, ‘God loves you all.’ I thought, ‘He sure as hell doesn’t like me right now!’”: The prophetic Slayer song that marked the end of one of thrash metal’s greatest songwriting partnerships
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• “God? Maybe he’s gone senile”: Lemmy was once asked what he thought about God and religion, and he didn’t hold back
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• Mötley Crüe’s compilation album ‘From The Beginning’ now available
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• 13 absolute bangers from Status Quo's Frantic Four lineup
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• Twisted Sister to play shows in 2026 to celebrate 50th Year Anniversary with Joe Franco back on drums
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• “Anyone encountering them afresh may wonder how success largely eluded them”: 60s psych rock duo Nirvana prove they were ahead of their time on The Show Must Go On
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• “I hoped we could go somewhere, with all of us making a living. I don’t have that hope any more”: Stubbornness, repurposed Kansas songs and letting a long-held ambition go helped Spock’s Beard make Noise Floor
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• “I’m not a massive fan of all things prog. But I must have listened to the Tarkus album a million times down the years”: Twisted Sister’s Jay Jay French wants Emerson, Lake and Palmer to be remembered for ever
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• Judas Priest recorded a cover of Black Sabbath’s War Pigs featuring Ozzy Osbourne – and they’re going to release it soon
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• Heart add more dates to Royal Flush tour
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• Livesay drop video for new single “The Unknown Soldier” with Ronny Munroe on lead vocals
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• Nikki Sixx says Mick Mars' claims that Motley Crue don't play live are a "betrayal to the band who saved his life"
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• “For the first time I was meeting resistance artistically. People were saying, ‘She’s gone mad now.’ I was a complete wreck – I’d wake up in the morning and I couldn’t move”: How Kate Bush answered her critics with Hounds Of Love
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• The Gems unleash video for new track “Year of The Snake”
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• Mammoth featuring Wolfgang Van Halen unveil video for new single “I Really Wanna”
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• “We’re definitely still a progressive band. Listen to the detail in what we do and the musicianship behind it – it all comes from that legacy”: When Soen’s songs got shorter but not shallower on Memorial
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• "I started going to rituals when I was 13. My mother made me robes and I had my own staff." Midsommar metal is officially a thing: say hello to Forlorn
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• The world of metal pays tribute to At The Gates frontman Tomas Lindberg
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• Watch Iron Maiden legend Bruce Dickinson sing the Star Spangled Banner for 66,000 NFL fans in Pittsburgh
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• Foo Fighters return to stage for first time in a year with intimate last-minute show in California
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• Watch Terrifier baddie Art The Clown ‘kill’ WWE wrestler Rhea Ripley during an Ice Nine Kills concert last weekend
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• “Drug dealers and freaks and crazy people left over from the 60s – all defiant and distorted”: The story behind the Rolling Stones’ iconic Exile On Main Street album cover
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• "I'm trying to put a little bit of love and just realness into rock music": De'Wayne's been working for 10 years, but people are finally paying attention
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• Bloodstock festival adds Saxon as first-ever Thursday main-stage headliner; 26 other bands also confirmed
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• Scottish post-rockers Mogwai announce UK live dates for February
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• "We’re honoured to collaborate with Iggor & Max": Massive Attack team up with Sepultura co-founders Max and Iggor Cavalera for special South American show
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• "There were loads of bands happy to make mediocre records. We never saw this as an option." The story of At The Gates' Slaughter Of The Soul - the album that revolutionised death metal
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• Sideburn to release album ‘Loaded – The Best Of’ on September 12th
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• "The band's interpretations of other writers' songs are so creative they're essentially new songs with the old lyrics and title": Manfred Mann’s Earth Band mix it up on Nightingales & Bombers
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• 10 terrible early 00s movies with killer nu metal soundtracks
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• Jeff Keith and Miljenko Matijević team up to release cover of Foghat’s “I Just Wanna Make Love To You”
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