Rock News 2025-09-19

• The world of metal pays tribute to At The Gates frontman Tomas Lindberg
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• Heart add more dates to Royal Flush tour
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• “Lemmy couldn’t compute the concept of ‘subtle.’ It adds to a multifaceted, if superficially flawed, gem”: Hawkwind’s Hall Of The Mountain Grill returns in 9-disc edition
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• “This is the greatest rock’n’roll band in the world!”: Iron Maiden are on the cover of the new Metal Hammer. And it comes with three exclusive gifts!
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• The Darkness' Justin Hawkins responds to backlash over his criticism of Yungblud's Ozzy tribute
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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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• Two years into the post-space age, Hawkwind continue to explore music's deeper reaches on Hall Of The Mountain Grill
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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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• Paramount Plus to stream feature-length documentary about Ozzy Osbourne’s final years next month – watch the trailer here
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• Slash launches live video for track “Oh Well” from upcoming album ‘Live At The S.E.R.P.E.N.T Festival’
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• Warring REO Speedwagon members to reunite as grand marshals at University homecoming parade
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• End of an era — Hannes Braun stepping down as Kissin’ Dynamite’s lead vocalist
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• Sleep Token kicked off their sold-out US tour and performed two never-before-played songs last night – see the setlist and watch videos here
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• "It’s a massive family of geeks, freaks and weirdos." Satanic rituals, burlesque and cowbell - what it was like at Ghost Con, the world's only dedicated Ghost fan convention
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• The new movie from Portishead’s Geoff Barrow features an unhinged turn from Sleaford Mod Jason Williamson
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• "This is what art is": Mike Patton returns to action with new project AVTT/PTTN with folk rock stars the Avett Brothers
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• “I said, ‘I’m not writing another song until you’ve written one.’ I find it hard to get him to do it. He’d rather wash the car”: Polly Samson on cajoling David Gilmour into work, Pink Floyd’s awkward silences, and the words she refused to write
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• Pre-order your exclusive Metal Hammer x Creeper bundle, featuring a magazine cover unavailable in shops and new album Sanguivore II: Mistress Of Death on purple vinyl
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• Colin Edwin and John Wesley announce new Porcupine Tree-focused band Voyage 35
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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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• Depeche Mode release trailer for epic new concert film
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• “An aural record of an artist becoming himself”: Bob Dylan's early years explored in forthcoming Bootleg Series release
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• I Prevail Violent Nature review: the metalcore heavyweights' fourth album is a little hit and miss, but the hits go hard
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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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• Slash announces Live at the S.E.R.P.E.N.T. Festival live album and concert film
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• Six reasons to get excited about music in 2026 from the Coachella line-up
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• Iron Maiden announce more European shows for 2026, including phone-free Paris concert and secret UK date
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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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• Livesay drop video for new single “The Unknown Soldier” with Ronny Munroe on lead vocals
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• System Of A Down add second UK date to European tour with Queens Of The Stone Age and Acid Bath
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• Rick and Oliver Wakeman to tour together for the first time ever
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• Watch Slash and Steven Tyler guest with the Joe Perry Project in Hollywood
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• "There was just Ozzy and me at my own private show in the middle of a desert": I took photos of Ozzy Osbourne for decades – these are some of my favourite memories
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• Debate: who are the big four of death metal?
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• Highwire Saints share cover of Badlands’ classic track “Dreams In The Dark”
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• Yes announce new reissue of Fly From Here: Return Trip with Atmos mix
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• Mammoth featuring Wolfgang Van Halen unveil video for new single “I Really Wanna”
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• “Chances are your favourite musicians owe this band a debt of gratitude”: Your essential guide to every At The Gates album
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• “Often times, I’m motivated to write by some amount of melancholy”: revisiting Chris Cornell’s final album as it turns 10
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• "There are so many elements I never expected to see or hear!" New Van der Graaf Generator film shines light on only US gig from the 1970s
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• Buckcherry share lyric video for new single “Hello Goodbye”
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• Fury unveil video for new single “On The Town”
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• The best metal albums of 2025 (so far)
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• Nine albums by The Doors you need to hear... and one to avoid
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• Queen detail 50th anniversary editions of A Night At The Opera and Bohemian Rhapsody
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• “The sound universe that Soft Machine opened before me was almost unfathomable. It was a revelation, a musical epiphany”: Meet the Canterbury scene’s international next generation
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• Debate: Who is the greatest guitarist of all time?
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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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• Paradise Lost Ascension review: The godfathers of goth metal still find glee in gloom
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• Donnie Vie performs live with Enuff Z’Nuff as part of Illinois Rock N’ Roll Hall of Fame induction
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• Dirty Honey launch video for their cover of Bad Company’s track “Rock Steady”
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• Extreme drop video for track “X Out” from their 2023 album ‘Six’
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• Mädhouse launch video for new single “Mad To The Bone”
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• Mötley Crüe’s compilation album ‘From The Beginning’ now available
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• Aerosmith and Yungblud confirm collaboration details
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• The Gems unleash video for new track “Year of The Snake”
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• Lorna Shore don't want to be deathcore's biggest band - they want to be the biggest band in metal
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• BBC announces rescheduled Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home documentary will be broadcast on October 2
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• Dave Cousins 1994 album with Brian Willoughby, The Bridge, gets new makeover
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• "To Carry The Weight might be one of the most gutwrenching songs that I’ve ever written." Killswitch Engage's Jesse Leach on buried projects, ska records and how he once met the cast of Friends
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• "Everything about this band rules hard." Fantasy doom metal heroes Castle Rat have made one of 2025's most epic metal albums in The Bestiary
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• "Musical insanity comes in many forms. Igorrr are attempting them all at once." French experimentalists Igorrr go wild on new album Amen
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• "A superb album rescued from the dustbin of history at last": Buckingham Nicks' Fleetwood Mac-inspiring debut is finally available again
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• Frank Turner announces new career compilation The Next Ten Years
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• Chez Kane unveils video for title track from upcoming album ‘Reckless’
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