Rock News 2025-10-08

• Electric High to release sophomore album ‘Free To Go’ on November 7th
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• Watch: we asked a bunch of fans at Parkway Drive's Wembley show to name the best ever metalcore band
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• Kraftwerk announce their first UK and Ireland tour for eight years
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• Page 38 launch new single “Let Me Roam”
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• Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds announce new European dates for next summer
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• “I don’t know too many people that could have handled that pressure coming at you at such speed. It can be a deadly thing”: How grunge’s ‘worst’ band wrote the hit song that silenced the critics
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• Ozzy Osbourne admitted that he had a “life-or-death” heart problem days before he died of a heart attack
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• “He thought: ‘I’m just going to do an over-the-top pop song’ – a heavy metal pop song”: The flop single that became a power-pop classic thanks to one of the greatest live albums of the 70s
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• “Although I won’t be performing again, I’ve already got an idea for a new album”: 11 things we learned from Ozzy Osbourne’s new memoir, Last Rites
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• The 10 best double albums in rock music history
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• Pretty Boy Floyd to release Live from the Sunset Strip ‘Hollywood’ DVD
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• “Only if it really stinks will we redo it”: Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson to record his next solo album in January
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• One of rock music’s most underrated bands played Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night, and they’re still cooler than a fridge after 40-plus years
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• "Taylor Swift said that was the best song ever written": Goo Goo Dolls launch video of Taylor Swift duetting with frontman John Rzeznik
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• "While this chapter has come to a close, this is by no means the end of my path as a musician." Modern metal heavyweights Trivium abruptly part ways with drummer Alex Bent
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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: October 6, 2025
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• Michael Sweet asks people “to go easy” on singers who are struggling to sing like they used to
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• "Like a double bill of April Wine and Lynyrd Skynyrd": The Sheepdogs conjure up breezy classic rock vibes on Nobody But You single
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• Watch Anika Nilles demonstrate exactly why Rush have chosen her as their new drummer
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• “I think we’re all being pushed to the edge right now”: Listen to Megadeth’s thrash-adocious new single Tipping Point, the first taste of Dave Mustaine and co.’s final album
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• Shiraz Lane drop video for new single “Live A Little More”
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• “It was a moment to reassess everything we were trying to do as a band”: the song that saved U2 when it looked like they were on a downward spiral
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• Megadeth share video for new single “Tipping Point” from upcoming ‘final’ studio album
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• Miljenko Matijević (SteelHeart) & Jeff Keith (Tesla) unveil cover of Foghat’s “I Just Wanna Make Love To You”
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• “There was a sense of humour. We were taken very seriously by the world at large, but there was always an edge of fun”: The grimness of Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here may have been overstated
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• Hear Spiritbox’s Courtney LaPlante sing electro-metal banger Ties That Bind, from the soundtrack of new fighting game 2XKO
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• “If you strip away the images you could put us beside King Crimson. The musicality and ambition would fit. But for us it’s 50 per cent about music, 50 per cent about hair”: Sparks’ commitment to silliness is very prog indeed
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• Blackyard Riot unleash video for new single “Higher” from upcoming debut album ‘It Might Get Loud’
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• Amazon has hundreds of rock & metal t-shirts on sale for Prime Day - from Sabbath to Sleep Token, here’s my top picks
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• "War On Drugs, suck my ****": Six classic indie diss tracks you never knew about
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• Artificial Agent & The Motor City Horns unveil cover of Alice Cooper’s “Welcome To My Nightmare”
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• Bruce Kulick has nothing but praise and gives “5 stars” for Mötley Crüe’s live performance on October 1st
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• Preorder Megadeth’s final album on limited copper/emerald vinyl, plus an art card signed by the band only available through Metal Hammer
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• “There’s a weird sexual energy with a lot of it”: Country star Hardy loves Sleep Token, urges the haters to look past genre tags
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• Tie up the Loose Ends in your Springsteen collection this Prime Day with 27% off this epic 9LP vinyl box set
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• How to watch new Paramount documentary Ozzy: No Escape From Now - no matter where you are
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• Ozzy: No Escape From Now review – an imperfect but essential look at Ozzy Osbourne’s final years
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• Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross's inaugural Future Ruins film festival cancelled
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• "We’re fortunate that people now appreciate what we do. It hasn’t always been that way. Nothing polarises people quite like we do, for some reason”: The mindset behind Rush’s final album, Clockwork Angels
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• “I strive to get away from the Genesis vibe. But it’s so deeply ingrained… I’ve been doing it longer than Peter Gabriel was in the band!” Nad Sylvan is more himself than ever on solo album Monumentata
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• Razorbats drop lyric video for new single “The Race Is On” from upcoming album
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• “There was one troll who slagged it off, but I think he was a fan from the Fish years!” Marillion’s Steve Rothery and Tangerine Dream’s Thorsten Quaeschning took six years to make Gentō, an album that sounds like neither of their bands
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• "People found out we weren't The Beatles and that came back to haunt us": The curious case of the band whose career was derailed by a rumour
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• “We knocked out ten songs and that ended up being the bulk of the first record, so that first week was pretty good!”: it’s 35 years since Pearl Jam had their very first rehearsal and a generational rock band was born
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• "I think her name is Anika": Geddy Lee was telling people about Rush's new drummer two years ago
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• Watch video for new Megadeth single Tipping Point
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• "I wish I wrote it - I would’ve made a lot more cash!" The story of the English song that was minor hit in Europe before becoming an all-American classic
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• Canadian bassist Chuck Lambert retiring from touring after his upcoming UK tour with Chris Holmes
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• “The further I got away from it, the more I thought, ‘It’s OK. We had 40 years. I’m tired of hanging around a hotel, being away from family’”: Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee explain why now is the time to reunite Rush
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• Thunderor frontman JJ Tartaglia goes back to his roots with video for new single “Cape Breton Home”
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• "They might just be the most essential live show in metal right now." We're not entirely sure we can do justice to just how epic Parkway Drive's Wembley show was
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• “It’s Sharon’s song. One of her favourites. Lemmy wrote it with the two of us in mind”: Just before he died, Ozzy Osbourne revealed the song that made him cry during the Back To The Beginning gig
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• Paul Lidel’s Scream Therapy unleash video for title track from upcoming album ‘Are You Ready’
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• "It's pretty amazing that rock lasted for seventy-five years": Todd Rundgren on the demise of rock, fighting hate and why listeners don't like albums
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• Crashdïet withdraw from upcoming tour starting in November with Kissin’ Dynamite
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• “He tried to stab Dio with a fork!”: The first time Ozzy Osbourne met Ronnie James Dio it nearly ended in bloodshed
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• "Carl McCoy's voice sounds like that of a man who dug himself out of an unmarked grave": Fields Of The Nephilim take 80s goth to its logical extreme on The Nephilim
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• “Let me just put this record on and clear the room! Or play it to a girlfriend and then wonder why she threw herself out the window”: Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson on the cult prog rock mavericks who inspired him – but were too out-there to be successful
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• "I want to try your clothes on!" Toyah and Robert Fripp explore uncharted musical territory in new Sunday Lunch video
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• "While younger generations fanny around with cynical pop compromises, they're here to break necks." Looking for the best thrash metal album of 2025? Testament have your back with Para Bellum
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• "They're trying to insert themselves into a conversation to obtain some kind of relevancy": Yungblud slams critics of his Ozzy Osbourne tribute
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• The odds of finding a better Lego Star Wars deal this Prime Day? Approximately 3,720 to 1 - save 30% on this C-3PO lego set
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• "Life is full of surprises!" Rush announce first live shows in eleven years, reveal new live drummer
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• I've been a metal guitarist for almost two decades and not enough people talk about these incredible guitar-shredding albums
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