Rock News 2025-10-18

• Neil Young Expands 'Tonight's the Night' for its 50th Anniversary
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• Original Kiss Guitarist Ace Frehley Reportedly on Life Support
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• Top 20 Post-Kiss Ace Frehley Songs
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• Unexpected Vocalists in Classic Rock: 35 Essential Tracks
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• Rockers React to Ace Frehley's Death
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• Sabaton Legends review: If you've ever found the biggest power metal band on Earth too war-obsessed, they've got something new for you
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• Original Kiss Lead Guitarist Ace Frehley Dead at 74
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• Somewhere there's a recording of Ozzy Osbourne duetting with Madonna
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• Avenged Sevenfold's M. Shadows records video message for freed Israeli hostages
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• “Our town has been polluted by heavy metal!” Sabaton storm the cover of the new Metal Hammer
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• Kiss Members Pay Tribute to Ace Frehley Following His Death
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• Former Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley reportedly on life support suffering from brain bleed
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• Kiss' 'Dressed to Kill' Box Set to Include Two Full 1975 Concerts
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• Win a Trip to Las Vegas to Experience Def Leppard in Concert
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• "That experience in Vietnam changed him forever. It certainly had an effect on our family, so it was a defining moment in my life, too." How a devastating 90s war song brought its writer and his estranged father closer together
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• Former Jethro Tull guitarist Martin Barre to release autobiography in November
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• The Hilariously Bad First Concerts of Rock's Biggest Bands
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• Top 10 Ace Frehley Kiss Songs
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• Sammy Hagar Rocks With Belinda Carlisle + More at Birthday Bash
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• Are You Currently Planning to Marry Sheryl Crow? Read This First!
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• “He sent back a really beautiful letter, allowing us the usage of one of his most famous and brilliant songs ever”: the 90s alt-rock anthem that stuck a Beach Boys chorus in the middle of the track and got the seal of approval from Brian Wilson himself
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• “It’s such a beautiful album cos she wore her pain.” Yungblud picks his favourite albums ever, including some punk, rock and Britpop classics
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• 10 of John Mayer's Best Classic Rock Collaborations
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• Revisiting Ace Frehley's Final Concert
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• “Like watching a molecular physicist beat up everyone in the pit”: This thrash metal band just released their first album since 1993 – and it’s the smartest thing to come from the genre all year
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• Eagles Extend Show Schedule With New 2026 Concert Dates
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• The Day John Denver Died
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• Great new prog you need to hear from Gazpacho, Airbag, Pure Reason Revolution, Alex Henry Foster and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week
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• So Poppy has gone and made a metal cover of Wham’s Last Christmas and it sounds pretty crazy
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• Watch Nickelback's Chad Kroeger serenade Sammy Hagar with Metallica's Enter Sandman for his birthday
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• “We’re Indigenous people fighting for our culture”: Endorsed by Slipknot, collaborating with Gojira and battling colonialism – how Mawiza became the most important new metal band of 2025
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• "It would be amazing": Sharon Osbourne gets behind campaign to change the name of Birmingham Airport to Ozzy Osbourne International
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• "We were by no means an overnight success. It took years of struggle and suffering": After 50 years, 38 Special have learned a thing or two about keeping a band together
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• “We played the song and then the earthquake alarms started ringing! They had to move the festival the next year because of that.” How a death metal band ended up writing a song so catchy and bouncy it rocked a 1,600-ton bridge
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• The Five Best Stories Ace Frehley Told Us
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• Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe to broadcast new album, Liminal, into space!
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• Kiss legend Ace Frehley dead at 74
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• "I've heard it's responsible for a whole generation being conceived": The epic story of rock's ultimate aphrodisiac anthem
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• Foreigner is ‘Excited for the Future of the Band'
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• “Everyone was out of their minds. Alcoholic drug addicts. I just remember all the excess”: In a haze of substance use and record label conflicts, Korn made the defining anthem of nu metal’s heyday
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• “There’s zero attempt to update their sound. This album won’t stun, but will stir”: John Lees’ Barclay James Harvest end 12-year silence with Relativity
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• When Buddy Holly Opened for Bill Haley and Landed a Record Deal
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• “It was the most amazing thing. I couldn’t have written it better myself because it was just so perfectly me!" How Ozzy Osbourne produced his most emotional anthem with some inspiration from his wife Sharon - and a stunning assist from Lemmy
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• "An alternate reality where Springsteen abandons his mainstream success in favour of a major cult career": Bruce Springsteen strips things back on expanded Nebraska '82
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• Chrissie Hynde & Pals, 'Duets Special': Review
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• How to watch the Mercury Prize album of the year 2025... from anywhere
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• Vote for Rock's Spookiest Song: Ozzy, Sabbath, Maiden + Metallica
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• "We are cooking." New Slipknot music is on the way, according to the band's drummer Eloy Casagrande
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• How Bryan Adams Almost Gave Away One of His Biggest Songs
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• How Oasis Captured the World: Photo Gallery
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• Farewell to The Spaceman: The world of rock pays tribute to Ace Frehley
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• "The long pause is over...see you in 2026!" One of the best alt rock bands of the 90s have reunited for the first time in 30 years
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• 50 Years Ago: Simon & Garfunkel Reunite on 'Saturday Night Live'
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• "It changed everything. After that it was never the same. I had to adjust my life": The story of the career-defining song with a lyric scribbled on a takeaway bag while stoned
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• November 2025 New Music Releases
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• The Strangest Show Devo Ever Played
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• Ace Frehley Albums Ranked Worst to Best
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• I'm bored to death of bands telling us they're "bringing rock back". Rock never left: it just evolved
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• "The more the value goes up, the more they're gonna hound us." An iconic 90s metal band are in talks about a possible tribute show in honour of their much missed frontman
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• “People talk to me on the street about it and say, ‘That song was really there for me when I needed it’”: the stirring 90s anthem inspired by Nazareth and featuring strings arranged by a member of Led Zeppelin that made this band absolutely massive
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• The Legacy of Rock's Most Hated Records
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• Robert Plant Didn’t Want to Make a New Album
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• Watch Foreigner Play Emotional Final Show With Kelly Hansen
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• "It's my 'I love you' to Joey." The story of Joey Jordison's post-Slipknot bands Vimic and Sinsaenum
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• “We miss you incredibly”: At The Gates urge fans to donate to Swedish cancer charity following death of frontman Tomas Lindberg
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• Win a Foreigner '4' Box Set
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• "One of the great rock voices of her era in her element": Chrissie Hynde & Pals' Duets Special is a quiet, low-key joy to behold
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• "Sabbath will not do it, they won't take a chance": How Ozzy Osbourne predicted the future and saved Motörhead's Heavy Metal Holocaust
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• No Doubt add 6 dates to Las Vegas Sphere residency after "incredible" response from fans
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• Pretenders and Chrissie Hynde Albums Ranked Worst to Best
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• Pure Reason Revolution will play Midwinter Prog Festival as part of their The Dark Third 20th anniversary shows
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• Watch Disturbed call for “unity” onstage as David Draiman continues to weather backlash for signing an Israeli bomb
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• "Yorkshire lads shouldn’t marry American actresses": How MTV and David Coverdale's wifemade Whitesnake into megastars
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• Six Legendary Bands That Have Never Released a Great Live Album
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• "We went on straight after Chappell Roan." From a platinum-selling Taylor Swift cover to hanging out with Post Malone, I Prevail have quietly become one of metal's hottest bands
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• “No one expected it to sell, but it did sell, didn’t it?”: the crazy story of an era-defining 80s classic that shifted millions but had such an expensive sleeve it sold at a loss
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• "From hippie-dippy noodling via crunching heavy rock and chart-bothering ballads to grandiose orchestral collaborations": Sixty years of the Scorpions celebrated on From The First Sting
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• “A peerless catalogue; a breathtaking, ancient setting; a definitive latterday performance by a band of all the talents”: David Gilmour’s Live At The Circus Maximus is a maxed-out experience
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• A Look Back at Hard Rock's Best Tracks of the '70s
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• "We’ve decided not to count drummers anymore, it got depressing when we got to two figures." An audience with Spinal Tap legend David St. Hubbins
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• We pay tribute to Supertramp and founding member Rick Davies in the new issue of Prog, which is on sale now!
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• The Last Dinner Party - From The Pyre review: an arthouse horror film, a masterclass in raw emotion and irresistible atmosphere
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• “Overwhelming to the uninitiated… it’s progressive as hell, of course, but also utterly unique”: Peter Hammill’s The Charisma & Virgin Recordings 1971 – 1986
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• “The bassist’s kids were waiting with autograph books because we were pop stars. But some of the fans were pissed off. I would have been too!” This duo were never meant to be a real band, but their hit single had a massive impact on prog
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