Rock News 2025-10-20

• “The anthems are unloaded with the speed of a machine gun but the accuracy of a sniper”: What happened when Killswitch Engage brought one of the year’s biggest metal lineups to Wembley Arena
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• Pretenders and Chrissie Hynde Albums Ranked Worst to Best
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• "The realisation that life is not for ever made me very sad": Coheed and Cambria's Claudio Sanchez on why songs become more personal with the passing of time
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• Neil Young Expands 'Tonight's the Night' for its 50th Anniversary
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• "He was doing something that was light years away from all of my other heroes": The five albums that changed Ace Frehley's life
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• "One guy brought his mom’s ashes in an envelope and asked me to help him spread them after the show." Mortuary science, late night chats with Lemmy and a Butcher Babies exit led Carla Harvey to realise her true calling with The Violent Hour
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• What Are the 'Big 4' of Crappy Beatles '70s Solo Albums?
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• "Before she’s shot, she was eating an ice cream." From Scottish pride to writing songs for a Hollyoaks shootout, we spent five fun, chaotic minutes with Vukovi's Janine Shilstone
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• Kiss' 'Dressed to Kill' Box Set to Include Two Full 1975 Concerts
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• Chrissie Hynde & Pals, 'Duets Special': Review
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• Unexpected Vocalists in Classic Rock: 35 Essential Tracks
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• Intellectual, cynical, logical: The hit song about divorce and disillusionment that was Paul McCartney's favourite single of 1979
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• “I’m gonna play it with you and I’m gonna stay out of your way as much as I can”: The A-list comedy superstar who teamed up with two nu metal bands for the weirdest collaboration of the early 2000s
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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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• Original Kiss Guitarist Ace Frehley Reportedly on Life Support
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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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• “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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• “He sounds like he just smoked a big fat doobie”: Comedy fan Geddy Lee on the stand-up comedians he loves
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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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• “It’s something I say in one of the songs – ‘The separation starts here’”: How ‘the Radiohead of metal’ broke free from nu metal to blaze their own unique trail
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• Former Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley reportedly on life support suffering from brain bleed
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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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• Six Legendary Bands That Have Never Released a Great Live Album
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• “If it gets a bit tense we chill out with a joke. He’s good at that. Most of our messages are in a West Country dialect!” Thom Yorke isn’t the very serious character you may have thought, says one collaborator
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• Limp Bizkit bass player Sam Rivers dead at 48
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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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• Is Oasis Plotting Another Tour for 2026?
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• Kiss legend Ace Frehley dead at 74
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• Rockers React to Ace Frehley's Death
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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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• The Five Best Stories Ace Frehley Told Us
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• Win a Trip to Las Vegas to Experience Def Leppard in Concert
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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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• "I was blown away!" The greatest prog albums, as chosen by prog legend Geoff Downes
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• November 2025 New Music Releases
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• 10 of John Mayer's Best Classic Rock Collaborations
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• Vote for Rock's Spookiest Song: Ozzy, Sabbath, Maiden + Metallica
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• Can You Name These ’80s Music Videos From One Frame?
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• Former Jethro Tull guitarist Martin Barre to release autobiography in November
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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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• The Strangest Show Devo Ever Played
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• “Vanilla Fudge had covered a Supremes hit and turned it into something else. That’s what the band tried to do – put their own spin on it”: The iconic cover version that launched a legendary hard rock band – but nearly turned them into one-hit-wonders
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• Slipknot are suing anonymous owner of the slipknot.com domain name
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• 10 Great Rock Albums With Terrible Production
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• Revisiting Ace Frehley's Final Concert
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• A Look Back at Hard Rock's Best Tracks of the '70s
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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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• "The 'lost chord' they were searching for may have been a power chord": The Moody Blues attain peak psychedelic whimsy on In Search Of The Lost Chord
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• "All of a sudden I was like, 'I need to know where the door is...stop! Get the mask off!'" Tobias Forge reveals the moment he had a terrifying panic attack live on stage that'd change the way he approaches Ghost shows (and the mask he wears)
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• Top 20 Post-Kiss Ace Frehley Songs
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• “People have a hard time understanding how unsurprising Bohemian Rhapsody was to us”: These are the two early Queen songs that Brian May says paved the way for Bohemian Rhapsody
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• The Legacy of Rock's Most Hated Records
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• “Every time we played it, a circle-pit would open up – hip hop kids spinning with punks and heavy metal guys”: The weed-fueled 90s rap song that became a huge hit after it was adopted by metal fans
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• "He had this ability to pull this beautiful sadness out of the bass": Watch Fred Durst pay tribute to late Limp Bizkit bassist Sam Rivers
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• Are You Currently Planning to Marry Sheryl Crow? Read This First!
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• Somewhere there's a recording of Ozzy Osbourne duetting with Madonna
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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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• Jake E. Lee’s Producer Tried to Bribe Him $500 to Change One Note
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• Jethro Tull's Martin Barre Announces New Memoir
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• “I was already a loony tune before I joined Kiss”: Ace Frehley on what went wrong with Kiss – plus his relationship with Gene and Paul… and the biggest mistakes he made
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• Top 10 Ace Frehley Kiss Songs
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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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• Foreigner is ‘Excited for the Future of the Band'
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• Farewell to The Spaceman: The world of rock pays tribute to Ace Frehley
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• “I said, ‘If you want a great film, watch this.’ We watched it together on the tour bus, then our singer went out and bought the entire back catalogue!” Rush inspired a collective moment for an enduring Britrock band
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• "Seven years after they burst onto the scene, much is riding on this new album." Much hyped UK metal hopefuls Conjurer are back to their very best on Unself
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• Original Kiss Lead Guitarist Ace Frehley Dead at 74
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• Robert Plant Didn’t Want to Make a New Album
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• How John Lennon Ended His Fight With Todd Rundgren
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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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• Win a Foreigner '4' Box Set
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• "You can't dance or clap along to it. When we play it live, you can always see the audience getting caught out": How Genesis wrote the career-changing song that confused their fans - and Peter Gabriel
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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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• “It’s almost cooler that we never did release it. It’s become this mythical thing now”: The lost Nine Inch Nails supergroup that could have united two of rock’s most iconic singers
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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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• “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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• The Last Dinner Party - From The Pyre review: an arthouse horror film, a masterclass in raw emotion and irresistible atmosphere
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• Kiss Members Pay Tribute to Ace Frehley Following His Death
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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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• "They were ripping the whole place down. The bar was used as a battering ram to storm the stage." How a long wait for a metal singer's dealer to deliver the goods almost caused disaster at an iconic UK music venue
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• 50 Years Ago: Simon & Garfunkel Reunite on 'Saturday Night Live'
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• Phil Rudd: AC/DC 'Haven't Even Picked Up the Phone'
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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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