Rock News 2025-10-23

• Rush Adds 17 More Cities to Surprise Comeback Tour
  Ultimate Classic Rock
• Jason Bonham's Sights Are Set on the Sphere: Interview
  Ultimate Classic Rock
• "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
  Louder
• This folk metal band from Inner Mongolia have just made one of the most unique and effortlessly enjoyable albums of 2025
  Louder
• "I can't imagine why anybody would want their music used or associated with something created with the sole purpose of dividing us": Even Kenny Loggins is angry with Donald Trump over viral poop video
  Louder
• "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)
  Louder
• How John Lennon Ended His Fight With Todd Rundgren
  Ultimate Classic Rock
• "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
  Louder
• "He just couldn’t do it. He had asthma, then he got a throat infection. The whole thing was downhill for him." The bizarre story of how two beloved extreme metal bands suddenly swapped singers...only to swap them straight back again
  Louder
• "I'd argue that it was the single most important thing that happened in the history of MTV": The story of the song that found 21 missing children
  Louder
• Jake E. Lee’s Producer Tried to Bribe Him $500 to Change One Note
  Ultimate Classic Rock
• “I was just getting my sound when David shouted: ‘OK, done!’ I was like: ‘But I haven’t actually started yet!’”: The future Motörhead guitarist who recorded a last-minute guitar solo for David Bowie
  Louder
• "Hearing them was like hearing Bowie for the first time…" The 10 best songs by AFI, as chosen by Creeper's Will Gould
  Louder
• Rockers React to Ace Frehley's Death
  Ultimate Classic Rock
• Eric Johnson Praises Jimi Hendrix's Growth on 'Bold As Love'
  Ultimate Classic Rock
• “This tour is us connecting with the cities and songs that help build us”: Scotland’s best metal band announce intimate UK/Ireland shows with rarities-stacked setlist
  Louder
• Can You Name These ’80s Music Videos From One Frame?
  Ultimate Classic Rock
• Is Oasis Plotting Another Tour for 2026?
  Ultimate Classic Rock
• "It certainly rubbed some people up the wrong way": The story of the sexually ambiguous anthem that got Placebo a tour with David Bowie
  Louder
• "That means start jumping and singing. It doesn’t mean start burning the place down. That’s not what I meant." How a smash hit from some nu metal icons became intertwined with the most controversial music festival of the 90s
  Louder
• Wolfgang Van Halen comes of age on Mammoth's thundering third album The End
  Louder
• Bruce Springsteen, 'Nebraska '82: Expanded Edition': Review
  Ultimate Classic Rock
• “I know that my dad was shining down on us from Heaven with pride”: Kelly Osbourne thanks fans after accepting award for her father Ozzy
  Louder
• You’ve probably never heard of this band, but their new album is a devastating space-metal odyssey for fans of Pink Floyd, Tool and great music in general
  Louder
• "While we were playing, a vehicle drove into the middle of the venue. I think the guy was trying to kill his girlfriend." We asked Ice Nine Kills' Spencer Charnas to give us some life lessons and man does he have stories
  Louder
• Bon Jovi Announces Return to the Stage for 2026 Tour Dates
  Ultimate Classic Rock
• The story of the terrible 90s horror film with the trailblazing soundtrack that mixed Metallica and Korn with Orbital, Moby and The Prodigy
  Louder
• 50 Years Ago: Simon & Garfunkel Reunite on 'Saturday Night Live'
  Ultimate Classic Rock
• The Five Best Stories Ace Frehley Told Us
  Ultimate Classic Rock
• "Getting a pair of nunchucks. That was such a part of my childhood": After 10 years, American sleaze merchants Zig Zags still want to steal your motorbike
  Louder
• "We are blown away!" Rush share new video as they add 17 more US and Canadian cities to Fifty Something tour
  Louder
• What Are the 'Big 4' of Crappy Beatles '70s Solo Albums?
  Ultimate Classic Rock
• "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
  Louder
• "It shouldn’t be a luxury to be able to afford to go and see live music." The Anchoress offers concessionary tickets to November London show
  Louder
• Disturbed’s David Draiman is beefing with John Cusack, after the Hollywood star called the singer “psychotic” for signing an IDF bomb
  Louder
• 10 Great Rock Albums With Terrible Production
  Ultimate Classic Rock
• “Some might wonder why Steven Wilson was brought in. But the art-rock credentials are never in doubt and its songs are progressive in an anarchic way”: XTC’s Drums And Wires returns
  Louder
• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: October 20, 2025
  Louder
• “It’s a toxic environment. Somebody is going to tell us what we’re not doing right”: American prog metal giants blasted back at being trolled for sounding like themselves
  Louder
• "For a song about facing death it's remarkably joyous": Former world snooker champion and modular synth player Steve Davis picks 10 favourite experimental music songs
  Louder
• Rush Adds 18 More Stops to 2026 Reunion Tour
  Ultimate Classic Rock
• Joan Jett Albums Ranked Worst to Best
  Ultimate Classic Rock
• Best MP3 players 2025: Regain control of your music library with these high-powered portable players
  Louder
• Neil Young Expands 'Tonight's the Night' for its 50th Anniversary
  Ultimate Classic Rock
• "It's the first time ever you can see me without make up!": See Michael Monroe as you've never seen him before in new Rockin' Horse video
  Louder
• “Security will think that you’re either the wife or the girlfriendof someone, or a groupie”: Lacuna Coil’s Cristina Scabbia explains how women are “treated differently” in the heavy metal scene
  Louder
• Farewell to music on MTV: it's the end of an era (even if that era really finished a long time ago)
  Louder
• With roots in the Peruvian jungle and influenced by an apocalyptic screenplay, Neil Young's most mysterious song became one of his most enduring
  Louder
• "Are they gonna think I'm Beelzebub taking their precious baby away, breaking their hearts and defiling him?": What happened when Greta Van Fleet's guitarist got himself a new band
  Louder
• Foreigner and Lou Gramm Have More New Music in the Works
  Ultimate Classic Rock
• "The guitar tone could flay skin, and his lacerated barks have never sounded so raw." 40 years into his career, Max Cavalera is still finding ways to freshen up his formula with new Soulfly album Chama
  Louder
• Rush Thanks Fans for ‘Very Heartwarming’ Support of Anika Nilles
  Ultimate Classic Rock
• "It’s about an ex-girlfriend who'd moved to Ecuador. I tried to be level-headed about her leaving...I was completely ****ed off." How one cosy but spiteful ballad helped fast-track the rise of the world's biggest punk band
  Louder
• “Some of the police were dealing dope! They’re knocking at the door and we stop rolling joints, but the promoter says, ‘They have marijuana for us!’” When America fell in love with an eccentric British prog band
  Louder
• Win Sammy Hagar’s New Live ‘The Residency’ on Vinyl
  Ultimate Classic Rock
• Bon Jovi announce return to the road for 2026, with shows in London, Edinburgh, Dublin and New York confirmed
  Louder
• "I get a message from my sister: 'Hey, I’m getting chased down the street by the riot patrol. They have the K9 unit.'" From getting the police called on their rabid crowds to becoming Australia's best live band, the incredible rise of Parkway Drive
  Louder
• Vote for Rock's Spookiest Song: Ozzy, Sabbath, Maiden + Metallica
  Ultimate Classic Rock
• Ranking Every Joe Walsh Eagles Song
  Ultimate Classic Rock
• "Part supernatural, part primal, part aggressive adolescent, he’s a super anti-hero." How Iron Maiden's Eddie went from a blood-spewing mask on a drumkit to metal's most iconic mascot
  Louder
• “A forensic foray into an album that changed how many thought about recorded music”: The Alan Parsons Project’s I Robot: Super Deluxe Box Set
  Louder
• Pretenders and Chrissie Hynde Albums Ranked Worst to Best
  Ultimate Classic Rock
• Billy Gibbons: Jimi Hendrix Made a Hard Task Look Easy on 'Axis'
  Ultimate Classic Rock
• Lynyrd Skynyrd Albums Ranked Worst to Best
  Ultimate Classic Rock
• Kiss Members Pay Tribute to Ace Frehley Following His Death
  Ultimate Classic Rock
• "Oh good lord, we brought the banjo!" Larkin Poe bring southern sugar and smarts to London on their biggest ever UK headline show
  Louder
• The Pineapple Thief's early years on Kscope celebrated with new box set
  Louder
• “It doesn’t just begin and end; it unfolds, then folds in on itself, and reconfigures with every subsequent play”: The Utopia Strong’s Doperider is an epic psychonaut’s journey
  Louder
• 25 Female Rock Bassists
  Ultimate Classic Rock
• Rush add even more dates to the tour they added more dates to earlier
  Louder
• Revisiting Ace Frehley's Final Concert
  Ultimate Classic Rock
• Phil Rudd: AC/DC 'Haven't Even Picked Up the Phone'
  Ultimate Classic Rock
• Jethro Tull's Martin Barre Announces New Memoir
  Ultimate Classic Rock
• Slaughter To Prevail guitarist denies that the band have Nazi beliefs, but admits the controversy around them is their “own fault”
  Louder
• Win a Trip to Las Vegas to Experience Def Leppard in Concert
  Ultimate Classic Rock
• “There was a real sense of excitement. We had a point to prove: this is the greatest rock’n’roll band in the world." How Iron Maiden went from East End outcasts to the world's most loved heavy metal band
  Louder
• System Of A Down, Korn, Deftones, Slayer, Evanescence and more to play insanely stacked Sick New World 2026 events in Las Vegas and Texas
  Louder
• Kiss, 'Hotter Than Hell': Retro Album Review
  Ultimate Classic Rock
• Watch Axl Rose kick drumkit and fling microphone before storming offstage in Argentina
  Louder
• “Gloriously original, its power to intrigue, disturb and seduce remains undiminished three decades on”: This 1995 album contains hip hop, dub, soul, industrial and ambient music. And it’s very, very prog
  Louder
• How ‘Back to the Future’ Honored Guitar Rock Legends
  Ultimate Classic Rock
• The new Japanese Prime Minister appeared on Babymetal's podcast and talked about her love of Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden and Deep Purple
  Louder
• Mammoth, 'The End': Review
  Ultimate Classic Rock
• Al Jardine’s Long Journey to the Beach Boys and Perfect Harmony
  Ultimate Classic Rock
• Avenged Sevenfold’s M. Shadows defends sending video message to Israeli hostages freed by Hamas: “It really is about two human beings that have been through hell”
  Louder