Rock News 2025-10-24

• Jake E. Lee Says Time is Running Out to Save His 'Badlands' Album
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• Iron Maiden announce Run For Your Lives North American tour for 2026 including Louder Than Life festival - and they'd like you to keep your phones away
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• Dion Praises Jimi Hendrix’s Playing on ‘Axis: Bold Is Love'
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• Rush Adds 17 More Cities to Surprise Comeback Tour
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• Joan Jett Albums Ranked Worst to Best
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• Foreigner and Lou Gramm Have More New Music in the Works
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• “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
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• Ace Frehley Honored at Memorial Attended by Ex-Kiss Bandmates
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• "Take cover." Foo Fighters announce 2026 stadium tour with Queens Of The Stone Age - listen to new Foos song Asking For A Friend now
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• "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
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• The Surprising Text Springsteen Sent After His Movie Was Finished
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• Wolfgang Van Halen comes of age on Mammoth's thundering third album The End
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• Mammoth, 'The End': Review
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• Sammy Hagar Laughs Off Viral Impersonator Arrest Hoax
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• Bon Jovi Announces Return to the Stage for 2026 Tour Dates
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• Rush add even more dates to the tour they added more dates to earlier
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• The Moment Ace Frehley Knew He Needed to Leave Kiss
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• “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
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• "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
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• Bon Jovi, 'Forever (Legendary Edition)': Review
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• Swedish prog rockers Wolverine announce first new album for a decade
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• Win Sammy Hagar’s New Live ‘The Residency’ on Vinyl
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• Paul Rodgers Says Bad Company 'May Well' Perform at Rock Hall
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• Watch Parkway Drive’s Winston McCall drop out of a helicopter onto the Sydney Opera House, because he’s cooler than you in every way
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• “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
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• "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
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• Billy Gibbons: Jimi Hendrix Made a Hard Task Look Easy on 'Axis'
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• 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”
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• Foo Fighters Announce 2026 Summer Stadium Tour
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• Rush Thanks Fans for ‘Very Heartwarming’ Support of Anika Nilles
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• “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
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• Watch Axl Rose kick drumkit and fling microphone before storming offstage in Argentina
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• "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
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• "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
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• “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
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• Listen to Foo Fighters' New Song 'Asking for a Friend'
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• Is Oasis Plotting Another Tour for 2026?
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• "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
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• A Spinal Tap Concert Film Is Coming to Theaters in 2026
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• "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
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• David Ball of Soft Cell Dies at 66
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• "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
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• “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
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• The Pineapple Thief's early years on Kscope celebrated with new box set
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• Disturbed’s David Draiman is beefing with John Cusack, after the Hollywood star called the singer “psychotic” for signing an IDF bomb
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• “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
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• "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
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• This folk metal band from Inner Mongolia have just made one of the most unique and effortlessly enjoyable albums of 2025
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• "Hearing them was like hearing Bowie for the first time…" The 10 best songs by AFI, as chosen by Creeper's Will Gould
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• Can You Name These ’80s Music Videos From One Frame?
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• Lynyrd Skynyrd Albums Ranked Worst to Best
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• 25 Female Rock Bassists
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• Phil Rudd: AC/DC 'Haven't Even Picked Up the Phone'
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• "I was in a cosy thing that went on too long... and I made a great escape": Robert Plant on musical freedom, unfinished business, and getting confused with Robert Palmer
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• “We thought, ‘Wow, that’s really cool – this was the guy that did all those crazy, terrible things’”: How Slayer made Angel Of Death – the fastest, freakiest and most controversial song in thrash metal history
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• How ‘Back to the Future’ Honored Guitar Rock Legends
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• Jason Bonham's Sights Are Set on the Sphere: Interview
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• Slaughter To Prevail guitarist denies that the band have Nazi beliefs, but admits the controversy around them is their “own fault”
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• Bruce Springsteen, 'Nebraska '82: Expanded Edition': Review
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• "Oh good lord, we brought the banjo!" Larkin Poe bring southern sugar and smarts to London on their biggest ever UK headline show
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• Ranking Every Joe Walsh Eagles Song
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• Al Jardine’s Long Journey to the Beach Boys and Perfect Harmony
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• “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
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• “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
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• System Of A Down, Korn, Deftones, Slayer, Evanescence and more to play insanely stacked Sick New World 2026 events in Las Vegas and Texas
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• "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
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• The new Japanese Prime Minister appeared on Babymetal's podcast and talked about her love of Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden and Deep Purple
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• "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
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• 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
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• Iron Maiden Announce 2026 North American Tour Dates
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• "They're really serious this time": Spinal Tap announce Stonehenge concert film of "final" show with Eric Clapton and Shania Twain
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• Bon Jovi announce return to the road for 2026, with shows in London, Edinburgh, Dublin and New York confirmed
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• "It certainly rubbed some people up the wrong way": The story of the sexually ambiguous anthem that got Placebo a tour with David Bowie
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• Best MP3 players 2025: Regain control of your music library with these high-powered portable players
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• “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
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• With roots in the Peruvian jungle and influenced by an apocalyptic screenplay, Neil Young's most mysterious song became one of his most enduring
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• 14 Things That’ll Take You Back to a Wild '80s Halloween
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• Rush Adds 18 More Stops to 2026 Reunion Tour
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• Eric Johnson Praises Jimi Hendrix's Growth on 'Bold As Love'
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• The story of the terrible 90s horror film with the trailblazing soundtrack that mixed Metallica and Korn with Orbital, Moby and The Prodigy
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• Kiss, 'Hotter Than Hell': Retro Album Review
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• “I once had a flirtation with heavy metal, and I regretted it very much. It didn’t seem to have any sense”: The British hellraisers who put legendary Beatles producer George Martin off working with hard rock bands
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• 10cc drummer Paul Burgess announces departure from the band
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• Calling all moshers! Get the new Metal Hammer with an exclusive Malevolence cover and cross-body bag
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• “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
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