Rock News 2025-10-28

• “There’s no other band that drew me in like them. It was the mood and atmosphere – and the aggression”: Alter Bridge’s Mark Tremonti on the visionary extreme metal band who changed his life as a teenager – and got him fanboying out as an adult
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• How Bryan Adams Snagged the Reclusive Mutt Lange For His New LP
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• “My wife brought the phone out and thought it was a prank call from Maynard from Tool! Nope – it was actually Lars!”: This is what it’s like to audition for Metallica –and not get the job
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• "Love Chant is a wonderful and surprisingly vital return to the fray": The Lemonheads' first album of original songs in 20 years is up there with their best
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• "She was not a Rush fan." Geddy Lee on Anika Nilles, who will attempt to fill the very big shoes of Neil Peart
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• “There were three hundred people there, and two hundred of those sang along to it, even though they’d never heard it before”: How a pre-fame Whitesnake made an overlooked R&B song their own – and finally got the blessing of the cult soul icon who wrote it
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• "I don't think it would be the right environment for a proper rock and roll show." Guns N' Roses man Slash on Las Vegas Sphere
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• 15 Chad Smith Collaborations Outside the Red Hot Chili Peppers
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• Radiohead Blames Grief and Depression for Not Touring
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• "Proud to call this infinitely modest and generous genius my friend": Brian May shares video of surprise Tony Iommi appearance at Black Sabbath ballet
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• Warren Haynes Reconnects With His Roots on New Album
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• Dave Ball of Soft Cell Dies at 66
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• Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground Albums Ranked Worst to Best
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• Jon Bon Jovi hangs with fans on the tube as he prepares for long-awaited return to touring
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• Martin Barre announces UK book tour dates for November and December
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• On This Day in 1962: James Brown Records 'Live at the Apollo'
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• “I told him, ‘This is only a small town, we don’t have the infrastructure for an artist like you!’”: Why Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris was turned down after asking to play power metal stars Sabaton’s hometown festival
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• 10cc drummer Paul Burgess announces departure from the band
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• The 35 Songs Rush Could Play on Their 2026 Reunion Tour
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• Slash Explains Axl Rose's Viral Mic Toss at Last Week's GN'R Show
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• “He heard it and had this massive smile on his face!”: Ozzy Osbourne was a big fan of Judas Priest’s War Pigs cover, according to Rob Halford
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• Listen to Foo Fighters' New Song 'Asking for a Friend'
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• "I think the more metal people are, the nicer they are." Alter Bridge on the huge impact one wrestling star has had on their career - and why metalheads are the nicest people going
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• Dweezil Zappa: Jimi Hendrix's 'Bold as Love' is an 'Audio Movie'
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• “We were being told that we were going to be the new Nine Inch Nails, the new Nirvana, even though we don’t sound remotely like them”: The story of Godflesh – the cult metal duo worshipped by Metallica, Korn and Type O Negative
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• Gary Numan Returns to the North America With Dates Into 2026
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• “I feel like I got jerked at the Grammys. I don’t understand how they get best new artist." From 50 Cent invading the stage to Eminem still grumbling about it years later, the story behind Evanescence's chaotic first big awards win
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• Stray Cats Cancel First 2 Shows of US Tour Over 'Serious Illness'
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• “I had no idea it would be such a catastrophic event in people’s lives!" How leaving Iron Maiden, A Nightmare On Elm Street and the acoustic album that never was led Bruce Dickinson to write Tears Of The Dragon
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• “Completely spontaneously, I started yodelling. It came from nowhere”: How an eccentric Dutch progressive rock group made the strangest hit single of 1973
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• Steve Vai Says Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Bold as Love’ Had a ‘Huge Impact'
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• “For the few brave souls who invested, it was no easy listen. It was the most extreme music the young rock epoch had yet produced”: This 1969 album was a prog leap too far – and it wasn’t even by a prog band
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• “A fascinating opportunity to look under the hood of the songs and reimagine the strangeness they could conjure”: King Crimson’s In The Wake Of Poseidon and Lizard ultimate editions
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• Radiohead open up on "witch hunt" over their Israel stance
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• Ace Frehley Honored at Memorial Attended by Ex-Kiss Bandmates
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• "A record was made to reward close listening": Elton John - Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy (50th Anniversary Edition)
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• 14 Things That’ll Take You Back to a Wild '80s Halloween
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• "Even though he's dead, I believe that in a hundred years' time from now people will still be listening to him": Steve Vai on the wild genius of Frank Zappa – and the two words that made him want to join his band
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• "That song had a primal power, like it was about to come off the rails": The story of the speed-freak anthem that was the most important song Lemmy ever wrote
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• Swedish prog rockers Wolverine announce first new album for a decade
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• "The source material may be way past prime Bon Jovi, but that's almost irrelevant": Jon Bon Jovi gets by with a little help from his friends on revised version of Forever album
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• "It got so blown out of proportion." Slash on Axl's latest outburst and "killer" new Guns N' Roses drummer Isaac Carpenter
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• Cool new proggy sounds you must hear from Charlotte Wessels, Leprous, Hällas and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week
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• Deftones’ Chino Moreno once helped Max Cavalera bury Soulfly’s debut album on Native American ground to give it “Indigenous power”
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• Hear Kiss Go Country on Previously Unreleased Song 'Mistake'
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• “When the band played, we sold out to 14,000 people a night. If I play, I’m not sure 14 people will turn up”: He's fought off a crisis of confidence, but the frontman of one of prog’s greatest groups still doesn’t know who he is
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• Trivium’s Matt Heafy thinks it’s “silly” that their co-headline tour with Bullet For My Valentine only lasted three months: “We had to completely uproot our entire year”
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• Hear Steve Martin on Aerosmith + Yungblud's 'My Only Angel' Remix
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• Mastodon’s Brent Hinds had an “entire album” of unreleased solo songs, according to former bandmate
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• Last Chance to Vote for Rock’s Spookiest Song: Maiden vs. Sabbath
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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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• Ozzy Osbourne, 'Ozzmosis': Retro Album Review
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• Bryan Adams Albums Ranked Worst to Best
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• "When we would align, it was powerful." Billy Corgan praises estranged bassist D’arcy Wretzky's contributions to the Smashing Pumpkins
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• Iron Maiden Announce 2026 North American Tour Dates
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• Robert Fripp dons Satanic nun costume as Toyah sings an AC/DC classic and we may never sleep again
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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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• Sammy Hagar Laughs Off Viral Impersonator Arrest Hoax
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• Dion Praises Jimi Hendrix’s Playing on ‘Axis: Bold Is Love'
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• The Moment Ace Frehley Knew He Needed to Leave Kiss
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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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• The Biggest Rock Tours Announced for 2026 (So Far)
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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: October 27, 2025
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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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• “It was an additional, surprise, out-of-nowhere track and it went to No.1”: Ghost’s Tobias Forge on the Ozzy Osbourne-inspired anthem that turned his band from occult sensations into bona fide stars
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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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• "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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• Bruce Springsteen Movie Fails to 'Deliver' at the Box Office
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• We asked Metallica’s Kirk Hammett to name the best Motörhead song and this is what he told us
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• Bon Jovi, 'Forever (Legendary Edition)': Review
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• “Thumping remixes might test many listeners’ patience, but there are also treasures to be found”: Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version Of The War Of The Worlds in Deluxe and Ultimate editions
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• Aerosmith and Yungblud team up with Steve Martin for banjo-boosted version of My Only Angel
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• Foo Fighters Announce 2026 Summer Stadium Tour
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• The Surprising Text Springsteen Sent After His Movie Was Finished
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• “I have a history of reacting badly to music initially and developing a love later!” The singer who didn’t want to sing, and the change of approach that gave his band a second lease of life
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• Is Peter Criss Announcing His New Album on Halloween?
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• “We miss you. It’s been far too long. We found a solution.” A Perfect Circle announce first European tour for seven years
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• “They can write an arena-ready anthem with their eyes closed”: Goth’n’roll vampires Creeper are dead and loving it on brilliantly bloody new album Sanguivore II: Mistress Of Death
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• "Ace's is easily the best of the solo albums, although the bar is set pretty low": In which Ace Frehley annoys Gene and Paul by releasing the best and most successful of the Kiss solos
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• U2 Shares Fresh Update on Larry Mullen Jr.’s Health
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• Paul Rodgers Says Bad Company 'May Well' Perform at Rock Hall
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• “She had scratches on the side of her face. I said, ‘What happened?’She said, ‘Oh nothing, Keith threw the cat at me’”: Bill Wyman on Jimi Hendrix’s brilliance, Keith Moon’s madness and Mick Jagger’s brutal reaction to him leaving the Rolling Stones
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• Paul Simon, 'The Rhythm of the Saints': Retro Album Review
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• A Spinal Tap Concert Film Is Coming to Theaters in 2026
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