Rock News 2025-11-01

• Iron Maiden Expands 2026 North American Tour
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• Limp Bizkit's Break Stuff tops Billboard chart 25 years after release
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• Paul Rodgers Loves Jimi Hendrix’s Emotional ‘Bold as Love'
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• The Moody Blues Albums Ranked Worst to Best
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• Kim Kardashian’s daughter North West and her friends dressed up as Babymetal for Halloween – and they absolutely smashed it
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• "John Lennon walked past me and said, 'Great record'": The story of the Alice Cooper song that began as a failed single on an album one critic called "a tragic waste of plastic" but finished as a worldwide smash hit
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• Ozzy Osbourne's Grandson Bites Head off 'Bat' in New Video
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• "I was in the hotel with Joni Mitchell, but then the helicopter pilots decided they wanted more money": The last interview with Terry Reid
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• 2005 is calling, and it wants you back: Why the return of the MP3 player is a mini vinyl revival in the making
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• Gary Numan Returns to the North America With Dates Into 2026
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• Fleetwood and Perry Among 19 Newly Announced RRHOF Presenters
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• "The hooks are heavier, the peaks are higher, and the pacing is picture-perfect": Creeper drop the performance of their lives on Sanguivore II - Mistress Of Death
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• "There's loads of Hives in South America": The Hives on making their Back In Black, royal waves, and how the official franchise programme is going
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• Pink Floyd Album Honored by British Poet Laureate
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• Bad Company Will Perform Two Songs at Their Rock Hall Induction
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• "We thought, 'Maybe we've taken death metal as far as it can go.'" Bungled million-dollar deals, getting wasted with Zakk Wylde and a housewrecking music video: how former extreme metal musicians made one of nu metal's biggest anthems
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• Pierre Robert, Philadelphia Radio Legend, Dead at 70
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• "How all deluxe releases should be done": The latest upmarket makeover of The Who's Who Are You is interesting and exhaustive
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• The Pineapple Thief, Animals As Leaders, Protest The Hero and Ihlo all announced for next year's Radar Festival
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• 'Sue Me': George Lynch Admits He Lied About Disbanding Lynch Mob
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• "You don’t go to therapy once and they tell you how to not feel a certain way." Deftones' Chino Moreno explains why his sobriety is a work in progress
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• "The lyrics weren't a celebration of excess or debauchery, but a detached description of what was going on": The story of Ian Dury's biggest hit, a song that was never actually a hit at all
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• "It was my first time hearing heavy metal – and I was terrified of it." Here are 8 spooky metal classics you need on your Halloween playlist this year
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• "We'd been going down well until that happened": How The Nice offended Leonard Bernstein and the US Embassy
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• "A naturally downbeat portrait of a breakdown, albeit one soundtracked by some terrific tunes": Jeremy Allen White shines in the Boss's breakdown biopic Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere
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• “Leonardo DiCaprio released a movie with the exact same storyline. It was as if he’d bugged the room! We scrapped the whole thing”: When fate intervened to destroy an art-rock record, its creators wrote an album about fate
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• "I dug the record 'cause it was incorporating hip hop into rock. I was like, 'This is cool!'" How one rap legend joined the unlikeliest tour ever to help bring hip hop to the nu metal generation
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• Bootsy Collins Explains Why Jimi Hendrix Was a ‘Magical Musician'
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• Brian Setzer's Health Struggles Lead to Tour Cancellation
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• Megadeth's Final Album to Feature Cover of Classic Metallica Song
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• Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground Albums Ranked Worst to Best
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• “This is a tip of a hat to Metallica for everything that they’ve done, and everything that we’ve done”: Dave Mustaine explains why Megadeth reimagined Ride The Lightning for their final album
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• "I don’t think so. No." Roddy Bottum on whether he'd play with Faith No More again
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• “As sprawling musically as it is thematically, closing an epic cycle in style”: Lunatic Soul’s The World Under Unsun is a triumphant journey’s end
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• "It was quite a dramatic scene": Brass bat attached to the birthplace of heavy metal in unauthorised Ozzy-themed guerrilla protest
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• What It Was Like to Be Home Sick From School in the 1980s
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• "While there's still a possibility of Thunder coming back, I willkeep the door open": Luke Morley on his band, his other band, his solo career and wearing silver suits in the sun
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• 11 Famous Halloween Rock Concerts
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• “Idiosyncrasies flow naturally; melodies hit hard, seamlessly twisting in unexpected ways”: Gazpacho’s Magic 8-Ball explores characters at breaking point
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• “Queen’s tech said, ‘The lads would love to see you.’ It was a set-up – when I got there they’d set up the studio for me”: Steve Howe’s favourite moments as a guitar for hire, and the one that got away
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• Sammy Hagar Is Doing Something He Hasn’t Done for 30 Years
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• Peter Criss Announces New Self-Titled Album
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• "Our relationship was up and down and up and down and up and down and difficult but at the same time fantastic": Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham are definitely speaking again
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• "She was so ****ed off that she tried to get us chucked out of the hotel." The wild night Green Day trashed their hotel room, rang a Rolling Stone and did something unspeakable over an Oscar-winning actress' balcony
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• What’s the greatest prog concept album of all time?
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• “What can we do to make people realise what a great soul we lost? We can turn that sad energy into this great album”: Tragedy lies behind most of Mastodon’s music. Hushed And Grim was no different
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• What is Thomas Dolby Plotting?
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• Bob Dylan, 'Bootleg Series 18: Through the Open Window': Review
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• “You can get to where you just want to keep your fanbase and make some money. We’re never going to compromise the art, and this is where it took us”: The former metalcore brats who astonished everyone with a prog concept album
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• A new Tony Banks biography is to be published in February
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• TesseracT share first new music from upcoming live release RADAR with video for the emotive Tender
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• Todd Rundgren on How Jimi Hendrix Evolved With ‘Bold as Love'
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• Great new proggy sounds you must hear from Another Realm, Unprocessed, The Owl Service and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week
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• Stewart Copeland on How Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Bold as Love’ Changed Him
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• “It twists their carnival metal into a set of huge, sticky choruses”: Avatar’s Don’t Go In The Forest is the Halloween metal album for people who like their massive 80s tunes with a side order of creepiness
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• Kiss Fights Grunge to a Draw on 'Carnival of Souls': Retro Review
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• Enter Now: Here's How You Could Win a $500 Target Gift Card
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• When I was 14, I thought Limp Bizkit were the coolest band in the world. At 38, I often still do
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• Is Peter Criss Announcing His New Album on Halloween?
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• Soundgarden Members Talk Final Album and RRHOF Performance Guests
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• Robert Plant and Saving Grace Shine at First US Show: Set List
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• “I made more money in the first three years of the porn business than I made in 20 years of playing music”: Biohazard’s Evan Seinfeld explains how he started making adult films
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• Bryan Adams Albums Ranked Worst to Best
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• Stray Cats Cancel First 2 Shows of US Tour Over 'Serious Illness'
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• Asia announce a low-key UK warm-up charity show ahead of next year's Japanese tour
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• Artists Recall Their Time on Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue
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• “Not sure when we will be headed back out”: David Draiman says Disturbed need a “nice, long break” as controversial European tour comes to a close
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• “The pitch was: ‘Kid plays record backwards to unleash revengeful ghost rocker’”: How Ozzy Osbourne, Gene Simmons and Eddie Munson’s “long lost cousin” helped make the greatest Halloween-friendly heavy metal horror movie of the 80s
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• "I've always hated it. I sound like a little kid!" From label interference to an acrimonious split, the story behind the classic Evanescence song that Amy Lee (eventually) learned to love
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• "Probably the most unlikely rock star ever to grace the world's stages": Every Meat Loaf album ranked, from worst to best
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• Tool, Bring Me The Horizon, My Chemical Romance, Shinedown, Halestorm, Megadeth, Alter Bridge and over 130 more bands will play next year's Sonic Temple festival in Ohio
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• "We've decided to lean into denser, more complex instrumental compositions…" Better Strangers, featuring Nic Collins, are back and even proggier on new EP
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• “You’ll hear him say everything from, ‘I never wanted it to be a single’ to ‘I hated the song’”: The huge Linkin Park hit that Chester Bennington didn’t even want on Hybrid Theory
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• The Day Bill Berry Left R.E.M. to Become a Farmer
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• Scott Sorry, former bassist with The Wildhearts, dead at 47
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• Marillion announce live at Pompeii show for July 2026
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• “I was with Ozzy nine months and it didn’t end in a good break-up”: Drum legend Carmine Appice on getting high with Jimi Hendrix, falling out with Ozzy Osbourne and the late guitar hero he spoke to just before he died
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• Arctangent – the UK’s best prog metal festival – announces first bands for 2026, including Igorrr, Svalbard, Alcest, Agent Fresco, Chat Pile
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• Stevie Nicks Reveals She and Lindsey Buckingham Are Talking Again
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• Bob Dylan 'Bootleg Series' Albums Ranked Worst to Best
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• ZZ Top Flies Too Close to the Sun on 'Afterburner': Retro Review
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• "It was about a feeling of being a terrible person and f***ing up everything." Rejected by MTV, lonely nights on the road and the start of a split: the story of Nightwish anthem Nemo
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• "These typical metalheads, long-haired with their jackets, they’re the ones standing there and singing Backstreet Boys and Cascada." Five minutes with Electric Callboy, the band "making metal accessible"
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• Bon Jovi's 2026 Tour Announced: New Dates
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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