Rock News 2025-11-06

• "I don't know if rock needs saving, but if Wolf and his crew can't do the job it's because we failed in getting the message out that the messiah is here": Wolfgang Van Halen finds his voice and sets a high bar on third Mammoth album
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• Devon Allman on Jimi Hendrix and His 'Triumph in Spirit'
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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: November 3, 2025
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• A female-fronted band finally headlining Download Festival. It's about damn time
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• “Learned from the greatest". Watch Ozzy Osbourne's toddler grandson bite the head off a toy bat
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• "I think what we have here is failure to appreciate": Former Guns N' Roses manager Alan Niven files lawsuit against the band
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• Pre-order new Skindred album You Got This on marble orange vinyl, exclusively through Metal Hammer
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• 4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month
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• Yes announce 15-disc super deluxe edition of Tales From Topographic Oceans
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• What’s Inside Yes' New 'Tales From Topographic Oceans' Box Set?
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• James Taylor Announces 2026 UK and European Tour
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• These Are The Only 23 Bands Whose Most Famous Lineups Can Reunite
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• “He couldn’t stand up so I hit him over the head with my bass. He fell to the floor. I ran away… I didn’t know if he was still alive”: The bassist who survived Fairport Convention, Jethro Tull and believing he’d murdered his bandmate on stage
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• Why Kenny Wayne Shepherd Loves Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Bold as Love’
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• Former Guns N' Roses Manager Sues Band to Stop Blocking His Book
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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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• Pupil Slicer have just made one of the most diverse, engrossing and essential heavy albums of 2025
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• Slayer’s Kerry King prefers Metallica over Megadeth because “Metallica has a singer”
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• Limp Bizkit, Guns N' Roses and Linkin Park to headline Download 2026: over 90 bands confirmed for next year's lineup
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• Duran Duran Has Been Considering a Biopic
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• “It was those first two lines. I felt like it was speaking to my life. I knew I could deliver that song with conviction”: One day Sebastian Bach was playing to Jon Bon Jovi’s parents. The next he was singing one of hair metal’s greatest anthems
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• Toto announce An Evening With Toto US tour with new setlist
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• Radiohead Plays First Show in 7 Years: Set List and Video
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• "Some killer songwriting behind the blood and raw meat": Nine albums by W.A.S.P you should hear and one to avoid
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• "I think the song will resonate for the next hundred years": The story of the Kiss classic Kiss didn't actually write
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• Peter Criss Announces New Self-Titled Album
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• Sting Extends North American '3.0' Tour Into 2026
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• Ace Frehley Was Working on a New Book
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• Exploring Birdsong return to action with catchy new single Romanticise
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• "We wanted Wayne Kramer from The MC5 to be our guitarist": Founding Motörhead drummer Lucas Fox looks back on the band's earliest days
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• Motörhead’s Lemmy Kilmister once rammed a cheeseburger into a $2,000,000 mixing desk because he lost an argument
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• Liam Gallagher Slams Fan Who Launched Flare at Oasis Show
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• "I did the entire record in a wheelchair; it was brutally painful.” How a stagediving accident, massive hospital bills and the grunge explosion turned a bunch of "dirtbag punks" into Metallica-approved stoner metal icons
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• Win a Jimi Hendrix ‘Axis: Bold as Love’ Vinyl Box Set
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• Henry Rollins is coming back to music after over 20 years - and has been working with another iconic punk legend
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• “I’d love to play the battlefields where the song actually happened”: Sabaton’s singer wants to do a gig on the beaches of Normandy, on the anniversary of D-Day
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• ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons Sets 2026 Tour Dates
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• Paul McCartney Reflects on 1969 Death Rumor
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• “The edges were bound to fray – we were bound to take from each other. David Gilmour openly accused Roger Waters of copying me”: The influential folk singer-songwriter who never quite gained stardom, but gained massive respect instead
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• "Did you ever have one of those days when you want to go out, buy an enormous bag of coke and dive into it face-first?" Memories of a Hollywood night out with Ozzy Osbourne
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• Every Classic-Era Fleetwood Mac Song Ranked
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• Nancy Wilson Pens Poignant Lyrics for Early Heart Associate
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• Cosmic proggers Gong tease upcoming album with brand new single Stars In Heaven
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• Tom Petty's Awkward 'Spinal Tap' Moment
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• Aerosmith, 'Done With Mirrors': Retro Album Review
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• The Grateful Dead's 'American Beauty': Retro Album Review
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• “I asked them, ‘What’s it like to be famous?’ and they all said, ‘We hate it’”: The story of the landmark grunge album that paved the way for Nirvana’s Nevermind but set the band that made it on the path to darkness
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• AC/DC Announces 2026 South and North American Tour
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• Donna Jean Godchaux, Grateful Dead Singer, Dies
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• 7 Dumbest Kiss Lyrics, as Chosen by My Wife
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• George Thorogood Announces First 2026 Tour Dates
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• Watch videos from Radiohead's first live show in seven years - plus full setlist
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• Paul Rodgers pulls out of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony
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• “60 years from now, I can look back and go, ‘I did a song with the dude from Slipknot! And it was good!’”: What it’s like collaborating with Corey Taylor, according to Ho99o9’s Yeti Bones
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• AC/DC announce 2026 tour with 21 new dates confirmed
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• Paul Rodgers Will Not Perform at Rock Hall of Fame Induction
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• Eagles Album Closing Songs Ranked Worst to Best
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• Barrett, Buffett Among 2025's Highest-Earning Dead Celebrities
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• 30 Years Ago: Queen Pulls Together Again for 'Made in Heaven'
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• How Nirvana’s ‘MTV Unplugged’ Helped Fans Grieve Kurt Cobain
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• Elton John, 'Tumbleweed Connection': Retro Album Review
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• See How These Famous Celebrities Looked in the '70s
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• How Neal Schon Wants to Shake Up Journey's Set Lists
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• “I’ve always been kind of an exhibitionist and it was an interesting experience. I took it very seriously”: Biohazard’s Evan Seinfeld on the NSFW side-hustle that made him more money than music – and why fans should get over it
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• “Even though Dave might claim that he wrote Leper Messiah, he didn’t”: The story of every song Dave Mustaine co-wrote for Metallica – and what Megadeth did with those riffs
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• On This Day in 1993: Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore Was Arrested
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• Two Metallica fans have been arrested after climbing over part of the band's set at a show in Perth, Australia on Saturday
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• “They lock in and deliver really interesting riffs in a way that makes them sound simple, when they’re not simple at all” TesseracT’s James Monteith on the guitarist and band who changed his approach to music in the 90s
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• “Arnold saw me and went, ‘You! Out!’. He didn’t want anybody challenging him”: The incredible story of the 80s heavy metal bodybuilder who bent steel bars with his teeth and links Ozzy Osbourne, Jimmy Page and Arnold Schwarzenegger
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• Toto Confirms First 13 Dates for 2026 Tour
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• Are you the ultimate Bon Jovi fan? Take our quiz to find out
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• "It's loud, the guitars are right to the fore": Francis Rossi unexpectedly returns to boogie-driven Status Quo sound on new single
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• “I loved working with bands like Opeth and Marillion. I was starting to get a name for myself. But my New Year resolution was to learn to say ‘no’”: In 2009 this notorious workaholic was trying to do less. His career suggests it didn’t go that way
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• One of the best British rock bands of their generation just released their first new song in seven years - and it absolutely slays
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• Campaign launched to posthumously award Ace Frehley honorary astronaut status
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• Bob Dylan 'Bootleg Series' Albums Ranked Worst to Best
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• "It's remarkable that you can have a culture that's shunted into the west side of England that has nothing to do with the English at all." Robert Plant explains how the mystique of Wales and the magic of J.R.R. Tolkien influenced Led Zeppelin
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• "Speaking to your own child about that is very personal, vulnerable and emotional." System Of A Down's Serj Tankian reveals why he covered a Chris De Burgh classic - and teamed up with an EDM legend
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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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• “We were never meant to be a professional band...it’s like, ‘Oh my God, what have I done?'" A politician's assassination, a motorbike ride and a gothic Western: the story of the song that crowned one of Europe's most unlikely star bands
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• King Diamond given lifelong honorary award by Danish Arts Foundation
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• “Even my dental hygienist sent me something the other day to say they were all singing it at some wedding reception”: How a British boogie-rock band turned a minor John Fogerty hit into an all-time classic that kicked off the biggest gig in history
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• Savatage announce European headline shows and festival dates for 2026
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• "A vivid chronicle of Bob Dylan's rapid ascent and growth as an artist": The latest edition of The Bootleg Series tracks Dylan from Minnesota to Greenwich Village
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• “There’s no such thing as coincidence. It’s about being in a flow state. Joining the band I tripped to as a teenager… it all makes sense”: Gong may have lost some humour and older songs, but Kavus Torabi says they’re still supernatural
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