Rock News 2025-11-07

• “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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• Duran Duran Has Been Considering a Biopic
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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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• Sting Extends North American '3.0' Tour Into 2026
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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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• “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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• Eagles Album Closing Songs Ranked Worst to Best
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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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• "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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• The Power Station Celebrates 40 Years With Debut Album Reissue
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• Why Kenny Wayne Shepherd Loves Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Bold as Love’
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• Squeeze's Classic-Era Drummer Gilson Lavis Dead at 74
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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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• These Are The Only 23 Bands Whose Most Famous Lineups Can Reunite
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• "He smells like the inside of your grandmother's purse": Spinal Tap's improbable return is the comeback no one expected – and even fewer requested
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• James Taylor Announces 2026 UK and European Tour
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• Tom Petty's Awkward 'Spinal Tap' Moment
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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 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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• Watch videos from Radiohead's first live show in seven years - plus full setlist
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• Metallica gave Wolfgang Van Halen a ‘Perfect Attendance Award’ for playing every venue on their 2023 and 2024 tours
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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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• Elton John, 'Tumbleweed Connection': Retro Album Review
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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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• “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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• “We were very aware of creating something that didn’t sound exactly like anybody else. Now, of course, it sounds like everyone else”: This cult Seattle band helped invent 90s emo. Then Dave Grohl poached two of their members for Foo Fighters
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• Kiss Announces 'Alive!' Box Set With 88 Unreleased Live Tracks
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• Watch a New Brian Wilson Lyric Video for ‘God Only Knows'
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• Former Guns N' Roses Manager Sues Band to Stop Blocking His Book
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• “It’s been an incredible ride”: Journey announce the dates for their epic Final Frontier farewell tour
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• AC/DC announce 2026 tour with 21 new dates confirmed
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• Toto announce An Evening With Toto US tour with new setlist
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• Aerosmith, 'Done With Mirrors': Retro Album Review
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• 7 Dumbest Kiss Lyrics, as Chosen by My Wife
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• “I was staring at the LA cityscape wondering what the hell I was doing with my life. I was examining every awful thing about myself”: How My Chemical Romance took alienation, anxiety and hair bleach and turned it into the emo Bohemian Rhapsody
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• Toto Confirms First 13 Dates for 2026 Tour
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• Radiohead Plays First Show in 7 Years: Set List and Video
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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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• Donna Jean Godchaux, Grateful Dead Singer, Dies
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• What’s Inside Yes' New 'Tales From Topographic Oceans' Box Set?
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• Jimi Hendrix's giant-steps second album Axis: Bold As Love, now upgraded with bonus tracks and new cover art
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• "Flying between savant inspiration, sporadic silliness, and some very, very good rock music": Paul McCartney & Wings crush the myth that Macca's seventies were mid
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• "It had a second life through social media, eight years after the album!" This is what it’s like when your song goes viral almost a decade after you released it, according to Swedish power metallers Sabaton
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• See How These Famous Celebrities Looked in the '70s
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• Exploring Birdsong return to action with catchy new single Romanticise
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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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• Yes announce 15-disc super deluxe edition of Tales From Topographic Oceans
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• “It’s the moment the cracks appeared and their decline into preposterousness began. It sinks under the weight of its own self-importance”: What members of Marillion, Dream Theater, Asia and more think of Yes’ Tales From Topographic Oceans
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• Paul Rodgers pulls out of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony
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• Are you the ultimate Bon Jovi fan? Take our quiz to find out
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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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• George Thorogood Announces First 2026 Tour Dates
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• ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons Sets 2026 Tour Dates
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• “Dave and I were in a position where there was no Plan B. There was no escape hatch”: Megadeth were broke, homeless and way behind Metallica. But this thrash classic inspired by Patti Smith and written on a borrowed bass would change everything
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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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• Win a Jimi Hendrix ‘Axis: Bold as Love’ Vinyl Box Set
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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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• 13 Overlooked Covers of Bob Dylan's 'All Along the Watchtower'
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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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• “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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• Every Classic-Era Fleetwood Mac Song Ranked
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• Barrett, Buffett Among 2025's Highest-Earning Dead Celebrities
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• "Jonathan was just bugging out. So we thought, ‘That may work out if Chester sang on the verse’”: The unreleased Korn album we’ve been waiting 20 years to hear – complete with Chester Bennington collaboration
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• Cosmic proggers Gong tease upcoming album with brand new single Stars In Heaven
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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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• Devon Allman on Jimi Hendrix and His 'Triumph in Spirit'
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• Pre-order new Skindred album You Got This on marble orange vinyl, exclusively through Metal Hammer
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• How Neal Schon Wants to Shake Up Journey's Set Lists
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• Journey Announces Massive Farewell Tour for 2026
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• Savatage announce European headline shows and festival dates for 2026
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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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• Ace Frehley Was Working on a New Book
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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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• Slayer’s Kerry King prefers Metallica over Megadeth because “Metallica has a singer”
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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: November 3, 2025
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• On This Day in 1993: Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore Was Arrested
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• Dutch prog metallers Textures announce Genotype, their first new album for a decade
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• "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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• 30 Years Ago: Queen Pulls Together Again for 'Made in Heaven'
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• Paul Rodgers Will Not Perform at Rock Hall of Fame Induction
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• A female-fronted band finally headlining Download Festival. It's about damn time
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• AC/DC Announces 2026 South and North American Tour
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• Paul McCartney Reflects on 1969 Death Rumor
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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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• Pupil Slicer have just made one of the most diverse, engrossing and essential heavy albums of 2025
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