Rock News 2025-11-08

• See How These Famous Celebrities Looked in the '70s
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• Eagles, 'Eagles Live': Retro Album Review
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• Sleep Token, Deftones, Linkin Park, Ghost, Spiritbox, Nine Inch Nails and more among 2026 rock and metal Grammy Award nominees
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• "If I could go back in time and smack the **** out of younger me, I would. I didn't know how to ask for help." Killswitch Engage's Jesse Leach explains the turmoil behind one of metalcore's biggest anthems
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• Win a Jimi Hendrix ‘Axis: Bold as Love’ Vinyl Box Set
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• “I was getting to the end. I was like, dude, honestly, if this doesn’t work out, I’m going to do something else”: Will Ramos was ready to quit music before joining Lorna Shore
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• Tom Petty's Awkward 'Spinal Tap' Moment
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• Opeth announce live show at Pompeii's legendary Amphitheatre for July 2026
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• Kiss Announces 'Alive!' Box Set With 88 Unreleased Live Tracks
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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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• Toto Confirms First 13 Dates for 2026 Tour
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• Ace Frehley Was Working on a New Book
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• Pre-order new Skindred album You Got This on marble orange vinyl, exclusively through Metal Hammer
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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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• “Released at a time when many fans didn’t know the band still existed, it contains some of Robert Calvert’s finest material”: Hawkwind’s PXR5 plugs into the more celebrated Hall Of The Mountain Grill
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• Radiohead Plays First Show in 7 Years: Set List and Video
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• Squeeze's Classic-Era Drummer Gilson Lavis Dead at 74
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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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• "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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• 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 the song will resonate for the next hundred years": The story of the Kiss classic Kiss didn't actually write
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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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• "A triumphant two fingers to everyone who had written him off": Why Diary Of A Madman deserves to be remembered as more than the album that kicked off Ozzy's crazy years
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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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• "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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• Marillion add second Pompeii date for July 26 after selling first show in two minutes!
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• Barrett, Buffett Among 2025's Highest-Earning Dead Celebrities
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• Former Guns N' Roses Manager Sues Band to Stop Blocking His Book
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• Your 2025 Classic Rock Holiday Gift Guide
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• Watch a New Brian Wilson Lyric Video for ‘God Only Knows'
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• What’s Inside Yes' New 'Tales From Topographic Oceans' Box Set?
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• Journey Announces Massive Farewell Tour for 2026
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• How to watch this weekend's 2025 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony
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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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• On This Day in 1993: Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore Was Arrested
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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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• Jimi Hendrix's giant-steps second album Axis: Bold As Love, now upgraded with bonus tracks and new cover art
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• The Dumb Guitar Riff That Saved Journey’s ‘Don’t Stop Believin’'
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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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• "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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• Neal Schon (Sort of) Explains Journey Farewell + Post-Tour Plans
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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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• James Taylor Announces 2026 UK and European Tour
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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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• "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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• ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons Sets 2026 Tour Dates
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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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• "It was something that hit you like a flash of light, so you write a song about it": The story of the magical Saxon classic inspired by heavy metal music, heavy metal fans and... Toto?
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• Cosmic proggers Gong tease upcoming album with brand new single Stars In Heaven
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• “There’s no special effects – there were kids falling through ceilings, flying through glass, jumping off roofs”: From kicking booze to an anarchic video shoot, the story of Slipknot’s biggest single, Duality
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• Toto announce An Evening With Toto US tour with new setlist
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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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• “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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• Exploring Birdsong return to action with catchy new single Romanticise
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• Dutch prog metallers Textures announce Genotype, their first new album for a decade
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• 2025 Rock Hall Inductees: Best, Worst and Most Underrated Songs
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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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• Why Kenny Wayne Shepherd Loves Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Bold as Love’
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• 30 Years Ago: Queen Pulls Together Again for 'Made in Heaven'
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• The Power Station Celebrates 40 Years With Debut Album Reissue
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• Cool new proggy sounds from Jan Akkerman, Soen, Evergrey and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week
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• Rod Stewart Extends One Last Time Tour Into 2026
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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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• Watch videos from Radiohead's first live show in seven years - plus full setlist
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• Duran Duran Has Been Considering a Biopic
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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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• "It felt like my head was going to explode." Alligator murder, police raids and abandoned adult theatres: the story of the chaotic video shoot that helped make an underground 90s band cult legends
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• A female-fronted band is finally headlining Download Festival. It's about damn time
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• Joe Elliott on Why Bad Company Were an Unstoppable Force
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• How Neal Schon Wants to Shake Up Journey's Set Lists
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• Every Classic-Era Fleetwood Mac Song Ranked
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• Paul Rodgers Will Not Perform at Rock Hall of Fame Induction
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• Aerosmith, 'Done With Mirrors': Retro Album Review
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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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• A Miss World Chile contestant has stunned the world by singing death metal during the competition’s semifinal – watch here
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• Building the Beast: Iron Maiden's Steve Harris and Bruce Dickinson on battles, breakthroughs and the birth of a legend – only in the new issue of Classic Rock
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• Win a Copy of the Audiophile Edition of Tom Petty’s ‘Wildflowers'
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• 10 Things You May Not Know About Joni Mitchell
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• 13 Overlooked Covers of Bob Dylan's 'All Along the Watchtower'
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• “They told me, ‘David Gilmour’s not going to like this. You’re going to hear some thunder!’ You think he’s going to be one way and then he goes completely the other. And that’s good”: Pink Floyd’s Indiana Jones adventure with The Endless River
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• These Are The Only 23 Bands Whose Most Famous Lineups Can Reunite
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• This footage of Indian metal sensations Bloodywood playing Halla Bol will convince you they’re the funnest thing in rock right now
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
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• Get an exclusive coloured vinyl version of the new Big Big Train album Woodcut, only through Prog
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• Yes announce 15-disc super deluxe edition of Tales From Topographic Oceans
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