Rock News 2025-11-10

• Journey Album Closing Songs Ranked Worst to Best
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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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• Journey Announces Massive Farewell Tour for 2026
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• Opeth announce live show at Pompeii's legendary Amphitheatre for July 2026
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• “People were partying like there was no tomorrow because they were gonna die. It captures that joyous nocturnal life”: Ghost’s Tobias Forge wanted a song to match Queen. Instead, he wrote the greatest plague-inspired metal banger of the last 20 years
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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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• "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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• 13 Overlooked Covers of Bob Dylan's 'All Along the Watchtower'
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• “I could see downtown Hollywood and all the transformers were blowing. It looked like the city was being bombed”: How Terminator 2, a banned video and a massive earthquake shaped a classic Tool song
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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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• “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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• "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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• Stanley Simmons – sons of Kiss duo Paul and Gene – announce debut single Body Down
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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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• Joe Elliott on Why Bad Company Were an Unstoppable Force
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• “Jimmy was up and running and in great shape – he was in fantastic form. I thought, ‘Job done’”: Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page and Bad Company singer Paul Rodgers’ 80s supergroup should have been huge. The reality was very different
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• Jack White -- Without Meg -- Accepts White Stripes Hall Induction
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• Your 2025 Classic Rock Holiday Gift Guide
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• How to watch this weekend's 2025 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony
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• Derek and the Dominos, 'Layla': Retro Review
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• Jack White accepts White Stripes Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction as Meg sends her apologies
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• Marillion add second Pompeii date for July 26 after selling first show in two minutes!
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• Dutch prog metallers Textures announce Genotype, their first new album for a decade
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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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• “They’d often taken leaps into more powerful, aggressive album tracks at odds with their hit singles. Then they went even further”: When a 70s bubblegum pop quartet surprised fans by releasing a prog album
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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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• 2025 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Red Carpet Photos
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• Twisted Sister to play first UK show in a decade at Steelhouse 2026
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• 2025 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony: Photo Gallery
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• “We all blamed each other, but we never doubted the song”: It took Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers more than 100 takes to nail one of their greatest songs – and it still ended up being “an albatross” around their necks
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• “If you want to play that kind of music, play it on your solo album. I’m not interested”: In 1971 Greg Lake enraged Keith Emerson, who immediately quit ELP. The result was their acclaimed album Tarkus
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• Squeeze's Classic-Era Drummer Gilson Lavis Dead at 74
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• Bryan Adams Sings Joe Cocker's Praises at Rock Hall Induction
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• “I had this void in front of me. It was intimidating. Then I realised I had total freedom, and it’s been amazing”: When one of prog’s biggest bands shut down, their guitarist bounced back by releasing three albums in two years
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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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• Letterman Offers Loving Tribute to Zevon at Rock Hall Induction
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear this week
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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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• "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 official footage of Lamb of God performing new single Sepsis live at Aftershock
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• “Morrison was very clever. He was a regular guy but he really played that image of his well. He was an actor”: The Byrds’ Roger McGuinn on John Lennon’s dangerous side, the myth of Jim Morrison and the forgotten guitar player who was as good as Hendrix
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• Rod Stewart Extends One Last Time Tour Into 2026
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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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• “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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• Joe Cocker All-Star Jam Closes 2025 Rock Hall Ceremony
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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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• Cool new proggy sounds from Jan Akkerman, Soen, Evergrey and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week
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• Chris Cornell’s daughter sings an emotional Fell On Black Days as Soundgarden are inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
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• The Killers Pay Tribute to Warren Zevon at Rock Hall of Fame Show
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• Elton John Honors Late Brian Wilson at Rock Hall Ceremony
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• 10 Things You May Not Know About Joni Mitchell
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• Watch a New Brian Wilson Lyric Video for ‘God Only Knows'
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• Twenty One Pilots and Olivia Rodrigo Salute the White Stripes
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• Win a Copy of the Audiophile Edition of Tom Petty’s ‘Wildflowers'
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• Eagles, 'Eagles Live': Retro Album Review
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• “Bacchanalian, primal, subversive, translucent… like what might happen if Robert Fripp’s drink had been spiked with acid”: 10 great psychedelic songs that’ll shake any prog fan’s tree (but aren't by Pink Floyd)
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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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• Why Young People Still Love Fleetwood Mac's 'Rumours': Interview
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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 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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• 2025 Rock Hall Inductees: Best, Worst and Most Underrated Songs
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• Jim Carrey Praises 'Majestic' Soundgarden During Rock Hall Speech
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• Mark Tremonti once performed a Led Zeppelin song with AC/DC singer Brian Johnson at a baseball player’s wedding
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• Sly Stone All-Star Tribute Kicks Off Rock Hall Ceremony
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• “If I’d put a live act together we’d have conquered the world. But it was a fear I had – what does a record producer do onstage? It was unfounded. We should have done it”: Studio veteran reveals big regret to a fan who’s now a big name himself
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• Neal Schon (Sort of) Explains Journey Farewell + Post-Tour Plans
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• Iron Maiden team up with West Ham United for joint 50th anniversary football jersey
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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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• "Just about enough charm to pass muster": Four decades down the line, Fastway's debut album falls short of classic status
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• Cyndi Lauper Inducted Into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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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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• The Dumb Guitar Riff That Saved Journey’s ‘Don’t Stop Believin’'
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• The Darkness Brings Rock 'n' Roll Spectacle to Austin: Photos
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• Bad Company Honored by Aerosmith, Heart Stars + More at Rock Hall
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• Kiss Announces 'Alive!' Box Set With 88 Unreleased Live Tracks
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• The Power Station Celebrates 40 Years With Debut Album Reissue
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• Soundgarden Brings Power and Emotion to Rock Hall Performance
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• Howard Stern in the Rock Hall? Nancy Wilson Wants It to Happen
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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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• Jimi Hendrix's giant-steps second album Axis: Bold As Love, now upgraded with bonus tracks and new cover art
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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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• Sleep Token, Deftones, Linkin Park, Ghost, Spiritbox, Nine Inch Nails and more among 2026 rock and metal Grammy Award nominees
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• “It’s hard to watch a friend face down their demons in front of you and come off second best”: The doomed blues hotshot who blew away Bono and toured with Dylan – but ran from fame and died in obscurity
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• Cyndi Lauper Celebrates With All-Female Performance at Rock Hall
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