Rock News 2025-11-23

• "I found myself at 52, going through my third divorce and fourth financial collapse – from ‘I’m a millionaire’ to ‘I live in my car.'" J.K. Simmons, Ozzy Osbourne, Limp Bizkit and the adult industry: the wild and unpredictable career of Evan Seinfeld
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• “I get into arguments with fans all the time about this. Everybody’s like, ‘Oh, it’s just a leftover Stone Sour song.’ No, I wrote that for Slipknot!” How Slipknot made the greatest metal ballad of the 21st century
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• "We thought we were going to get a Top 10 but we got smoked by Abba and Oasis." Following Bring Me The Horizon, viral mosh pit-starters Malevolence might be Sheffield's next breakout metal band
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• Santana's 2026 Tour Dates Announced
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• Watch Robert Plant Perform 'Gallows Pole' on NPR's 'Tiny Desk'
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• Stevie Nicks' Men: 16 Guys Linked With the Fleetwood Mac Singer
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• "Music is fun when it’s bisexual and sexy and silly and over the top, when an artist struts across the stage like David Bowie." Heavy metal, severed heads and Rocky Horror: an audience with Creeper, Britain's most theatrical band
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• "The way he trusted me gave me the confidence I needed early in my career": Longtime Ozzy Osbourne photographer Mark Weiss remembers the Prince of Darkness
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• The Best Prog Song by 5 Hair Metal Bands
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• Steve Vai Praises Coverdale and Reflects on Final Whitesnake Show
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• Watch Robert Plant perform Led Zeppelin's Gallows Pole during Tiny Desk Concert set
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• "It's definitely different. There's a lot of soul music in there." The story of Luke Machin's debut solo album, Living On The Edge
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• "It's abundantly clear that this is some of Aerosmith's best work in nearly a quarter of a century." Aerosmith and Yungblud's One More Time EP is a surprising but welcome triumph
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• Lawsuit Seeking Millions from Eagles' Don Henley Dismissed
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• Simon Kirke Says Singer Change 'Tarnished' Bad Company
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• Doc McGhee: 'I Don't Believe Bon Jovi Would Have Made It' Today
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• "This girl walked up to me and stopped like she’d seen a ghost. She said, 'You’re not dead.' And I said, ‘No, you’re right.'" The sad, messy story of Alice In Chains’ final album with Layne Staley - and the beginning of the end of an era
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• Where to See Neil Young on His 2026 Love Earth Tour
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• "I didn’t like the stigma of being a YouTuber." How The Darkness' Justin Hawkins became metal's least likely influencer
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• Charlie Sheen remembers his “private concert” from Eddie Van Halen on the set of Two And A Half Men: “They did five takes of it, and I was like, ‘Are you sure we don’t need a sixth?’”
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• I'm a guitarist and metal obsessive. So why have I only wanted to listen to video game soundtracks this year?
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• The story of Porcupine Tree's Deadwing is on the cover of the new gift-packed issue of Prog, which is on sale now
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• "We owed everybody money. We knew that if the next album didn't succeed, the ship would sink": The inside story of the album that saved Queen
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• “People like Elon Musk are looking towards Mars, but I think we have issues to look at here first”: Why is heavy metal so obsessed with space all of a sudden?
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• "I started feeling the political wheels starting to turn toward conservatism a little bit" How a song on Green Day's most misunderstood album set the groundwork for one of their biggest acts of protest
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• 45 Years Ago: REO Speedwagon Releases 'Hi Infidelity'
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• Tool Kicks Off Overseas Tour With Three Big Rarities
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• "I’ll be honest, I wasn’t sure." Steve Harris had his doubts over Bruce Dickinson's 1999 return to Iron Maiden
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• "As a Beatles record, it is not very good, offering nothing exciting": Anthology 4 is more evidence of original reality turned distorted mythology
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• “When you were in that taxi saying Pink Floyd are w*nkers, my brother was driving it!” How Bob Geldof ended up in The Wall despite everything
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• “The decision to omit early music lends credence to the idea that they’re embracing pop influences”: Leprous’ An Evening Of Atonement live extravaganza
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• "When I left the band, I should have stayed left": Francis Rossi has some regrets about Status Quo's 1985 reunion
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• The Evolution Of Yacht Rock: Music's Smoothest Era Explained
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• Top 25 Rock Myths: Chasing the Truth Behind the Music
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• “They said, ‘You mean we’ve paid $12,500 for a piano player?’ My publisher said, ‘Yes, but he’s a good piano player’”: The label called it “unsellable”, the critics hated it, but this prog icon’s solo album went on to sell nearly 15 million copies
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• “The first minute confirms that their musical identity is intact – complex and multilayered without becoming bewildering”: Spock’s Beard reference their own past and future on The Archaeoptimist
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• The first two albums recorded by what became their definitive line-up: Now a seven-CD countdown to Thin Lizzy's lift-off
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• According to Glenn Hughes and Slayer's Kerry King, the rock and metal talent pool is drying up
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• What do Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson, extreme icons Napalm Death and the cold expanses of space have in common? A new documentary featuring music from some of metal’s finest
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• Our top-rated Loop earplugs are on sale for Black Friday - save 25% on the Loop range, including the brilliant Experience 2
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• "Like the best modern prog rock, The Archaeoptimist reveals more and more at every new sitting": Spock’s Beard are still pushing boundaries on first album in seven years
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• Revisiting Cher's Debut Performance on 'Saturday Night Live'
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• What to Expect From ZZ Top's 2026 Tour Across America
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• ZZ Top Expands 2026 Tour With New Dates
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• Iconic Rock Star Hotel Closing After Nearly 40 Years
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• Motley Crue Announces 2026 Tour With Extreme and Tesla
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• "If Morrissey says not to eat meat, then I’ll eat meat - that’s how much I hate Morrissey." The story of the hugely-entertaining, long-running beef between Robert Smith and Morrissey
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• “In America you had guys in bed sheets and placards with prayers on picketing the gigs. I said: ‘Who are they here for?’ And they said: ‘You!’”: The unholy AC/DC classic that riled the religious right – and marked the tragic end of an era
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• Ozzy's eldest son Louis Osbourne on being stunned by "awe inspiring" turnout at Prince of Darkness' funeral
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• Rock's Most Famous Post-Breakup Album Battles
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• "I let my father know there were no bad feelings. I sorted out a lot of my anger in his departure." A death, Nirvana, U2 and a crucifixion: the surprising story behind Metallica's most successful single (and no, it isn't Enter Sandman)
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• Cheap Trick Announces 2026 ‘All Washed Up’ Tour Dates
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• Grab an exclusve Orbit Culture/Metal Hammer T-shirt & Magazine bundle now
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• John Hiatt's 2026 Tour: Cities and Dates Revealed
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• Great new prog you need to hear from Einar Solberg, The Blackheart Orchestra, Blanket and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week
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• “We knew we were messing with prog royalty. It could have been like painting a moustache on the Mona Lisa”: Welsh duo covered Peter Gabriel, Mike Oldfield and others on their latest side-project album. They think they’ve got away with it
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• Ulver share ambient new single Weeping Stone as they announce "largely instrumental" new album Neverland
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• Aerosmith and Yungblud, 'One More Time': EP Review
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• “An intense work of dark, progressive beauty staggered out of the wreckage”: Blending Pink Floyd and Kate Bush, this band sustained permanent damage as they tore themselves away from Britpop
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• “I’d like to think that when you die death comes for you however you want, and I feel that it’s your strongest memory”: The bleak but uplifting story behind the emo Bohemian Rhapsody
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• “Wherever there is an end, there is also a beginning”: Arch Enemy split with singer Alissa White-Gluz
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• "Do you know how much fun it is to scream, 'I'm never gonna work another day in my life' really loud? It feels good!" How Monster Magnet came up with metal’s greatest f**k-you anthem
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• Ritchie Blackmore Postpones 2025 Tour Due to 'Medical Reasons'
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• Great White's Mark Kendall Has Stage Four Kidney Cancer
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• How a Bottle of Vitamins Helped Save a Tom Petty Hit
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• Why Peter Frampton Left Humble Pie Before 'Rockin' the Fillmore'
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• Guns N' Roses Announce First US Concert of 2026
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• Nikki Sixx Defends Vince Neil's Vocals After Fan Criticism
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• Rick Wakeman Reveals Recent Brain Surgery
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• Tom Morello Has Bad News for Audioslave Fans
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• Exclusive: Jon Anderson Shares His New Album Plans
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• “I thought no one’s gonna buy this because it’s too long. I thought our label would say, ‘Sorry boys, you’ll be hearing from our lawyers’”: How Genesis wrote one of prog’s wildest epics –with help from a rumoured exorcism
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• How 'All Right Now' Became an 'Albatross' Around Free's Neck
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• The Stone Roses bassist Mani dead at 63
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• Tom Morello says it's just a matter of time before unreleased Audioslave album sees the light of day
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• The 50 Best Title Tracks That Define Iconic Albums
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• Paramount+ just chopped 50% off monthly and annual plans for Black Friday - here's 5 unmissable music docs I think are worth a sub alone
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• “The bar owners pulled guns on us. It was over whisky and disrespect. We were 22 and hard as steel”: The incredible story of the forgotten Detroit hellraisers who blazed a trail for Alice Cooper, Bob Seger and The Stooges
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• The Marshall Black Friday sale is stacked with up to 46% off headphones and speakers – including our favourite AirPods rivals
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• “It deals with the fact there’s no hope of escaping The Trump Show. But if Michael League isn’t getting much sleep, his loss is the world’s gain”: Snarky Puppy & Metropole Orkest reunite for Somni
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• "I felt like Tom Cruise, and I'm nearly eighty": Dave Hill's Slade are hitting the road for the last time, but he isn't finished
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• Win a $1200 Steelheart Leather Jacket
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• “I thought, ‘Enough. I don’t know that I need this kind of thing’”: In the early 90s, Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor was at war with his label – so he did the most extreme thing he could
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• The Time Drummer Jellybean Johnson Dead at 69
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