Rock News 2026-03-03

• "Two things I never wanted to be was sober and a Christian. And here I am now — a follower, a sober guy." A nu metal hero says he's fully invested in religion after lengthy battle with addiction
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• Ringo Starr's New Album 'Long Long Road' Set for April Release
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• "It didn’t hurt or anything. It was just ****ing scary.” We threw one of metal's most promising bands off a bridge
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• Eric Clapton announces US tour dates
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• Why Paul Stanley Thinks This Kiss Album Cover 'Sucks'
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• Who Are the 'Big 4' of ’60s London Bands?
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• “Where would I be right now if I didn’t have one of the biggest bands in the world spending their time trying to hold me back?” Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine claims Metallica and others held him back during early career
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• "The noise is deafening. The whole hotel shakes. It’s very frightening." Asia guitarist John Mitchell caught up in Middle East conflict
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• Eagles' Sphere Show Continues to Amaze: Live Review
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• Hear Peter Gabriel's New Single, 'What Lies Ahead'
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• Journey Kicks Off 'Final Frontier' Tour: Set List, Video
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• "You make money touring and you give your music away for free, which is why tickets cost so much." Twisted Sister's Jay Jay French on making a living in music
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• "It’s very, very exciting." Black Sabbath to be given the classical treatment on UK tour featuring local orchestras
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• “It’s brutal. Energy and power and speed… without that album, there would be no Metallica or Slayer or Sepultura”: Soulfly frontman Max Cavalera names the greatest riff in heavy metal – and the controversial 80s album he thinks is a “joke”
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• “I interviewed him and he denied ever hearing the album. I find that somewhat hard to believe”: Did Jethro Tull inspire a character in Spinal Tap? The actor says no. Ian Anderson’s not so sure
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• If You Grew Up in the ’80s, You Had These at Home
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• "The jams that turned into songs on the album began with us playing out in the woods at night. Crazy spirit." Meet Ever Age: The 21st-century power trio whose debut album might just be a once-in-a-generation record
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• “A 15-minute discussion with the Hells Angels ensued, prior to me being hit in the mouth with the end of a pool cue and having my front teeth knocked out”: In 1969, the world’s most dangerous band toured America – and changed rock’n’roll forever
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• "I definitely saw an unidentified flying object that night." Why this heavy metal icon is convinced he saw a UFO one fateful night in North Carolina
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• "Nothing Is What It Seems was written about Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. They're the liar and the thief in the song": Brinsley Schwarz on his state-of-the-world album Shouting At The Moon
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• "An unexpurgated burst of creativity with no nuance or tact or second-guessing. Just raw, hard rock frenzy unleashed." Japan's Flower Travellin' Band aren't for the faint-hearted on proto-prog-guitar-wigout Satori
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• 45 Years Ago: 'You Better You Bet' Becomes the Who's Final Hit
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• “There was no plans to stop it. We were still gonna do it, but Ozzy couldn’t”: Legendary metal touring festival Ozzfest will “absolutely” return in 2027
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• Radio Legend Uncle Joe Benson Dead at 76
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• Watch star-studded BRIT Awards tribute to Ozzy Osbourne
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• The Sebastian Bach Vocal Warm-Up Axl Rose Does All The Time
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• "We were just snot-nosed punks doing what we were doing. It's pretty amazing that the record has stood the test of time." One of the greatest rock albums of all time celebrates its 40th birthday today
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• Twisted Sister Will Tour in 2026 With Sebastian Bach
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• Sammy Hagar 'Disappointed' at Exclusion From Van Halen Project
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• The Guess Who Confirm Summer 2026 U.S. Tour Dates
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• 15 '80s Albums That Stopped Rock's Biggest Stars in Their Tracks
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• “What Keith Moon did on drums, he did on keyboards. Without him the genre would be much poorer”: When Geoff Downes saw Keith Emerson live, he found immediate inspiration
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• "We saw the end coming." How the 90s' last big rock band reinvented after their frontman went off the rails - courtesy of one of the best singers in the game
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• Metallica to Add Six More Dates to 2026 Sphere Residency
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• Carole King Albums Ranked Worst to Best
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• Iron Maiden to Take a Break From Touring for All of 2027
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• “I don’t know if we’re going to be touring any more after this.” Trent Reznor casts doubt on Nine Inch Nails' future as a live act
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• "Eddie completely changed this couple's life." Hollywood superstar Kate Hudson reveals how Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder played a pivotal role in the story behind her new movie
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• Paul McCartney Says Rock Hall Boss Broke His Induction Promise
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• Legendary Songwriter Neil Sedaka Dies: Rockers React
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• "It’s a song about inventors and invention." New Peter Gabriel single What Lies Ahead was a work-in-progress performed during 2014's Back To Front tour
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• "Is it crazy? It is crazy. And I'm a crazy ****ing guy. Let's go!" An insane looking new event will mix a metal concert with bare knuckle fighting - with the frontman of deathcore heavyweights Slaughter To Prevail set to take part in both
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• Wolfgang Van Halen Offers His Support to New Van Halen Album
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• "A verbal contract was not worth the paper it was written on." Paul McCartney admits he was fuming after allegedly being lied to by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the '90s
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• “I was always sure we were going to come back. My friends said, ‘You’re still waiting? Are you stupid?’” With Mike Portnoy’s help, Bigelf battled back from tragedy to make Into The Maelstrom
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• Eric Clapton Announces 2026 US Tour
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• Nine Inch Nails surprise release 44-track Tron Ares: Divergence album featuring remixes and previously unreleased material
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• "I remember finishing the lyrics and literally feeling sick to my stomach." How Alter Bridge regrouped, faced the dark side, put their foot on the gas and recorded a brilliant album
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• Robbie Williams and Zakk Wylde Lead Ozzy Brit Awards Tribute
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• 5 Ways Metallica's 'Master of Puppets' Could Have Been Different
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• "I think I just played the same song the whole night." Thin Lizzy legend Brian Robertson on his controversial time in Motorhead, and why Lemmy asked him to leave
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• “I was in the mountains during a thunderstorm. It was so heavy I had to pull aside and park. That’s when ‘heavy metal thunder’ came to me”: The biker rock anthem that soundtracked a classic movie – and gave a whole genre its name
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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: March 2, 2026
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• “It’s inherent in the fanbase. You’re always measured against this yardstick. People comment, ‘This isn’t Yes!’ Where did we say this was Yes?”: Arc Of Life’s struggle to self-identify
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• "We were just snot-nosed punks trying to do something different." Metallica and the making of Master Of Puppets – only in the new issue of Classic Rock
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• Who Are the 'Big 4' of '70s London Bands?
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• Former Quarrymen Member Len Garry Dead at 84
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• "There's no tanks, fantastical swordfights or bloody executions, just sweat, songs and almighty sing-alongs: rock'n'roll at its very best." Foo Fighters return to their punk roots in a very sweaty Manchester club
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• “He was seeing the devil in everything. To him, his whole life had been in service to Satan...” This LA band had the world at their feet. Then their guitarist joined a religious cult while their bassist faced 11 years in jail for trying to rescue him
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• "If I didn’t have songs, we wouldn’t make an album. I didn’t do anything, and nobody asked!” How Everon returned after 16 years with a new studio album, Shells
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• "Future generations will consider it one of the most important recordings of all time." Rising Southern rock star Marcus King picks the soundtrack of his life
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• "I said, 'This is our last show.' He said OK. We never, ever talked about why it was so easy to break up the band." The curious story of the thinking man's hair metal band, and where it all went wrong
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• "I could feel the power behind me and it was like being in front of a locomotive." The Swedish metal icons whose biggest hit was so confusing even Metallica's Kirk Hammett struggled to keep up
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• "Our new setlist is full of hope and energy." Mongolian metal sensations The Hu announce their biggest UK and European tour ever
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• Sex Pistols Reschedule Their 2026 North American Dates
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• Sting's 2026 Tour Expands With New North American Dates
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• “We couldn’t have really fitted in with grunge, because we were a different type of a band. We were Irish and from Limerick, and we had our own ideas”: The tragedy that inspired an iconic grunge-era anti-war anthem – and reinvented the band that wrote it
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• "It's not something I'd like us to be remembered for. It was a thorn in our side but I'm stuck with it." After lacing their neighbour's water supply with LSD, the Small Faces wrote the hit that ended their career
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• “I woke up in a panic – a door in my mind had opened which I couldn’t close”: How a psychotic reaction triggered the cult 70s album that fused progressive rock and the blues – and influenced Queens Of The Stone Age, The Damned and Nirvana’s producer
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• “I was in the front row. Everybody was pushing and things got really violent”: This is what it was like watching Metallica on their first European tour, as explained by a fellow thrash metal star
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• "Those teenage kids could be kind of wild. It could be downright frightening at times." The story of the tongue-in-cheek classic that slammed manufactured pop music, aided by a pair of South African legends
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• Who Are the 'Big 4' of '80s London Bands?
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• "Tyler The Creator made me realise that I don’t need to scream for a song to be heavy.” Freedom-fighting hardcore punk, Victorian doom metal and 'angry dance music': the best new metal bands you need to hear this month
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• Top 20 Jonathan Cain Songs
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• "Alanis Morrisette inspired me to express how I was feeling." One of 2000s metal's early stars on being a teenage rockstar, breaking up nu metal's boys club and the art of failure
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• “David Gilmour says, ‘I will never play with Roger Waters again’, and I know what he means. I feel that way about Alex Van Halen. They’re negative people”: The two iconic musicians who left Sammy Hagar starstruck – and the guitarist he calls “an asshole”
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• “Everyone goes, ‘We pour our hearts into these things.’ But this genuinely was us, tears down our cheeks, trying to be manly”: How Big Big Train survived the death of David Longdon
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• Why Fans Love Marshall Tucker Band’s ‘Can’t You See’
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• 5 Reasons INXS Should Be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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• The Song That Proved Van Halen and Hagar Could Succeed Together
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• Sex Pistols featuring Frank Carter announce rescheduled and expanded North American tour
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• Metallica Reveals Six More Dates for Sphere Residency
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• 5 Reasons Jeff Buckley Should Be in the Rock Hall of Fame
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• Audio-Technica AT-SB727 Sound Burger turntable review
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• Enter to Win Trip to See Metallica at the Sphere in Las Vegas!
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