Rock News 2024-12-18

• "Lady Gaga was swinging about on a JCB; it was a bit of a circus": Jeff Beck on awards shows, the end of Ziggy Stardust, and refusing to audition for the Rolling Stones
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• Pallas announce one more album (at least) but it's the end of the road as far as gigs go
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• "The most successful symphonic metal band in the world." Every Nightwish album ranked from worst to best
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• Overdrivers unleash video for new single “Guitar Playboy” from upcoming album ‘Glory or Nothing’
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• "Why limit yourself to retreading what's already been done?" New Age philosophy, conspiracy theories and the cosmos: how Blood Incantation made death metal nerdier and cooler than ever
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• System Of A Down announce first full tour since 2018
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• Circu5 announce new album with video for Skin Machine
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• “There’s nothing that annoys me more than when people don’t think their emojis through”: Charli XCX on upping your WhatsApp game, why dancing at parties is compulsory, her teenage diary and more
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• Slipknot's Clown: "We probably have several albums in us right now. It’s looking great."
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• Big Big Train release new Winter version of Brew & Burgh
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• Aphex Twin just surprise-dropped a thirty-eight track, two-and-a-half hour compilation album
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• "I’ve said no to tours and let some opportunities go by because they’re not what I’m really interested in doing." Serj Tankian on System Of A Down, heritage and the importance of staying active
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• “It was a clever tactical manoeuvre, selling an album at the price of a single. Many people bought it to play frisbee with! But it worked”: For Faust, music has always been just a part of the art
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• Celtic harpist Joy Shannon shares video for Corr Bán (Tar Árais Dom) featuring Heilung's Karl Uwe Faust
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• “Roger asked, ‘Who’s singing it?’ ‘Ice-T.’ ‘Approved!’” How Ice-T got Roger Waters and David Gilmour to stop bickering with a cover of Pink Floyd’s Comfortably Numb
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• Genius or an overrated relic? The Eric Clapton albums you should definitely listen to
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• "Slash comes up to me and gives me a hug, and that was a moment that I will take to my grave." We asked Myles Kennedy to make us a playlist, and what he gave us is pure gold
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• More than 30 minutes of live Black Sabbath footage from 1976 has appeared online
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• "I had one mate who was massively into Deep Purple but they were a bit too proggy for me." How Frank Skinner became a born-again metalhead
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• "Check this out! Amazing!" Gene Simmons would like you to watch this video immediately
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• Gyasi to release new album ‘Here Comes The Good Part’ on February 7th
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• Do gig goers need a hero to put an end to ticketing fiascos and price gouging? And is that hero...sigh...Kid Rock?
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• Dellacoma launch their cover of Audioslave’s track “Like A Stone”
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• “My father wrote the parallel universe theory”: the Ant-Man-starring rocker whose dad invented the idea of the multiverse
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• "He showed me chords, pinch harmonics, drove us to see Judas Priest." Rage Against The Machine's Tom Morello celebrates the fellow iconic metal guitarist he was in a high school band with
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• “It could have gone either way… I figured that if this was going to be my last hurrah, we should really go for it and make something that would be astonishing to listen to”: How Big Big Train broke through with The Underfall Yard
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• SUiCiDE BOMBERS launch video for new single “Tonight Belongs To Us”
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• "If you ever forget what 1984 sounded like, well, it sounded like Frank Stallone. And it still does": That time Sylvester Stallone's brother almost became a rock star
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• King Diamond's first new song in five years has a video shot at a haunted asylum that inspired Stranger Things
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• "I see reviews saying: 'The band were great.' Yeah, the 'band' is me": Joan Armatrading on her new music, riding an elevator with Leslie West and walking with Nelson Mandela
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• Wicked share video for track “Reptile Roots”
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• "A dream turned reality": Those Damn Crows confirmed for headline slot at Steelhouse Festival
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• Venus In Vegas drop video for new single “No Faith” from their debut album ‘Back In Sin’
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• AFFÄIRE unveil video for new track “Never Grow Old”
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• Wildness launch lyric video for new single “Broken Heart”
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• Robin McAuley shares video for new single “‘Til I Die” from upcoming studio album ‘Soulbound’
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• “It always pulls something out of you. Even if the winds are blowing in the wrong direction, it still sounds good”: The Freddie Mercury song that Queen’s Brian May never gets tired of playing
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• “A good heavy metal song is like a good horror movie, and vice versa. Heavy metal sounds evil and horror movies are evil!“: Inside Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett’s lifelong love of horror
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• Gary Marx co-founded the Sister Of Mercy: Now he's released a Slade-worshipping, Bowie-loving glam rock album - and he wears a papier-mâché elephant head
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• “The Doctor Who theme was just a fraction of what she could do… She felt sound very deeply – things that haunted her came out”: Actress Caroline Catz on hearing Delia Derbyshire’s unreleased archive
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• "They push the genre forward." Yungblud reveals who he believes are the "best metal band under 40 years old", explains how David Bowie inspired him
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• "This is the moment!" Watch Brian Johnson and Lady Gaga smash their duet of AC/DC classic Highway To Hell during Apple TV's A Carpool Karaoke Christmas
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• Saxon unleash lyric video for track “Pirates of The Airways”
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• Watch surviving members of Soundgarden reunite onstage in Seattle
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• “There’s always a lingering chance that we’re going to get back together," says Fugazi drummer Brendan Canty
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• Vote in the 2024 Prog Magazine Readers' Poll
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• “I’m probably the one who’s most aware of everything we’ve done. I probably like our music the most”: Genesis’ Tony Banks wonders if the world needs any more of his music
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• Slowthai found not guilty of raping two women at 2021 house party
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• “I realised this music is what influenced the stuff I’d been listening to – Pink Floyd, Genesis and so on”: Ben Short saved a Stravinsky album from a skip, and A Formal Horse was the result
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• Watch Sid WIlson and Kelly Osbourne's son Sidney in adorable backstage moment with masked-up Slipknot
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• “Nothing is finished yet, but it will come”: Floor Jansen will use Nightwish’s touring hiatus to make her next solo album
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• “We did it!” Anti-Britpop icons Pulp sign first record deal in 20 years
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• Dirkschneider to release re-recorded version of Accept’s album ‘Balls To The Wall’ with guest vocalists
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• “We should have toured Europe and taken advantage of the impact our single had. We were lazy and stuck to playing in Britain. It was a huge mistake”: The all-too-short story of promising early proggers Rare Bird
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• Black Sabbath’s original drummer Bill Ward applauds how Iron Maiden have treated Nicko McBrain
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• Röxxi Red looking for a bassist
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• McNulty’s Fire unleash video for new single “Rock My Soul”
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• “In our heavy metal world, he’s almost as important as Elvis Presley”: Blaze Bayley remembers fellow Iron Maiden alumnus Paul Di’Anno
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• The history of heavy metal to be explored in new documentary series 'Into the Void'
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• Vote for the best metal album of 2024
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• "I listened to classical music right up until I saw Black Sabbath on TV when I was eight": Michael Monroe picks the records, artists and gigs that mean the most
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• "Four words describe this album best - Adrian Smith's Finest Hour": Iron Maiden successfully embrace guitar synthesisers on Somewhere In Time
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• The numbers are in on the biggest grossing tours of 2024
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• The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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• Poison drummer Rikki Rockett and Dangerous Toys among inductees into Metal Hall of Fame in 2025
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