Rock News 2024-12-27

• David Lee Roth continues to move in mysterious ways with new blues song Forgiveness
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• "I cut grass all day long." What Joey Belladonna did when he was fired by Anthrax
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• The DDR Music Group reveals its ‘Top 35 Glam, Sleaze, and Hard Rock releases’
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• Dominic Sanderson announces second album Blazing Revelations
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• Metal Hammer writers name their top albums of 2024
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• Lady Strange release two EPs in the same year
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• Classic Rock's Ultimate 2024 Playlist
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• "It felt like someone took a 300-pound man off my shoulders." John Corabi on being fired by Motley Crue
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• New Southampton FC manager wants club to play “death metal football”
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• The official film of King Crimson's legendary 1982 Munich show is now free to watch online
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• Cast your votes for the Sleaze Roxx Readers’ Top 20 Albums of 2024!
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• "They are honouring Chester's memory but also creating their own legacy." How Linkin Park pulled off the biggest comeback of 2024
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• Bombus unveil video for new single “The One” from album ‘Your Blood’
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• “Those are the threads of a poser shirt!” Exodus used to cut hair metal t-shirts with knives during 80s concerts
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• "Would you rather sell tons of records and have people come at you or sell no records and have everybody love you?" Mark Tremonti isn't losing any sleep over the Creed haters
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• "Most of my favourite bands, their fourteenth album was shit": Opeth's Mikael Åkerfeldt on ABBA, nearly buying a record shop, and their awesome 14th album
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• David Wanless recalls what led to Sven Gali reuniting and releasing the single “Kill The Lies” in 2018
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• It’s Eddie Vedder’s 60th birthday today and there’s no better way to celebrate than listening to this festive selection of Pearl Jam Christmas crackers
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• “Bob Rock would say: ‘You could do better. You’re halfway there. More Springsteen! More Ian Hunter!’”: The major Mötley Crüe hit that took Nikki Sixx eight attempts to write
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• Cracking prog, Gromit! Some of Aardman Animations’ best-loved movies were made to a soundtrack of Jeff Wayne, Tangerine Dream, Focus, Goldfrapp, Alan Parsons and more, says veteran sculptor Jim Parkyn
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• “Emphatically proves that the current line-up is the band’s best since their mid-70s heyday”: Hawkwind’s Live At The Royal Albert Hall is much more than just another live album
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• “The seven deadly sins were invented by the church. They weren’t invented by God so I don’t give them too much credence“: How Max Cavalera came through his personal dark ages to make Soulfly’s Omen album
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• Masterplan sign with record label Frontiers Music Srl
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• Nazty Gunz drop lyric video for track “My Fire” from new album ‘Hot Mess’
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• “Plenty have paddled in the same murky waters, but few have done it with such eye-popping vigour”: Seven Impale’s City Of The Sun: 10th anniversary edition
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• "Could they be our human pods, like those from the Matrix?": Kate Bush draws parallels between Impressionist painter Monet and AI in annual Christmas message
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• Las Vegas honours ZZ Top icon with special ceremony for 'Billy Gibbons Day'
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• “This band works like a ouija board. No one’s fully in charge of how it operates, but you keep looking at the letters and seeing what they spell”: How Pearl Jam made Lightning Bolt and embraced their inner Pink Floyd
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• “We did ask him… he replied, ‘You can’t afford me!’” Steven Wilson didn’t work on Opeth’s new album, but Ian Anderson did – while fans are still processing the return of growl vocals after 16 years
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• ‘A Celebration of the Music and Life of Jack Russell’ to take place at the Whisky A Go-Go on January 14th
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• The 10 best death metal albums of 2024
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• “Last time we did an album with solos was eight years ago. That’s a long time to ask people in a prog band to not have solos”: Why Frost* revisited dazzling debut Milliontown on Life In The Wires
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• “I had no control whatsoever. I was about to drown. I saw my life disappearing in front of me”: The epic story of Cat Stevens, the 70s superstar who turned his back on music
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• “It’s a very dark record. Randy had a lot to get off his chest. You can hear a real mania in the way we played”: The chaotic story of Lamb Of God’s New American Gospel, the album that kickstarted 2000s metal
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• “We were shocked: ‘Is this real? What does this mean?’”: Gojira reveal who came up with their fire-spewing, show-stealing Olympic Games performance
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• Watch Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi and Dave Matthews pay musical tribute to the Grateful Dead
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• Merry Christmas and cast your votes for the Sleaze Roxx Readers’ Top 20 Albums of 2024!
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• "I don't care if they call us a metal band or punk or anything." Donita Sparks is okay with whatever label you want to give L7 – as long as you're still listening
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• "This is one of the greatest songs we've ever written." Ukraine metal sensations Jinjer pick the five songs that have defined their career so far
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• "Every night of our tour, we'd get a report about weapons being confiscated." We went backstage with Powerwolf, Hammerfall and Wind Rose on the power metal tour of the year - and it was even more ludicrous than we'd imagined
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• Premiere of AFFÄIRE’s cover of Alleycat Scratch track “Take A Bite (Outta Me)” on Sleaze Roxx
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• “I know it sounds like a joke musical but one of my ancestors was a pirate in the Caribbean. He looked a bit like I did when I was 21 in Roxy Music”: The amazing things Phil Manzanera discovered when he looked into his past
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• "This playlist is a mental roadmap that helps me to shape this day of festive cheer": Conjure up some Yuletide magic with Justin Hawkins' amazing Christmas playlist
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• “Too big for our boots? We were a bunch of kids destined for factory life. We were not going to screw this up”: The tempestuous story of Def Leppard’s High ’N’ Dry, the album that turned them into US stars
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• “I can’t say what it will feel like…I’m wise enough to know I’ve got to hear this before judging”: How King Crimson offshoot BEAT moved from an all-star dream to reality
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• The Metal Voice House Band launch video for track “Excalibur”
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• Tim “Ripper” Owens feels his time in Judas Priest was like his “college”
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• "We look so young. We were so young": Brian May's guide to rarely-seen Queen photos, from before they were famous
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• "I was in the hallway with Slipknot and I got screamed at." Vended might have big links to heavy metal royalty, but that doesn't mean they're getting an easy ride
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• There's a new 90-minute documentary about Dread Zeppelin, the Elvis-impersonator-fronted reggae Led Zeppelin tribute act, and it's free to watch
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• "It's hard to believe that anybody thought a cover of Patti Smith's Because the Night was a good idea": Keel struggle for greatness on 1986 album The Final Frontier
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• "We have lost friends, to ODs, suicide. And we see each other out there still holding it down." How Papa Roach survived the rise and fall of nu metal to be bigger than ever in 2024
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• "People said, 'You're going to be a one hit wonder.'" How Higher cemented Creed as rock's new superstars
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• Stolen Prayer unleash video for new single “Move On You” from EP ‘Stolen Prayer II’
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• “We had an exploding Marshall cabinet. The roadies put too much gasoline in it, and it almost blew Ritchie Blackmore offstage”: A metal fan’s guide to Deep Purple, one of hard rock’s original Holy Trinity
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• Helloween drop live video for track “Forever And One (Neverland)” from album ‘Live At Budokan’
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• The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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• “Effects companies know if they come up with a new effect that’s insanely expensive, there’s one band dumb enough to buy it – us”: How Trans-Siberian Orchestra take Christmas on the road beyond December
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• “Success is a label other people put on you… My success is in terms of fulfilment and perfection of my art. That’s something I never will reach. I have to accept that”: Kate Bush’s mid-80s battle for control
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• L.A. Guns announce US tour dates in support of their upcoming album ‘Leopard Skin’
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• "Metal is more of a brotherhood than any kind of music." Slayer's Kerry King hails the inclusivity of heavy metal
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• “It’s only a matter of a couple weeks before everybody converges on to the studio”: Megadeth are working on their next studio album
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• “At one point he brings out his death ray and starts randomly firing it at people. It’s just totally insane!”: Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett’s five favourite cult horror movie villains
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• The 26 best rock reissues of 2024
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• "You hear everybody quitting all the time because they just can't afford touring anymore": Von Hertzen Brothers on their new album, masculine music and band economics
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