Rock News 2025-01-23

• Dirty Honey drop live video for track “When I’m Gone” from upcoming album ‘Mayhem & Revelry Live’
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• Metallica released their first music video on this day in 1989. This is how it ruined my life.
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• Löanshark unleash video for new single “Another Man In The Trunk”
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• "A unique album, bursting with intelligence, creativity, and shining musicianship": Bob Dylan creates a watershed in the history of music with Blonde On Blonde
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• Rikki Rockett feels rock and metal outlets are quickly becoming the “soundtrack of the grumpy”
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• Deraps to release sophomore album in a few months
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• “The director came up with this idea of flying at me with a helicopter. I thought, This will be the last thing I ever do.” Guns N' Roses guitar hero Slash on the making of the epic music video US President Donald Trump considers the greatest of all time
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• The Very Best Of Talk Talk to be reissued on double vinyl and CD in March
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• “I think he did it to take the p*** out of it and it blew up in his face": Toto guitarist Steve Lukather isn't so keen on Weezer's cover of their hit Africa
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• “Witness fulfilled so many dreams… I was in doubt about where to go after that”: VOLA’s battle to find a direction for latest album Friend Of A Phantom
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• “This song is nuts! It’s a very violent, angry call for being a champion of all who deserve it”: Matt Heafy on the classic Trivium song inspired by Muse
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• "We could wear wigs and it would be cool instead of corny": Stryper frontman Michael Sweet lists 10 reasons why his life would be much easier if he was actually fronting a Stryper tribute band
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• Autograph guitarist Steve Lynch’s autobiography ‘Confessions of A Rock Guitarist’ coming out in May
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• “Our best friends were drug dealers. We identified with them because we felt like outcasts, menaces to society”: The chaotic story of Aerosmith’s early years
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• "We’re in a really weird spot, and I can’t really tell you what’s going on. I don’t know myself." Faith No More's Bill Gould has no clue as to his band's current status, and it seems like no-one else does either
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• “I’m still amazed to this day that no one outside of Birmingham can understand a word I say!” Founding Black Sabbath members to be awarded with Freedom Of The City honour by Birmingham City Council
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• “They were a gang!” The first band Metallica supported on tour didn’t think the thrashers had a chance in hell of making it big
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• "About halfway through the gig, I got down on my knees and prayed that God would forgive me and release me from this situation": The psychedelic early days of acid overlords and space travellers Hawkwind
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• "I hadn’t heard of him, to be honest": Steve Jones on the return of the Sex Pistols and how new frontman Frank Carter joined the fun
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• "After shaking her hand, I went out and had like five cigarettes in a row just to calm myself down. I get starstruck easily": Opeth's Mikael Åkerfeldt on the time he met ABBA's Agnetha Fältskog and had dinner with her
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• "You sound sexy": Watch Kid Rock once again prove to be one of the most cringeworthy rockers on the planet as he attempts to flirt with a BBC News reporter during a live TV interview
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• Thundermother unveil video for new single “Can’t Put Out The Fire”
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• "It’s a break from touring, it’s not a permanent stop." Floor Jansen on Nightwish, Yesterwynde and what comes next
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• Bulletproof frontman Nemanja Stojanović releases solo album ‘Emotional Metastasis’
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• “We have made the collective decision that 2025 will be our last year.” UK metal favourites Orange Goblin to break up after 2025 tour
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• Former Thin Lizzy and Whitesnake guitarist John Sykes dead at 65
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• “They’ve created something very beautiful and we’re extremely proud of it.” Watch A Film For The Future, Coldplay's "jawdropping" companion to Moon Music, created by more than 150 visual artists from 45 countries
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• Crazy Lixx drop video for new single “Hunt For Danger” from upcoming album ‘Thrill of The Bite’
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• FiiO DM13 portable CD player review
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• The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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• Gotthard share video for new single “Thunder & Lightning” from upcoming album ‘Stereo Crush’
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• “It was a very strange experience. It was like there was two people inside of him.” U2's Bono on the night he met Joy Division's “beautiful soul” Ian Curtis
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• "Hopefully Babymetal can teach me their dance routines, and I’ll teach them mine." How Eurovision helped Bambie Thug became Ireland's next breakout star
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• Kamenar set to embark on ‘Just Like An Animal Tour 2025’
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• "The Boston Symphony hasn't changed its name, so why should Foreigner?": Mick Jones looks back on 50 often fractious years with one of rock's most successful bands
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• Vivian Campbell misses first Def Leppard show of 2025 to recuperate from cancer treatment
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• “We cared so much about the music that we’d have these confrontational group therapy sessions… And then the switch went off”: Spirit didn’t know they were a prog band, but were always proud of their fearless diversity
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• "Don’t call it a happy album!" Katatonia and the story of Sky Void Of Stars
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• “From here I drew a line to Pink Floyd and painted my room black … who knows where I’d be now if I’d never heard them?” Mikael Åkerfeldt, Bruce Soord and others pick their favourite Camel albums
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• Dirkschneider launch lyric video for classic track “Balls To The Wall” featuring Joakim Brodén
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• Nine Inch Nails announce long-rumoured world tour with UK, Europe and North American dates
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• Guitarist Bruce Kulick recalls playing bass on KISS’ track ‘Psycho Circus’
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• “This could be the last show we everplay!”Bad Nerves prove why they're Billie Joe Armstrong's favourite new band
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• "We would just take each song and try to raise it to the standard of a rock classic": The albums produced by Mutt Lange you should definitely listen to
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• Tedeschi Trucks Band announce mammoth live schedule with Gov't Mule and Whiskey Myers
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• "Let's make more memories together!" The seemingly unstoppable Peter Frampton announces another US tour
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• "When I heard her sing that for the first time, I had tears streaming down my face." Jinjer on their emotional new album - and why it's taken so long to get here
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• Michael Sweet jokingly suggests starting a Stryper tribute band and his reasons for doing so
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• “I was on my way to Vegas to marry a French boy, who was asleep on my lap, and I was listening to this song thinking, I'm living the dream. Then he woke up and said, I can't marry you.” Du Blonde on the eight songs that changed her life
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• "It's about the legacy of Lynyrd Skynyrd, and what it stands for": Lynyrd Skynyrd announce UK tour with Blackberry Smoke
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• "I never wanted it to be just about me": John Sykes on Blue Murder, the band he formed after leaving Whitesnake
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• R.I.P. former Whitesnake, Thin Lizzy and Blue Murder guitarist John Sykes (1959-2025)
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• “It was the most explosive diarrhoea you’ve ever seen in your entire life!” The ballad of Heriot’s Debbie Gough and the guitar shop window pooper
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• "The stunt co-ordinator said, 'Don't put your hand here - you'll blow it off.'" The story behind Ice Nine Kills' ultra-gory Terrifier 3 tie-in A Work Of Art
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• Kraftwerk to celebrate 50th anniversary of classic Autobahn album with reissues in March
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• “Our producer chopped down the songs to four minutes… the originals were much longer and stretched out”: King Crimson fan and Saxon vocalist Biff Byford narrowly missed out on being a prog musician
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• “I should have been dead that night!”: Ace Frehley looks back on Kiss' wild on-stage mishaps, including the trick that doctors warned could have left him in a wheelchair
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• Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson finishes 13th in fencing tournament, watch him compete
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• One of the most savage screamers in modern metal is unexpectedly showing off his singing voice in the brilliant new, Office-homaging video by UK metalcore heroes, Employed To Serve
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• "Jean-Michel Jarre said he loved my music, but that I was too acoustic for him. That got me thinking": Urged on by fans, Mike Oldfield’s final album was a look back to his early years
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• Spread Eagle to release EP ‘The 1989 Demos’ and to hit the road for ’35th Anniversary Tour’
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• "Or are we too addicted we can’t log off even for one week?": R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe encourages fans to stay off social media in protest of the "gross" far-right
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• "A small subset of fans had a practice of showing up to gigs in Nazi regalia." System Of A Down's Serj Tankian on why supporting one iconic metal band was like "rock 'n' roll boot camp"
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• Garth Hudson, one of the men who helped Bob Dylan go electric, has died
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• Best portable CD players 2025: Revive your CD library with these powerful portable players
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