Rock News 2025-01-26

• 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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• “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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• “Walk into a strip joint and nine times out of 10 you’ll hear this song. It brings tears to my eyes”: The chaotic story of Girls, Girls, Girls, the album that almost killed Motley Crue
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• "People told me our records had saved their life." How Big Brave bounced back from burnout to create a unifying cry in A Chaos Of Flowers
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• Jelusick share video for new single “How Many Times”
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• “I got a phone call asking me for a quote about Lennon. Apparently I was one of the last musicians seen talking to him before his death”: Rick Wakeman’s wild tales of John Lennon, David Bowie, Keith Moon and Ozzy Osbourne
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• "Chris Squire asked me to join Yes. I was extremely flattered." Astonishing revelations from Steve Hackett when we interviewed him about 2019's At The Edge Of Light
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• Watch Linkin Park’s Emily Armstrong prove her vocal prowess in her first take recording Heavy Is The Crown
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• “Communal spaces for the strange:…every diversion is explored – ideas and genres ebb and flow, occasionally careering out of control”: Matt Berry’s Heard Noises adheres to his oblique vision
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• Autograph guitarist Steve Lynch’s autobiography ‘Confessions of A Rock Guitarist’ coming out in May
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• An unreleased Tina Turner song has surfaced and it has a connection to AC/DC
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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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• “Three guitars? I don’t get that. I’ll step down!” Iron Maiden fans rejoiced when Bruce Dickinson and Adrian Smith came back – but one member almost quit because of it
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• "The joy is more joyous, the heartbreak more alluring": Larkin Poe serve up more country-infused rock'n'roll on Bloom
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• Marty Friedman (ex-Megadeth) likens guitar playing to sex: “If you practise at home, you’re going to get good at practising at home. If you go out and do the real thing, you’re going to get good at doing the real thing.”
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• Cool new proggy sounds from Frost*, Dim Gray, Klone and more in Prog's new Tracks Of The Week
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• “It’s one of the only love songs I’ve ever written”: inside Stand Inside Your Love, the last classic Smashing Pumpkins single
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• "The drugs got heavier and things got weirder": The wild life and violent death of Chicago's Terry Kath
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• Tedeschi Trucks Band announce mammoth live schedule with Gov't Mule and Whiskey Myers
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• "If Kurt Cobain and Chris Cornell were to decorate their shared home in heaven, they would use our Dirty Collection." Flexing an imaginary endorsement from two dead rock stars must surely be the weirdest and most random product launch idea ever
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• Kick N Fight unleash their cover of Britny Fox’s track “Lonely Too Long”
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• Kamenar set to embark on ‘Just Like An Animal Tour 2025’
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• “A really painful song about how hard it is to lose friends. When I sing it, I think of John Belushi”: We asked Blues Brothers star Dan Aykroyd to give us his 11 favourite blues records, and he delivered
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• Deraps to release sophomore album in a few months
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• R.I.P. former Whitesnake, Thin Lizzy and Blue Murder guitarist John Sykes (1959-2025)
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• Lorraine Lewis lining up Femme Fatale band members & working with “renowned songwriter / producer”
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• Aerosmith are heading back to the stage - but it's for one night only
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• Watch Jay Weinberg drum Slipknot songs for the first time since parting ways with the nu metal icons in 2023
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• “President Trump, please put your ketamine-fuelled pet rocket monkey back in his cage”: Lamb Of God’s Randy Blythe verbally eviscerates Elon Musk following Tesla CEO’s controversial gesture
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• The guitar on the cover of Jeff Beck's Blow By Blow album has just sold for over a million pounds
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• 10 crazy metal collaborations that took us totally by surprise last year
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• "Maybe Tom Hanks wasn’t ready for Kneecap smoking a joint on the red carpet." Kneecap brush off Oscars snub, announce Dublin arena show
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• "This album wouldn’t exist if I hadn’t toured with Cult of Luna." How avant-metal maverick Julie Christmas made the weird and wonderful Ridiculous and Full Of Blood
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• "Wardruna remain a genuine force of nature." Heilung might've played Glastonbury, but Birna shows Wardruna are still the grand daddies of Nordic folk
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• Guitarist Bruce Kulick recalls playing bass on KISS’ track ‘Psycho Circus’
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• "We all went to visit him in hospital. And he was still wearing his cowboy hat": The crazed story of The Quireboys, the band who had it all then partied it all away
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• The diminishing returns of a great legend: Acoustic Sessions might make you miss Phil Lynott, but a 'new' Thin Lizzyalbum? We should be so lucky
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• 10cc celebrate 50th anniversary of I'm Not In Love with new single release
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• “Some bands would think such an unlikely chart-topping feat would require them to lurch into a new chapter. Instead, Mogwai retreat to their discomfort zone”: The Bad Fire is reassuringly blurry
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• Overdrivers launch video for new single “Meet The Monsters” from upcoming album ‘Glory Or Nothing’
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• Michael Sweet jokingly suggests starting a Stryper tribute band and his reasons for doing so
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• Winter warmers! You can stay warm and still rock out with up to 60% off jackets and coats at EMP's winter sale
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• “Everybody thought, ‘Now World War III is gonna come!’” Mille Petrozza reveals which classic Kreator track was inspired by 9/11
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• “Some of the people I thought were good were actually bad. I felt a lot of betrayal and uncertainty”: Killswitch Engage’s Jesse Leach explains the trauma and anger behind new album This Consequence
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• "I had to play this sh***y little kit. It was just awful. I really had a bad time": Roger Taylor looks back on a problem Queen finally fixed after 50 years
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• Linkin Park have released an a cappella version of new album From Zero for all your Linkin Park a cappella needs
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• H.E.A.T unveil video for lead single “Disaster” from upcoming studio record ‘Welcome To The Future’
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• Thundermother unveil video for new single “Can’t Put Out The Fire”
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• Bulletproof frontman Nemanja Stojanović releases solo album ‘Emotional Metastasis’
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• "I woke up three days later, in France, in this stupid castle, and I'm thinking: 'What just happened?'": How Stevie Nicks escaped the chaos of Fleetwood Mac and soared solo
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• If you ever dreamed of living in a mansion in Scotland formerly owned by Genesis, we have excellent news: there's one on the market right now, and it's going for a song
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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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• "Our motto is always play like you have a big d**k." In 1984, MTV introduced its viewers to Red Hot Chili Peppers, a hot new 'cutting edge' band whose try-hard 'wacky' antics suggested they might also be Hollywood's most insufferable brats
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• “It used to be an adventure, that’s why I did all those drugs. But after a while it stops being awesome and that’s the reality”: How Bring Me The Horizon’s Oli Sykes faced his own demons to make That‘s The Spirit
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• “They could have trod some of the more aggressive ritualistic paths that endear them to metal, prog and folk fans… instead there’s an airier touch on a record of extraordinary scope”: Wardruna explore the nature of the bear on Birna
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• We made a timeline of everything that’s happened in human history using only Iron Maiden songs
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• “After years of taking heroin, it becomes this black ooze that covers your heart and you can’t feel the music any more": How Stone Temple Pilots and Scott Weiland gave it one last chance with their self-titled sixth album
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• Bruce Kulick plans on telling his whole story in his autobiography unlike what Alex Van Halen did
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• "We made a lot of people angry." When At The Drive-In released the brilliant Relationship of Command 25 years ago, their label boasted they would "save rock". Instead, the band hyped as 'The Next Nirvana' found themselves fighting to save their souls
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• "Once again, our justice system has failed survivors." Games of Thrones actress Esme Bianco speaks out as news breaks that Marilyn Manson will not face criminal charges in relation to allegations of sexual assault and domestic violence
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• Watch the trailer for Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius), the long-awaited documentary about troubled psychedelic pioneer Sly Stone
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• "We're in debt to Slayer forever." Ice-T explains why Slayer's comeback is great for metal fans
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• Dream Theater share tour diary music video for new track Midnight Messiah
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• “Mike Oldfield was pushing it a bit and I was getting edgy. He said, ‘I owed you that because I auditioned with Family and you blew me out.’ Good on him!” Roger Chapman’s journey from local band stage invader to unique prog star
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