Rock News 2025-02-20

• Rick Buckler, drummer from The Jam, dead at 69
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• Listen to Spiritbox’s Courtney LaPlante guest on re-recording of Pvris’ My House
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• Tool, Guns N' Roses and Rival Sons added to Black Sabbath's Back To The Beginning final show line-up
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• Machine Head announce new album Unatoned, hear ferocious single Unbound here
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• “People talk, a couple of hundred quid changes hands – and you’re in the charts. That got us going”: The Yes Album was very nearly Yes’ final release. But fate intervened three times
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• “I hate that I had to write the previous album. It became dangerous to play the music and stab myself in the heart”: Swallow The Sun had to escape from Juha Raivio’s personal hell. The solution was new album Shining
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• "The feedback is humbling and inspiring": Jimmy Page reacts to fan response to Led Zeppelin movie
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• Kiss may have retired, but you can now buy a 24-karat gold edition of Strutter for just $50,000
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• "There's never been a blueprint for the dictatorship of the proletariat": That time Aerosmith appeared on Saturday Night Live with Tom Hanks and discussed the decline of communism in Eastern Europe
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• Goth is the coolest it’s been in decades – and these 9 rising metal bands prove it
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• "I could have said a few words if Rick Wakeman would have shut up": Bill Bruford on the "civil war" at the heart of Yes's tumultuous induction into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame
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• "He was such an interesting man. A funny combination of intensity and craziness." King Crimson's Jamie Muir remembered...
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• "Something that was a big event for me had become an instrument of ridicule": The Kinks' Dave Davies on the double-edged sword of solo success
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• "When I met him he was this hippie dude, living up in the hills taking magic mushrooms." The making of Bon Scott: AC/DC frontman, sun-worshipper and night-crawler
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• “I’d get up in the morning, practise scales at my piano, go off dancing, and then in the evening I’d come back and play the piano all night.” The story of Kate Bush's debut album The Kick Inside
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• Killswitch Engage fans! Grab the new issue of Metal Hammer with an exclusive cover and t-shirt, only through Louder
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• "It’s gory and romantic and brutal and I think that’s what keeps people coming back again and again." Why metal is obsessed with vampires
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• "Our band’s chemistry was really coming together. This whole new world opened up to us and we were off drugs. And then Jeremy died": The anarchic early years of one of rock's most enigmatic groups, The Mars Volta
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• "I'm not planning on doing a set with Black Sabbath": Ozzy says he'll only do "little bits and pieces" with Sabbath at final reunion show
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• HoneyBombs share lyric video for new single “Berserk” from upcoming sophomore album
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• Placebo frontman Brian Molko charged after labelling Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni a "piece of s***, fascist, racist” and a "Nazi" during festival appearance
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• Thirteen minutes of previously unseen Led Zeppelin footage has surfaced after lying in a drawer for 45 years
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• “The facts don’t matter. Whoever has the better story wins!” When Pink Floyd, Arthur Brown, Rush and others got in trouble with the law, the results were remarkably prog
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• "Wrapping blues tradition in boundary-breaking innovation": Every Led Zeppelin album ranked from worst to best
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• W.A.S.P. announce digital release of ‘Bonus Tracks & B-Sides’ from their ‘The 7 Savage’ Boxset
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• A mysterious new band has been added to Download 2025 and the internet is convinced it’s Sleep Token-related
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• “He’s really, really good, and he’s definitely more melodic than me”: Slayer’s Kerry King names the guitarist who “plays circles” around him
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• Prophets of Addiction unveil video for track “Walk The World”
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• The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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• The Rock’n’roll Activist: Nine albums by Tom Morello you should listen to... and one you should ignore
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• "It’s not like anything else. I liked it for that. We'd always take a different path": The story behind The Kinks' brilliantly subversive classic Lola
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• Staying in Birmingham to see Black Sabbath? Local hotels have increased their prices by up to 725%
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• Bloodstock festival announces one-day Winter Gathering event headlined by doom legends Candlemass
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• Sebastian Bach drops video for new single “To Live Again”
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• Everything you need to know about the Black Sabbath reunion and Ozzy Osbourne’s final concert
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• "The vocals make David Vincent sound like Sabrina Carpenter." This Consequence is the heaviest Killswitch Engage album in over a decade. And it absolutely slaps
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• “She grew up in Russia and bootlegged banned Deep Purple and Scorpions albums. It’s one of the reason I married her”: Kansas’ Joe Deninzon left the USSR and built a musical world out of a surprising coincidence
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• Babylon A.D. launch lyric video for latest single “Pain”
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• The Dead Daisies launch video for new single “Love That’ll Never Be”
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• Striker’s album ‘Ultrapower’ nominated for Juno Award for ‘Metal / Hard Music Album of The Year’
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• Michael Wilton & Eddie Jackson have decided they’re going to continue with Queensrÿche into their 80s
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• Cradle Of Filth's Dani Filth compares Spotify to "daylight robbery", says he "owes it" to his fellow metal artists to not have an account on the platform
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• "I feel like crying, that was beautiful." Spiritbox's Alexandra Palace show is the end of an era: where they go from rising stars to metal's next big thing
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• Chris Holmes claims W.A.S.P.’s live album ‘Double Live Assassins’ was recorded in a studio
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• AC/DC, Metallica, Iron Maiden & Slayer t-shirt prices slashed in Amazon's massive Presidents' Day sale
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• “History shows it’s often the combination of art and science that overcomes the greatest challenges we face”: Massive Attack to headline London’s first fully battery-powered festival this summer
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• Löanshark’s new album ‘No Sins To Confess’ now available
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• "He would have been perfect! Maybe it's not too late!": Ozzy was once asked to audition for Pirates Of The Caribbean but Sharon wouldn't let him
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• 51% off the special edition of Mastodon’s Crack The Skye is the best Presidents’ Day box set deal I’ve seen today
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• BulletBoys to release 5 CD Box Set ‘The Albums 1995-2009’
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• Helloween to release compilation album ‘March of Time (The Best of 40 Years)’ on March 28th
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• This nu metal band want YOUR ideas for song titles and lyrics: “If we pick yours we’ll give you a shoutout on the album credits”
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• John Lydon is "pissed off" about the Sex Pistols replacing him with Frank Carter: "they’re trying to trivialise the whole show to get away with karaoke"
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• “As I was leaving the stage, I put my arm around Niall and said, ‘I think we got away with it’”: And So I Watch You From Afar were brave enough to debut their album Megafauna in full at a festival
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• Tesla unleash video for electric version of track “All About Love”
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• “Sometimes you guys need to shut the **** up and enjoy or not enjoy”: Skunk Anansie’s Skin gives her unfiltered thoughts on hate comments
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• "A glossy heavy metal album that doesn't quite have the songs to make it stand out from the crowd, despite the talent of the players": John Sykes, Carmine Appice and Tony Franklin conjure up a cult favourite on debut Blue Murder album
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• “I don’t believe I have to forgive them. They replaced me when I was sick. They even said I had ruined the band”: Styx fired Dennis DeYoung in 1999, but he still wants a reunion for the fans
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• “We jumped offstage and took our masks off and started swinging at people at the end of one song”: The wild story of Slipknot vs Mushroomhead, the masked band feud that lit up nu metal
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• Watch Post Malone join the surviving members of Nirvana for a frenzied blast through Smells Like Teen Spirit
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• New single “You’re Gonna Burn” from Jizzy Pearl’s Love/Hate now available
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• “Posh tossers singing about nothing because they had nothing to protest about… it was part of the job to destroy Genesis and Yes”: Punk pioneer Captain Sensible loved plenty of prog – but had to hide it
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• King Crimson percussionist Jamie Muir has died aged 82
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• "I've never asked for help in my life": David Johansen thanks fans for support as he continues to receive around-the-clock medical care
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• Rich Kid Express drop lyric video for new single “The Rules of Love”
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