Rock News 2025-02-24

• The 50 metal albums you need to hear in 2025
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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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• A mysterious new band has been added to Download 2025 and the internet is convinced it’s Sleep Token-related
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• “All anyone wanted to hear was awful new wave garbage like Elvis Costello and The Police. Rock groups like ours were strangled us to death”: The rise and fall of Starz, the 70s rockers who should been the next Kiss
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• “Once you heard death metal, there was no turning back. Thrash was out of the window. It seemed silly, music for wimps”: The chaotic story of Nihilist, Unleashed, Entombed and the bloody birth of Swedish death metal
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• "Wrapping blues tradition in boundary-breaking innovation": Every Led Zeppelin album ranked from worst to best
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• “Religion never accepts the balance that exists in a human being. It’s just a one-way street. That’s always going to cause conflicts”: How Dimmu Borgir made an irreligious symphonic black metal classic with In Sorte Diaboli
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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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• "There was so much I wanted to tell him, like how much has changed on Earth without him": Scott Weiland's son Noah covers Stone Temple Pilots' classic Sex Type Thing
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• Sebastian Bach drops video for new single “To Live Again”
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• Löanshark’s new album ‘No Sins To Confess’ now available
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• Striker’s album ‘Ultrapower’ nominated for Juno Award for ‘Metal / Hard Music Album of The Year’
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• Babylon Shakes unveil new single “Scarlet Sins”
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• "The lyrics were hastily written in the pub, hence the fact that it lacked a final verse": Recorded in secret, Sweet's Fox On The Run was given a second life by the Guardians Of The Galaxy
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• Great new prog you must hear from Karmakanic, Earthside, Bjørn Riis and more in this week's Tracks Of The Week
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• Udo Dirkschneider explains why he ended up re-recording Accept’s album ‘Balls To The Wall’
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• Rich Kid Express drop lyric video for new single “The Rules of Love”
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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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• The Dead Daisies launch video for new single “Love That’ll Never Be”
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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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• "It’s timeless. It was always in its own world; it didn’t fit into any category.” Tangerine Dream and the story of Phaedra
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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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• Prophets of Addiction unveil video for track “Walk The World”
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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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• Buckcherry frontman Josh Todd provides some insight on how he became and has stayed sober
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• Watch official pro-shot footage of Post Malone and Nirvana members performing Smells Like Teen Spirit for Saturday Night Live's 50th anniversary
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• "This is the first time in my career we’ve had to speak to the local police about civil unrest": Mark Tremonti on the political climate, being a guitar hero and Frank Sinatra
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• Chester Thompson teams up with Neal Morse in new group Cosmic Cathedral - listen to first new music now
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• Black Sabbath's Live... Gathered In Their Masses concert film is now free to watch on YouTube
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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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• The 10 best Smashing Pumpkins B-sides and outtakes
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• Steeleye Span announce Spring tour and update on new studio album
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• “With the success came all the trappings and we tried every one of them. The drugs, the travel, the women. Our lives were forever changed”: The chaotic story of Black Sabbath, the band who did more than anyone to invent heavy metal
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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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• Genesis share 2025 remaster of Lamb Lies Down On Broadway title track as box set release shifts to June
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• Machine Gun Kelly made guitar “cool” again, claims Polyphia’s Tim Henson
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• “It was carnage. We partied on the road, then I’d get home and start the party all over again. I thought, ‘If this carries on, I might die’”: The explosive story of The Darkness’ OTT hard rock masterpiece Permission To Land
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• BulletBoys to release 5 CD Box Set ‘The Albums 1995-2009’
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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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• Crosson drop video for new single “Nobody Wins” from upcoming album ‘Guilty of Rock’
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• “I always thought that Pink Floyd were a band for people who don’t like music or rock’n’roll”: Jack Bruce’s wild tales of Ginger Baker, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Leslie West and more
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• “The one core thing about metal is that rebellious nature. You’re allowed to be yourself no matter what side of the spectrum you are”: How Halestorm went from teenage rockers to globe-conquering metal stars
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• I used to work in concert ticketing. When did it become such an utter hellscape?
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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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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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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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• “We were just boozers and mounds of cocaine. Cocaine eventually is bad, but we were young kids. It didn’t hamper us”: The epic life and crazy times of Mick Fleetwood, the heartbeat of Fleetwood Mac
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• “Things had got pretty bad. I don’t know what demons Steven was fighting, but we definitely both had our ups and downs”: How Done With Mirrors put Aerosmith back on the long road to redemption
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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’ve just discovered how many classic seventh records exist and it’s blown my mind
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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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• Tygers of Pan Tang guitarist Francesco Marras’ new solo album ‘Out of The City’ now available
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• “It’s a slam-dunk lost classic”: How Rush and Pink Floyd led James Dean Bradfield to Man – a band he’d previously dismissed
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• Spiritbox, Babymetal, Gojira, Architects and more announced for the most metal WWE videogame soundtrack in years
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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 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• "Kendrick, let's go ahead and shock the world." Disturbed's David Draiman wants to collaborate with superstar rapper Kendrick Lamar on this generation's Walk This Way
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• Tommy London shares video for new single “Wicked Ways” from album ‘Emotional Fuse’
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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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• "It couldn't get any better than that, and it didn't": David Lee Roth teaches a lesson in how not to conduct a solo career in five albums
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• Tesla unleash video for electric version of track “All About Love”
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• “A fan said the teaser was 36 seconds long and already better than The Astonishing… another said they already knew they wouldn’t buy it. You’ve got to love that stuff”: When Dream Theater slimmed down for Distance Over Time
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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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• Bloodstock festival announces one-day Winter Gathering event headlined by doom legends Candlemass
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• “We were heartbroken. The world had lost a big talent. But as a band we had lost much more”: The rollercoaster story of AC/DC’s Back In Black, the 50-million selling album that emerged from tragedy
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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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