Rock News 2025-02-26

• The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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• BulletBoys to release 5 CD Box Set ‘The Albums 1995-2009’
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• Smith/Kotzen unleash video for new single “Black Light”
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• The 10 best Smashing Pumpkins B-sides and outtakes
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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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• “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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• "We killed every night. So I knew I had something": The epic saga of one of rock's great live acts, Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band
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• “I wish Kurt Cobain were here so he could hold our wondrous grandchild”: Skate legend Tony Hawk reflects on “transformative” Nirvana show he saw in 1991
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• "We came out and started rocking and almost everybody in the club walked out": Nita Strauss remembers the worst gig of her life
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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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• Trio of rock, funk and punk guitarists team up with Til for new range of online lessons
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• Big Big Train announce new Scop EP as companion to upcoming Bard reissue
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• I’ve just discovered how many classic seventh records exist and it’s blown my mind
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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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• "Much darker and more despondent album than the raucous title track might suggest": Little Feat successfully capture a grim early-70s vibe on Dixie Chicken
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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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• Lady Beast unveil new single “Off With Her Head” from upcoming album ‘The Inner Alchemist’
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• "We wade through sweet treacle every day, to make things for others to love": The Darkness ponder their place in the world on pumping new rock tune Walkin' Through Fire
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• Pre-order your exclusive The Darkness Dreams On Toast Classic Rock bundles, with limited edition signed vinyl and glow-in-the-dark cassette variants
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• Rockin’ Dave’s Rough Cutt featuring drummer Dave Alford to play debut gig on April 3rd
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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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• Genesis share 2025 remaster of Lamb Lies Down On Broadway title track as box set release shifts to June
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• “I was thinking, he has to go.” Architects vocalist Sam Carter initially wanted guitarist Adam Christianson fired following 2024 controversy
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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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• Watch Toyah Willcox run her fingers seductively through Robert Fripp's hair as they perform Blondie's One Way Or Another
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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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• Chester Thompson teams up with Neal Morse in new group Cosmic Cathedral - listen to first new music now
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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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• Stranger Things star Jamie Campbell Bower shares gorgeous cover of Sleep Token’s Euclid
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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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• “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 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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• “The last six years have been full of some of the worst times I’ve been through”: A documentary about Ozzy Osbourne will hit Paramount Plus later this year
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• “Peter Gabriel started singing over my solos. I was pissed off – ‘You’re singing on my bit!’ But that half-minute is probably our peak”: How Genesis made Supper’s Ready, arguably their greatest song
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• Tommy London shares video for new single “Wicked Ways” from album ‘Emotional Fuse’
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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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• An unreleased solo album by Ghost mastermind Tobias Forge seems to have leaked on Youtube
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• “The busker in my high street is terrible! He never gets any better. I had this idea: he doesn’t realise he’s dead and carries on”: Steven Wilson’s desperate desire to believe in ghosts inspired his last fully prog album
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• Phil X & The Drills unleash video for new single “Fake The Day Away” from upcoming album
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• Rich Kid Express drop lyric video for new single “The Rules of Love”
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• I used to work in concert ticketing. When did it become such an utter hellscape?
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• “It wasn’t even worth asking John about the reunion tour”: Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones hasn’t spoken with John Lydon since 2008
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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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• "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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• “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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• “The music industry is 80 percent, 90 percent kids who are privately educated”: Sam Fender says music is “rigged” against working class
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• Full lineup announced for Rocklahoma 2025 festival
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• Udo Dirkschneider explains why he ended up re-recording Accept’s album ‘Balls To The Wall’
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• Disturbed announce arena-scale The Sickness 25th-anniversary UK and Europe tour, Megadeth opening
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• “Strap in for one of the most fun summer shows of your life!” Killswitch Engage, Parkway Drive, I Prevail and Beartooth to co-headline ultra-stacked US metalcore tour
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• Spiritbox, Babymetal, Gojira, Architects and more announced for the most metal WWE videogame soundtrack in years
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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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• "Join us as we celebrate the Summer of Democracy!" Neil Young announces European and North American dates with the Chrome Hearts
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• Löanshark’s new album ‘No Sins To Confess’ now available
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• Tygers of Pan Tang guitarist Francesco Marras’ new solo album ‘Out of The City’ now available
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• Buckcherry frontman Josh Todd provides some insight on how he became and has stayed sober
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• Babylon Shakes unveil new single “Scarlet Sins”
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• "Vibrant, electric, mystical and powerful": Jimmy Page and the Black Crowes release cover of Led Zeppelin's The Lemon Song
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• Dokken share video for track “Saving Grace”
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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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• Gotthard launch lyric video for new single “Rusty Rose”
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• The 50 metal albums you need to hear in 2025
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• Crosson drop video for new single “Nobody Wins” from upcoming album ‘Guilty of Rock’
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