Rock News 2025-03-03

• “I wrote to Vincent Price. I didn’t expect a reply, but he knew who I was. He really got stuck into the role”: The twisted story of Alice Cooper’s shock rock classic Welcome To My Nightmare
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• Heavy metal, classic rock, prog and beautiful Mediterranean sunshine collide at Spain’s Rock Imperium - one of the most stunning and unique festivals in the world
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• “We got pelted with glass bottles and dead rabbits. We stood our ground”: Slipknot’s Corey Taylor and Machine Head’s Robb Flynn’s wild tour stories of bust-ups, injuries and urine-soaked tobacco
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• "If you can live through the dinosaur period, you become a legend": The albums by Nazareth you should listen to... and one to avoid
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• 4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month
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• “A universe of strangeness and charm”: Parts Of The Process – The Complete Godley & Creme is a trip into a subversive, mischievous world of erratic genius
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• Dokken share video for track “Saving Grace”
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• The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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• "A five-year spell that did a fine job of revitalising one of rock's finest frontmen": The albums that found Ian Gillan riding NWOBHM's slipstream into the charts, together at last
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• Slipknot's Corey Taylor and Bad Omens' Noah Sebastian have covered Kansas' Dust In The Wind and it's the most gorgeous song you'll hear all week
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• Great new prog you must hear from Cosmograf, O.R.k., Jenny Hval and more in this week's Tracks Of The Week
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• Neil Young & The Chrome Hearts announce massive London show
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• Limp Bizkit to play Reading and Leeds 2025, more than 25 new names also added
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• David Johansen, New York Dolls singer, dead at 75
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• “The first time I ever got high was with Alex. He was just a terrific pothead, and a terrible influence on me”: The chaotic story of Rush’s early years and their journey from high school stoners to prog icons
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• Rocket Queen launch video for new single “One Last Night”
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• Phil X & The Drills unleash video for new single “Fake The Day Away” from upcoming album
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• “An already fabulous performance feels even more vital… sudden twists and turns are thrillingly kinetic”: Camel’s 3-disc reissues of Mirage and Moonmadness
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• Architects sound absolutely livid on The Sky, The Earth & All Between - and it's made for one of the best metal albums of 2025 so far
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• "We were so fired up to go on before Jim checked out that we didn't acknowledge his death and grieve": When the music's over - the story of The Doors' strange afterlife
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• “It has pissed me off over and over again through the years that most fans who are real fans don’t really get the record”: the story of the album that was meant to be Smashing Pumpkins' fantastic farewell until it all went wrong
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• Badfinger guitarist Joey Molland dead at 77
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• The Dead Daisies share video for new single “Crossroads”
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• "A band who could contend with Bring Me The Horizon and Sleep Token as the next zeitgeist-setting metal act." Spiritbox have unleashed another absolute stunner with Tsunami Sea
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• Rockin’ Dave’s Rough Cutt featuring drummer Dave Alford to play debut gig on April 3rd
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• "I'd like to think that everything people think about me is a misconception": An interview with the New York Dolls' David Johansen
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• "Like remembering your 16-year-old self watch your parents dance at a wedding": Bad Company fail to recapture old glories on Desolation Angels
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• Pretty Boy Floyd shooting video for single “Love Sick” at upcoming gig in North Hollywood on February 28th
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• "It's very hollow and astoundingly creatively unfulfilling." Why Wolfgang Van Halen won't make his living by performing Van Halen songs
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• “It’s such a good party trick – ‘So you think you’re heavy? Listen to this song from 1969!’” Enslaved’s Ivar Bjørnson argues King Crimson are the gateway from metal to prog
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• Breaker featuring Midnight Malice member Caleb Beal to release debut EP on April 4th
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• The sons of Kiss icons Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons have recorded 10 songs together
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• Sleep Token have shared sheet music for what might be a new song - here's what it sounds like
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• The Offspring announces every punk rock-lover's dream tour with Jimmy Eat World and New Found Glory
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• “I was sitting in the studio, thinking, ‘I don’t think we can pull this together, we’re just going to have to split up’”: how Radiohead pulled themselves out of the depths to make The Bends
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• Nandi Bushell is back, and this time she's playing Led Zeppelin in stilettos
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• Dellacoma unveil lyric video for title track of new EP ‘Leave A Light On’
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• "Will we let the machines take the stage, or will we fight for the irreplaceable magic of human artistry?" Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page hits out at UK Government's Artificial Intelligence proposals
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• Think you know rock music? Test yourself with The Classic Rock Quiz
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• R.I.P. New York Dolls frontman David Johansen (1950-2025)
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• “Some of the guys in the band are like, ‘**** that, we’ll never play it!’” Watch Slipknot play one of their deepest cuts for the first time ever in Melbourne on Friday night
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• "People are baffled if I say I love Taylor Swift." Modern metalcore icon Chris Motionless on being a Swiftie, ice hockey and why Motionless In White are taking their time on a new album
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• R.I.P. Riley’s L.A. Guns — Bassist Kelly Nickels announces that the band has called it quits
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• "Not safe for work. Or the bus. Or brunch with your parents. Or your jealous boyfriend": Watch Halsey walk a latex-wearing man around like a dog in their new NSFW music video for Safeword
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• Lady Beast unveil new single “Off With Her Head” from upcoming album ‘The Inner Alchemist’
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• "She’s so kind to do this. She’s one of the biggest stars in the world right now": Watch a pink sparkly cowboy hat-wearing Elton John perform Pink Pony Club with Chappell Roan at his Oscars viewing party
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• Shiraz Lane drop video for new single “Dangerous”
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• Watch drummer Kenny Aronoff hear and drum along to Yes's Changes for the very first time
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• Queensrÿche guitarist Mike Stone recalls what it was like working with Peter Criss in the early ’90s
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• Slayer are teasing a return to the UK
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• "There are some things AI can’t replace, and that is drinking two-litre bottles of cider and ****ing yourself in a field." We're going to miss Ithaca dearly, and this interview with Djamila Azzouz shows why
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• “A lot of bands, it’s nepotism that gets them anywhere – go to the right party and make the right friends. For us, that wasn’t an option”: How Disturbed defied the odds to become nu metal superstars with The Sickness
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• Queensrÿche guitarist Mike Stone recalls singing the KISS song “Forever” at Paul Stanley’s wedding
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• “Don’t relationships always get nasty in the end? A few knives get stuck in and before you know it, it’s out of control”: How Judas Priest reunited with Rob Halford to regain the metal throne with Angel Of Retribution
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• Previously unreleased 1981 Klaus Schulze concert from Hamburg to be released
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• “V is coming”: Ghost tease new era with Las Vegas billboard and mysterious livestream
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• David Ellefson recalls needing to “get clean or it’s over” during Megadeth’s ‘Rust In Peace’ era
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• Rick Wakeman announces huge The Official Broadcast Collection
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• “It was embarrassing”: Metallica’s …And Justice For All pushed bass players “to the back” in the 1990s, claims thrash legend
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• “Our manager overheard one of Pink Floyd say something about our keyboardist and he threatened to break their legs”: Andy Fairweather Low’s wild tales of Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Roger Waters and Tom Jones
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• “It seemed to me that America was ruled by the gun… if you don’t like the President, shoot him”: Flag-burning prog innovators The Nice found trouble on stage and off it
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• The Flower Kings announce new album and a European tour with Neal Morse & The Resonance
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• “You see people who are into the glamour and ego of it. Music has nothing to do with ego. Music is like being a bank clerk – it’s work”: How Kate Bush smashed the barriers and became a star like no other
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• “I was eating tons and tons of painkillers. It was as hard to kick as heroin. It was really, really bad”: How High On Fire’s Matt Pike pulled back from the edge of darkness to make De Vermis Mysteriis
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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