Rock News 2025-03-07

• Big Big Train share new live clip of The Last English King
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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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• Marillion keyboard player Mark Kelly and daughter Tallulah launch new podcast Prog & Progeny
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• "Life is short and we need to try to enjoy it, and protect the people and the things that we love. The time to protest will come again.” Punk rock icon Bob Mould is back with an album to get you through another American Crisis
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• Rocket Queen launch video for new single “One Last Night”
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• Eric Clapton announces run of US 2025 autumn tour dates
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• Someone’s made a wide-eyed Bobby Liebling puppet amidst all the Pentagram memes and I desperately want to buy it
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• Highway Chile launch video for title track of upcoming album ‘Rat Race’
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• Inglorious unleash video for new single “Testify”
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• Stunning new 4K trailer for Pink Floyd At Pompeii – MCMLXXII revealed
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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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• “I don’t think he ever got over being fired from King Crimson… but he went on to bigger, more financially successful things”: Peter Sinfield, the prog poet who gave voices to ELP, Roxy Music and many others
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• "He’s back on the drugs, unreliable." Liam Gallagher suggests that the new Oasis line-up will include Peppa Pig, two close friends from Sesame Street, and a character from a cult 1970s TV show, but not Spongebob Squarepants
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• “On a frenetic album about consumerism and masturbation, you need your moments of contrast to count": The 10 best Genesis songs, as chosen by Prog readers
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• The new issue of Metal Hammer features FIVE cover to choose from: Electric Callboy, Jinjer, Slaughter To Prevail, Bambie Thug and Bloodywood!
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• Kansas singer Ronnie Platt in high spirits after successful surgery to treat thyroid cancer
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• R.I.P. New York Dolls frontman David Johansen (1950-2025)
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• New animated video from Jizzy Pearl’s Love/Hate for latest single “You’re Gonna Burn”
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• “We just told them to get out!” Why Iron Maiden have banned record label staff from the studio since 1982
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• I’m a Ghost fanatic, and these great songs by similar-sounding artists will stop me going mad during the wait for their new album
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• "I hate so many people!" Spiritbox give us a track-by-track guide to Tsunami Sea
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• Dellacoma unveil lyric video for title track of new EP ‘Leave A Light On’
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• "The only way I could approach this was making it up as I went along": Eric Bell on the controversial recording of Thin Lizzy's "new" album The Acoustic Sessions
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• "An unhinged arsenal of screams and gutturals as he narrates the tale of a demonic cult." Whitechapel just made one of this year's most brutally intense metal albums
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• "We've managed to bring a little light to a time when we need it": This stunning father-daughter version of Supper's Ready may be the cutest, most wholesome performance of the year
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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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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• “I was unusually nervous… You may be doing exactly the same set, but it can have a completely different vibe.” When David Gilmour revisited Pompeii and faced the ghosts of Pink Floyd
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• “He’ll be 78 this year, but Ian Anderson is on something of a later-years creative roll.”: Jethro Tull lean into the twilight on inspired and poignant 24th album Curious Ruminant
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• "It has some teeth!" Lady Gaga promises "electro grunge defiance" on her new album Mayhem, inspired by Nine Inch Nails, The Cure, Radiohead, David Bowie and Prince
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• Sex! Jazz! LSD! The Doors' Robby Krieger and John Densmore on their extraordinary ride - only in the new issue of Classic Rock
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• Watch Courtney Love cover Bob Dylan classic Like A Rolling Stone in London
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• “People think of Ritchie as an angry, unfriendly guy, and that’s not him. I knew him when he was in a very good place”: Ronnie Romero has sung for Ritchie Blackmore and Michael Schenker and lived to tell the tale
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• L.A. Guns’ video for their new single “Lucky Motherfucker” now available for viewing
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• Slayer announce two monster UK shows with Amon Amarth, Anthrax, Mastodon and more
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• "I was emotionally moved watching Megan Thee Stallion interact with her fans." From surprise collabs with rap superstars to playing with Bring Me The Horizon and explosive new album Tsunami Sea, inside Spiritbox's incredible year
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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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• H.E.A.T drop video for new single “Bad Time For Love”
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• W.E.T. launch video for new single “This House Is On Fire”
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• “I want to be a f***ing Medici.” A Banksy original formerly owned by Blink-182's Mark Hoppus has sold for £4.3million at auction, and the punk rocker wants to use the money to buy work from upcoming artists.
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• New Killing Joke, Ministry, The Mission supergroup Sevendials share debut single Zodiac Morals, reveal forthcoming album A Crash Course In Catastrophe
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• “What they talk about is political, and there’s not many bands that do that”: Elton John heaps praise on Ireland’s breakout hip-hop stars Kneecap
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• "I felt sad to see such joy in Neil’s face when we were down to the last few bars of our last song we played together": A Farewell to Kings - Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson look back on 50 years of Rush
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• Bring Me The Horizon, Korn, Deftones and A Perfect Circle among over 100 bands announced for Aftershock festival 2025
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• "People had issues with how he treated people – he was emotionally abusive, he was physically abusive." Prince documentary director addresses Netflix cancellation, says the star's representatives were unable to "confront his humanity"
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• "Michael, come out and sing one with me please." Watch American icons Bruce Springsteen and Michael Stipe collaborate on a cover of Patti Smith's Because The Night and perform R.E.M. deep cut Bad Day together back in 2004
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• Linkin Park are already teasing new music
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• Sennheiser HD 505 headphones review
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• Glastonbury 2025 lineup confirmed: The 1975, Olivia Rodrigo, Biffy Clyro, Deftones, Weezer, Kneecap, Turnstile, The Prodigy and many more set for this year’s festival
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• The Dead Daisies share video for new single “Crossroads”
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• “We always wanted to celebrate this album, and to end our live shows at an iconic venue is the perfect way to finish”: After an epic-length search for lost tapes, Clannad passed into Legend alongside Robin Hood
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• Former Ministry and Prong drummer Aaron Rossi dead at 44
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• Why System Of A Down bassist scrapped a collaboration with Korn’s Jonathan Davis: “I want him to work on this with us, not just have a part that he’s done 10 years ago and have that regurgitated”
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• The Damned founding guitarist Brian James dead at 70
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• “A 10cc reunion? It’s a hard no to that, I’m afraid”: Why Graham Gouldman is one of Britain’s greatest songwriters – even if people don’t know it
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• “It made people feel uncomfortable. It made for a lot of misunderstandings and just made life hard”: Ghost’s Tobias Forge explains the struggles of being a masked, anonymous metal musician
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• Jethro Tull grace the cover of the new issue of Prog Magazine, which is on sale now!
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• "You can hear everything from Metallica to Nick Cave and Tom Waits." With Vice Grip, Parkway Drive went from metalcore stars to future festival headliners - and jumped out of a plane
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• "The second we got the offer for Jimmy Kimmel I said, 'I'm gonna pig squeal on national television!'" Knocked Loose singer Bryan Garris on the Grammys, THAT performance with Poppy and conquering a phobia to bring heavy music to the mainstream
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• "Verifies the theory that Big Big Train are a band for whom eloquent inspiration and a prolific brilliance comes naturally." Big Big Train's English Electric Part 2
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• The best Black Sabbath songs that don’t feature Ozzy Osbourne or Ronnie James Dio
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• Stone Whiskey share video for track “No Nice Girls”
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• Motley Crue postpone Las Vegas residency for singer Vince Neil to undergo medical procedure
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• "I get a kick out of pissing off the purists." From winding up death metal legend Glen Benton to chaotic live shows in their underpants, Chat Pile are one of metal's wildest new bands
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• Watch Ghost's new video Satanized and meet new frontman Papa V Perpetua as the band officially announce brand new album Skeletá
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• Watch Bring Me The Horizon’s Oli Sykes join You Me At Six to play Bite My Tongue in Sheffield
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