Rock News 2025-03-08

• "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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• Motley Crue postpone Las Vegas residency for singer Vince Neil to undergo medical procedure
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• Inglorious unleash video for new single “Testify”
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• "I hate so many people!" Spiritbox give us a track-by-track guide to Tsunami Sea
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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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• "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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• Former Ministry and Prong drummer Aaron Rossi dead at 44
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• 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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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• L.A. Guns’ video for their new single “Lucky Motherfucker” now available for viewing
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• “We can’t carry on for ever. The show we do is a very physical thing. How long can we keep going? I really don’t know”: The epic story of 50 years of Iron Maiden, metal’s ultimate band
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• Kansas singer Ronnie Platt in high spirits after successful surgery to treat thyroid cancer
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• New animated video from Jizzy Pearl’s Love/Hate for latest single “You’re Gonna Burn”
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• Napalm Death have recorded a cover of a Ramones song with a guest appearance from Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore – and we cannot wait to hear it
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• Dellacoma unveil lyric video for title track of new EP ‘Leave A Light On’
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• "He built a campfire in the middle of his hotel room. It was kinda cute…" The mad, bad and dangerously daft story of The Damned
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• The best Black Sabbath songs that don’t feature Ozzy Osbourne or Ronnie James Dio
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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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• Sennheiser HD 505 headphones review
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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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• “We just told them to get out!” Why Iron Maiden have banned record label staff from the studio since 1982
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• R.I.P. New York Dolls frontman David Johansen (1950-2025)
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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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• H.E.A.T drop video for new single “Bad Time For Love”
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• Stunning new 4K trailer for Pink Floyd At Pompeii – MCMLXXII revealed
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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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• 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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• “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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• W.E.T. launch video for new single “This House Is On Fire”
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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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• Highway Chile launch video for title track of upcoming album ‘Rat Race’
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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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• “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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• Pretty Boy Floyd shooting video for single “Love Sick” at upcoming gig in North Hollywood on February 28th
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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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• Overdrivers unveil video for new single “Kings of The Road”
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• For a cool $12,495 you can be Kiss star Gene Simmons' roadie for a day
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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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• "After 25 monumental years together, Mastodon and Brent Hinds have mutually decided to part ways." Mastodon announce shock departure of guitarist Brent Hinds
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• Marillion keyboard player Mark Kelly and daughter Tallulah launch new podcast Prog & Progeny
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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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• Linkin Park are already teasing new music
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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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• “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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• "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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• Watch Courtney Love cover Bob Dylan classic Like A Rolling Stone in London
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• Cool new proggy sounds from Nad Sylvan, Bjørn Riis, McStine & Minnemann and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week
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• “A charming history emerges from Young’s immense archive”: Neil Young’s Oceanside Countryside uncorks some vintage late 70s vibes from deep within the cellar
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• "Andrew Lloyd Webber said 'Be yourself - you're a rock star.'" How Vukovi's Janine Shilstone turned trauma into liberation
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• The Damned founding guitarist Brian James dead at 70
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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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• The Dead Daisies share video for new single “Crossroads”
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• “I’m a freak and I ain’t changing for anything.” Billy Corgan says Smashing Pumpkins are “one of the most misunderstood bands in the history of rock ‘n’ roll”, but he believes that history will be kind to his band
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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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• “An ode to the litany of wankers we all have to deal with every day”: The Wildhearts prove once again they’re one of the UK’s greatest bands with The Satanic Rites Of…
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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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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• "Ozzy is the real life Iron Man." Ozzy Osbourne's producer Andrew Watt gives an update on the singer's health as the countdown to his final show continues
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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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• Stone Whiskey share video for track “No Nice Girls”
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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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• 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 audience was throwing everything from bottles to rats to pig’s ears at the stage." The Sex Pistols look back on their wild, dangerously out-of-control and ultimately doomed first US tour
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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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• Adam Bomb to open for Scorpions which he describes as “the pinnacle of my career”
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