Rock News 2025-03-10

• A ludicrous six-neck guitar played by Spinal Tap has gone to auction – and you better buy it before I do
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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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• 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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• For a cool $12,495 you can be Kiss star Gene Simmons' roadie for a day
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• “Everybody was fighting in the streets, getting thrown through car windows, it was insane! The cops arrested Jimmy and he went to jail!”: How Avenged Sevenfold went from metalcore brats to 21st century metal heavyweights
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• “Feat. Thom Yorke…”: the ten best songs featuring guest vocals from the Radiohead frontman
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• Mickey Lyxx releases video for new single “Fight You” featuring Rock Star Supernova’s Jill Gioia
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• H.E.A.T drop video for new single “Bad Time For Love”
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• Overdrivers unveil video for new single “Kings of The Road”
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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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• “Had fans had mobile phones, they would have been climbing over old-age pensioners to take selfies”: Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson is a big fan of Ghost banning phones from gigs
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• Kickin Valentina unleash video for new single “The Gotaways” from upcoming record
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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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• How to watch the two-hour special Ringo & Friends At The Ryman from anywhere
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• Blindness cements The Murder Capital's standing as one of Ireland’s great modern guitar bands
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• "Flashes of utter brilliance mixed with too many extra-curricular activities and bad management." Black Sabbath's Sabotage is the end of a golden age - and the point cracks are beginning to show
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• Test your rock knowledge with this week's Classic Rock Quiz
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• “It was a fantastic idea. I would have liked a ménage à trois with Brian Jones and his girlfriend”: The Kinks guitarist Dave Davies’ wild tales of Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, Led Zeppelin and more
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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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• “A return to full-fat prog from the man who gave the genre a good name in recent years”: Prog fans rejoice! Steven Wilson has come home with cosmic modern classic The Overview
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• “I said, ‘There’s a band called Iron Maiden? Who’s that?’”: Tom Araya didn’t listen to metal before joining Slayer
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• "We tend to write very emotive music – you could say emotive rock." How Panic Room discovered themselves with Incarnate
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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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• Highway Chile launch video for title track of upcoming album ‘Rat Race’
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• Stone Whiskey share video for track “No Nice Girls”
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• “We all breathe the same air; we all reap the same potential doom from climate change; we better all bail out the boat… It’s a feeling of slightly despairing affection”: Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson stays curious while he still can
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• Dynazty’s new studio album ‘Game of Faces’ now available
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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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• “The rustic feel of Songs From The Wood or Heavy Horses… a sense of urgency still surrounds the band”: Jethro Tull’s Curious Ruminant
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• Riki Rachtman reveals Taime Downe’s fiancée Kimberly Burch committed suicide
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• L.A. Guns’ video for their new single “Lucky Motherfucker” now available for viewing
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• "Prepare for a new offering." Sleep Token are teasing us again
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• Boneyard drop video for new single “Before The Fall” from upcoming album ‘Black Static’
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• Deraps launch lyric video for first single “Last Fall” from upcoming album ‘Viva Rock N’ Roll’
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• “I lost the tips of two fingers in an accident when I was 17. Doctors told me that I had no hope of playing guitar again. I refused to accept that”: The life and times of Tony Iommi, metal’s indestructible dark lord
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• Adam Bomb to open for Scorpions which he describes as “the pinnacle of my career”
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• Watch Tobias Forge break down the story behind each of Ghost's iconic frontmen –including every Papa Emeritus, Cardinal Copia and every character leading up to Papa V Perpetua
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• Inglorious unleash video for new single “Testify”
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• Massive Attack just sent their music to the moon and back
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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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• “I heard it in a hip-hop song and thought, ‘No way did Nas write that!’” How Wendy James fell in love with an Iron Butterfly track she’d never be drunk enough to write
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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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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• "My focus moving forward is on the re-release of Forever, and God willing, getting back out on the road." Jon Bon Jovi on what's next for Bon Jovi
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• “John Bonham was at the bar drinking quadruple brandies. He just turned around and whacked Gary in the stomach”: The crazed tale of the Heavy Metal Kids, the cult rock’n’roll hooligans with a tragic TV star singer
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• Watch Courtney Love cover Bob Dylan classic Like A Rolling Stone in London
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• “Everybody wanted to fight him, give him a tape or get him high. Anything except leave him alone”: How blues icon Johnny Winter survived addiction, shady business deals and himself
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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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• “We’d solidly work from two in the afternoon to until 10pm. Why did we knock off then? So, we could get to the pub!”: The chaotic story behind Motörhead’s Overkill, the album that turned three speed freaks into stars
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• The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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• “The lyrics are quite nonsensical… I was hammered when I wrote it”: Noel Gallagher on the making of Some Might Say, the song that showed Oasis were set for the big time
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• The Father Of Make Believe is Coheed And Cambria's midlife crisis album. Luckily, it's also a layered, thoughtful and rich new entry in the Amory Wars Saga
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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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• W.E.T. launch video for new single “This House Is On Fire”
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• “I stood there thinking: ‘He’s not going to drive the tractor into the swimming pool, surely?’ And he did”: The insane story of The Wildhearts’ Earth Vs The Wildhearts, the cult ’90s classic that should have been huge
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• When you look into a human’s eyes, you feel this soul. You look into this bear’s eyes, you don’t see anything in there”: Slaughter To Prevail frontman Alex Terrible’s guide to wrestling bears
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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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• “I used to go to the Camden Palace and drink with Boy George. I loved Culture Club”: How Ian Gillan put Deep Purple behind him and launched a new chapter of his career with Gillan
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• “I don’t think anyone is as iconic as I am right now”: How Ville Valo helped lead HIM to stardom and became a modern rock god in the process
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• Playhouse share video for new single “Promises”
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• “The industry often pits women against each other, and women’s voices are silenced worldwide. But we are still shouting from the rooftops!” Nova Twins share new single Soprano, reveal album details plus UK and Europe headline tour itinerary
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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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• "I hate so many people!" Spiritbox give us a track-by-track guide to Tsunami Sea
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• "We saw Sleep Token in Glasgow. 14,000, sold out. It just makes me hungry." Deathcore heroes Fit For An Autopsy have their sights on being extreme metal's biggest band
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• “We went down the sheep-dip in the 80s. They douse you with pesticide, and then you’re lucky to make it out alive”: The rollercoaster story of Heart, the 70s rock icons who survived MTV, grunge and each other
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