Rock News 2025-03-13

• “This time, we’re going beyond 11.” Watch the first teaser for Spinal Tap sequel Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, as a release date for the second 'rockumentary' on the legendary English hard rock band is announced
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• Blindness cements The Murder Capital's standing as one of Ireland’s great modern guitar bands
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• “An album misinterpreted by lesser talents”: What do Syd Barrett, Kevin Ayers, Peter Hammill and Robert Fripp have to do with Britpop? See Blur’s Modern Life Is Rubbish for details
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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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• Mastodon’s Bill Kelliher explains Brent Hinds exit: “Like a marriage, sometimes people grow apart, and they get interested in other things”
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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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• “If we are afraid to say, ‘Hey, that’s not cool,’ we’re screwed”: Lamb Of God’s Randy Blythe gives another scathing takedown of Elon Musk
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• Every Jinjer album ranked from worst to best
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• “That was high school for me!” Watch Carrie Underwood team with an American Idol contestant to cover Drowning Pool’s nu metal banger Bodies
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• Deraps launch lyric video for first single “Last Fall” from upcoming album ‘Viva Rock N’ Roll’
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• “All of a sudden, it’s like, ‘We want to announce now, what do we say?’”: Ghost’s Tobias Forge explains why Papa V Perpetua was unveiled on the Black Sabbath farewell show poster
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• "A lot of people think it’s about Vikings, but it never was." We took Wardruna's Einar Selvik foraging in one of London's oldest graveyards
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• Boneyard drop video for new single “Before The Fall” from upcoming album ‘Black Static’
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• “In that song Freddie is very naked. He’s singing from his heart”: The blockbusting Queen ballad that changed Von Hertzen Brothers frontman Mikko Von Hertzen’s life
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• Overdrivers unveil video for new single “Kings of The Road”
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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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• "Any bigmouths talking to the press are gonna get dealt with." Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher fears there is a "mole" inside the band's organisation after "sources" reportedly leak the new Oasis line-up
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• “If you look at it, it’s my reputation… I need five months to prepare a show, and I can’t be writing new songs or promoting the album”: Is this why Kate Bush only ever toured once?
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• "Ihave the art for In The Court Of The Crimson King blown up on my office wall, right next to The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway." Nova Collective's Dan Briggs gives us a glimpse into his prog world...
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• Playhouse share video for new single “Promises”
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• KISS to release ‘Asylum’ era ‘Off The Soundboard: HemisFair Arena, San Antonio, Texas – 12-3-1985’
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• Massive Attack just sent their music to the moon and back
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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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• “It was love at first sight. I broke up with Judy and chased Sharona for a year”: How The Knack wrote My Sharona, the one hit wonder to end all one hit wonders
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• Katatonia announce European tour dates for November and December
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• Order your exclusive Slaughter To Prevail, Jinjer, Electric Callboy, Bloodywood and Bambie Thug bundles, featuring limited edition t-shirts, longsleeves and spellbooks
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• Riki Rachtman reveals Taime Downe’s fiancée Kimberly Burch committed suicide
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• “It was s***. The singing’s s***, the playing’s s***”: Opeth covered a beloved Iron Maiden song – and Mikael Åkerfeldt really, really doesn’t like it
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• Sleep Token announce new album Even In Arcadia – listen to saxophone-powered lead single Emergence now
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• "If you watch the video, you can see Jimmy dribbling onstage, Robert not hitting the notes, and me miming, playing the air." Phil Collins' memories of Led Zeppelin's "dark, sulphurous" reunion for Live Aid are brutal, and spare no-one
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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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• "A cocktail of pure fire and creativity." How Limp Bizkit went from nu metal's whipping boys to a beloved cultural force (again)
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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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• “Let freedom ring with a …” Machine Head have launched a new whiskey in shotgun-shaped bottles
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• “Gong’s appeal? Not becoming too commercially successful”: Daevid Allen bade a grateful farewell with I See You – but he still believed in the future
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• Adam Bomb to open for Scorpions which he describes as “the pinnacle of my career”
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• The Fifth’s new studio album ‘We Are One’ available on May 2nd
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• “Has his voice withstood the test of time? The answer is an emphatic yes”: Jon Anderson effortlessly recreates the best of Yes on new album Live – Perpetual Change
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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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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• Lawyer considers class action lawsuit as Tool fans express anger over setlist choices for Dominican Republic two-night event
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• “I had a dreadful hangover, so I put my dark glasses on and we played Children Of The Grave, Iron Man and Paranoid”: What happened when Black Sabbath reunited for one day only at Live Aid 1985
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• Spiritbox have released two new live tracks only available until tomorrow
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• Gentle Giant's Playing The Fool: The Complete Live Experience will be released in May
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• “There was no malice intended; it was just the sort of obnoxious thing I would say back then.” Nick Cave once famously dismissed Red Hot Chili Peppers' music as “garbage”, now he's working with Flea on a song with “arguably the greatest lyric ever”
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• Smashing Pumpkins classic Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness to be turned into an opera for 30th anniversary
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• Watch superstar actor Amanda Seyfried cover Joni Mitchell with a stunning dulcimer performance
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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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• Mickey Lyxx releases video for new single “Fight You” featuring Rock Star Supernova’s Jill Gioia
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• Highway Chile launch video for title track of upcoming album ‘Rat Race’
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• "My entire life I've wanted to write a symphony. Now I have." Divide and Dissolve's Takiaya Reed has jumped from doom/drone to classical
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• Jesse Clutch unveils video for title track of upcoming solo album ‘Ridin’ The Rails’
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• Kickin Valentina unleash video for new single “The Gotaways” from upcoming record
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• Deftones announce more North American dates for 2025 with IDLES in support
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• 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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• “There certainly was a fair amount of hard drinking. But there was a degree of professionalism, if hard to recognise at times”: How The Pogues made a folk-punk classic in Rum, Sodomy & The Lash
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• The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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• "My reason for being there is the connection between myself and everybody that I brought with me." Tobias Forge on why Ghost's upcoming shows will be a phone-free zone
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• "Someone said, 'Ozzy and Sharon would like to say hi'. I was so starstruck!" From Ozzfest and partying with Bullet For My Valentine to stalkers and dodgy photoshoots, Lacuna Coil put Italian metal on the map
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• Metallica announce VR immersive concert experience with Apple
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• “We’ve done a lot of our growing up in public, made our mistakes too. We’ve suffered at times with that. Our extremes are extreme”: How the Manic Street Preachers shook things up to make new album Critical Thinking
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• Ron Keel outlines booking difficulties due to his decision not to perform under the band name Keel
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• “Every bad decision I’ve made, I’ve made when I’d been drinking. Waking up with a hangover, wasting a day, the bulls**t you talk”: How Ricky Warwick got sober and reconnected with his Northern Irish roots on new album Blood Ties
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• Mädhouse drop video for new single “Shotgun Rider” from upcoming album ‘Plead The Fifth’
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• “It’s a really good album, but I’m not sure it’s better than the ones that came before. You ask, ‘Why didn’t this happen sooner?’” Many consider Blackwater Park to be Opeth’s masterpiece. Opeth don’t
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