Rock News 2025-03-15

• Bob Mould, live in London: one man and his guitar elevating troubled souls in a manner that only the best music can
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• Dynazty’s new studio album ‘Game of Faces’ now available
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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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• “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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• Cloudy with a chance of hard rock. Watch Kiss star Gene Simmons take a stint as a weatherman on Los Angeles TV station
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• Test your metal knowledge with the all-new Metal Hammer quiz
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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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• Mickey Lyxx releases video for new single “Fight You” featuring Rock Star Supernova’s Jill Gioia
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• Overdrivers unveil video for new single “Kings of The Road”
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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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• Oasis announce Live ’25 reunion tour film to be produced by Peaky Blinders creator
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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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• “Donald Trump is a huge fan of mine. Mostly he’s jealous of my hair, which is much cooler than his”: Gene Simmons’ wild tales of Eddie Van Halen, Bob Dylan, Cher and Donald Trump
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• Ever wanted to hear Cyndi Lauper go goth? Try this cover of I Drove All Night by Scandi supergroup Cemetery Skyline
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• Courtney LaPlante on the sense of "existential dread" that fuelled new Spiritbox album Tsunami Sea
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• Envy Of None share dark video for new single The Story
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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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• “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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• “As a junior-millennial rock fan, hearing The Bends felt tantamount to digging up the first fish who grew legs”: We got a 28-year-old music journalist to review a 30-year-old Radiohead album and this is what he wrote
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• Bryan Ferry and performance artist Amelia Barratt share new video for title track of upcoming art rock album Loose Talk
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• Metallica announce VR immersive concert experience with Apple
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• KISS to release ‘Asylum’ era ‘Off The Soundboard: HemisFair Arena, San Antonio, Texas – 12-3-1985’
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• Adam Bomb to open for Scorpions which he describes as “the pinnacle of my career”
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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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• Boneyard drop video for new single “Before The Fall” from upcoming album ‘Black Static’
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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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• “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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• Kickin Valentina unleash video for new single “The Gotaways” from upcoming record
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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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• “Although it continues the ongoing Amory Wars saga, this is a starker, slicker, highly polished gem of a record”: Coheed And Cambria mix the personal and the cosmic on new album The Father Of Make Believe
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• Great new proggy sounds from Magic Pie, Sleep Token, Michael Woodman and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week
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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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• 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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• Playhouse share video for new single “Promises”
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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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• Jesse Clutch unveils video for title track of upcoming solo album ‘Ridin’ The Rails’
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• Giant share lyric video for new single “Hold The Night” from upcoming album ‘Stand and Deliver’
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• “There’s nothing here we haven’t heard before, but the band’s laser-focused endeavour is almost tangible”: 10 years in, Dorothy delivers her best album yet with The Way
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• “Once you realise your existence is futile and life is a random gift, you think, ‘I’m going to make the most of it.’ Life is meaningless – so embrace it”: Steven Wilson looks back at Planet Earth
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• Mädhouse drop video for new single “Shotgun Rider” from upcoming album ‘Plead The Fifth’
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• Every Jinjer album ranked from worst to best
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• "My dad smashed the tape of Number Of The Beast: ‘I’m forbidding Devil’s music in my house!’ That only made it more appealing.” How Jesse Leach went from "Flanders kid" to future metalcore icon
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• Deraps launch lyric video for first single “Last Fall” from upcoming album ‘Viva Rock N’ Roll’
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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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• Iron Maiden unveil details of official documentary
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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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• Justin Hayward hooks up with Mike Batt to cover The Dream Academy's Life In A Northern Town
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• Riki Rachtman reveals Taime Downe’s fiancée Kimberly Burch committed suicide
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• “My village was the first one in England to install CCTV, just to spot us skateboarding”: Cradle Of Filth’s Dani Filth spent his teens being a skate punk hoodlum
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• Spiritbox have released two new live tracks only available until tomorrow
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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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• “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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• “Let freedom ring with a …” Machine Head have launched a new whiskey in shotgun-shaped bottles
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• The Fifth’s new studio album ‘We Are One’ available on May 2nd
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• “Nothing overshadows the totality of the concept… The Overview is very prog indeed”: Steven Wilson fully embraces the genre again, in a modern manner that will attract new listeners
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• Gentle Giant's Playing The Fool: The Complete Live Experience will be released in May
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• Deftones announce more North American dates for 2025 with IDLES in support
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• “Paul liked to ruffle a few feathers. He used to call me Hitler. I’ve been called Sergeant Major, but Hitler takes the biscuit.” Iron Maiden's Steve Harris remembers "lovable rogue" Paul Di'Anno
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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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• “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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• "As soon as you hear it it's just, 'Wow'. The simplicity of it and how powerful it is." Watch Zakk Wylde reveal his five favourite riffs of all time - and his opinion on what makes a truly great guitar riff
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• “There’s a healthy amount of dysfunction in our relationship”: How Larkin Poe finally got over their imposter syndrome to make kick-ass new album Bloom
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• Sleep Token announce new album Even In Arcadia – listen to saxophone-powered lead single Emergence now
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• Disturbed pyrotechnics damage famous Chicago Bulls championship banners during hometown show
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