Rock News 2025-03-18

• “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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• “When the saxophone started we laughed and skipped it… The reason I dismissed them then is exactly why I like them now!” How doom and occult keyboardist Carl Westholm was converted by Van der Graaf Generator
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• “Mitch Mitchell was a journeyman. He was hopeless. John Bonham, Ringo Starr, Charlie Watts… they’re a three or four out of 10”: An audience with Ginger Baker, rock’s most cantankerous drummer
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• Disturbed pyrotechnics damage famous Chicago Bulls championship banners during hometown show
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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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• “Music is viewed as one of the highest art forms, if not the highest artform, because it is able to be spiritual and sacred”: How Sunn 0))) conjured good vibrations and dark magic with drone masterpiece Monoliths & Dimensions
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• Courtney LaPlante on the sense of "existential dread" that fuelled new Spiritbox album Tsunami Sea
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• Playhouse share video for new single “Promises”
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• Kickin Valentina unleash video for new single “The Gotaways” from upcoming record
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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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• "Everybody's gonna be playing Sabbath songs, it's gonna be pretty mindblowing." Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Zakk Wylde says that Black Sabbath's Back To The Beginning homecoming will be "special for everybody", but he hopes it won't be Ozzy's last show
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• Katatonia and guitarist Anders Nyström go their separate ways
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• Stevie Wonder announced as final BST at Hyde Park headliner
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• Jack Starr launches video for track “Rise Up” from upcoming solo album ‘Out of The Darkness Part II’
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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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• Rush got emails "from all kinds of drummers" minutes after the death of Neil Peart
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• Metalville Records to release compilation album ‘In Memory Of’ to honour deceased singer Paul Di’Anno
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• Envy Of None share dark video for new single The Story
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• Ronnie Romero unveils video for cover of Dio’s “Rainbow In The Dark” from upcoming live album
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• "Bruce Dickinson, if you read this: call me!" Avantasia and Edguy frontman Tobias Sammett is a legend to power metal fans - so we got them to interview him for us
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• Test your rock knowledge with this week's Classic Rock Quiz
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• Fruupp vocalist, flautist and bassist Peter Farrelly has died, aged 76
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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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• Are Radiohead getting ready to do something big in 2025? A new business linked to the band members' names suggests so
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• 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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• Dirty Skirty to release new single “1995” along with seven other tracks on April 6th
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• “We have a Grammy-winning producer, a trained Shakespearian actor and a carpenter”: The death and resurrection of Hell, the occult metal pioneers that history forgot
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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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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• The Pineapple Thief and TesseracT to headline this year's Be Prog! My Friend festival in Barcelona
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• “What did we get for being innovative? We got slaughtered by everyone. That’s what you face for trying something new”: How Saxon made Crusader, the album that marked the end of their early 80s glory years
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• Dynazty’s new studio album ‘Game of Faces’ now available
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• "It's got the filthiest tenor saxophone solo ever." Blur guitarist Graham Coxon reveals the prog rock song that changed his life
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• Giant share lyric video for new single “Hold The Night” from upcoming album ‘Stand and Deliver’
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• "Now this is hilarious!" Rob Zombie reacts to Daily Mail-concocted "outrage" over his "violent" new children's book Z Is For Zombie
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• "We’d love for you to join us for these intimate performances in beautiful iconic theaters to celebrate 25 years of Yeah Yeah Yeahs." Yeah Yeah Yeahs announce special shows in the UK, US and Mexico
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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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• Great new proggy sounds from Magic Pie, Sleep Token, Michael Woodman and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week
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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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• “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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• “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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• "The summer is heatin' up!" Def Leppard reveal spring / summer tour schedule
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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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• Jesse Clutch unveils video for title track of upcoming solo album ‘Ridin’ The Rails’
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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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• Deraps launch lyric video for first single “Last Fall” from upcoming album ‘Viva Rock N’ Roll’
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• Mädhouse drop video for new single “Shotgun Rider” from upcoming album ‘Plead The Fifth’
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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• “We tried the spaceship at The Who’s studio. Pete Townshend saw it and said: ‘I want one!’”: How Jeff Lynne took Electric Light Orchestra and the Traveling Wilburys to infinity and beyond
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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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• “Any drug coming along, I’d take. It wasn’t a self-destruct thing. It either closed the door on my mind or opened one up”: The wild life and drunken times of cult rock’n’roll pirate king Tyla J Pallas
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• Test your metal knowledge with the all-new Metal Hammer quiz
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• The Fifth’s new studio album ‘We Are One’ available on May 2nd
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• “To listen now is to be dazzled by how many of its ideas were embraced and expanded by key artists… its ripples today dominate modern music”: Kraftwerk’s 50th anniversary edition of Autobahn
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• KISS to release ‘Asylum’ era ‘Off The Soundboard: HemisFair Arena, San Antonio, Texas – 12-3-1985’
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• "Nu Delhi is an exhilarating rush that should see Bloodywood’s star rise still further." India's biggest metal sensations have produced another iron-clad rager with their second studio album
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• "Instrumental music is an expression that words can never capture." Former Tangerine Dream member Peter Baumann to release first new solo album for nine years
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• “I can’t see us ever writing songs about boning strippers and doing cocaine in limousine jacuzzis”: How Alice In Chains came to terms with their dark past on The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here
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• "My mother took me to see Saga when I was 15. It was fantastic!". A glimpse inside Yogi Lang's prog world
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• “I went from being James LaBrie’s biggest critic to being his biggest cheerleader. I want him to succeed more than anybody”: Now Mike Portnoy is back in Dream Theater, he only wishes it had happened sooner
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• "I was literally on fire for 4 ½ songs." Journey drummer Deen Castronovo has lucky escape as blaze breaks out below stage
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• You can stick your Manchester and stick your London: here’s 10 reasons why Essex is responsible for the UK’s best ever artists (as decided by an Essex boy)
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• Mickey Lyxx releases video for new single “Fight You” featuring Rock Star Supernova’s Jill Gioia
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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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• Iron Maiden unveil details of official documentary
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