Rock News 2025-03-22

• “Absolutely wicked night!” Halsey went to see hardcore breakout stars Knocked Loose live last night
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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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• “It’s not about selling 12 million copies … the songs still touch me when I sing them or talk about them to this day”: Jethro Tull’s struggle to make Aqualung, in their own words
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• Metalville Records to release compilation album ‘In Memory Of’ to honour deceased singer Paul Di’Anno
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• "The music’s pretty progressive, but it’s not Rush is it? It’s not exactly Dream Theater." TesseracT's journey to debut album One
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• “He came up three times gasping for help. The others thought he was goofing around. He wasn’t”: How doomed Beach Boy Dennis Wilson made his solo masterpiece Pacific Ocean Blue
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• “We thought we’d go really, really big from the very beginning”: Watch Dua Lipa cover AC/DC’s Highway To Hell during tour stop in Australia
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• Babylon A.D. to play show in Greece for first time and to embark on UK tour
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• "I don't know how we did it. Well, I do actually. We snorted a lot of cocaine": Elkie Brooks looks back on wild times with Vinegar Joe and six decades of rock'n'roll
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• Guns N’ Roses and drummer Frank Ferrer part ways
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• Guns N' Roses announce the arrival of their seventh drummer
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• "There will never be another to occupy her throne": Last year Iron Maiden's iconic Ed Force One 747 was scrapped – but now you can wear it
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• "When people make beds of sound like that, it goes into you in a visceral way." Hollywood superstar Cate Blanchett names her favourite rock bands
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• Babymetal announce 24-date North American tour, with Jinjer and Bloodywood among supporting cast
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• Steven Wilson's The Overview at No. 1 in the midweek chart
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• “It’s not like anything else I’ve written… I sank into it, and before I knew there was nothing of me there. That’s when magic happens”: How Roger Hodgson created Supertramp’s most ambitious song, and why he won’t say what it means
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• Twiddly Iron Maiden harmonies, thrash riffs, horror, rapping (kind of) and sexy goth allure: The Screaming Of The Valkyries is peak Cradle Of Filth
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• "About ten years later I just needed to get rid of the leg, it was just too much pain": Six things you need to know about Shaman’s Harvest
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• The Brian Fallon and Gaslight Anthem albums you should definitely listen to
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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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• "Lars Ulrich came barging in. He’s like, ‘Hey, I’m Lars!’ F*** yeah you are!" Bullet For My Valentine's Matt Tuck recalls meeting his heroes for the first time (and regrets falling out with Rob Zombie)
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• Wardruna just led a Nordic ritual in London’s most beautiful venue, and I’ve never seen anything like it before
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• Metallica’s Kirk Hammett announces new book with help from Jason Momoa: “I hope all of you enjoy this journey as much as I did!”
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• Cool new prog you must hear from Matt Berry, Swallow The Sun, Alex Henry Foster and more in our all-new Tracks Of The Week
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• “Fans can fulminate over the tracklisting – ‘Where the hell is The Fountain Of Lamneth?!’ – but it hits all the right beats”: Rush’s R50 is a luxurious celebration with an emotional punch at the end
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• Deraps share ‘home studio’ video for their new single “Last Fall”
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• The Fifth’s new studio album ‘We Are One’ available on May 2nd
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• “The conservatism of what’s called progressive rock these days appals me”: The life and times of Steve Hillage, the maverick guitarist who helped shape the sound of prog
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• “I’m as serious as a heart attack”: Mastodon are looking for their next guitar player – and they have a very specific list of requirements
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• "It was a middle finger to everyone who’d told us we wouldn’t do anything." A track-by-track guide to Bullet For My Valentine's The Poison
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• “I think it could happen... I could have the beginnings of a Queen song right there in front of me now": Brian May speaks about the possibility of new Queen music
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• Every Lacuna Coil album ranked from worst to best
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• Ever wondered what it's like putting on a metal festival? Music podcast Two Promoters One Pod reveals all
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• “It’s a pleasure and a privilege to be here with these legends tonight.” Frank Carter leads the Sex Pistols for 'secret' celebratory return to London's iconic 100 Club
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• “I sped everything up a little bit, just kicked them in the *** a little”: Dave Lombardo looks back on the day he drummed in Metallica
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• “If you don’t like Bringing It All Back Home, you don’t like music. You should hand your ears back.” Bob Dylan’s game-changing album is 60 today and still astonishing
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• “It was like being plugged into an electrical socket that has charged me ever since.” Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody on the rock show that made him want to start a band
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• "Katatonia should have been laid to rest!" Anders Nyström hits back after Katatonia split
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• “There was chicken-wire around the stage. Al Jourgensen was climbing around like a caged beast. I knew this was a guy for me”: Billy Gibbons’ wild tales of Jimi Hendrix, Keith Richards, Muddy Waters and Ministry
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• Actual space scientists and Prog Magazine discuss prog, space and the new Steven Wilson album
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• “It’s a journey of self-reclamation, a goodbye to the past and how you may have known or perceived me before.” Yungblud shares nine minute single Hello Heaven, Hello as the first taste of his forthcoming “magical” third album
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• Horslips five-disc BBC recordings set to be released in May
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• “That song was a sad, minor key drone…”: the 2000 single that is one of Pearl Jam’s oddest releases ever
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• “We wanted to feel that we weren’t in a rush – even though we were. That’s how you end up singing in a sleeping bag”: From a mountain monastery to a cold bus in a snowstorm, the Von Hertzen Brothers’ Nine Lives was tough work
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• “We took it badly – ‘No one wants us any more!’ We’d never been through the school of hard knocks. We didn’t know what it meant to work hard”: When ELP collapsed, Carl Palmer’s career-long lucky streak ended. But he didn’t give up
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• “I agreed to join the band when I was drunk. I’ve not much recollection of what went on!”: The chaotic story of Black Sabbath’s Born Again and the tour that inspired Spinal Tap
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• Giant share lyric video for new single “Hold The Night” from upcoming album ‘Stand and Deliver’
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• Mädhouse drop video for new single “Shotgun Rider” from upcoming album ‘Plead The Fifth’
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• Buckcherry drop video for title track from upcoming album ‘Roar Like Thunder’
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• "The band thanks Frank for his friendship, creativity, and sturdy presence": Guns N' Roses announce departure of long-serving drummer Frank Ferrer
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• KISS to release ‘Asylum’ era ‘Off The Soundboard: HemisFair Arena, San Antonio, Texas – 12-3-1985’
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• Guns N’ Roses announce Isaac Carpenter as their new drummer
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• "Friends of mine were saying, Give up on the dream, it's not happening." Tobias Forge recalls how forming Ghost helped him deal with a dawning realisation that his dream of becoming a successful musician wasn't ever going to become a reality
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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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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• "It’s a moody, beautiful song." Watch Fontaines D.C. blend Nirvana and Bring Me The Horizon classics into one beautifully atmospheric, synth-led cover
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• Udo Dirkschneider reveals the two singers that were unavailable for ‘Balls To The Walls Reloaded’
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• “The KKK were phoning my house and threatening me”: Propagandhi have been infuriating fascists for 40 years – and they still have plenty to say
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• Katatonia and guitarist Anders Nyström go their separate ways
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• "It's fun to hang out in a room and write something that you think is heavy as f**k." A cast member from award-winning TV show The Bear has started a new hardcore punk band with Alexisonfire guitarist Wade MacNeil
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• “I’m not a role-playing games guy. I’m not about drinking beer and singing folk songs. I’m all about sex, blood and rock’n’roll”: How Finnish glam-goth metal icons The 69 Eyes blazed a trail for HIM
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• "Those sultry licks get weirder and weirder, until they resemble the sound of a UFO taking off." Masked metal weirdos Imperial Triumphant go straight on new album Goldstar
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• Dirty Skirty to release new single “1995” along with seven other tracks on April 6th
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• Fifty reasons why three Canadian oddballs became a treasured part of rock history
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• “People are intimidated, or say I give off some bad vibe. But if you want to get a reaction out of a crowd, you better have an ego”: How Disturbed’s David Draiman became the metal star the press loved to hate
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