Rock News 2025-03-29

• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• Liliac to take a year off in 2026
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• The greatest gig I've ever seen: 24 writers pick the most memorable live show of their lives
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• Guns N’ Roses announce Isaac Carpenter as their new drummer
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• "When the storm clouds clear, the band’s innate pop sensibilities shine as brightly as ever": In a world of bread-and-butter rock bands, The Darkness remain the toast of the town
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• Cradle Of Filth’s singer claims Ed Sheeran tried to turn a Toys R Us into a live music venue
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• Linkin Park launch "the best song we've ever made" Up From The Bottom
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• I’ve never seen the Marshall Major IV headphones this cheap before - get them for half price in Amazon’s big spring sale
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• "Everybody needs this band right now. America is screaming out for a band like the Sex Pistols." Sex Pistols, with Frank Carter, announce first North American tour in over two decades, starting at a venue where they had pig hooves thrown at them in 1978
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• Deafheaven transcended black metal and the elitists hated them for it - now they've embraced it again with their heaviest album yet
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• Guns N’ Roses and drummer Frank Ferrer part ways
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• “I’ve been touring around indie record stores, and I’ve yet to meet anyone who’s even heard of Playboi Carti”: Steven Wilson comments on chart battle with superstar rapper
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• "The haters won’t stop us from doing what we do": Geoff Downes on Asia's new lineup and the band's future plans
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• Foreigner will complete their Historic Farewell Tour with four different singers – and one of them has recorded Spanish versions of their hits
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• "What happens next, you give everyone a hard-on and then go around the room with a bat like Al Capone?!” Ginger Wildheart's wild tales of Lemmy, AC/DC, Guns N' Roses, Cheap Trick and more
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• "The quality is unreal. How is this even possible to have?" Record shop owner finds 1962 Beatles' audition tape that a British label famously decided wasn't good enough to earn Lennon and McCartney's band a record deal
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• Watch Ed Sheeran cover Chappell Roan's Pink Pony Club on the New York subway while disguised as an emo busker
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• Sleazy Sweet drop new single “Don’t Shoot”
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• Ministry announce summer headline shows in the UK and Europe
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• "It's the father and mother of The Dark Side Of The Moon!": The full inside story of Pink Floyd's Live At Pompeii - only in the new issue of Classic Rock
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• Watch Paramore’s Hayley Williams join Deftones to sing Minerva in Nashville
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• Daevid Allen's final album with Gong to be reissued
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• New album ‘Magic Power: All Star Tribute to Triumph’ to be released on June 6th
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• Udo Dirkschneider reveals the two singers that were unavailable for ‘Balls To The Walls Reloaded’
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• "We wanted something raw." The Young Gods announce imminent arrival of their 14th studio album, Appear Disappear, share its hard-hitting title track, and reveal UK/Europe tour dates
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• "No guitar solos! No belly dancing music!" Metallica's Kirk Hammett looks back on working with Lou Reed on their controversial, much-mocked and largely-misunderstood collaboration Lulu
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• My Bloody Valentine announce first UK headline tour in over a decade
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• The Conjuring star Vera Farmiga announces debut album with her heavy metal band The Yagas
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• Prog and Metal Hammer partner with this year's post-rock and prog metal two-day event Pelagic Fest
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• Metalville Records to release compilation album ‘In Memory Of’ to honour deceased singer Paul Di’Anno
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• “Rick Wakeman’s solo albums were just brilliant… when I heard he was doing Henry VIII at Hampton Court Palace, I bought 12 tickets”: Prog is the reason Rick Astley became a singer
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• Carlos Cavazo to play live once again with former Ratt bandmates Stephen Pearcy and Warren DeMartini
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• “It came very close to where I wasn’t going to do the album; I didn’t feel that what we’d agreed was fair”: How Pink Floyd made The Division Bell
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• Ghouls Aloud: The Horrors come back from the dead with "a dazzling nocturnal spectacle of sombre reflections and oozing catharsis"
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• “My totalitarian rule might not be cool, but at least we’ve made interesting records. At least we polarise people”: It took The Mars Volta three years and several arguments to make Noctourniquet
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• Video footage and setlist from Lynch Mob’s final show
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• From debauched prog revivalists to pioneers of the internet age: The Marillion albums you should definitely listen to
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• Her Grammy-slaying supergroup boygenius may be on hiatus, but the much-anticipated Forever Is A Feeling finds Lucy Dacus looking to the future with optimism instead of dwelling on the past
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• "It’s a thin line between child and genius." Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell reveals how a drum machine confused the hell out of Bob Dylan when he tried to write a hit single in the mid '80s
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• "I consulted with high-end industry pros, undertaking a meticulous dismemberment process to ensure this is built to last." Ice Nine Kills' singer Spencer Charnas launches Pretty Evil cosmetics range, "for those who live for the limelight or the moonlight"
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• "Don't worry, it's not the worst. It's not what you think": Nancy Wilson reassures fans concerned about Ann Wilson's onstage wheelchair
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• Bad Marriage to release new album ‘Match Made In Hell’ via RFK Media during the summer of 2025
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• Buckcherry drop video for title track from upcoming album ‘Roar Like Thunder’
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• Junkyard frontman David Roach’s health takes an unexpected turn
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• Evanescence release new song Afterlife from Devil May Cry TV series soundtrack, have their next album in the works
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• “It’s not about that guy from Rush any more,” says Alex Lifeson. But with four and a half solos, it’s great to have him using those colours again on Envy Of None’s Stygian Wavz
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• "He and I have that kanaka thing, we're bros!" Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett on his friendship with Jason Momoa
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• "This is my baby, my passion – because Rosetta deserves": Lizzo to play rock'n'roll pioneer Sister Rosetta Tharpe in upcoming biopic
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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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• "The soundtrack to the greatest rock'n'roll soap opera ever": The mightiest Fleetwood Mac line-up albums in one handy box
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• "This is a song that I always always go back to, it’s one of my favourites ever.” Watch pop superstar Dua Lipa cover a classic INXS anthem, live in Sydney
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• “The concept of cool and uncool is completely gone, which is good and bad… people are unashamedly listening to Rick Astley. You’ve got to draw a line somewhere!” Mogwai and the making of prog-curious album The Bad Fire
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• "This collection embodies both the best and worst of Townshend the artist and arch conceptualist": An overview of the solo career of Pete Townshend, the man who never meant to have a solo career
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• “You only have to hear the opening sweep to reach for your lighter and wave it in the air”: Tony Banks' greatest Genesis moments
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• Gentle Giant share brand new live video for Free Hand
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• Höt Föxx unleash video for debut single “Risky Business”
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• What Alice Cooper has in common with Hannibal Lecter: Shock rock's foremost practising Christian on snakes, guns, alcohol and Bible study
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• Adrian Smith names his favourite Iron Maiden song, even though it’s “awkward” to play
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• “This is less a concert than a hard rock workout”: Bloodywood’s energetic Indian folk/nu metal fusion makes for one of London’s sweatiest gigs in recent memory
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• “This deluxe edition contains actual soil from the grave of William Blake”: Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson is releasing a comic book compilation with dirt from the resting place of one of England’s most famous poets
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• This metalcore band want their new song to be John Cena’s theme now he’s a bad guy
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• "Freddie’s ideas were off the wall and cheeky and different, and we tended to encourage them, but sometimes they were not brilliant.” Queen's Brian May reveals one of Freddie Mercury's grand ideas that got vetoed by the rest of the band
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• Deraps share ‘home studio’ video for their new single “Last Fall”
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• Watch Bruce Springsteen unleash his inner guitar hero, and jam with Flea, Johnny Depp and R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe, in powerful tribute to Patti Smith at New York's iconic Carnegie Hall
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• How your purchase of albums by The Cure, U2, Chvrches and more on Record Store Day can help benefit children living in war zones worldwide
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