Rock News 2025-04-06

• This WWE icon once invited a fake Sammy Hagar backstage and watched him snort so much cocaine his nose bled
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• "Quitting alcohol cost me friends, but quitting nicotine was much harder": Bob Mould on addiction, reconnecting with his audience and social media confusion
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• Kissin’ Dynamite’s video for “Money, Sex & Power” reaches one million views
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• These 9 metal bands paved the way for Sleep Token
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• “It’s obvious that one day this’ll all die out, just like every sort of music does. There is no point in worrying about it”: How Bring Me The Horizon made their mark from the start with Count Your Blessings
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• “It’s getting ridiculous. We’re the last men standing, unless some new wave of rock comes along…” The rise, fall and resurrection of The Darkness, the band on a mission to save rock
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• "This is the best day of my life!" Watch Kelly Clarkson cover Foo Fighters, then help Jack Black make a dream come true in the most joyous and pure TV segment of the week
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• "I'm not a dictator. I'm a good king": Tobias Sammet on the democracy of Avantasia, the late Tony Clarkin, and whispering Bruce Dickinson
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• The best metal albums of 2025 (so far)
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• I asked a death metal supergroup to name the most brutal death metal albums of all time – this is what they came up with
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• Midnight Steel release debut self-titled single
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• Ghost fans! Get this world-exclusive bundle featuring Skeletá on vinyl, Metal Hammer’s new issue with a cover you can’t buy anywhere else, and more
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• "How anyone can be 'deeply disturbed and hurt' by this is beyond me": REO Speedwagon charity show bickering continues as Bruce Hall fires back at Kevin Cronin
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• The Dirty Denims launch video for new single “We Won’t Stop” from latest album ‘Party On!’
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• “I didn’t just walk away from Nightwish. I walked away from everything, so I could figure out what the problem was”: Marko Hietala had to adjust to a new normal, and the result is Roses From The Deep
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• “I told Jimmy Page: ‘Come on! People want to see Zeppelin back together!’ I won’t say I was responsible, but after that they did play that reunion gig”: Mick Fleetwood’s wild tales of Jimi Hendrix, Keith Richards, Arnold Schwarzenegger and more
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• The new issue of Metal Hammer features Ghost on the cover – and comes with three exclusive gifts!
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• Machine Head toured America six days after 9/11: “Everybody in the front row was like, ‘Why am I here? Tell me it’s gonna be OK’”
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• "Touring Australia with the Sex Pistols was horrendous. Seeing the audience doing Nazi salutes really wore me down, and Johnny Rotten didn’t say anything." Skunk Anansie's Skin recalls "violent" 1996 tour with the Sex Pistols
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• “Many names are familiar; a lot of material isn’t. An evening in with the lava lamp beckons”: Middle Earth: The Soundtrack Of London’s Legendary Psychedelic Club 1967–1969
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• H.E.A.T launch video for new single “Running To You”
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• "Classic late-period sleaze rock, all chugging guitar and tomcat howl": L.A. Guns appear impervious to age on Leopard Skin
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• “It’s such an interesting life he led”: The Waterboys’ Mike Scott on why he’s written a whole album about Easy Rider star Dennis Hopper
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• Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox promised fans a new version of a King Crimson classic but gave them bunny rabbits
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• GoFundMe set up to assist cancer stricken Junkyard frontman David Roach with his medical expenses
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• Every Bleed From Within album ranked from worst to best
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• The Gems drop video for new single “Live and Let Go”
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• This is the Metallica song that makes Kirk Hammett cry – and it’s really not the one you’d expect
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• A new trailer for "the Citizen Kane of British pop movies" has been released
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• "I am the Pistols, and they’re not.” John Lydon is getting ever more salty about the success and acclaim currently being enjoyed by his revitalised former Sex Pistols bandmates
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• “If I talk about Donald J. Trump, I may be one of those returning to America who is barred or put in jail to sleep on a cement floor” Neil Young thinks Donald Trump is the worst president in US history, but fears that saying so could have consequences
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• “How could it possibly hang together? But it does, brilliantly”: Steven Wilson has remixed Chicago II in Dolby ATMOS
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• Wild Talk unveil lyric video for new single “Hold Me Down”
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• Britny Fox guitarist Michael Kelly Smith to play short live set at record store on May 31st
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• "Lots of my records melted in the blaze": John Lydon lost part of his vinyl collection after his kitchen was accidentally set on fire - right after his insurance was cancelled
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• "It's out there. I don't have to hide behind it anymore": Judas Priest's Richie Faulkner reveals he suffered a stroke and it's affected his playing
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• Harem Scarem share video for track “Better The Devil You Know” from upcoming album ‘Chasing Euphoria’
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• W.A.S.P. unleash lyric video for track “Paint It Black” from digital album ‘Bonus Tracks & B-sides’
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• “Bob Geldof said, No, Queen have peaked. I don’t think they should play.” Queen would never have performed their iconic set at Live Aid if Band Aid mastermind Bob Geldof had his way, and Freddie Mercury initially wasn't that keen either
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• Bruce Soord details 10th anniversary edition of debut solo album
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• “I don’t want to sound pro-drug or anything, but there is something about being high that makes you look at things differently”: How Aerosmith made their first great chemically-fuelled masterpiece Toys In The Attic
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• Sleep Token drop another new single Caramel – listen here
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• "Ramones perfectly represent and encapsulate the essence of the underground." Napalm Death, Thurston Moore, Wayne Kramer, Ihsahn and members of Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Rammstein, Gogol Bordello and more to appear on two forthcoming Ramones tribute albums
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• Lynyrd Skynyrd announce live album recorded at Gary Rossington's star-studded final show
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• Junkyard frontman David Roach out of hospital and back at home
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• "Our manager gave us each $1000 and put us on the plane, economy class. We later found out we had received $250,000 for the show: he kept it all." The true story behind Black Sabbath's biggest show ever
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• Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan lines up shows to celebrate the anniversaries of three classic Smashing Pumpkins albums, but he'll be performing with his new solo band, not Smashing Pumpkins
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• “All these men were like, ‘Lose your brother, lose the band, lose your buddies – you should be in pop’”: Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale reveals industry pressure to start a solo career
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• How power couple Paula and Dave Lombardo traded thrash metal for sultry alternative: "Venamoris is a rebirth."
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• Rocket Queen’s new studio album ‘One Last Night’ now available
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• “What did I know at the ripe old age of 22? I knew comics, horror and sci-fi. I couldn’t really write about heartbreak or a horrible upbringing”: How an iconic comic book character inspired Anthrax to write a thrash metal classic
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• Danko Jones shares lyric video for new single “What You Need”
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• The Hives announce new Josh Homme/Mike D-assisted album The Hives Forever Forever The Hives, and share punchy new single Enough Is Enough, plus UK and European tour dates
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• “Once James Hetfield said he liked the album, that was it. He said that it kicked his ass”: How Machine Head’s The Blackening became their own Master Of Puppets
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• Tobias Forge says most Ghost songs aren’t about the Devil: “They’ve always been about mankind’s relationship with the concept of life and death”
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• FnA Records release double album from pre-Lillian Axe band Stiff
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• More is all you need! Metallica’s Master Of Puppets has been streamed one billion times on Spotify
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• “I thought, ‘This is boring. I play these songs all the time! Where’s the audience to cheer me up?’” Richard Thompson’s battle against barking dogs, overhead planes and leaf blowers to make Acoustic Classics
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• “Contains love songs of every stripe: stressed-out, gooey-eyed, gratuitously horny, blissed out, obsessive and mysterious.” Wet Leg announce second album Moisturizer, share new single Catch These Fists
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• "I've seen people younger than him in wheelchairs on stage, he probably doesn't want people to see him that way." Ritchie Blackmore's wife Candice Night says the guitarist had a heart attack 18 months ago, won't be onstage in Europe any time soon
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• More than a shredbot: The Joe Satriani albums you should definitely listen to
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• “I’ve played this music to myself and often close friends for years now.” Bruce Springsteen is almost ready to share Tracks II: The Lost Albums, featuring seven records and 82 previously unreleased songs, 74 never-before-heard
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• “Despite having settled into an MOR-leaning sound, highlights cut through of-their-time instrumental traits”: Camel’s Nude and Pressure Points remixed
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• The Dead Daisies to release new album ‘Lookin’ For Trouble’ on May 30th
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