Rock News 2025-04-08

• “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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• "Clem was not just a drummer; he was the heartbeat of Blondie." Blondie drummer Clem Burke dead at 70
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• Ghost’s Tobias Forge comments on recently leaked solo album Passiflora: “If you write a love letter and that just disappears into the void, you would try to distance yourself from it as soon as possible”
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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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• Wild Talk unveil lyric video for new single “Hold Me Down”
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• Slayer announce only North American headline show of 2025, with Knocked Loose and a host of thrash metal legends supporting
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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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• Midnight Steel release debut self-titled single
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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 is all you need! Metallica’s Master Of Puppets has been streamed one billion times on Spotify
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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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• Rocket Queen’s new studio album ‘One Last Night’ now available
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• Watch Slipknot's Corey Taylor perform a cover of Chappell Roan's Pink Pony Club at a horror convention in Florida
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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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• “Certain things force you to progress… I’m free to do other things, but how much of a leap do I take?” Matt Berry on whether he prefers making music to comedy
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• Video footage and setlist from Rockin’ Dave’s Rough Cutt’s debut gig
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• Sleep Token drop another new single Caramel – listen here
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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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• "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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• "Abba were in matching white fur coats, looking like polar bears. Sid went running over. ‘Abba!’ Then he vomited. They were horrified." John Lydon on the day Abba met the Sex Pistols
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• "Their music is as aggressively and pretentiously dull as their choice of band name": The Band's second album is an acknowledged classic, but there are some dissenters
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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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• The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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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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• The best metal albums of 2025 (so far)
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• "We've been so very lucky to have had the Ace of Bass in our lives": Former Gang of Four and Shriekback bassist Dave Allen dead at 69
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• These 9 metal bands paved the way for Sleep Token
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• "We haven’t adjusted it for the taste of modern kids. This is how it's meant to be heard": An interview with the makers of Becoming Led Zeppelin
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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 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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• "There will be no event called 'Fyre 2' in Playa del Carmen." Grand plans to revive disastrous event come as a surprise to the resort city supposed to be hosting it
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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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• “How could it possibly hang together? But it does, brilliantly”: Steven Wilson has remixed Chicago II in Dolby ATMOS
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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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• The 10 best grunge album openers: a definitive list that is irrefutably correct so you're not allowed to argue with it
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• The Gems drop video for new single “Live and Let Go”
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• Dirty Skirty unleash video for new single ‘1995″
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• Richie Kotzen says he almost joined Nine Inch Nails but his glam metal past got in the way
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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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• Video footage & setlist from Stephen Pearcy and Warren DeMartini’s first show together in seven years
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• Bruce Soord details 10th anniversary edition of debut solo album
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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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• 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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• Lynyrd Skynyrd announce live album recorded at Gary Rossington's star-studded final show
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• Watch video for new Babymetal track 'from me to u' featuring Poppy
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• I got Metal Hammer’s writers to name the ‘bad’ metal albums they can’t get enough of
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• Paul Stanley, Billy Idol and Gwen Stefani are the stars of a series of ads for a corporate AI platform
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• Harem Scarem share video for track “Better The Devil You Know” from upcoming album ‘Chasing Euphoria’
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• Every Bleed From Within album ranked from worst to best
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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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• Britny Fox guitarist Michael Kelly Smith to play short live set at record store on May 31st
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• Junkyard frontman David Roach out of hospital and back at home
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• “I saw right away that he wrote a lot about urban culture, youth culture and violence. That inspired me to create moodier songs”: The story of Iron Maiden guitarist Adrian Smith’s forgotten 2010s side project
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• “People condemned us, attacked us because we weren’t the hip of the hip. But we held our course”: The epic story of Journey‘s Escape, the early 80s masterpiece that changed the course of rock
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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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• An introduction to John Lee Hooker in nine essential albums
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• “We started performing rituals to conjure entities. From that point on it was all about making music that would please these gods”: The unholy story of Morbid Angel and the birth of death metal
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• Dirkschneider & The Old Gang share video for new track “It Takes Two To Tango”
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• "It seemed to sum up the existential crisis I was having." Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan on the Metallica song that saved his life
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• “If somebody offered me something I’d take it first and ask afterwards what it was. I’d swallow a pill and have to be carried back to my room”: The life and death of Jimmy Bain, the bassist who brought the rock’n’roll to Rainbow and Dio
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• Danko Jones shares lyric video for new single “What You Need”
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• H.E.A.T launch video for new single “Running To You”
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• FnA Records release double album from pre-Lillian Axe band Stiff
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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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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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