Rock News 2025-04-12

• Helix to release album ‘Helix 50 – The Best Of’ consisting of remastered, unplugged and bonus tracks
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• “Ringo Starr set down rules for us to follow. There was to be no riding of motorbikes on the grounds – so we did that. What do you expect from a heavy metal band?” The crazy story of British Steel, the album that turned Judas Priest into superstars
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• Rocket Queen’s new studio album ‘One Last Night’ now available
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• Watch the video for Ghost's triumphant new single Lachryma and get a closer look at Papa V Perpetua
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• Pink Floyd Release One Of These Days clip from restored Pompeii MCMLXXII movie
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• Papa Roach’s Jacoby Shaddix comments on nu metal revival: “Hair metal never had this!”
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• Video footage and setlist from Rockin’ Dave’s Rough Cutt’s debut gig
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• Cÿanide launch title track from upcoming new album ’21 Gun Salute’
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• "Huge songs from a band with the potential to be huge": Those Damn Crows prepare to go international on God Shaped Hole
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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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• Marshall Emberton III review
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• “I remember sitting on the piano next to Steven Tyler while he was learning the song. Hearing that voice was one of those moments I’ll never forget”: The epic career of Diane Warren, the songwriting genius behind some of rock’s greatest hits
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• Kick N Fight’s new EP ‘A Tribute To Britny Fox – 4 Song EP’ now available
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• "I just jumped on the private jet and there we were." The Libertines' Pete Doherty shares his memories of holidaying in Thailand with members of Britain's royal family
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• Video footage & setlist from Stephen Pearcy and Warren DeMartini’s first show together in seven years
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• “He was riding a bicycle on stage. I had my camera on a tripod and, gee, what a coincidence – almost every night he’d knock it over!” Tony Levin on the differences between Peter Gabriel and Robert Fripp
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• How to watch the Coachella 2025 livestream: Green Day, Misfits, Amyl And The Sniffers and more set to appear
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• "I know that sooner or later I won’t be able to do this any more": Driven by desperation and enthusiasm, Ian Anderson is leading Jethro Tull through a late career productivity burst
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• Dirkschneider & The Old Gang share video for new track “It Takes Two To Tango”
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• "Ozzy jumped from one subject to another with astonishing rapidity, like some frantic pigeon": A mind-mincing encounter with Black Sabbath on the Sabotage tour
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• Exclusive Big Big Train Bard bundle with limited edition t-shirt on sale now
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• Junkyard frontman David Roach out of hospital and back at home
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• Dirty Skirty unleash video for new single ‘1995″
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• “The idea of Peter Gabriel scared the bejesus out of me!” Chimpan A premiere their cover of Here Comes The Flood
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• Killing Joke, Ministry, The Mission supergroup Sevendials deliver a deliciously warped mix of camp thrills and tense gothic drama on kaleidoscopic debut album A Crash Course In Catastrophe
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• "Is this the ultimate Epica record?" Simone Simons et al show they can do grandiose metal with their eyes closed on Aspiral
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• “Rather than surrender to despondency, it builds into an exultant declaration… Darkness and bleakness still lurks – but the album offers light and hope”: IQ’s Dominion
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• "No A.I. was involved. This is the best we can do." Pulp announce More, their first new album in 24 years. Listen to opening track Spike Island
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• If you watch just one blistering version of Deep Purple's Highway Star performed by a band of children from the Philippines today, make sure it's this one
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• "It is the commission of my life!" Killing Joke's Jaz Coleman announces new choral work based on the teachings of The Wickedest Man in the World
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• We got rock and metal's best bands to pick the greatest Ozzy Osbourne (and Black Sabbath) songs ever
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• "Ozzy and I were like a couple of naughty schoolkids." Zakk Wylde shares his favourite (not so) wholesome memory of hanging out with The Prince Of Darkness
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• "Five were f***ing horrible." Skunk Anansie icon Skin shares what it was like being buddies with David Bowie and Lemmy, and run-ins with 90s boybands
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• “I tried to write songs with Paul McCartney, but it was impossible, because every idea I had sparked him off and every idea he had sparked me off”: Donovan’s transcendental tales of The Beatles, Dylan, Hendrix and David Lynch
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• "I’m uncontrollable when I drink, so I don’t know what happens next." How Jinjer's Tatiana Shmayluk found peace after years of unrest and turmoil
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• Biff Byford on Lemmy, inspiring thrash metal and the greatest heavy metal riff ever written
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• No, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs don't regret choosing that name, and yes, that is El-P from Run The Jewels on their new single. Be advised: when Black Sabbath bow out this summer, this lot will officially be Britain's best stoner/doom/psych band
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• "Skeletá is Ghost at their most confident, flamboyant and defiant." Tobias Forge's Satanic Swedes have made the biggest, most joyous and sweetest album of their career
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• Midnight Steel release debut self-titled single
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• "John’s always been super opinionated. It doesn’t bother me." Billy Idol laughs off John Lydon's criticism of his work with Steve Jones and Paul Cook in Generation Sex, gives a thumbs up to the new Sex Pistols line-up
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• I went to my first ever Tallinn Music Week - here are 5 things I learned (and the best new band I discovered)
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• Airbourne’s storage locker in Melbourne broken into with thieves stealing gear including six guitars
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• System Of A Down’s Shavo Odadjian: “I never knocked out Brent Hinds”
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• Weezer bassist's wife shot by police and charged with attempted murder after hit-and-run incident
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• "It took a decade to write this book, grappling with the beauty and sorrow of a lifetime." Patti Smith announces new memoir Bread of Angels
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• Danko Jones shares lyric video for new single “What You Need”
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• “We’d all seen The Wall; we knew there were good rock movies out there”: Inspired by Pink Floyd, Marillion made a film out of their 1994 concept album Brave. It didn’t go well
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• Bon Jovi are returning to the stage but you might need to sell a kidney to attend
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• A 16-year gestation can result in corpulent blowout, but Masters Of Reality's seventh album The Archer is lean, graceful and magnificent
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• “There are two sides to him – It was totally alien… I learned a lot of things about my voice and how to use it”: What happened when The Struts’ Luke Spiller worked with Mike Oldfield
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• Celebrating 50 years of Hawkwind's Warrior On The Edge Of Time on the new issue of Prog Magazine, which is on sale now!
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• Sven Gali launch live video for their cover of Motörhead’s classic track “Ace of Spades”
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• Strange Fruit: The forgotten British psychedelic bands whose records might help pay off your mortgage
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• "They still call it Sepultura, but everybody knows that it's not the same." Max Cavalera isn't getting sentimental over the end of Sepultura, says fans feel that he and his brother Iggor carry the true spirit of the band
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• “Don’t be afraid. Realise it’s a learning process – nothing will ever be perfect. Be stubborn. Demand respect”: Kate Bush’s advice for forging a career
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• "This band has always been out of sync with whatever is going on": The Black Crowes albums you should definitely listen to, and one to avoid
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• "Eventually you run out of steam because you have no money and you’re eating Pot Noodles on Christmas Day." Dr Who and The Thick Of It star Peter Capaldi shares his memories of his David Bowie and Cramps-influenced punk band, The Dreamboys
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• Watch trailer for new documentary Metallica Saved My Life, directed by Lords Of Chaos’ Jonas Åkerlund
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• “It deals with depression, girlfriends, substance abuse – all that stuff. We exorcised some demons”: How Lamb Of God turned from political fury to personal darkness on Sacrament
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• If you'd like to hear Gene Simmons and Rick Rubin talking for three and a half hours, we have you covered
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• "They're incredibly good-looking, just like me": You can buy an Alice Cooper-branded reel-to-reel recorder for just €27,000
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• Exclusive IQ Dominion bundle with limited edition t-shirt on sale now
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• Livesay and singer Mike Gill part ways + Ronny Munroe to be the guest vocalist on band’s next release
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• "I hated everybody. I had no friends." The wild, unapologetic life of punk rock's forgotten hellraiser, Casey Chaos
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