Rock News 2025-04-15

• Kick N Fight’s new EP ‘A Tribute To Britny Fox – 4 Song EP’ now available
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• R.I.P. former Judas Priest drummer Les Binks (1951-2025)
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• “We’ve always been true to ourselves. Motörhead has never told you a lie. And that’s very important to me”: A classic audience with Lemmy, rock’n’roll’s greatest warrior
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• “I saw my life flash by. I found myself as an orb of energy… I was out of my mind on a couch somewhere and somebody was afraid I was dying”: Claudio Sanchez reveals the truth behind some of Coheed And Cambria’s latest songs
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• Dirkschneider & The Old Gang share video for new track “It Takes Two To Tango”
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• Marketing move of the century? This hardcore band just released a music video that’s four minutes of cats being cute
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• “Clever flurries of musical activity keeping multiple balls in the air. Then it all goes, against expectations, a bit King Crimson”: A prog band won last year’s Mercury Prize. Did you notice?
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• “Rush fans know Alex Lifeson has moved away from soloing. You probably wouldn’t know it’s him unless you were told”: What happened when Tiles’ Chris Herin gathered Peter Frampton, Martin Barre and others for his first solo album
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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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• “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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• Exclusive Big Big Train Bard bundle with limited edition t-shirt on sale now
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• Coachella crowd called out for underwhelming response to surprise Brian May performance
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• Video footage and setlist from Rockin’ Dave’s Rough Cutt’s debut gig
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• Notörious launch new single “Shout Out For Love” from upcoming self-titled EP
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• Cÿanide launch title track from upcoming new album ’21 Gun Salute’
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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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• "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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• “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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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• "I never thought I’d make my living playing heavy metal." How Sabaton's Joakim Broden became the singer of the biggest power metal band in the world
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• "It was the worst tour of my life." Nothing More's Jonny Hawkins on cursed tour with Sleep Token and In This Moment
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• Exclusive The Flower Kings LOVE bundle with limited edition t-shirt on sale now
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• These 2005 metal albums are so incredible that they should have been chart-toppers
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• Ghost have played the first show of their Skeletour World Tour - setlist details now online
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• Fleetwood Mac legend Stevie Nicks announces 2025 tour dates
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• I went to my first ever Tallinn Music Week - here are 6 things I learned (and the best new band I discovered)
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• "People started to leave. I was terrified": The story of Elton John's favourite Elton John album and the calamitous stadium show that followed
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• Video footage & setlist from Stephen Pearcy and Warren DeMartini’s first show together in seven years
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• “We asked Perry: ‘Do you want to write a new record?’ ‘No, no, no.’ At that point you’re wondering, why did we even bother putting Journey back together?” How Journey found a brand new singer on YouTube and banished the ghost of Steve Perry
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• Danko Jones shares lyric video for new single “What You Need”
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• "There is a big difference between being funny and being ridiculous." Why Electric Callboy don’t want to be known as metal’s silliest band
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• Helix to release album ‘Helix 50 – The Best Of’ consisting of remastered, unplugged and bonus tracks
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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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• “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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• Watch Spiritbox’s Courtney LaPlante join Megan Thee Stallion onstage at Coachella to sing their team-up track, TYG
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• System Of A Down’s Shavo Odadjian: “I never knocked out Brent Hinds”
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• Watch Montrose play a sizzling version of Bad Motor Scooter on the Midnight Special in 1975
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• “The record label took a million dollars from us. There was nothing we could do because it was our fault”: How Deftones helped create nu metal – then escaped it
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• Pink Floyd Release One Of These Days clip from restored Pompeii MCMLXXII movie
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• The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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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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• “We ended up getting into the punk rock scene ’cos the metal people hated us. We were this weird, crazy, slow band that played to punk crowds”: The tangled story of Saint Vitus, the US misfits who helped give birth to doom metal
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• Dirty Skirty unleash video for new single ‘1995″
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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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• Exclusive IQ Dominion bundle with limited edition t-shirt on sale now
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• Rare, recently found 1976 Van der Graaf Generator live footage hailed as "extraordinary" by Peter Hammill
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• Former Judas Priest drummer Les Binks dead at 73
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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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• Rocket Queen’s new studio album ‘One Last Night’ now available
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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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• "The truly terrifying voice of a psychotic Republic": How Jimi Hendrix's iconic Woodstock performance was an expression of national nervous breakdown
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• “A strobe light mounted on a replica of the album art had this amazing psychedelic effect. Especially if you were tripping – as a lot of people were”: When Curved Air released the first rock band picture disc
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• “We opened for the New York Dolls in 1974. The crowd was excited to see them. Not so much us”: An epic interview with Rush‘s Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee about the rollercoaster career of ‘rock’s biggest cult band’
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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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• "Axl wants to be in control of everything": Former Guns N' Roses manager claims Axl Rose now takes 50% of the band's income
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• “I feel a sense of purpose to put something good into the world”: Amy Lee reveals which videogame changed her life – and that Evanescence are hard at work on their new album
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• "I will not just ask you for money but I will drop some merch with these lil' cutie pies and you will buy it. All money will go to them": Slaughter To Prevail frontman Alex Terrible has adopted two bear cubs and our hearts might just explode
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• Exclusive Solstice Clann bundle with limited edition t-shirt on sale now
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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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• “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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• Airbourne’s storage locker in Melbourne broken into with thieves stealing gear including six guitars
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• Midnight Steel release debut self-titled single
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• "I think that he was just on one that night, feeling saucy and having a good time." Blink-182's Mark Hoppus says The Cure's Robert Smith tried to make out with him at a party
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• "So determinedly understated it's almost soporific": Eric Clapton fails to wake up the neighbours on the cathartic but glum Pilgrim
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• Sven Gali launch live video for their cover of Motörhead’s classic track “Ace of Spades”
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