Rock News 2025-04-18

• Sven Gali launch live video for their cover of Motörhead’s classic track “Ace of Spades”
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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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• Notörious launch new single “Shout Out For Love” from upcoming self-titled EP
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• “He was, without question, the best rock drummer in the world”: What Black Sabbath drummer Bill Ward really thought of Led Zeppelin’s John Bonham
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• Helix to release album ‘Helix 50 – The Best Of’ consisting of remastered, unplugged and bonus tracks
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• Heilung are the most captivating live act in the world – here’s why
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• "At first, they thought it was a marvellous distraction, a joyous kink. Then there was a sense of, 'You can go back to the hole that you crawled out of'." Garbage's Shirley Manson on how the patriarchy seeks to crush women's voices in the music industry
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• "We were essentially a blues band with adventurous leanings": Every Free album ranked, from worst to best
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• The 50 greatest Iron Maiden moments
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• “I needed to cleanse my soul from stupidity”: Tobias Forge “shied away” from the media when writing new Ghost album Skeletá
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• In this year's least surprising news, Fyre Festival 2 has been postponed
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• Ian Anderson laments Jerusalem's current plight as Jethro Tull share brand new video for Over Jerusalem
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• Airbourne’s storage locker in Melbourne broken into with thieves stealing gear including six guitars
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• Zak Starkey shares epic unreleased studio recording of Guns N' Roses, Ringo Starr and Elton John covering T. Rex's Children Of The Revolution
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• "The guy who was in charge of the label hated us": Black Spiders' 20-year career has been littered with hurdles and drawbacks, but now they're back
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• The big hits are nowhere to be heard as Neil Young digs deep on the unusually atmospheric Coastal
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• Mädhouse unveil video for new single “Wicked Hearts”
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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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• The Lazys to embark on ‘Hot Under The Collar Tour 2025’ across Europe with special guests Junkyard Drive
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• In the age of dystopian catastrophe Hawkwind are still looking to space
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• Those Damn Crows score their first UK No.1 album with God Shaped Hole
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• "You won’t want to miss the gig of the year." Fontaines D.C. and Lankum will play a one-off Dublin show together next month, and a tickets ballot is now open
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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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• "Life became dark." Pulp's Jarvis Cocker says that fame became "difficult to handle" for him after he pretended to fart on Michael Jackson's stage
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• How Lollapalooza helped lay the foundations for a cultural revolution, via alternative rock, heroin, pierced penises, stomach bile cocktails and a shotgun
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• “There’s a danger we could become slaves to our own equipment – and in the past we have been”: Watch a new video clip of Pink Floyd making The Dark Side Of The Moon
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• “Out of nowhere, all these frat kids are all doing this weird dance, all in lines. ‘You’re ruining my band!’ Then it was no longer ours”: From bitter experience, Maynard James Keenan conspires to keep knuckleheads away from his music
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• “We just told them to get out!” Why Iron Maiden have banned record label staff from the studio since 1982
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• "I have to prove myself with every album. I have to fight every time. But I like getting into the octagon." Gavin Rossdale on Bush's new album I Beat Loneliness, silencing critics, and why bands in 2025 have a duty to make "wild, interesting" records
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• "Wildhearts fans have come to my aid. And it's a two-way street": Ginger Wildheart on beautiful connections, our beautiful planet, and his beautiful new album The Satanic Rites Of The Wildhearts
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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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• R.I.P. former Judas Priest drummer Les Binks (1951-2025)
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• Watch UK metalcore firebrands Loathe play an apocalyptic-sounding new song live, with help from Code Orange’s Jami Morgan
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• Ghost have played the first show of their Skeletour World Tour - setlist details now online
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• “We’d stay up all night drinking, chasing girls, partying – and our pilot was with us. The next morning he was flying the plane!” The rise, fall and rise of AOR superstars REO Speedwagon
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• Helloween to release new studio album ‘Giants & Monsters’ on August 29th
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• "I grew up loving watching Roy Keane!" Linkin Park on their new football-inspired remix of Numb, their upcoming Champions League final show, Lionel Messi, Roy Keane, and America's chances of winning the next World Cup
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• From ecology to the occult: the dark secrets of Led Zeppelin IV
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• "Expect glorious spectacles of foot-stomping, guitar-wailing and face-melting, high-octane joy. Tell your mates. Tell your mum." The Darkness announce North American tour in typically low-key fashion
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• Cÿanide launch title track from upcoming new album ’21 Gun Salute’
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• Video footage and setlist from Rockin’ Dave’s Rough Cutt’s debut gig
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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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• "I'm not pulling any punches for probably the first time in my life": Stevie Nicks is working on a new album and she's not holding back
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• “I made a decision that essentially was very selfish”: Mike Portnoy admits he “hurt” Dream Theater bandmates with 2010 exit
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• ZZ Top add yet more dates to ever-expanding Elevation tour as Frank Beard continues to miss shows
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• “When my friend turned to me with a face as scrunched-up as Jim Carrey’s Grinch, I knew this band were special”: Why you need to care about Glassing
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• "He threw me in the lake and I had to learn to swim": Remembering Dickey Betts, southern rock pioneer
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• “He says he’s mediocre. I understand – I say the same thing. But he’s a great musician, and that has nothing to do with ability”: What Mikael Åkerfeldt’s peers really think of him
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• Heart announce tour with special guest Todd Rundgren
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• “I’ve had dreams about a meteor hitting us. It’s only a matter of time. We deserve it, to be honest”: Doom high priests Electric Wizard are the perfect band to soundtrack the end of the world
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• "They'd throw shrapnel at us - coins. I collected enough to buy a beer." Burton C. Bell recalls the trials of supporting Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath in the 90s
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• “Power and momentum allied to a vivid, panoramic sound”: Hawkwind’s late-career purple patch continues with There Is No Space For Us
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• “He’s gone from being unable to do the shows to clearly being unwilling to do shows with us”: Faith No More drummer Mike Bordin doesn’t see estranged singer Mike Patton rejoining the band any time soon
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• “I don’t think anybody can be prepared for how big the crowd was. A sea of denim and leather as far as you can see”: The epic story of Monsters Of Rock, the greatest heavy metal festival of them all
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• Teaser Sweet drop video for track “Turn Me On” from upcoming album ‘Night Stalker’
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• Alice Cooper and Judas Priest announce co-headline tour
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• “I was always hoping that I would be taken away by aliens at some point”: The strange story of Devin Townsend’s Ocean Machine: Biomech, the album which launched his solo career
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• Direwolf share lyric video for debut single “Thunder Calls”
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• “The lyrics just blew my mind. That song changed the way I write. I think Steven Wilson is really poetic”: Killswitch Engage’s Jesse Leach loves Porcupine Tree
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• “What angle have we missed on this? Ah yeah, getting some other ****er to sing it!”: the 10 best Manics songs featuring a guest singer (and the odd bassist and guitarist)
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• Kick N Fight’s new EP ‘A Tribute To Britny Fox – 4 Song EP’ now available
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• Order your Those Damn Crows x Classic Rock bundle with hand-signed lyric sheet, art print, exclusive t-shirt and Classic Rock cover variant
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• Buckcherry unleash lyric video for new single “Come On”
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• Linkin Park will headline this year's UEFA Champion's League Final
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