Rock News 2025-04-23

• Watch Dave Grohl perform Foo Fighters classic Everlong with a choir and the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra during surprise Coachella festival appearance
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• "A universe in which Karl Marx and Kylie Minogue happily co-exist, that accords Rush and The Clash equal favour, and where Morrissey and Marr meet Torvill and Dean." Manic Street Preachers announce "definitive history", 168 Songs Of Hatred And Failure
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• Watch Slayer legend Kerry King make his Wrestlemania debut as he plays Damian Priest to the ring for the most metal WWE entrance ever
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• Rich Kid Express launch new single “It’s Bad To Be Good”
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• Autograph guitarist Steve Lynch to release his memoir ‘Confessions of a Rock Guitarist’ on May 20th
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• Fontaines D.C. announce huge Belfast show with local heroes Kneecap
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• Savaged share video for new single “Stars Are Falling” from upcoming album ‘Rising’
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• Vinnie Vincent thinking of releasing limited edition EP “if the numbers are there and fan support… are high”
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• Hear Halestorm return with rousing single Darkness Always Wins
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• "She’s survived it all with grace and grit": The Bonnie Raitt albums you should definitely listen to, and one to avoid
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• The Screamin’ Lords share new track “Steppin’ Over You”
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• Kickin Valentina unveil new single “Wild Ones”
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• "I couldn't care less about other people's opinions." M. Shadows of Avenged Sevenfold says they'll keeping pushing artistic boundaries
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• “I thought, ‘That would be cool to apply in a metal context’”: Heriot’s Debbie Gough reveals which Billie Eilish song inspired the metalcore hellraisers’ new album (no, seriously)
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• The Hair Metal Fan ranks his Top “52” Glam/Sleaze Metal Revival albums
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• "He knew something that I didn't know, that nobody knew: that he wouldn't live too long" How Johnny Thunders reached for the stars – then threw it all away
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• Teaser Sweet drop video for track “Turn Me On” from upcoming album ‘Night Stalker’
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• "We were just hanging out on the beach and sipping cool libations; Keith Richards was totally living the rock’n’roll lifestyle": Billy Gibbons’ wild tales of The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Muddy Waters and Ministry
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• "Chris Cornell was the first rock star to consume the contents of my stomach." How Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder and Soundgarden's Chris Cornell inspired the youth of America to drink vomit in the early '90s
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• “Driven by a mammoth riff that could give Black Sabbath a run for their money, they never recorded anything so primitive or heavy again”: Four songs that will make you rethink everything you know about Queen
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• Billy Idol hooks up with Avril Lavigne for driving pop-punk anthem 77
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• “To keep a standard up so long is an achievement. This album crowns that. Now people can play something other than A Whiter Shade Of Pale!” Procol Harum didn’t expect 50th anniversary album Novum to be their last
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• "Metal's messiah has officially returned - and his name is Tobias Forge": Stand aside Jesus - Ghost’s devilish Skeletour show is the perfect Easter resurrection
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• After six albums of Beelzebub-bothering, Ghost's melodic metal is more tempting than ever
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• “Only the stoner fuzz intro was played on the show. I spoke about dreamy ambient passages, a variety of tones and textures... I wasn’t invited back”: Captain Sensible tried and failed to tell the world about Egg
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• Joey Jordison’s original Slipknot logo design revealed via social media
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• "This is their best album yet and a major contender for album of the year." Employed To Serve are officially taking their seat at UK metal's big table with the brilliant Fallen Star
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• “It was a great antidote to American earnest rock bands who seemed to think it was all about them”: Supergrass on the making of their timeless Britpop classic I Should Coco
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• "The record company should’ve offered counselling - we could've been the next Journey!" The high hopes and shattered dreams of melodic rock's nearly men, Giuffria
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• "My ears are tired from music. It’s more like a job now as opposed to having youthful enthusiasm." Al Jourgensen explains why he's putting Ministry to bed after one final "amazing" album and world tour
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• Lorraine Lewis reveals her new line-up for Femme Fatale
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• “We blew this whole scene open, I don’t care what anybody says. We did all the work, and now all these other bands are popping up”: How Korn changed up their sound and left the copycats behind with Follow The Leader
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• "In a word, Viagr Aboys is chaos." Swedish post-punks Viagra Boys get weirder, looser and messier than ever on their fourth album
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• "Why should I be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame? Because I’m f**king incredible!" Billy Idol thinks he deserves your vote for induction into the Rock Hall
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• "There were a helluva lot of drug issues and bad feeling in the air": How doomed Beach Boy Dennis Wilson made his solo masterpiece Pacific Ocean Blue
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• The Cure launch mammoth Mixes Of A Lost World album, donate royalties to charity
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• “It really is like starting from scratch”: Ozzy Osbourne is doing “endurance training” ahead of final Black Sabbath show
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• “They sounded like screams of anguish, screams of war, screams of where humanity is headed – they were perfect”: The feral story of Discharge’s Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing, the punk album that changed metal
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• Watch Love on the Spectrum star James B. Jones meet his metal heroes Disturbed
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• Rick Wakeman To Tour US with Strictly Come Dancing’s Hayley Sanderson
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• Charli XCX wants Turnstile to be one of the artists of the summer
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• “I’ve been going through some challenging times”: Def Leppard’s Rick Allen is still traumatised by Florida attack two years ago
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• “Everyone in our circle was listening to a lot of West Coast hip hop, and it was minor key and dark. If you could take that to the next level, you could make it heavy metal”: How hip hop changed metal forever
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• “I had to focus on something or I wouldn’t get through those next few months. I thought of Lennon wearing his army jacket: I went to war against the illness”: The turbulent story of The Alarm, the band who could have been the new U2
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• Breakker’s debut self-titled EP to be re-released via Heaven and Hell Records
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• “It’s like a Downton Abbey murder mystery!” Watch Trivium react to a music video so bad they didn’t release it for 20 years
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• Judas Priest and Alice Cooper announce co-headlining tour across North America
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• "After all of these years we've buried a lot of hatchets": The original Alice Cooper Band reunite for new album after 50-year break
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• Mädhouse unveil video for new single “Wicked Hearts”
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• Stoner metal beloveds Orange Goblin announce final tour with support from Grand Magus and Urne
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• Ghost fans are selling fake money dropped during the band’s Skeletour dates in exchange for real money
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• “He thought that the band should be a democracy, and it was more like a brutal dictatorship as far as he was concerned”: The tangled story of Dire Straits, the million-selling band who quit at the height of their fame
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• "It sounds like Dream Theater doing a pastiche of Bon Jovi songs": Did Extreme over-egg the funk-rock pudding on III Sides To Every Story?
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• “Onstage everything had to be exaggerated. I took that to heart and overdid it… I was like Benny Hill with a flute!” Ian Anderson on Jethro Tull’s one-legged hammy past – and potential future as a stripped-down four-piece
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• Legendary Bohemian Rhapsody producer Roy Thomas Baker dead at 78
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• Power-stances at the ready, because Ghost have dropped their most 80s-coded single to date with the fist-pumping, hope-filled Peacefield
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• Lost Circus unleash video for their cover of Alanis Morissette’s track “Uninvited”
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• 50th anniversary reissue of Mike Oldfield's Hergest Ridge to be released in June
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• Alice Cooper to release new album ‘The Revenge of Alice Cooper’ with original members
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• Royal Honey launch video for new single “Tallahassee” from upcoming EP ‘Leather Hearts’
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• “Whether any illicit cigarettes were involved isn’t clear, but this is the sound of Maiden floating in space”: Four Iron Maiden songs that sound nothing like Iron Maiden
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• "There have been some communication issues": Zak Starkey returns to The Who just days after being dismissed
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• “Everything I’m doing is purposely very different. If I’d wanted to keep doing what Dream Theater do, I’d still be in Dream Theater”: How Mike Portnoy reinvented himself after the trauma of leaving two massive bands
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• Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood and Kenney Jones have recorded 11 songs for a new Faces album, and there could be an official Faces documentary with "some rude bits" in the pipeline too
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• The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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