Rock News 2025-04-24

• Breakker’s debut self-titled EP to be re-released via Heaven and Hell Records
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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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• "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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• "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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• “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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• "Life moves at such a pace these days that we imagine there will be plenty of time to rekindle a friendship, and then suddenly one day it's too late." Queen's Brian May pays tribute to legendary producer Roy Thomas Baker
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• Royal Honey launch video for new single “Tallahassee” from upcoming EP ‘Leather Hearts’
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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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• Watch the video for the first new music from the original Alice Cooper Band in half a century
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• Hear Halestorm return with rousing single Darkness Always Wins
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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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• Charli XCX wants Turnstile to be one of the artists of the summer
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• The Hair Metal Fan ranks his Top “52” Glam/Sleaze Metal Revival albums
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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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• 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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• Ghost fans are selling fake money dropped during the band’s Skeletour dates in exchange for real money
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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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• “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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• Joey Jordison’s original Slipknot logo design revealed via social media
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• The Screamin’ Lords share new track “Steppin’ Over You”
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• Days after their singer adopted two bear cubs, Slaughter To Prevail announce new album Grizzly – stream lead single Russian Grizzly In America
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• Billy Idol hooks up with Avril Lavigne for driving pop-punk anthem 77
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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 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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• Lorraine Lewis reveals her new line-up for Femme Fatale
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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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• "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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• 50th anniversary reissue of Mike Oldfield's Hergest Ridge to be released in June
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• Kickin Valentina unveil new single “Wild Ones”
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• Steve Rothery reveals details of new Bioscope album with Tangerine Dream's Thorsten Quaeschning
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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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• “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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• Vinnie Vincent thinking of releasing limited edition EP “if the numbers are there and fan support… are high”
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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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• Stoner metal beloveds Orange Goblin announce final tour with support from Grand Magus and Urne
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• Savaged share video for new single “Stars Are Falling” from upcoming album ‘Rising’
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• The Original Alice Cooper Group unveils lyric video for new single “Black Mamba”
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• Fontaines D.C. announce huge Belfast show with local heroes Kneecap
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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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• “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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• Wheatus to celebrate 25th anniversary of their platinum-selling debut album with UK and Ireland tour
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• After six albums of Beelzebub-bothering, Ghost's melodic metal is more tempting than ever
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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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• Legendary Bohemian Rhapsody producer Roy Thomas Baker dead at 78
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• Rick Wakeman To Tour US with Strictly Come Dancing’s Hayley Sanderson
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• Alice Cooper to release new album ‘The Revenge of Alice Cooper’ with original members
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• The Cure launch mammoth Mixes Of A Lost World album, donate royalties to charity
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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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• Bryan Adams announces mammoth North American tour schedule with Pat Benatar and The Sheepdogs
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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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• Shakra unleash lyric video for lost track “Burning Heart”
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• Lost Circus unleash video for their cover of Alanis Morissette’s track “Uninvited”
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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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• "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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• Babymetal’s new album, Metal Forth, has been delayed
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• “They can steal pretty much everything. They haven’t figured out a way of stealing the live experience. And they still have to pay for that!” Adrian Belew on survival, orchestra music and Frank Zappa
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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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• Rich Kid Express launch new single “It’s Bad To Be Good”
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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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• "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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• Judas Priest and Alice Cooper announce co-headlining tour across North America
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• The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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• Autograph guitarist Steve Lynch to release his memoir ‘Confessions of a Rock Guitarist’ on May 20th
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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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• Blink-182, Weezer, Green Day, Sex Pistols, Knocked Loose, The Beach Boys and more to play Riot Fest 2025
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