Rock News 2025-04-25

• Billy Idol hooks up with Avril Lavigne for driving pop-punk anthem 77
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• Watch Korn’s Jonathan Davis sit in a ‘haunted’ chair that apparently makes him hallucinate and feel like he’s high
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• I've never seen a catwalk open up in the middle of a moshpit before - but then I've never seen a band quite like Alt Blk Era
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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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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• 50th anniversary reissue of Mike Oldfield's Hergest Ridge to be released in June
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• Royal Honey launch video for new single “Tallahassee” from upcoming EP ‘Leather Hearts’
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• “It’s overwhelming – you wanna go on, you wanna live off the music, but maybe not everyone in the band can do that”: Katatonia ended a phase of doubt and gave shape to their Dead End King on 11th album City Burials
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• Breakker’s debut self-titled EP to be re-released via Heaven and Hell Records
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• "It could have been the end, but it became a new beginning": Fleetwood Man and the game-changing arrival of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks - only in the new issue of Classic Rock
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• The Original Alice Cooper Group unveils lyric video for new single “Black Mamba”
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• Despite what you might have heard, Jack Black is not in the Weezer film but here’s everything else we know about it
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• Kickin Valentina unveil new single “Wild Ones”
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• Savaged share video for new single “Stars Are Falling” from upcoming album ‘Rising’
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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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• “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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• Ambush share video for title track of upcoming album ‘Evil In All Dimensions’
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• Hear power metal wardogs Sabaton dive into mediaeval history with new song Templars
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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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• Rick Wakeman To Tour US with Strictly Come Dancing’s Hayley Sanderson
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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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• 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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• "Since you’ve been gone, it’s not the same": Listen to the song Sammy Hagar finished after being visited by Eddie Van Halen in a dream
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• "Stereophonics are clearly past their best now": Kelly Jones & Co. fail to strike a chord quite like the early days on Make 'em Laugh, Make 'em Cry, Make 'em Wait
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• "It's gonna be killer. What we're doing is cool." Kerry King has picked the Black Sabbath song that Slayer will cover at Sabbath's Back To The Beginning show, and says it's an "honour' for Slayer to pay tribute to the Godfathers of Metal
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• Primal Fear drop video for new single “Far Away” from upcoming album ‘Domination’
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• Babymetal’s new album, Metal Forth, has been delayed
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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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• Order an exclusive Slaughter To Prevail Grizzly red splatter vinyl variant from the official Metal Hammer store (it comes with cool pop-up art too!)
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• “People think we sing about Vikings. We don’t and we never did. We’re concerned with nature and our relationship with nature”: If other Nordic folk bands overtake Wardruna, Einar Selvik doesn’t mind
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• Wheatus to celebrate 25th anniversary of their platinum-selling debut album with UK and Ireland tour
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• King Crimson's Jakko M. Jakszyk announces his new solo album will be released in June
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• Original Kiss drummer Peter Criss announces first solo album in 18 years
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• Pere Ubu frontman David Thomas dead at 71
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• Ghost’s Tobias Forge may have just revealed how Papa V Perpetua’s tenure will end: “There is nothing that is eternal, except maybe for the memory of someone”
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• "An immense heart-soaring rush of exuberance": What happened when I took a Bon Jovi superfan to an intimate Bon Jovi show
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• "We had our first rehearsal on Monday. It's gonna be fantastic." The Who's Pete Townshend is excited for next month's launch of the "poignant, tender, poetic and epic" Quadrophenia ballet
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• "Drenched in glue-sniffing, safety-pinned punk nostalgia": Billy Idol reflects on the good, the bad and the ugly sides of his life on Dream Into It
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• Lost Circus unleash video for their cover of Alanis Morissette’s track “Uninvited”
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• "I hope one day Electric Nebraska does make the light of day." E Street Band legend Max Weinberg on the unreleased "kick ass" album that's become the holy grail for hardcore Bruce Springsteen fans
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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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• “It really is like starting from scratch”: Ozzy Osbourne is doing “endurance training” ahead of final Black Sabbath show
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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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• Machine Head's Unatoned has so many crushing riffs that it should come with a health and safety certificate. This is a band back in peak condition
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• “The unreleased material is every bit the equal of what made the final cut, confirming its brilliance”: Tangerine Dream’s 50th anniversary edition of Phaedra
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• Sven Gali to release new live album ‘Live At The El Mocambo’ on June 13th
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• "Everybody tells me that it's a happier experience": Daryl Hall on life without former "business partner" John Oates
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• Bryan Adams announces mammoth North American tour schedule with Pat Benatar and The Sheepdogs
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• Sleep Token invite listeners to "confront what lies beneath the mask" on exultant new single Damocles
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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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• The Hair Metal Fan ranks his Top “52” Glam/Sleaze Metal Revival albums
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• Steve Rothery reveals details of new Bioscope album with Tangerine Dream's Thorsten Quaeschning
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• This Billie Eilish song inspired one of the UK's most exciting metal bands to write one of their very best tracks
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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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• Confess announce line-up changes including the return of bassist Lucky
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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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• Shakra unleash lyric video for lost track “Burning Heart”
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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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• Code Orange are on hiatus: “It’s on the shelf for a good reason, for many reasons”
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• Leather lungs? Swishing hair? A one-band fight against modern trends? H.E.A.T tighten their grip on the modern melodic rock crown on Welcome To The Future
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• Autograph guitarist Steve Lynch to release his memoir ‘Confessions of a Rock Guitarist’ on May 20th
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• "Life is beautiful!" Voyager share their first new music since singer Danny Estrin's cancer diagnosis
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• I sing anti-fascist songs in a thrash band – why aren’t more metal musicians angry about the state of the world?
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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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