Rock News 2025-04-27

• "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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• H.E.A.T launch video for latest single “Call My Name” from new album ‘Welcome To The Future’
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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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• 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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• “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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• Savaged share video for new single “Stars Are Falling” from upcoming album ‘Rising’
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• Family of late Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison launches Kickstarter campaign for unreleased Vimic album Open Your Omen
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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 new Yungblud single is basically The Streets meets Blur meets Oasis: watch the entertainingly lairy Britpop-influenced video for Lovesick Lullaby now
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• Regina Rand reveals her husband / Autograph bassist Randy Rand’s last moments before he passed away
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• "I hit a wall. I am not built to do that." Ghost's Tobias Forge reached burnout in 2024. This is how Skeletá brought him back to life
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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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• "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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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• “I feel like I’ve woken up from a coma”: how With Teeth brought Trent Reznor back from the brink and revitalised Nine Inch Nails’ career
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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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• "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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• Confess announce line-up changes including the return of bassist Lucky
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• "He can’t wait. None of us can wait.” Oasis start rehearsals next month for their sold-out world tour and Noel Gallagher says he and Liam are mad for it
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• Sven Gali to release new live album ‘Live At The El Mocambo’ on June 13th
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• King Crimson's Jakko M. Jakszyk announces his new solo album will be released in June
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• Bryan Adams announces mammoth North American tour schedule with Pat Benatar and The Sheepdogs
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• Original Kiss drummer Peter Criss announces first solo album in 18 years
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• Sleep Token invite listeners to "confront what lies beneath the mask" on exultant new single Damocles
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• "It could have been the end, but it became a new beginning": Fleetwood Mac and the game-changing arrival of Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks - only in the new issue of Classic Rock
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• Royal Honey launch video for new single “Tallahassee” from upcoming EP ‘Leather Hearts’
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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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• “Fidel Castro hadn’t decided if it was going to work for him or not”: the time Audioslave made a historic visit to Cuba and got the green light from Castro himself
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• Steve Rothery reveals details of new Bioscope album with Tangerine Dream's Thorsten Quaeschning
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• Deraps unleash video for title track from upcoming sophomore album ‘Viva Rock N’ Roll’
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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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• 50th anniversary reissue of Mike Oldfield's Hergest Ridge to be released in June
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• The Original Alice Cooper Group unveils lyric video for new single “Black Mamba”
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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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• 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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• Code Orange are on hiatus: “It’s on the shelf for a good reason, for many reasons”
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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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• “It really is like starting from scratch”: Ozzy Osbourne is doing “endurance training” ahead of final Black Sabbath show
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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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• "In Russia, when you see a bear, it's not ****ing funny." Alex Terrible is a bear-wrestling, bareknuckle fighting controversy magnet. He's also made Slaughter To Prevail unlikely metal icons
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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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• These are the 12 new metal songs you need to check out this week
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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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• “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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• Lorraine Lewis reveals her new line-up for Femme Fatale
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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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• Hear power metal wardogs Sabaton dive into mediaeval history with new song Templars
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• Ambush share video for title track of upcoming album ‘Evil In All Dimensions’
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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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• Blink-182, Weezer, Green Day, Sex Pistols, Knocked Loose, The Beach Boys and more to play Riot Fest 2025
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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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• Hit horror movie Sinners is inspired by Metallica track One
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• Wheatus to celebrate 25th anniversary of their platinum-selling debut album with UK and Ireland tour
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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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• 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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• Yngwie Malmsteen’s new CD/DVD ‘Live In Tokyo’ now available
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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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• 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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• "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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• Primal Fear drop video for new single “Far Away” from upcoming album ‘Domination’
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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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• Shakra unleash lyric video for lost track “Burning Heart”
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• Pere Ubu frontman David Thomas dead at 71
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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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• Babymetal’s new album, Metal Forth, has been delayed
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