Rock News 2025-05-12

• "This tour will be about fond memories, love and laughter": The Who announce North American farewell tour
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• “Dismissed as bland, complacent and of the establishment, it was now outsider music. If you wanted to be a true rebel, you came out as a prog fan”: Five essential neo-prog albums of the 80s
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• “The whole world of rap-metal is just pathetically ridiculous. It makes me wanna throw up. It’s a horrible place to be”: How Incubus fought back against nu metal with Morning View
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• "The director was like, ‘Hey, you guys want a porn star in your video?’" How Atreyu's Right Side Of The Bed helped create modern metalcore
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• "John made himself out to be the big working-class hero: he was the least working-class in the group." In 1984, revisiting his work with The Beatles, Paul McCartney shed new light on his relationship with John Lennon in his most revealing interviews ever
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• SUiCiDE BOMBERS drop video for ballad “Where Time Always Goes”
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• Stars of the 80s prog scene line up for book launch live event
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• Skull Fist frontman Zach Schottler drops video for his cover of The Beatles’ “I Saw Her Standing There”
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• Kissin’ Dynamite launch video for new single “Queen of The Night” from album ‘Back With A Bang’
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• “I thought we were going to die every time we hit the road. There were a lot of short fuses in the band”: The rise, fall and resurrection of Armored Saint, the cult metal band who should have been as big as Metallica
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• “I don’t know how anyone can be in that band for more than a couple hours”: The story of Slayer guitarist Kerry King’s short but whirlwind stint in Megadeth
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• "There was a lot of rejection, because I was a skinny Black girl trying to be the singer of a rock band." How Skunk Anansie's Skin went from Bob Marley-attended basement parties to a Glastonbury-headlining Britrock icon
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• “I cherish the band, but I don’t expect anyone else to”: it’s nine years since the last Radiohead record and I accidentally got the only interview for it
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• "Even In Arcadia might divide longtime Sleep Token fans, but it will almost certainly expose metal to its biggest audience yet." Sleep Token's new album is ambitious, intense and painfully honest
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• “I have pride for what I did and I want to see that come out”: Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil wants to release final recordings featuring Chris Cornell
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• “I had a white MkIII Cortina with the Warrior On The Edge Of Time poster on the back. Anyone who got in had to listen to Hawkwind”: Paul Hardcastle once used the space rockers’ titles for his own songs
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• Photo gallery: we threw a big party for Metal Hammer's 400th issue
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• If you're after some catchy as hell nu metal brimming with angst, you need the new Tetrarch album in your life
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• “Iggy ran from one side of the stage to the other and head-butted the wall. I was covered in blood, because he’d come up and danced around me”: The Pretty Things singer Phil May’s wild tales of Hendrix, Zeppelin, Iggy Pop and Judy Garland
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• Motörhead’s “lost” album from 1976 getting released as ‘The Manticore Tapes’
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• Helix launch video for their newly recorded 2025 version of “Rock You”
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• Millstöne share video for debut single “Wild and Untamed”
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• Cassidy Paris’ UK leg of tour postponed due to departure from two band members mid-way through
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• “The whole prog movement is about fairies and elves and we’re proud of that. But there are no fairies and elves on this album”: How prog metal icons Dream Theater went full nerd-mode with epic concept album The Astonishing
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• Ablaze to release new album ‘Sink Ya Teeth In’ on August 1st and to embark on tour of UK / Europe
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• “You ride into town with your gang, stealing money, drinking as much as you can and being gone before the law catches you”: How Bon Jovi hit the jackpot with Slippery When Wet, the album that turned them into the hottest hard rock band of the 80s
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• David Lee Roth announces US tour dates after his first show in five years
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• "Biafra got caught with his hands in the till and wants to blame us." Despite offers, Dead Kennedys won't be reuniting with estranged vocalist Jello Biafra anytime soon says guitarist East Bay Ray
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• “This gentleman was someone we looked up to before the Ramones." Watch Pearl Jam rock Nashville with one of the biggest rock stars of the '70s
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• Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox reveal Fripp is recovering from a recent heart attack
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• Judas Priest’s Rob Halford is “gutted” to not be playing Black Sabbath’s final show: “I had no idea it was happening!”
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• “Brent had an Iron Maiden jacket on so I went over to him to talk to him and he was like, ‘Hey you’re that crazy drummer dude’”: The chaotic birth of prog metal giants Mastodon
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• "It obviously didn't work!": Ann Wilson says Paula Abdul was hired to teach Heart choreographed dance moves "like Prince and the Revolution"
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• Bowers & Wilkins Px7 S3 headphones review
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• "For all the madcap genius of Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne, Bev Bevan sounds like the star of the show": The Move's Looking On signposts better things further down the road
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• Dirkschneider & The Old Gang launch video for new single “Time To Listen”
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• “When we came to England, all the headlines said: ‘Crash-boom-blitzkrieg, the Krauts are here!’”: The epic story of the Scorpions, the German band who smashed through the barriers to conquer America
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• "System Of A Down made me feel like I belonged in the metal scene." Lowen's Nina Saeidi: 10 records that changed my life
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• "I really hate America. If Adolf Hitler came back and said 'I won't raise taxes', he'd win in a landslide." In 1988 R.E.M. were so disgusted with the state of the US that guitarist Peter Buck said he felt like shooting people, starting with President Bush
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• Metallica fans cause small earthquake at Virginia show
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• Notörious unveil new single “It’s My Time”
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• It's back! Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week!! Cool new proggy sounds from Katatonia, Nosound, Hedvig Mollestad Trio and more...
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• “By the power of music and death metal, I pronounce you husband and wife!” Watch this extreme metal band marry two of their fans onstage during a concert
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• “Partly a tribute to a fallen bandmate, it’s as emotionally raw as thrash ever got”: 10 epic ballads that show thrash metal’s emotional side
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• “Trent Reznor started out as a roadie for us, next thing I know he’s on the cover of Rolling Stone.” Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan interviewed Ministry legend Al Jourgensen and the results are as brilliant as you’d expect
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• “Van Halen were opening for us and they were killing us every night. But they were making us be a better band”: How Journey found Steve Perry and made Infinity, the album that set them on the road to superstardom
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• "I love technology, but not when it takes away time from the real world": Lacuna Coil's Cristina Scabbia on tech, Depeche Mode and new album Sleepless Empire
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• "We’re the last ones standing from the scene." Employed To Serve are fostering the next generation of British metal talent
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• "I had an idea for an album about people bottling Jesus's vomit." Rivers Of Nihil's Adam Biggs on concept records, working with Cannibal Corpse and not buying the hype for Metallica and Rush
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• 7 bands that defined Incineration Festival 2025
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• “Acts of daring support the contention that their label set them free to do whatever they pleased”: Pentangle’s exhaustive The Albums: 1968-1972 is a lavish celebration of folk’s first supergroup
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• Jailhouse’s album ‘Demos 1989-1990’ now available via FnA Records
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• Hear Quicksand/Rival Schools frontman Walter Schreifels cover Pink Floyd for forthcoming animal welfare benefit album featuring exclusive tracks from Killswitch Engage, Snapcase, Orange 9mm, Testament's Alex Skolnick and more
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• SatchVai unveil video for second single “I Wanna Play My Guitar” featuring Glenn Hughes on vocals
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• "His Midas touch is confirmed": Bernie Marsden covers the greats on posthumously released album
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• "The hype was so great that we were never going to be able to fulfil it." The "nightmare" birth of the Stones Roses' wildly-expensive and long-delayed second album Second Coming, by those who were there, and those who quit
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• Warrant’s 1995 album ‘Ultraphobic’ remastered and to be released on vinyl for the first time
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• As Oasis get ready to start rehearsing for their reunion tour, here’s what the setlist needs to be
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• "On stage, I'd surrender to the ritual. It was like a meditation": Robby Krieger and John Densmore remember life with Jim Morrison and tell the acid-fuelled story of The Doors
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• "I didn't even know Elton John knew what golf was!" US Masters golf champion Rory McIllroy admits that getting a message of congratulations from Sir Elton John blew his mind
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• Vikram Shankar’s Five Favorite Instrumental Prog Albums
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• The Joe Perry Project announces North American tour dates for August
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• "If we’d kept things together and stopped arguing, we could have all been multi-millionaires!" The story of Hawkwind's most prog-friendly album, Warrior On The Edge Of Time
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• Steve Hackett announces The Lamb Stands Up Live At The Royal Albert Hall double live album
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