Rock News 2025-05-14

• "Reminiscent of metalcore milestones such as Bring Me The Horizon’s Sempiternal and Parkway Drive’s Ire." Bury Tomorrow are better than ever on Will You Haunt Me With That Same Patience
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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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• "I needed to be back on a stage. I made a few calls..." Roy Harper announces Final Tour Part Two
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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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• “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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• “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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• Vikram Shankar’s Five Favorite Instrumental Prog Albums
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• “People on their mobiles, getting bombarded with this information –it’s kind of like brainwashing”: Adrian Smith and Richie Kotzen are waging a two-man war on the modern world with Smith/Kotzen
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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’d have been up for having Slash on the album – but I’d have insisted he played the xylophone!” Steve Hogarth and Richard Barbieri pushed each other hard on their first album Not the Weapon But The Hand
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• “There’s no plan for any new music.” Oasis' manager shoots down fans' hopes of a new album from the reunited Gallagher brothers, says upcoming world tour “is very much the last time” to see the band play live
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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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• Matt Hughes unleashes lyric video for new single “Something For Nothing”
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• Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox reveal Fripp is recovering from a recent heart attack
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• “It’s related to Won’t Get Fooled Again – the other side of the coin. We won’t get fooled again? Yes we will! This is Cloud Cuckooland”: Roy Harper tried to retire in 2013, but returned with Man & Myth instead
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• Metallica fans cause small earthquake at Virginia show
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• Olivia Rodrigo reveals bill for huge BST Hyde Park headline show in London, with hotly-tipped emerging artists Florence Road, Aziya and Flowerovlove joining The Last Dinner Party, Girl in Red and more
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• Millstöne share video for debut single “Wild and Untamed”
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• Warrant’s 1995 album ‘Ultraphobic’ remastered and to be released on vinyl for the first time
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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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• "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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• Cassidy Paris’ UK leg of tour postponed due to departure from two band members mid-way through
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• "It would be ridiculous to try to rock there." Watch the trailer for Queens of the Stone Age's Alive in the Catacombs film, documenting a unique performance underneath Paris "surrounded by several million dead people"
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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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• "Rumours of my impending uselessness are much exaggerated." Robert Fripp responds to well-wishers after heart attack news
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• SUiCiDE BOMBERS drop video for ballad “Where Time Always Goes”
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• SatchVai unveil video for second single “I Wanna Play My Guitar” featuring Glenn Hughes on vocals
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• Gotthard share video for new single “Burning Bridges”
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• The Joe Perry Project announces North American tour dates for August
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• Punk legends the Sex Pistols featuring Frank Carter add dates to North American tour
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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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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• "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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• "Lemmy was one of us." Motörhead's legendary frontman Lemmy honoured with statue in the town where he was born
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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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• "We got escorted out of town the next day because the big lawnmower went into the swimming pool": Grunge may have burst the big-hair bubble, but it saved Heart
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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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• Photo gallery: we threw a big party for Metal Hammer's 400th issue
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• Jailhouse’s album ‘Demos 1989-1990’ now available via FnA Records
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• The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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• Iggy Pop, Sex Pistols, The Damned, Melvins, Jack White, Gorilla Biscuits among artists confirmed for new US punk rock festival
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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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• Motörhead’s “lost” album from 1976 getting released as ‘The Manticore Tapes’
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• “They played us The Things We Do For Love. We thought it was beige. They said, ‘We need a weird one, a slushy one and humour.’ I said, ‘We don’t work to order’”: How Godley and Creme quit 10cc and went to play with their Gizmotron instead
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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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• Mammoth share video for new single “The End”
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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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• "It's not a political statement, it is a human reaction to a horrific and unimaginable situation." Watch The Murder Capital perform a free acoustic gig in a Cologne park after two German gigs are cancelled over Palestinian flag display
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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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• As Oasis get ready to start rehearsing for their reunion tour, here’s what the setlist needs to be
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• “He mentioned how much he admired Pol Pot and Nicolae Ceaușescu for the way they could control the populace”: Cradle Of Filth’s Dani Filth was pen-pals with Norwegian black metal ringleader Euronymous
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• “I just want to make sure that it’s the best material I’ve ever released”: King Diamond offers update on new solo album, says another single will “definitely” drop this year
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• "Being thrown out of recording sessions is a badge of honour!": The wild times and true confessions of Michael Des Barres
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• "People would come backstage, take a look around and be like, This is f***ing boring." Blink-182's Mark Hoppus on how the pop-punk superstars steered clear of temptations that destroy so many lives in the music industry
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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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• Slipknot wrote “a bunch” of new music during the pandemic – and guitarist Jim Root says they’re scrapping all of it
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• “No respect for us or our crew”: Trivium allege the Poisoned Ascendancy “world tour” is ending early due to co-headliners Bullet For My Valentine
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• Public Service Broadcasting to perform The Last Flight at the Barbican in November
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• "I'm going to die happy." Man who spent $12,495 to be Kiss icon Gene Simmons' roadie for a day has zero regrets
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• Dirkschneider & The Old Gang launch video for new single “Time To Listen”
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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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• “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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• Skull Fist frontman Zach Schottler drops video for his cover of The Beatles’ “I Saw Her Standing There”
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• Pearl Jam release new limited edition 12 inch EP featuring songs from The Last Of Us, and share new video for Future Days
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• “I got this call from Lars Ulrich…”: Alice In Chains’ Jerry Cantrell reveals how he ended up on the soundtrack to horror blockbuster Sinners
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