Rock News 2025-05-17

• "That's legendary status right there." Watch Zakk Wylde, Trivium, Within Temptation, Ice-T, Lacuna Coil, Jesse Leach, Hanabie and more celebrate 400 issues of Metal Hammer
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• SUiCiDE BOMBERS drop video for ballad “Where Time Always Goes”
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• “We need him much more than he needs us. Prog as a genre owes him a huge debt of gratitude”: The lasting impact of Brian Eno, the glorious anomaly who’s a genre unto himself
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• New horror sequel Final Destination Bloodlines features music by thrash metal veterans Evile
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• One note is all it takes: The unbelievable story of B.B. King
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• Fairport Convention and The Stranglers is one of the more unlikely collaborations you'll hear this year!
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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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• “The depression lasted quite a long time. At the end of it, when I felt I was coming out of a long tunnel, I wrote God Gave Rock And Roll To You”: The epic story of Argent, the forgotten early 70s band who inspired one Kiss’ biggest hits
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• “I never write about people I know. I’ve always been against the idea of betraying any kind of confidence”: Are the touching tales of Jethro Tull’s Minstrel In The Gallery really just fiction?
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• “It was such a foundational thing. It helped me start my record collection. I’d really love to hear the original jam”: Drive-By Truckers’ Patterson Hood hails The Edgar Winter Group’s Frankenstein
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• "Pure manna for a fanbase denied any whiff of a reunion": Dire Straits' 30-million-selling Brothers In Arms celebrates its 40th birthday with energised extras
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• Millstöne share video for debut single “Wild and Untamed”
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• Faster Pussycat drop new single “Motorbike”
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• “If you’ve experienced failure and rejection, how can you possibly be anything but elated?”: How Bush’s Gavin Rossdale channelled frustration and loss into epic grunge ballad Glycerine
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• "Nobody has ever sung a heavy metal song better than Ronnie did": A tribute to Ronnie James Dio
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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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• “I will retire before I become a human-jukebox caricature of myself”: How American guitar icon Bonnie Raitt helped carry the blues into the 21st century
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• "Their stage aura had me totally captivated." Genre-smashing sister duo Alt Black Era on how Trent Reznor, The Prodigy, Billie Eilish and more changed their lives
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• "We’ve even got a video of Harper screaming her ABCs." Harper is metal's youngest star - and has Download Festival's main stage in her sights
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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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• It's Prog's Tracks Of The Week!! Essential new proggy sounds from Peter Baumann, AVKRVST, Raphael Weinroth-Browne and more...
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• The legacy of Chris Squire remembered on the cover of the new issue of Prog, which is on sale now
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• "I mean, we got invited to the White House. It’s like, ‘Why the **** do you want to talk to us?!'" Sharon Osbourne on how The Osbournes show grew too big and ridiculous, even for rock's first family
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• "Getting kinda saucy already. Jeez!" Fleetwood Mac's Lindsey Buckingham analysing a Charli XCX video with his daughter is the joyous, uplifting online content that the world needs right now
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• "We wanted to go straight to the source – into the room with people known for their songwriting": The Black Keys detail new album No Rain, No Flowers
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• "The time is right for us to divert our full attention towards the next chapter of Bullet For My Valentine." Matt Tuck explains why the Poisoned Ascendancy tour is ending and Matt Heafy urges everyone to calm down
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• Dirkschneider & The Old Gang launch video for new single “Time To Listen”
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• "I was on the floor, and he had his boot on my throat. I was like, That's great Elvis, that's great." The surreal story of the night Alice Cooper met Elvis Presley
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• Mammoth share video for new single “The End”
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• “We exhausted ourselves trying to help Scott and be a friend. He wanted no part of that”: the story behind Stone Temple Pilots’ ill-fated sixth record, as told by the band themselves
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• We rank every Architects album from worst to best
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• Matt Hughes unleashes lyric video for new single “Something For Nothing”
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• Sleep Token's Even In Arcadia has officially reached number one in the UK album charts
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• “It’s time to restore a dynamic vision for the future that’s not just about recycling our garbage and all that”: Disillusioned by the 21st century, Jean-Michel Jarre aims to inspire a new hope
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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 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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• Motörhead’s “lost” album from 1976 getting released as ‘The Manticore Tapes’
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• "It makes me just want to die!" The Kate Bush song that makes Kate Bush cringe with embarrassment
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• “At that point in our life the party never stopped. It usually degenerated into a drunken brawl by the end of the night”: The wild story of Goo Goo Dolls’ A Boy Named Goo, the album that turned three punk kids into A-list stars
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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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• "Ask any Quo fan and they’ll agree. The rawness was the reason they liked it": Status Quo's classic Live! gets a deluxe, multi-disc makeover
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• "Driving in the middle of the night in North Ontario, someone flags us down. At that same moment, I smell smoke": Six things you didn't know about The Damn Truth
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• Sleep Token are on course to score their first number one album on the UK and US charts with Even In Arcadia, out-selling Arcade Fire and Radiohead's Thom Yorke
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• Nightwish offshoot Auri to return with third album III - Candles And Beginnings in August
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• "A lot of fun making this." Listen to Ed Sheeran's guitar-heavy hard rock collaboration with Dave Grohl and John Mayer
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• "It was like seeing the future." The band who took Sleep Token on their first US tour recall hearing them for the first time
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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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• “A work of towering vitality, a raised fist and even a raised finger”: Gong’s 10th anniversary edition of I See You casts Daevid Allen’s final work in a new light
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• "I'm going to live." Alice In Chains' Sean Kinney shares health update with fans after show cancellations, joking "The bad news is that I'm going to be fine"
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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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• Texan psych-Americana band Lord Buffalo forced to cancel European tour after Mexican drummer Yamal Said is "forcibly removed" from flight by US Customs and Border Protection officers
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• Jean-Michel Jarre announces first European tour for nine years
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• SatchVai unveil video for second single “I Wanna Play My Guitar” featuring Glenn Hughes on vocals
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• "It genuinely changed my brain chemistry." Turnstile's new guitarist Meg Mills explains how Freaky Friday inspired her to pick up a guitar
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• Nine Inch Nails duo Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross are launching a new festival celebrating and showcasing film soundtrack scores, with John Carpenter and Danny Elfman among "a stacked lineup of visionaries doing something you might not see again"
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• “A wolf in sheep’s clothing, full of smart and deceptive songwriting… oddball dispositions lurk in every darkened corner”: You may not have realised, but Deftones’ Diamond Eyes is a cunning prog masterpiece
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• Gotthard share video for new single “Burning Bridges”
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• Jailhouse’s album ‘Demos 1989-1990’ now available via FnA Records
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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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• "I lost a daughter, the only child I ever had and I didn’t want to deal with that." Randy Blythe explains how his new book is all about making peace with trauma and strife
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• Steve Rothery and Thorsten Quaeschning share first new music as Bioscope with new single Kaleidoscope
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• Mädhouse launch video for new single “We Run Riot” from upcoming album ‘Plead the Fifth’
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• "I see this lump in the bed, and I go, Oh God, who's this?" The day Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher woke up to find British light entertainment legend Alan Partridge in his hotel bed
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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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