Rock News 2025-05-20

• “He does worship the Devil. It’s his religion. The rest of us are really worried about what forces he may unleash, without meaning to do so!”: My weird night sleeping on King Diamond’s floor surrounded by human skulls and a Satanic altar
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• Sleep Token's Even In Arcadia has hit number one on the US Billboard chart and set two crazy new records for rock music
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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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• “Bright and clear – but polite and unobtrusive almost to a fault”: Anthony Phillips’ remastered, extended Sail The World is literally yacht music
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• We rank every Architects album from worst to best
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• "When Nirvana ended, I wasn't finished. I'm still not finished": Every Foo Fighters album ranked, from worst to best
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• "You can hear how much bigger it sounds!" How Amorphis went large with 2018's Queen Of Time
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• We've ranked every Ghost album from worst to best
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• Gotthard share video for new single “Burning Bridges”
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• “The sex session did happen. What you hear on the song is real porn action”: The debauched story of Guns N’ Roses’ Appetite For Destruction, the album that electrified 80s rock
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• “I even received death threats – ‘Communist Swede, you think you’re so fantastic. Come to America!’ I’ve been there; the way it’s going now is not good”: If the new Flower Kings album offends you, Roine Stolt can live with that
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• Millstöne share video for debut single “Wild and Untamed”
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• R.I.P. former Rough Cutt and Mickey Ratt guitarist Chris Hager (1958-2025)
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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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• Kissin’ Dynamite launch video for new single “Queen of The Night” from album ‘Back With A Bang’
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• Orianthi shares video for new single “Attention” from upcoming album ‘Some Kind of Feeling’
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• Sleep Token's Even In Arcadia has officially reached number one in the UK album charts
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• Mädhouse launch video for new single “We Run Riot” from upcoming album ‘Plead the Fifth’
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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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• “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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• “Working with Nick Mason built my confidence. People recognised me as the guitarist I am”: How Gary Kemp came back from his post-pop wilderness to join the Pink Floyd family, and what Saucerful Of Secrets might do next
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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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• “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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• The legacy of Chris Squire remembered on the cover of the new issue of Prog, which is on sale now
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• "It shimmers, it shakes, it grooves, and most importantly, it rocks": Mahavishnu Orchestra navigate new musical worlds on The Inner Mounting Flame
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• "I love The Who and would never have quit": The Who's Zak Starkey has been fired again, just weeks after being fired then rehired
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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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• "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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• American Federation of Musicians wades into Bruce Springsteen's war of words with Donald Trump
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• “This has been far from a singular endeavour”: your guide to every player who’s ever passed through Nine Inch Nails, from Pretty Hate Machine to now
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• "This is not a war zone...this is a System Of A Down concert!" Have you seen this crazy footage from System Of A Down's South American tour?!
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• LA's hottest young alt. rock/shoegaze band Rocket announce UK and European tour, release new single One Million
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• "It all came to a screeching halt and forever destroyed the band’s life." Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro insists there's "no chance" that the band will ever play together again
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• The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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• “Explicitly Satanic and utterly primal, their ritualistic assault influenced many later groups”: These 4 obscure black metal bands deserve to be as big as Emperor and Dimmu Borgir
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• "They are bigger than the Ramones. Their influence is greater, their reach is greater, and certainly their success is greater." Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan on the punk band he believes has eclipsed the Ramones
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• "I was doing a ton of crack. And I took pills to try and calm down": The growing pains and artistic rebirth of Billy Idol
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• "I saved the world from Saddam Hussein." Blink-182's Mark Hoppus reveals his role in the US military's capture of authoritarian Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein
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• Guns N' Roses release video showing all the times Axl Rose has fallen over onstage
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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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• “He got up, smashed the table and said, ‘I’ve got the power and I’m never gonna give it up!’ I prayed for sales to bomb. I was happy to see the thing die”: The turbulent story of Twisted Sister’s Stay Hungry, the 80s metal classic that tore the band apart
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• Motörhead’s “lost” album from 1976 getting released as ‘The Manticore Tapes’
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• SUiCiDE BOMBERS drop video for ballad “Where Time Always Goes”
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• “I was in a club and Duran Duran’s Simon Le Bon came up to me and said, ‘I hear we’re in the running for the prize for spending the most time and money in a studio!’”: The epic story of Foreigner 4, the AOR masterpiece that helped shape 80s rock
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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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• "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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• Who had Trivium's road crew saving a litter of kittens from a diesel generator on their 2025 metal bingo card?
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• “I’m not angry – I’m shocked and disappointed”: Foo Fighters fire drummer Josh Freese two years after he joined the band
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• Trash Stars’ new EP ‘It Ain’t Pretty Being Easy’ now available
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• “I have my own ways of ritual magick, but not in the typical way that most people would imagine. We’re not all Victorians, are we?”: The otherworldly story of goth mystics Fields Of The Nephilim
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• ...And Memorial Day CD and vinyl deals for all: Save a whopping 47% off a Metallica classic, plus hearty discounts on iconic releases from Pink Floyd, Ghost & more
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• Mammoth share video for new single “The End”
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• New horror sequel Final Destination Bloodlines features music by thrash metal veterans Evile
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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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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• Matt Hughes unleashes lyric video for new single “Something For Nothing”
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• "This is broken music for broken people." Suede announce new album Antidepressants, share video for new single Disintegrate
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• Faster Pussycat drop new single “Motorbike”
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• Jaywalk announce debut album and launch video for “Knocked Out By Your Love”
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• “Their songs are empowering. They’re not afraid to write songs that are about where you have to own up to your mistakes”: Yes, Nicolas Cage the actor is a big fan of Nicolas Cage Fighter the Australian hardcore band
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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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• "Number 6. Demanded starting every rehearsal with a 20 minute cowbell sound bath." Ex-Foo Fighters drummer Josh Freese shares his 'Top 10 possible reasons Freese got booted from the Foos' list
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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 world was my oyster, but when I opened it there was a turd inside… When my wife said, ‘I want half of everything,’ I said, ‘Write me a cheque for 450 grand and you can have half the debt!’” Fish on his three-decade solo career
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• Former XYZ guitarist Marc Diglio resurfaces with new band Diggs and Company
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