Rock News 2025-05-26

• All 20 Ronnie James Dio album ranked, from worst to best
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• Robert Plant expresses support for Bruce Springsteen over opposition to Donald Trump as row rumbles on
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• "I will be giving them every drop of my sweat and blood": The Who's new drummer is determined to live up to the billing
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• "Skunk Anansie's most musically ambitious album yet": Skin & Co's The Painful Truth is their best work in decades
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• Sebastian Bach on other Skid Row singers after him: “I’ve never listened to any of them — ever”
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• A Judas Priest documentary co-directed by Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello is in the works
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• Dead & Company announce three massive San Francisco shows
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• “Most celebrities are dullards. I met a lot of these clowns and you assume they’re smart. They are not!” Why the Pretenders’ Chrissie Hynde is one of the last rock stars unafraid of saying what’s on her mind
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• "I was afraid something inside of me was dying. Leaving was an act of survival": Life in the fast lane and the turbulent tale of the Eagles
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• Black Sabbath - The Farewell Interview: Ozzy, Tony, Geezer and Bill, only in the new issue of Classic Rock
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• “Our style of music has an in for a type of personality like Steven Wilson and Robert Fripp – let’s call it the ‘control freak madman’”: How Caligula’s Horse searched for a new direction and new message with Rise Radiant
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• “I’d have been in the corner with a bottle of Jack Daniel’s and a mound of coke. I was out of my tree. I needed help”: How Judas Priest rose above darkness and death to make Turbo, their most divisive album
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• “David Coverdale’s had to become a pop singer to get success. There’s your glamour bands and your denim-clad groups. And your denim-clad groups survive”: How AC/DC swam against the 80s hair metal tide and made an underrated gem in Blow Up Your Video
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• “The mix was outrageous… the bass was so high they couldn’t play it on the radio”: Ian Gillan is really, really glad Tony Iommi wants to remix Born Again, one of Black Sabbath’s most maligned albums
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• "In a recent moment when I was really struggling, I picked up my guitar and wrote a song": Sheryl Crow releases new single in support of Mental Health Awareness Month
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• Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets release new Steven Wilson ATMOS mix of Echoes
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• "We build dreams." How Tobias Forge and Beyonce's lighting designer Tobias Rylander joined forces to make Ghost's spectacular Skeletour the greatest show on earth
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• Metallica announce stacked UK and Europe tour with Gojira, Knocked Loose and more
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• "Bands who should probably never have made it out of the garage, let alone onto a major label": It's not just the familiar names on the Young & Wild glam metal compilation
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• "The rock gods gave me gifts": Love/Hate frontman Jizzy Pearl on new album Punk Rock Fiesta and rock'n'roll's magic carpet ride
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• "Some people say it's too personal but I owe my fans the truth": Michael Schenker and the appetite for self-destruction
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• "I'm scared for my life and career at this point." Dream Theater's Mike Portnoy jokes he's worried about his job after spate of drummer firings
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• “This gig is very important. The original Sabbath will never be on stage together again”: Ozzy Osbourne confirms his upcoming farewell show will definitely be the end of the road for Black Sabbath
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• "That scene really embraced me, but I never really felt I fitted into that box": Chantel McGregor may have been welcomed by the blues scene, but her next step may surprise them
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• SUiCiDE BOMBERS’ ‘The Hottest Tour to hit the UK this year’ – Tour Diary Part 3
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• Tekkno no more! See Electric Callboy get “darker” and “more serious” with twisted new song/video Revery
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• Doro unveils new single “Warriors of The Sea”
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• Hot Shöt featuring members from Dangerous Toys and Dirty Looks to release two-song EP on May 24th
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• Rare brain condition leads Billy Joel to cancel string of tour dates
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• “These are perilous times. We are staring down a dark channel that could lead to totalitarianism”: Even yacht rock icon Michael McDonald is criticising Donald Trump and the US government
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• "The surgeon said I actually died on the operating table": Thin Lizzy guitarist Scott Gorham opens up about recent health scare
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• “The time was right. Metal had died a horrible death, grunge had killed the mainstream off, so it felt like a revolution”: The unholy story of Cacophonous Records, the underground 90s label that changed black metal
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• "Intense. Beautiful. Devastating." Seven bands who defined Desertfest London 2025
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• Queen icon Freddie Mercury had a secret daughter, according to a new biography
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• “Nothing Else Matters exposed the vulnerability behind what previously seemed to be a bulletproof heavy metal machine”: The five least metal Metallica songs
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• “A lot of nu metal was made for a drunken frat party, slutty dudes feeding off their own testosterone. There wasn’t a lot of room for emotion”: How Linkin Park defied the haters to make Hybrid Theory, the album that changed metal
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• “Our tracks for film and TV are purposefully minimal. On our own albums, everything needs to work as a standalone rock song”: How Mogwai reached number one with As The Love Continues
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• "I fear for the world": Bonnie Raitt on winning Grammys, working with Prince, and why we need to work together
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• SUiCiDE BOMBERS’ ‘The Hottest Tour to hit the UK this year’ – Tour Diary Part 2
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• Tesla drop video for acoustic instrumental “From The Heart”
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• “It’s a strange thing to look back on – they were such difficult, miserable times”: Big Big Train once hated 2002 album Bard. But the dark secret has become a rare gem
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• “The most dangerous tour I ever did was the one with Mötley Crüe in the 80s. It was nuts. I said to my tour manager, ‘One of us is gonna die’”: This is what happened when Avenged Sevenfold’s M Shadows interviewed Ozzy Osbourne for Metal Hammer
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• Music agent Dave Shapiro and ex-Devil Wears Prada drummer Daniel Williams die in San Diego plane crash
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• Erik Grönwall performs three songs live with H.E.A.T in Madrid, Spain
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• Michael Sweet aiming to release his upcoming ‘inspirational’ album in March or April 2026
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• Mark Boals recalls the recording of Yngwie Malmsteen’s album ‘Alchemy’ being done the “old school way”
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• Thunderor to debut their self-titled rock opera at the Toronto Fringe Festival in July 2025
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• Jethro Tull announce six-disc Living In The Past reissue
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• WildHeart’s new record ‘Wild ‘n Three’ available on June 13th
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• Kneecap rapper Mo Chara charged with terror offence
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• “The idea is that one night like that it worth 1,000 hours of drudgery”: the meaning behind The Cure’s classic 1987 hit Just Like Heaven
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• "Different; not necessarily better or worse but definitely less interesting": The Tubes bring in the big producer on The Completion Backwards Principle, with mixed results
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• Giles, Giles & Fripp remastered reissues coming on vinyl and CD in July
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• “I was a budding arsonist – I tried to recreate the cover of Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here by setting fire to my mate’s back”: The prog world of Nightwish’s Troy Donockley
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• “I didn’t really get the music, to be honest. It was a bit too prog for me”: The prog superstars who tried to steal drummer Roger Taylor from Queen
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• Fire In The Rodeo share video for new single “Viper’s Kiss” from debut self-titled album
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• Nastyville to release new album ‘Rebirth’ on June 6th
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• Cool new proggy sounds from Jakko M. Jakszyk, Phase Transition, Barrens and more in Prog's new Tracks Of The Week!
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• SUiCiDE BOMBERS’ ‘The Hottest Tour to hit the UK this year’ – Tour Diary Part 1
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• “It was one of the most vibrant and exciting live albums of its day. The new version raises the bar”: Gentle Giant’s Playing The Fool – The Complete Live Experience is an exceptional work
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• Circus of Rock launch video for title track from upcoming album ‘Hellfire’
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• “That day was probably the most important day of our lives”: the story of the first ever gig by the Appetite For Destruction-era Guns N’Roses
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• Fifty-two years after it was first released, Lynyrd Skynyrd have finally made a video for Free Bird
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• Derided by critics as nothing more than a circus act, Kiss didn’t sell 100 million records by fluke: Every Kiss album ranked, from worst to best
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