Rock News 2025-05-29

• Cougar Toyboy unveil debut album ‘Cougar Business’
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• Tesla drop video for acoustic instrumental “From The Heart”
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• "An Iron Maiden gig quite unlike any other we've seen." The first night of Iron Maiden's Run For Your Lives tour packs big surprises, lashings of nostalgia and a state-of-the-art new show
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• Iron Maiden have played a surprise-stuffed first show of their 50th Anniversary tour - watch videos now
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• "It's the least metal thing I've ever heard. You could put this in your hand luggage and it'd go through the scanners." TV presenter Richard Osman of Pointless and House of Games fame has discovered Sleep Token, and he's more than a little confused
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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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• “London’s must-attend event for fans of all things ‘post-’”: The six bands that defined the final Portals festival
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• Six bands that defined Slam Dunk 2025
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• John Fogerty does a Taylor Swift and remakes his Creedence Clearwater Revival classics
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• SUiCiDE BOMBERS’ ‘The Hottest Tour to hit the UK this year’ – Tour Diary Part 2
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• Babymetal get skull-smashingly heavy with Slaughter To Prevail on new single Song 3, postpone album release yet again
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• “In the studio I was freaking out and bawling. I had no idea Ross Robinson was getting it all on tape until I came back a couple of days later and he said, ‘Listen to this...’”: Korn break down their iconic debut album track by track
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• "Shirley Manson takes aim at cruel ideologies and bigots of all shapes and sizes": The electro-goth revival continues on Garbage's Let All That We Imagine Be The Light
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• “Genuinely, I listen to the early stuff and I shudder when I hear my vocals”: How IQ singer Peter Nicholls learned to stop hating his voice, love songwriting and keep albums shorter
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• Erik Grönwall performs three songs live with H.E.A.T in Madrid, Spain
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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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• "Prime Minister, what will you choose? Complicity in war crimes, or the courage to act?" Wolf Alice, Massive Attack, Primal Scream join actors, artists, directors, doctors and TV personalities urging Keir Starmer to take action to ease suffering in Gaza
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• SUiCiDE BOMBERS’ ‘The Hottest Tour to hit the UK this year’ – Tour Diary Part 3
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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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• “We showed up and Dire Straits were opening for us. The press slaughtered us, accusing us of being dinosaurs”: The epic story of Styx’s Pieces Of Eight,the pomp rock masterpiece that began to tear them apart
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• “We want to finish on a decisive high, having released four albums that we are 100 percent proud of”: UK post-metal dynamos Svalbard to break up in 2026, announce farewell tour
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• “It remained in the domain of teenyboppers, but prog elements are within its grooves”: What if I told you A-ha’s Hunting High And Low is really a prog album?
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• “I had no inkling Tom would go so early. I always wondered who would go first. I’m still grieving”: Mike Campbell on life as Tom Petty’s right hand man and the highs and lows of being a Heartbreaker
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• SUiCiDE BOMBERS’ ‘The Hottest Tour to hit the UK this year’ – Tour Diary Part 5
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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 mysterious woman on the cover of Black Sabbath's debut album is raffling her autograph to raise funds for a cat rescue project
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• Ex-Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer avoids jail after entering plea in vehicular manslaughter case
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• Rare brain condition leads Billy Joel to cancel string of tour dates
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• "It’s the sound of four men who feel like their lives depend on it." Bono gives update on U2's next album
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• "I'm working on a power metal record." Svalbard's Serena Cherry on videogames, picking up the guitar and dream projects
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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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• Metallica’s ‘Black Album’ certified 20x platinum and ‘Master of Puppets’ certified 8x platinum by RIAA
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• ”Three highly gifted men with the capacity to behave like spoilt brats in each others’ company”: Emerson, Lake & Palmer often didn’t work. But then, neither did projects that featured just two of the trio
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• Download festival comments after artists speak out over “unsafe” toilets for trans people: “We stand with all members of our community and want everyone to feel safe”
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• “Rock’n’roll is like Italian operetta. Everybody dies and loses.” Kirk Brandon looks back on Theatre Of Hate, Spear Of Destiny, heart attacks and his unlikely influences
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• Watch Metallica rip through Enter Sandman on tour in Virginia, USA
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• "He was very grumpy, ignoring people." Why teenage guitar prodigy John Frusciante walked away from an audition to join Frank Zappa's band before hooking up with Red Hot Chili Peppers
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• “We solemnly pledge to get to the bottom of this horrific headline-making crime against Redditors”: Ice Nine Kills issue sarcastic apology for using AI-generated promo picture
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• The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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• Watch metalcore pioneers Converge play chaotic new song WWNTS live
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• “A lot of dreams that came to fruition in the 70s were born in the 60s. The Mahavishnu Orchestra was just one. Shakti was another”: John McLaughlin doesn’t know why his music sold so well. In fact, he knows he knows nothing
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• The nine bands that defined Wide Awake festival 2025
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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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• "It was the day I'd been waiting for my whole life, but I was dismayed": How Skid Row and Sebastian Bach Went To War
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• "It’s been a minute, and I thank you immensely for your patience." A.A. Williams announces UK and European tour
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• Former Hawkwind and David Bowie violinist and keyboardist Simon House has died, aged 76
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• Circus of Rock launch video for title track from upcoming album ‘Hellfire’
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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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• Watch Ghost's Tobias Forge sing Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody as Brian May and Roger Taylor look on
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• CMAT, Black Country, New Road, Katy J Pearson and more join the bill for The Maccabees' All Points East show
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• “Our goal is to help lead the next generation!” Babymetal are on the cover of the new Metal Hammer as they prepare to unleash star-studded new album Metal Forth
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• “I thank God every day, and Metallica, for saving us”: Virginia family say taking their daughter to see Metallica saved them from deadly truck crash
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• Watch John McLaughlin wow the Montreaux Jazz Festival with an emotive version of Abbaji
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• “We were in New York on 9/11 – it felt like the whole world was falling down”: Incubus reflect on playing two NYC shows days after the World Trade Center attacks
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• Queens of the Stone Age announce international screenings for Alive in the Catacombs film
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• “One of the most aggressive forces to ever scratch its way out of thrash metal’s womb – but not always”: The essential slow Slayer songs
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• SUiCiDE BOMBERS’ ‘The Hottest Tour to hit the UK this year’ – Tour Diary Part 6
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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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• Doro unveils new single “Warriors of The Sea”
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• "I'm physically lifted from the seat and violently spun around by a pissed-off John Paul Jones": Led Zeppelin - Out of Control in the USA
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• SUiCiDE BOMBERS’ ‘The Hottest Tour to hit the UK this year’ – Tour Diary Part 4
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• Legendary guitarist and singer Rick Derringer dies at 77
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• Jim Root wants Slipknot’s new album to be made like the debut and Iowa: “I would like to revisit the raw energy of how those first two records were recorded”
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• Styx share first new music from upcoming new album Circling From Above
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• Blackie Lawless feels W.A.S.P.’s album ‘K.F.D.’ is the “most creative record I’ve ever made”
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