Rock News 2025-06-07

• SUiCiDE BOMBERS’ ‘The Hottest Tour to hit the UK this year’ – Tour Diary Part 11 — Final Instalment
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• "Five middle-aged, slightly hungover geezers miming along to something." Opeth share new band performance video of §1
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• Guns N’ Roses announce 13 tour dates in Latin America for the fall of 2025
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• "Ma, I'm real sick. I need help. I got to come home": The trauma and triumph of Stevie Ray Vaughan
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• "Me and Ozzy were a team. I never thought, 'What about me?'" We chat to Sharon Osbourne about growing up in the music industry, her "confrontational" father, feuding with Iron Maiden and Billy Corgan and a whole load more
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• The biggest tour in the history of deathcore? Slaughter To Prevail announce 2026 European tour with Suicide Silence, Dying Fetus and reforming Annotations Of An Autopsy
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• "I want it to be like a religious experience." Yungblud announces UK and Ireland arena tour
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• “It still doesn’t feel real that we’re supporting Slayer”: Neckbreakker released one of 2024’s most exciting metal debut albums. Now they’re about to live their biggest dream.
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• "There were multiple shows that I would show up for fully black-out drunk. I don’t remember them." From addiction and alcohol abuse to parenthood and poetry, here's everything The Used's Bert McCracken has learned
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• SUiCiDE BOMBERS’ ‘The Hottest Tour to hit the UK this year’ – Tour Diary Part 10 of 11
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• Triumph to perform three-song set live without Mike Levine prior to Game 2 of NHL Playoff Finals
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• Watch Turnstile perform two songs on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon ahead of today's release of new album Never Enough
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• "We went to abandoned cemeteries at night, stole everything we could find." Black magic, human skulls and Aleister Crowley – the twisted story of Tobias Forge’s favourite cult horror-metal band, Death SS
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• "These instruments are more than just tools of our trade - they're extensions of our musical souls": Nancy Wilson offers "no questions asked" reward for return of stolen Heart guitars
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• Get the new issue of Metal Hammer with a Volbeat cover – and a t-shirt you won’t find anywhere else
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• "Shave my head, let’s just go for it!" How Hollywood superstar Matt Damon channelled his inner Henry Rollins to make a surprise cameo as an obnoxious punk rock singer in cult teen comedy EuroTrip
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• “They’ve always ignored the rule book in favour of new, often over-the-top ideas”: These are Muse’s proggiest moments
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• "Hardcore's answer to Nirvana's Nevermind." Turnstile's Never Enough is a landmark record for alternative music and an instant, undeniable classic
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• Lemmy’s hometown may get new music venue in memory of late Motörhead leader
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• Fistfights with John Lydon, sword fights with the Sisters of Mercy, gangsters, goth and Ferris Bueller: The epic story of Flesh For Lulu
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• The Best of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells I, II & III tour announced for February and March 2026
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• Animalyze to release debut album ‘Powerhouse’ on June 9th
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• "He told me, You've got this opportunity to be a rock star because you're not afraid to say the things other people won't." Yungblud reveals the career advice he received from a machete-wielding rock star who sees him as a kindred spirit
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• Cool new proggy sounds from Jakko Jakszyk, We Lost The Sea, Raphael Weinroth-Browne and more in Prog's new Tracks Of The Week!
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• Watch pro-shot video of a full King Crimson set from Adrian Belew, Tony Levin, Steve Vai and Danny Carey
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• Indian rock band go viral after flying across the world to cover Adele on America's Got Talent
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• Sideburn drop video for new single “Devil’s daughter” from upcoming compilation album ‘Loaded (Best Of)’
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• Overdrivers launch video for self-titled track from their new album ‘Glory or Nothing’
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• "Wild Ones isn't just a song, it's a statement": Watch the first footage of the reunited Alice Cooper Band recording together
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• "I can allow myself to be a bit sexier and say what’s on my mind": How Taylor Hawkins and a nameless girl inspired The Struts frontman Luke Spiller to make his brilliant and beguiling solo album
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• “Bands change; people move on. But when everything Jonas Renkse touches turns to gold, the present and future will always outweigh the past”: Katatonia’s new era begins with Nightmares As Extensions Of The Waking State
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• "They could certainly all have been in Fleetwood Mac": Stevie Nicks likes Haim so much she's working on a new song with them
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• Eddie Trunk explains bassist Mike Levine’s absence for Triumph’s first live public gig in 17 years
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• Roger Waters shares clip of Wish You Were Here as he announces new This Is Not A Drill - Live From Prague The Movie
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• Ozzy Osbourne to make public appearance at Comic Con days after retirement gig
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• Grimm Jack share video for new single “Knife Fight”
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• “In the last 10 years no one has stepped up. Being the sole songwriter is sometimes very lonely”: Jonas Renske hopes Katatonia’s new era includes more input from his bandmates
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• "We have lift off." Oasis have started rehearsals for their world tour, and Liam Gallagher says it's "spiritual" playing with his brother Noel once again
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• Babymetal name their favourite and most surprising collaborations on new album Metal Forth
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• "It's an album of soul food, and I've never been so grateful, right here, on planet Earth": Glenn Hughes announces first album in nine years
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• The Dirty Denims share video for new single “Hell of A Night” from album ‘Party On!’
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• "The build up to the album has reached its zenith and you are elevated to the top of the soaring tomb." Katatonia share new video for Wind Of No Change
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• Previously unseen pro-shot footage of Captain Beefheart performing live in Paris in 1972 has surfaced online
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• A new photo exhibition featuring stunning life-size portraits of some of the most iconic guitars in rock history is opening in London next week
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• Does a new-look Katatonia mean a bold new era? Of course not, but Nightmares As Extensions Of The Waking State is a gloomily gorgeous listen all the same
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• Coheed And Cambria announce October European and UK tour
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• Reunited Original Alice Cooper Group unveils video for new single “Wild Ones”
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• DAZR’s debut self-titled EP now available
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• "Eddie Van Halen literally ran away from me!" Yngwie Malmsteen's wild tales of Lemmy, Ronnie James Dio, Metallica and more
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• Steve Perry launches sale of personal artefacts to raise funds for victims of Los Angeles fires
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• This Black Sabbath song has “one of the best riffs of all time”, according to Employed To Serve’s Sammy Urwin
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• New Pink Floyd book celebrates the band's career with unpublished interviews and Syd Barrett's letters of the time
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• The 12 new metal songs you need to hear this week
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• On the road with America's loudest survivors: Aerosmith, Kiss, and the making of Honkin' On Bobo
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• “We never ever wanted a hit, so it was irrelevant”: Quantum Jump didn’t write the longest prog single, but they took the longest word in the dictionary to Number 5 via their 1979 track The Lone Ranger
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• Roland Grapow feels ‘Chameleon’ was more like a solo album by three Helloween members
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• A beginner's guide to 70s AOR in 10 essential albums
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• “A tad dated today – but there’s no denying the compositional prowess”: Greenslade’s Large Afternoon returns in an expanded edition
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• “It’s just not as fun, unfortunately”: Wolfgang Van Halen reveals he doesn’t listen to Van Halen anymore
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• "An album as full of joy as it is of craft": The Doobie Brothers bring back Michael McDonald on Walk This Road
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• Watch Creeper preview their forthcoming album Sanguivore II: Mistress Of Death with punky new single Headstones, which explores "the dark perils of rock ’n’ roll, sins of the flesh, and pure evil"
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• Crashdïet sign with Ninetone & back in studio with ‘The Unattractive Revolution’ album producer
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• Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne's farewell gig in Birmingham next month will be livestreamed globally: find out how you can watch the greatest metal show ever
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• Slipknot’s Jim Root once asked Diamond Rowe of nu metal up-and-comers Tetrarch for guitar lessons: “I was like, ‘OK, dude, come on!’”
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• SUiCiDE BOMBERS’ ‘The Hottest Tour to hit the UK this year’ – Tour Diary Part 9 of 11
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