Rock News 2025-06-11

• Guns N' Roses announce more 2025 tour dates
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• Watch pop superstar Chappell Roan absolutely kill it with a brilliant cover of Heart’s Barracuda
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• "The songs are the same, but you will just not recognise the vibe." Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson announces More Balls To Picasso, a heavier, expanded, remixed and remastered update of his 1994 solo album Balls To Picasso
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• "Lucky gal right here!" Watch three absolute metal queens unite on stage as Sharon den Adel and Simone Simons surprise Cristina Scabbia for her birthday in the middle of a Lacuna Coil set
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• “Suddenly we’re at a 24-hour Esso garage with a red TR7. Pickled Onion Monster Munch and Quatro for everyone!”: Jeff Wayne didn’t just fight Martians – he sold you the 80s via his TV music
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• Babylon A.D. recall feeling pressured to record song “Psychedelic Sex Reaction” prior to second album
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• "People need to know the sacrifices bands are making to play a live show.” UK metallers Vexed are showing everyone just how much it costs to be a touring band - and the numbers are eye-watering
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• “They use their standing to its fullest potential, both as entertainers and campaigners”: Massive Attack’s LIDO festival extravaganza was protest art at its finest
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• “No, man! If we had had this level of success in the 70s we would not be here now. We would never have survived it”: The wild story of Aerosmith’s Pump, the album that turned them into superstars all over again
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• The 12 new metal songs you need to hear this week
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• “That’s the real boot in your privates – you’re focused on an album and then you’ve got to do two!” Mostly Autumn don’t just make records. They also make full-length, full-quality limited-edition companion records
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• Dirkschneider & The Old Gang share video for new single “Hellbreaker”
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• Airbourne unleash new track “Gutsy”
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• “Amnesiac was seen as having all the tracks that weren’t good enough for Kid A. But I loved it”: Charlotte Wessels hails Radiohead, although she doesn’t listen to them often
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• “The first time I played Rush’s YYZ I almost broke my fingers!” Epica bassist Rob Van Der Loo’s prog timeline, from Jon Lord to Dream Theater
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• “The reason Rush could rock while referencing Bertrand Russell and Elizabethan drama”: Neil Peart’s most powerful lyrics
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• “I really like Frantic! Killer song!” Wrestling legend Adam Copeland names his favourite track on each Metallica album
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• "I really like Slipknot." Watch Babymetal reveal their three favourite metal bands ever and discuss some of the surprising collaborations on new album Metal Forth
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• Amorphis drop first new music from upcoming album Borderland with anthemic new single Light And Shadow
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• "I thought it was a joke. To get that nod was really nice." Turnstile's Brendan Yates on pop superstar Charli XCX's prediction that this could be 'Turnstile Summer'
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• "He lit up the room like the sun. Then, just like that, he was gone": Glam-punks Starbenders release tribute to the mysterious Chantilly Boy
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• The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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• "The All-American Boy just didn't translate as a solo artist": Rick Derringer's debut album might contain his biggest hit, but is that enough?
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• “It’s a really loveable ball of barbed wire”: Watch Parkway Drive’s Winston McCall praise the wholesomeness of heavy metal fans on Australian TV
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• "Metallica rented our equipment but the sound guy wasn't up to his job." Former Nightwish bassist Marko Hietala on the 10 songs that changed his life
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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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• “He saw what everybody saw: they could play, they had a ton of energy and they were authentic”: The weird story of Frank Zappa and AC/DC
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• Crashdïet sign with Ninetone & back in studio with ‘The Unattractive Revolution’ album producer
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• Grimm Jack share video for new single “Knife Fight”
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• Pioneering psychedelic soul legend Sly Stone dead at 82
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• “You have to know Donald’s sense of humour. It was a total set-up”: Did Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen really tell the people behind the Yacht Rock movie to “F*** off”?
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• Rush announce limited edition box set of their final four albums
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• BlackRain unveil video for new single “Crack The Sky”
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• Thin Lizzy's long-lost 1971 BBC session has surfaced online
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• “I love what they have brought to the metal scene. They have a completely different spin on a genre that often runs on the same cart tracks”: Why Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello loves Babymetal
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• Watch Bruce Springsteen and Paul McCartney covering The Beatles onstage in Liverpool last night
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• “Nothing in this band does what it's supposed to do”: how R.E.M. showed the world they were the real deal on 1985’s Fables Of The Reconstruction
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• “We went on our lunch break and when we got back, Tony had come up with the Paranoid riff. It was literally 25 minutes of work. People went nuts about it!”: How Black Sabbath made Paranoid, the iconic album that rubber-stamped their greatness
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• Watch Robert Plant play five Led Zeppelin classics in official pro-shot video
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• Watch video for new Scars On Broadway track Killing Spree
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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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• Roland Grapow feels ‘Chameleon’ was more like a solo album by three Helloween members
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• Turnstile announce US tour schedule for September and October
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• “Bad songs do not go viral in metal – that may happen in other genres, but not in metal”: The Bloodywood guide to internet fame
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• “Not the work of the blues bruiser some supposed him to be, but of an expert in judging precisely when to hang back and when to hit hard”: Jack Bruce’s Harmony Row
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• "It's a new album now": Deep Purple launch 20th anniversary refurbishment of Rapture Of The Deep
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• Guns N’ Roses announce 13 tour dates in Latin America for the fall of 2025
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• "It's the opening credits to a long, 90-minute musical film..." Mariusz Duda shares new Lunatic Soul single The World Under Unsun
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• Notörious launch third single “Into The Night” from upcoming EP
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• "The worrying thing for me is the unknown. We don't know what's going to happen." Tony Iommi admits that he's feeling "excitement mixed with fear" as Black Sabbath's last ever gig draws near
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• "I went upstairs to show the person how to play the riff... and it was John McEnroe!" David Bowie on the art and process of songwriting
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• Overdrivers launch video for self-titled track from their new album ‘Glory or Nothing’
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• "I remember thinking, This is ridiculous. Johnny finally said, 'This isn’t working'." Rick Rubin once tried to get Johnny Cash to record Robert Palmer's US number one single Addicted To Love
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• Reunited Original Alice Cooper Group unveils video for new single “Wild Ones”
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• “We started out as a Pink Floyd tribute and evolved from that. Artists who claim to be original are lying through their teeth”: Airbag’s Bjørn Riis used classic prog inspirations to chart a nervous breakdown
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• Yes announce The Fragile Tour 2025
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• “This one was really hard, we had massive arguments”: Radiohead on the making of Hail To The Thief, the record that got away from them
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• "It felt like a revolution could happen." Pulp's Jarvis Cocker on the '90s indie-rock explosion, and why he hates the word Britpop
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• Sideburn drop video for new single “Devil’s daughter” from upcoming compilation album ‘Loaded (Best Of)’
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• "We're gonna warm you up!" You can watch Spiritbox's entire, pro shot, rain-soaked Rock Am Ring 2025 set right now
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• “Sometimes I think, ‘This has become so big that I can’t handle this monster any more.’ I have some trouble comprehending it”: How Nightwish became the planet’s most epic symphonic metal band with Endless Forms Most Beautiful
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• "It should have gone out with a fricking bang that shook the world, and it was more like a whimper." Michael Anthony on his Van Halen regret
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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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• Mean Mistreater drop video for title track from new album ‘Do Or Die’
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• "We are missing one of our brothers." Watch Slipknot play to a massive crowd headlining Rock Am Ring festival without founding member Shawn Crahan
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