Rock News 2025-06-12

• Giuffria’s demos for their shelved third album now available as ‘The Unreleased Remastered Demos’
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• Overdrivers launch video for self-titled track from their new album ‘Glory or Nothing’
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• Watch Robert Plant play five Led Zeppelin classics in official pro-shot video
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• "We went platinum and Warner Brothers told us we owed them two million dollars": How Van Halen followed one of rock's greatest-ever debuts
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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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• Sideburn drop video for new single “Devil’s daughter” from upcoming compilation album ‘Loaded (Best Of)’
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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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• “There were arguments. But they weren’t personal – they were musical. They helped make it what it is”: How Yes defined themselves with Fragile, before success went to their heads
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• Yes announce The Fragile Tour 2025
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• The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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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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• "We understand you've been patiently Counting Out Time..." Genesis shift release of The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway 50th Anniversary box set back to late Autumn
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• "It's purely experimental, with zero regard for commercialism": How Brian Wilson recorded Pet Sounds and reinvented music
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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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• "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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• Guns N' Roses announce more 2025 tour dates
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• Reunited Original Alice Cooper Group unveils video for new single “Wild Ones”
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• "Everybody on the black side of my family was like, What is your problem?" In 1990, Slash broke his silence and shared his true feelings about Guns N' Roses' most controversial song, One In A Million
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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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• Watch Bruce Springsteen and Paul McCartney covering The Beatles onstage in Liverpool last night
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• Watch pop superstar Chappell Roan absolutely kill it with a brilliant cover of Heart’s Barracuda
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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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• “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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• "The police car rolled down a nearby slipway into the river": Wild times on the road on Rory Gallagher's most iconic tour
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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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• “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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• "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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• 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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• "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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• Beach Boys legend Brian Wilson dead at 82
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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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• Mädhouse unleash video for new single “Midnite Fever” from upcoming album ‘Plead The Fifth’
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• Mean Mistreater drop video for title track from new album ‘Do Or Die’
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• “When are we going to stop with this Pink Floyd stuff and start playing some metal?”: The story of the most ambitious song in death metal history
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• BlackRain unveil video for new single “Crack The Sky”
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• Dirkschneider & The Old Gang share video for new single “Hellbreaker”
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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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• Guns N’ Roses announce 13 tour dates in Latin America for the fall of 2025
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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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• "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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• Babylon A.D. recall feeling pressured to record song “Psychedelic Sex Reaction” prior to second album
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• "A one-of-a-kind genius from another world": The world of rock reacts to the death of Brian Wilson
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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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• "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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• Turnstile announce US tour schedule for September and October
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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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• "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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• Notörious launch third single “Into The Night” from upcoming EP
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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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• “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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• Watch Sex Pistols and Primal Scream form an impromptu supergroup while rehearsing in the same building
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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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• Thin Lizzy's long-lost 1971 BBC session has surfaced online
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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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• Airbourne unleash new track “Gutsy”
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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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• "He would have been so perfect in it." Sharon Osbourne says that blocking Ozzy from auditioning for a blockbuster film franchise is the biggest mistake she ever made
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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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• Todd Rundgren announces live dates for London and Birmingham for October
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• Brian Wilson interview: "I don’t like SMiLE any more. I got so tired of it and did it so many times I've forgotten it"
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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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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• "Apparently pretending to play guitar on a public path is a criminal offence." British metalcore crew Malevolence are beefing with UK nature charity The National Trust
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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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