Rock News 2025-06-13

• "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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• "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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• Pioneering psychedelic soul legend Sly Stone dead at 82
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• "The astonishing, histrionic Liar that tears the roof off": Queen's debut album gets more intense on Dolby Atmos Blu-ray edition
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• Tommy Gun drops new single “Balltearer”
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• Beach Boys legend Brian Wilson dead at 82
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• Guns N’ Roses announce 13 tour dates in Latin America for the fall of 2025
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• Dirkschneider & The Old Gang share video for new single “Hellbreaker”
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• Phil X wished for more time to rehearse for Triumph reunion show but happy with how it turned out
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• “I saw us in a direct line from big band or modern jazz – but with complex interactive rock rhythms plus improvised solos”: Five Colosseum songs that prove the jazz-rock pioneers’ pedigree
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• Giuffria’s demos for their shelved third album now available as ‘The Unreleased Remastered Demos’
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• Lynch Mob version 2.0? — New shows under name George Lynch & The Mob just announced
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• The 10 best Sleep Token songs ever
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• Mean Mistreater drop video for title track from new album ‘Do Or Die’
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• "There was not going to be a Led Zeppelin for me, but this was a parallel": Jimmy Page and Black Crowes discuss Live At The Greek in revealing short film
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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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• "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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• "It's a new album now": Deep Purple launch 20th anniversary refurbishment of Rapture Of The Deep
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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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• "Still pumping out bottle-rocket earworms": Buckcherry are rollickingly focused on Roar Like Thunder
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• Roger Waters shares new trailer for This Is Not A Drill - Live from Prague The Movie
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• Mädhouse unleash video for new single “Midnite Fever” from upcoming album ‘Plead The Fifth’
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• How to watch Bonnaroo 2025: Megadeth, QOTSA & more set for annual music and arts festival
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• "Edge left. He was feeling that he couldn't serve both god and man. I decided I couldn't either. So we both quit." How Bono and The Edge's faith in Jesus almost destroyed U2
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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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• "A one-of-a-kind genius from another world": The world of rock reacts to the death of Brian Wilson
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• "My mother didn't particularly like the look of me and my dad didn't like the sound of me": Pete Townshend and the lifelong search for answers
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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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• "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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• “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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• Touris’ debut album re-released as ‘Big(ger) Plans’ with seven bonus tracks
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• “He was disillusioned by wealth clashing with his principles. His fans thought riches were a good thing. Their reaction was the basis of everything else he did”: Roger Waters as seen via his Pink Floyd lyrics
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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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• "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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• Bruce Dickinson’s solo album ‘Balls To Picasso’ re-invented as ‘More Balls To Picasso’
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• BlackRain unveil video for new single “Crack The Sky”
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• Todd Rundgren announces live dates for London and Birmingham for October
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• We went to Poland's biggest metal festival Mystic - this is what it was like
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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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• "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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• Deep Purple’s album ‘Rapture of The Deep’ remixed and remastered with bonus CD/LP
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• Lars Ulrich has (maybe) seen your Metallica memes
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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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• Yes announce The Fragile Tour 2025
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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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• "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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• "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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• “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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• “I really like Frantic! Killer song!” Wrestling legend Adam Copeland names his favourite track on each Metallica album
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• Notörious launch third single “Into The Night” from upcoming EP
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• Thin Lizzy's long-lost 1971 BBC session has surfaced online
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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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• Between The Buried And Me announce new record deal, new album and share new single
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• "An oddball genius proffering words of hope as the world burns": Neil Young And The Chrome Hearts take aim at Trump & Co. on Talkin To The Trees
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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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• Airbourne unleash new track “Gutsy”
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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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• “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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• Babylon A.D. recall feeling pressured to record song “Psychedelic Sex Reaction” prior to second album
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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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• "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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• Watch Sex Pistols and Primal Scream form an impromptu supergroup while rehearsing in the same building
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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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• "Kids saw the video on MTV and thought, 'This is cool. These guys are kinda ugly and they're tearing up their high school.' It attracted some riff-raff." Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit video has now been viewed more than two billion times on YouTube
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• Turnstile announce US tour schedule for September and October
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