Rock News 2025-06-24

• “No one else does this with such a lightness of touch yet such a definitive sense of purpose – a double victory”: Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe’s Luminal and Lateral
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• Watch Muse jam a Gojira riff during recent headline performance at Hellfest in France
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• “Someone made up something and said, ‘If you believe in this, you’ll be better off when you die’”: Paradise Lost won’t offer any religious enlightenment on new album Ascension
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• R.I.P. Bad Company and Mott The Hoople founding member / guitarist Mick Ralphs (1944-2025)
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• “His previous work only hinted at a distinct musical personality… now he seems determined to prove he can sound unlike Genesis”: Nad Sylvan’s Monumentata
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• Atomik Train unleash video for new single “Supersonik Speedway”
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• We celebrate 30 years of Marillion's Afraid Of Sunlight on the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now
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• "It was a very slow descent, but it was a descent - we were going in the wrong direction": How Skunk Anansie saved themselves from sickness and uncertain times
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• Sony WH-1000XM6 headphones review
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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• Wings of Steel share video for new single “Winds of Time”
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• Massive Jeff Wayne's Musical Version Of The War Of The Worlds box set to be released in October
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• Heaven Shall Burn are one of metal's most criminally overlooked bands. Heimat is the perfect gateway album to fix that
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• "We never thought we'd make it this far and neither did you": The Damned announce massive 50th anniversary show
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• Babylon A.D. recall Arista Records pulling their tour support and then dropping the band in February 1993
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• "We could have ended up as mementoes bricked up in his walls": The night The Kinks partied at John Wayne Gacy's house
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• 12 alternative acts you should try and watch at Glastonbury 2025
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• 10 classic rock and metal tunes you (probably) forgot were released as movie tie-ins
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• Enuff Z’Nuff release video for new single “Heavy Metal” from upcoming album ‘Xtra Cherries’
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• "A limited series of very special one-night-only evenings at a curated selection of North America’s most historic theaters." Queens of the Stone Age announce The Catacombs Tour
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• "This is how you make a comeback, not pandering, not acquiescing to expectations, but reconfiguring your art with fearlessness and quiet confidence." Nine Inch Nails' Peel It Back tour is a breathtaking spectacle, and a personal triumph for Trent Reznor
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• “Perhaps the strangest recording session of the era”: Peter Gabriel, Robert Fripp, Sandy Denny, Phil Collins and the novelty single no one talks about
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• These are the UK cities that will host Black Sabbath: The Ballet in autumn and winter 2025
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• 10 brilliant songs that prove Johnny Marr is one of the most influential guitarists of his generation
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• Metal Hammer has teamed with rock festival Radar to design the cat pyjamas your wardrobe is incomplete without
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• Six of the newest, coolest proggy sounds around from Sam Vallen, Heather Findlay, Esoterica and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week
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• Primal Fear unleash video for new single “The Hunter” from upcoming album ‘Domination’
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• The truth vs hearsay — Michael Sweet lays out the “facts” in relation to Stryper
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• Invasion launch video for new single “Loaded Gun”
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• “In Nazareth the crew do everything for us. But he’s there himself half the day, for the sheer love of his instrument”: Carl Sentance isn’t much of a prog fan, but his respect for Don Airey is limitless
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• M.I.C. drop video for track “You Make Me Feel So” from new album ‘7th Heaven’
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• "It sounds like an effective pastiche of Phil Spector, but lacks both Spector's passion and his genius": The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds is revered by the critics - but not everyone is on board
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• "He'll be sacking me next." Pete Townshend on Roger Daltrey and why Zak Starkey was fired by The Who
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• “They were stuck down a blues-soul blind alley, but these songs are fuelled by a cartoonish punky energy”: Atomic Rooster’s Atomic Rooster, remastered and expanded
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• Pine Street’s debut album now available
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• Sunset Strip meets Nashville as Mötley Crüe and Dölly Partön team up for unexpected version of Home Sweet Home
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• Freaks’ Elite unveil video for track “011”
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• Muse share suitably bombastic new single Unravelling, their first new music for four years
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• AC/DC announce Australian leg of PWR⚡️UP tour
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• Linkin Park fans in Switzerland left heartbroken by last-minute cancellation
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• "The World Heavyweight Champions re-unite for a tour of straight up ruckus." The Prodigy announce UK and Ireland tour with special guest Carl Cox
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• "Fired up, furiously fashioned and bug-shit crazy": His Lordship define rock'n'roll on Bored Animal
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• Steve Hackett shares new live clip of Fly On A Windshield with Marillion's Steve Rothery
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• How Dire Straits outsold everyone, hijacked MTV, and accidentally made a classic: Only in the new issue of Classic Rock
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• "At a self-described 'post-punk festival', they've put the guy who defined both punk AND post-punk on a little stage in a car park. Lydon is raging…" PiL, Johnny Marr and Death Cult thrill at 'post-punk festival' Forever Now
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• “The rest of the band saw something there, something real from deep inside”: James Hetfield says that Mama Said was never meant to be a Metallica song
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• Former L.A. Guns guitarist Stacey Blades looking for “established working gig”
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• The Lemonheads announce Love Chant, their first new album in 19 years: hear new single in The Margin now
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• "Total bollocks!" Contrary to what you may have heard, Rick Wakeman wasn't responsible for the Sex Pistols getting dumped by their record label in 1977, just seven days after signing their contract
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• "The council has a responsibility to take action where there are risks of discrimination, harassment and victimisation." Brighton MP calls for Marilyn Manson gig in the city to be cancelled
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• "It's been a mission statement from day one": Why Sparks continue to do things other bands don't
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• “We recorded with him, but the song was demoted to a bonus track. I’ve had to add him to the list of people who’ll never speak to me again”: Dan Hawkins hates how The Darkness treated Ian Anderson
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• "I was looking for something darker." Bruce Springsteen reveals that he's never been happy with his world-conquering Born In The USA album, and says the 30-million-selling collection didn't "connect" like his other records
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• WildHeart share video for new single “We Are The Ones”
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• "I’m not an idiot." Johnny Marr reveals why he turned down a recent offer of "an eye-watering amount of money" to reform The Smiths
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• “The ultimate anti-everything symbol”: How heavy metal found its fashion sense
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• Mott The Hoople and Bad Company guitarist Mick Ralphs dead at 81
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• Local council leader hopes to cancel Bournemouth date of Marilyn Manson UK tour due to sexual misconduct allegations
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• The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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• Matt Tuck names the song that “encapsulates what Bullet For My Valentine is”: “It’s heavy, it’s melodic, it’s anthemic, it’s intricate”
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• Guitarist Jasmin Pabst decides to step away from All For Metal
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• "Its perfection is that it loves the cracks that we all fall down." U2 frontman Bono on the Lady Gaga song that saved his life
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• "One of the most vital creatives working in the metal scene right now." A guide to every Poppy album so far
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• “Their version was very Middle America”: The Kinks could never fully get on board with Van Halen’s cover of You Really Got Me and here's why
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• Suicide Star release video of their entire set opening for Gene Simmons Band in Niagara Falls, ON, Canada
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