Rock News 2025-06-25

• “The ultimate anti-everything symbol”: How heavy metal found its fashion sense
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• Sony WH-1000XM6 headphones review
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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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• M.I.C. drop video for track “You Make Me Feel So” from new album ‘7th Heaven’
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• "They've got a sound that lifts your heart up": Every Steely Dan album ranked, from worst to best
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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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• "We never thought we'd make it this far and neither did you": The Damned announce massive 50th anniversary show
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• Sprints announce new album All That Is Over, share first single Descartes, outline UK and Ireland headline tour
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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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• Mott The Hoople and Bad Company guitarist Mick Ralphs dead at 81
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• AC/DC announce Australian leg of PWR⚡️UP tour
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• Primal Fear unleash video for new single “The Hunter” from upcoming album ‘Domination’
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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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• In Search Of The Perfect Buzz: An 80s Metal Memoir
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• Premiere of The Midnight Devils’ video for their new single “Shock The World” on Sleaze Roxx
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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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• Thom Yorke shares mind-bending video for new TV theme Dialing In
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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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• WildHeart share video for new single “We Are The Ones”
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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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• How Dire Straits outsold everyone, hijacked MTV, and accidentally made a classic: Only in the new issue of Classic Rock
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• 12 alternative acts you should try and watch at Glastonbury 2025
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• “Why not go out swinging with the angriest sounds you can?”: Metal Hammer writers name the albums they’d listen to during a zombie apocalypse
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• Linkin Park fans in Switzerland left heartbroken by last-minute cancellation
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• Invasion launch video for new single “Loaded Gun”
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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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• Watch Muse jam a Gojira riff during recent headline performance at Hellfest in France
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• Femme Fatale launch video for new single “Living Like There’s No Tomorrow”
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• The sound of glorious pandemonium: Two nights with The Darkness in Ireland
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• “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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• 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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• Pine Street’s debut album now available
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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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• The truth vs hearsay — Michael Sweet lays out the “facts” in relation to Stryper
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• "That's evil, beyond any concept I can relate to": John Lydon on the haters who buy tickets just to abuse him
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• AFI announce 24-date North American tour
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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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• Guitarist Jasmin Pabst decides to step away from All For Metal
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• R.I.P. Bad Company and Mott The Hoople founding member / guitarist Mick Ralphs (1944-2025)
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• Former L.A. Guns guitarist Stacey Blades looking for “established working gig”
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• Ex-Lamb Of God drummer Chris Adler is “estranged” from brother Willie following 2019 exit
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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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• Atomik Train unleash video for new single “Supersonik Speedway”
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• The Zombies announce documentary screenings for June and July
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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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• "He has no job security, no savings, no pension, and when he can't work, no income": Fundraiser set up for leading rock music journalist after heart attack
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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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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• “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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• 10 brilliant songs that prove Johnny Marr is one of the most influential guitarists of his generation
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• Freaks’ Elite unveil video for track “011”
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• “We both understood from the beginning that this was a journey into long-form music. It’s time for this kind of music again. It elevates you”: How Jon Anderson and Roine Stolt made Invention Of Knowledge
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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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• “It’s scary putting your voice on something when people are attached to hearing someone else. There will be people who won’t come with us – that’s totally fair”: Black Country, New Road battled steep odds to make Forever Howlong
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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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• "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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• "He'll be sacking me next." Pete Townshend on Roger Daltrey and why Zak Starkey was fired by The Who
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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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• Enuff Z’Nuff release video for new single “Heavy Metal” from upcoming album ‘Xtra Cherries’
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• Muse share suitably bombastic new single Unravelling, their first new music for four years
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• "We decided to stream on Saturdays, have a drink and pretend we were playing a gig": Six things you need to know about When Rivers Meet
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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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• "Babymetal inspired me!" Poppy explains the meaning behind her collaboration with the Japanese metal superstars, from me to u
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• The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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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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• AC/DC, Kiss, Stryper, Judas Priest, Mötley Crüe and more collide in ultimate hell-themed mashup
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