Rock News 2025-07-01

• "It’s so day-glo, coke binge, shell suit wearing, '80s kitsch that you wouldn’t be surprised if Timmy Mallet turned up onstage." The 1975's Glastonbury headline set is as every bit as wild, weird, wired and wonderful as you'd expect
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• How to watch Deftones at Glastonbury 2025, from anywhere in the world
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• "Glastonbury, I'm a free man!" Kneecap draw massive crowd at Glastonbury, as BBC refuse to livestream the festival's most talked-about performance, but insist "the BBC doesn’t ban artists"
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• Here’s the line-up of every major festival in 1995… and it actually isn’t very different to how they’ve shaped up 30 years later
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• The Lazys share new single “Hot Under The Collar” in advance of Canada and UK/Europe tours
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• Marilyn Manson UK show cancelled following protests
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• “The English press used to call us ‘hate metal’. It fit the music”: How Kreator made Pleasure To Kill, the vicious 80s classic that put German thrash on the map
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• Iron Maiden release video to thank fans after huge London show
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• “As a composer I’ve needed and wanted to evolve. As I grew, hopefully my writing was growing too”: Five great Al Di Meola albums
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• Red Arrows, mosh pits and goth kings: our 8 favourite moments from Glastonbury 2025
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• "Like Gogol Bordello getting pegged by Killing Joke." Missed out on seeing Fat Dog at Glastonbury? Then you messed up
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• Femme Fatale launch video for new single “Living Like There’s No Tomorrow”
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• Bangalore Choir to release new album ‘Rapid Fire Succession: On Target Part II’ in late 2025
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• Junkyard frontman David Roach very sick and back in a hospital hoping for a miracle
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• “A double-down on the downerism… desolately lovely, miserably minor-key music, with production being their not-so-secret weapon”: Nosound’s To The Core
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• “We start stomping in each others’ faces, and getting lower and lower like two sumo wrestlers”: Metallica’s Robert Trujillo reveals the inspiration behind the ‘Crab Walk’ – and it involves Ozzy Osbourne
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• Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp return to action with maniacal Ramones cover
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• Generation Landslide to release new album ‘Existence’ via RFK Media
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• Founding Black Sabbath members visit Birmingham mural ahead of epic hometown show
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• "This is a generational, once-in-a-lifetime moment for a heavy band at a festival that has an awkward history with rock, punk and metal." An awestruck Glastonbury discovers Charli XCX was bang on the money when she predicted the coming of Turnstile Summer
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• Andi Deris feels the Helloween-ish stuff was eradicated on the album ‘Chameleon’
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• Atomik Train unleash video for new single “Supersonik Speedway”
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• "Karla Chubb looks every inch the star." Newly signed to Sub Pop, the label who brought the world Nirvana and Soundgarden, Irish post-punks Sprints tease their next chapter at Glastonbury
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• "Hooks big enough to snag a kaiju and basslines so irresistible they could land people in rehab." One of the world's hottest edm bands just fcuked Glastonbury festival
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• “The pursuit of immortality, I’ll chase that as hard as the next guy”: The epic story of Born In The USA and Bruce Springsteen in the 1980s
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• How to rewatch The Prodigy at Glastonbury 2025 from anywhere
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• Premiere of The Midnight Devils’ video for their new single “Shock The World” on Sleaze Roxx
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• “New sonic depths and dynamics confer an extra gravitas upon a gleaming collection of winsome melodies”: Mike Oldfield’s personal bravery shines throughout Hergest Ridge: 50th Anniversary
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• "It’s refreshing to experience music so pure." Legendary 'Godfather of Grunge' Neil Young closes out Saturday night at Glastonbury, still burning, not fading away
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• “To have Kurt’s beautiful voice over one of my songs would have been amazing”: the story behind every track on Foo Fighters’ monumental debut album
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• The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
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• K.K. Downing releases cover of Judas Priest’s track “Never Satisfied” featuring Tim “Ripper” Owens
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• The guys are dressed as good ol’ boys and the girls have gone full Cowgirl. What is it about Zach Bryan that has convinced the youth of Britain to lose their cynical minds?
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• Alan White's Ramshackled to be reissued in expanded and remastered form
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• “A homecoming for the ages”: Iron Maiden return to London’s East End for a gloriously flamboyant 50th birthday party
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• "If you're one of those self-satisfied old bores who thinks that music doesn't mean as much to younger generations as it does to you, you're flat-out wrong, and here's the proof." Olivia Rodrigo dazzles in the summer sun at BST Hyde Park
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• "We’re devastated." Deftones cancel Glastonbury festival appearance due to illness
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• Surprise! Glastonbury's worst-kept secret is revealed as 'Patchwork' aka Pulp remind Worthy Farm exactly why they're one of Britain's best-loved and most brilliant bands
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• "We refused to believe we didn't have something special." From triumph to tragedy and triumph again, how Linkin Park became the first true metal breakout of the 21st century
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• Pre-Black Sabbath recordings to be released as ‘Earth: The Legendary Lost Tapes’ on July 25th
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• “He said, ‘I’ve never seen so many women in my life. We just get men at our gigs”: The night Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris joined Def Leppard to cover Creedence Clearwater Revival
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• "The Melbourne crew have Glasto by the baps and balls." Aussie punks Amyl and the Sniffers just ripped Glastonbury a new one
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• “Wrapping this era-defining talent and power in a cloak of mystique only supercharges the legacy”: Jimmy Page or Tony Iommi? A heated debate over who is the best guitarist
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• Deftones appear to be teasing the release of new music next week
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• “We became the pariahs of the Christian community. They hated me. I still get mail going: ‘Come back to Christ’ There’s no way I’m going back to that”: The incredible story of King’s X, the greatest band the world doesn’t know about
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• "Their chaotic charm hasn’t dulled one bit." The Libertines roll back the years at Glastonbury with a classic scrappy, rough-around-the-edges set
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• “If anybody brings as much noise as this, I’ll retire!” The Prodigy unleash chaos at Worthy Farm with the heaviest, most intense set of Glastonbury 2025
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• "We can finally be what I've always wanted to be": Wolfgang Van Halen's Mammoth drop WVH from name after acquiring trademark
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• John Lee's Barclay James Harvest announce first new studio album for 12 years
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• “We’ve been in the studio. We’ve been living in the studio, is what we’ve been doing”: Black Sabbath’s Bill Ward has two new solo albums on the way
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• Hot off stealing the show at Glastonbury festival, Turnstile announce UK/Europe tour dates with The Garden and High Vis
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• “We never thought of ourselves as pioneers. But we grew up in a parallel universe to our peers”: Voivod weren’t trying to invent prog metal – they were just trying to be like Van der Graaf Generator
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• Guitarist Jasmin Pabst decides to step away from All For Metal
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• "You worry for anyone that has to follow them." Biffy Clyro's magnificent Glastonbury set serves notice that they're more than ready to headline Britain's biggest and most beloved festival when the call comes
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• Former L.A. Guns guitarist Stacey Blades looking for “established working gig”
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• Wes Borland cosplayed as James Hetfield during Limp Bizkit’s last concert with Metallica
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• Everything you need to know about Back To The Beginning, Black Sabbath’s reunion and Ozzy Osbourne’s final concert
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• "It polarises fans' opinions for certain, but isn't that what great music is supposed to do?": Motörhead ring the changes on Another Perfect Day, initial dismay now a distant memory
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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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• “He was the kind of guy who liked confrontation, and I would always give it to him”: This is what Deep Purple’s Ritchie Blackmore really thought about Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham
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• Snake Bite Whisky drop video for new single “Living To Die”
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• How to watch Wolf Alice at Glastonbury 2025 - from anywhere
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• “As great as it undoubtedly was, the bug-eyed insanity of thrash was nowhere to be heard in any of its songs”: How Metallica’s Black Album killed thrash 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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