Rock News 2025-07-05

• Babylon A.D. recall Arista Records pulling their tour support and then dropping the band in February 1993
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• "A classic that deserves better treatment": The Sisters Of Mercy's First And Last And Always gets a gimmicky 40th birthday makeover
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• "Over the years, we’ve had moments of unbridled joy, and moments of devastating heartbreak." Foo Fighters celebrate their 30th anniversary with the release of new single, Today's Song
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• “Many of these workouts sound amazingly contemporary; the mixing and matching of old and new is exemplary”: Tangerine Dream’s From Virgin To Quantum Years: Coventry Cathedral 22
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• From Black Sabbath to Napalm Death: these are the 10 greatest metal bands from Birmingham
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• Watch Judas Priest pay tribute to fellow Brummie icons Black Sabbath with thunderous War Pigs cover
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• “It was only after Woolly killed himself that it seemed an opportune moment to make a last statement, if you like”: Barclay James Harvest probably wouldn’t have made North if co-founder Wolstenholme hadn’t died
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• Generation Landslide to release new album ‘Existence’ via RFK Media
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• Every song on Queen's Greatest Hits, ranked from worst to best
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• Judas Priest launch video for their cover of Black Sabbath’s classic track “War Pigs”
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• BEAT share live clip of Neal And Jack And Me as they announce new live release
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• Bangalore Choir to release new album ‘Rapid Fire Succession: On Target Part II’ in late 2025
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• Premiere of The Midnight Devils’ video for their new single “Shock The World” on Sleaze Roxx
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• Stacked bills, short sets and stumbling singers: Slayer's first UK gig in six years wasn't perfect, but their set was
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• Former L.A. Guns guitarist Stacey Blades looking for “established working gig”
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• R.I.P. Bad Company and Mott The Hoople founding member / guitarist Mick Ralphs (1944-2025)
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• A Mass by Van der Graaf Generator co-founder Judge Smith to be premiered 50 years after it was written
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• Cool new prog you must hear from Auri, L.O.E., Gaupa and more in this week's Tracks Of The Week
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• From hardcore to hard rock to the nation’s favourite balladeers: The Goo Goo Dolls albums you should listen to... and one to avoid
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• Snowman romances and dancing with Oppenheimer: these are the 10 best Kate Bush deep cuts
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• "This is totally different from anything else we've done. This is nerve-racking." Tony Iommi explains why Black Sabbath are "all nervous" ahead of final show
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• Celebrate Black Sabbath going Back To The Beginning by grabbing this exclusive Ozzy Osbourne t-shirt
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• Roger Waters shares new live clip of Is This The Life We Really Want?
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• "We're one of the only bands where the original members are still alive and speaking with one another": The final Black Sabbath interview
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• Here's everything you need to know about Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne's final ever show, Back To The Beginning, including who's playing, where you can watch it and more
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• Dead Daisies: John Corabi on singing BB King, band lineup changes, and those "billionaire's hobby" jibes
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• Junkyard frontman David Roach very sick and back in a hospital hoping for a miracle
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• "A reintroduction to the artist as his truest self." Kae Tempest's fifth album Self Titled cements his status as one of the most essential voices in UK music
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• Snake Bite Whisky drop video for new single “Living To Die”
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• "We thought it was going to be a disaster." Brian May and Roger Taylor look back on Queen's now-legendary performance at Live Aid, and share Bob Geldof's blunt pre-show advice to Freddie Mercury
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• Andi Deris feels the Helloween-ish stuff was eradicated on the album ‘Chameleon’
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• The 40 best Black Sabbath songs ever
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• "Korn got ripped off a lot." Shavo Odadjian on nu metal vs deathcore, weird lyrics and whether a new System Of A Down album can live up to their legacy
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• "Thank you for your magic, Diogo." Led Zeppelin legend Robert Plant pays tribute to Liverpool and Portugal footballer Diogo Jota, who died in a car accident on July 3, aged 28
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• “The intoxicating beauty remains 20 years on, reinforcing the notion that her softly charismatic voice can enchant in any era”: Judy Dyble’s Darkness To Light – The Recordings 2004-2006
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• The ‘popularity’ of an AI-generated rock band was inevitable – and it highlights a depressing fact about success in the music streaming age
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• Watch Jinjer’s Tatiana Shmayluk stream a one-take vocal performance of recent song Hedonist
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• “There was an ambulance waiting for Ozzy. Sharon says, ‘He bit into a bat’”: Ozzy Osbourne’s ex-bassist remembers the infamous bat-biting incident
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• Supertramp's Crime Of The Century and Crisis? What Crisis? to get 50th anniversary reissues
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• Femme Fatale launch video for new single “Living Like There’s No Tomorrow”
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• "You want a smack in the face in the beginning." How Ghost Of Perdition went from a concept about Satanism to the defining Opeth anthem
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• "Is this Ozzy's last show? One thousand per cent": Sharon Osbourne on Black Sabbath's Back To The Beginning all-star blowout
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• "It's marketing. It's trolling. Is that wrong?" Spokesman for that fake band you've been reading about admits they're fake
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• Pre-Black Sabbath recordings to be released as ‘Earth: The Legendary Lost Tapes’ on July 25th
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• "Was it worth the £4000 you paid for a ticket?" Oasis just played their first show since 2009. See the setlist and watch footage of Liam and Noel Gallagher's reunited band rocking Cardiff's Principality Stadium on the opening night of their Live 25 tour
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• “At one point, he held up an inflatable doll with an erection, dressed like a bee." From orgasmic laugh yoga to shamanic drumming for Mother Earth, here’s what really happens at Glastonbury Festival beyond the music
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• Marshall turn up the volume on the portable speaker market with the all-new Middleton II
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• Here are five brilliant sets from Glastonbury this year that you probably haven't heard about
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• "This collaboration is a testament to Ozzy’s impact on the gothic and alternative communities": Ozzy Osbourne launches range of beauty products
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• "One of the scariest songs I ever heard." Slipknot's Corey Taylor pays tribute to Black Sabbath, reveals the song he listens to so he can "go some place mentally."
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• Guitarist Jasmin Pabst decides to step away from All For Metal
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• “I remember being physically frightened”: Tom Morello looks back on the first time he heard Black Sabbath
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• “A lot of metalheads wind up finding prog – but it’s in a lot of their favourite bands already”: Progressive metal has never been healthier, and here’s why
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• Brann Dailor's synth proggers Arcadea return with zany new video for Fuzzy Planet
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• "The last thing I remember, Iwas playing at atopless bar and had aVolkswagen bus and a hundred bucks": What former Heartbreaker Stan Lynch did next
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• "I thought, 'When I can play that, I'll finally admit I'm a good guitarist.'" Watch Sophie Lloyd pick out her five favourite guitar solos of all time
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• 4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month
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• Are you ready for "the greatest day in the history of heavy metal"? Black Sabbath share new photo featuring some of the metal legends set to honour them at their farewell show in Birmingham
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• "Best song of the night." Liam Gallagher reacts to footage of Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong kicking a fan offstage for playing Oasis anthem Wonderwall instead of Green Day's Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)
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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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• K.K. Downing releases cover of Judas Priest’s track “Never Satisfied” featuring Tim “Ripper” Owens
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• "I really have beat the odds here. It's very surreal": Meet Ally Venable, the young blueser who's gone from being bullied at school to playing with Buddy Guy
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• "There was something about the way he carried himself. He quite clearly was going to shine": The early years of Soundgarden's Chris Cornell
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• Why is everyone talking about Bob Vylan? Glastonbury festival's biggest controversy explained
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