Rock News 2025-07-10

• Pre-Black Sabbath recordings to be released as ‘Earth: The Legendary Lost Tapes’ on July 25th
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• Generation Landslide to release new album ‘Existence’ via RFK Media
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• Every album by The Who ranked from worst to best
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• "Ozzy stood up, produced a Zippo lighter from his back pocket, and set Bill Ward's beard on fire": A personal insight into the chaotic, beautiful mind of Ozzy Osbourne
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• Bangalore Choir to release new album ‘Rapid Fire Succession: On Target Part II’ in late 2025
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• "The music we are making at this moment has timeless teeth, muscle, bone and hair": Heart add another string of dates to 2025 schedule
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• Stryper guitarist Oz Fox to no longer do “extended or intense touring” based on medical advice
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• Amazon just turned up the heat on Turnstile summer with 24% off the purple vinyl edition of Never Enough – an album we called “hardcore’s answer to Nevermind”
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• “We’d smoke a little dope then wander round Heathrow Airport at night. All these hums, knocks, and noises coming from behind locked doors – the whole airport was a musical instrument”: Penguin Cafe Orchestra’s prog credentials
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• "The best day of music we have ever been a part of": The musicians who played Black Sabbath's Back To The Beginning show pay tribute to Ozzy & Co
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• Money for nothing! Save 15% on Dire Straits’ bumper 40th anniversary vinyl box set with this epic Prime Day deal
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• Founding Monster Magnet drummer/bassist Tim Cronin dead at 63
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• “The perfect fusion of metal on metal”: You can now buy an official Iron Maiden coin from the UK’s Royal Mint
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• Judas Priest launch video for their cover of Black Sabbath’s classic track “War Pigs”
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• It turns out you can put a price on hearing health when earplugs are this cheap - save 20% on one of Louder's go-to pairs this Prime Day
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• "I am Spartacus." Former Pink Floyd legend Roger Waters risks prosecution, and a potential 14 year jail term, by voicing his support for Palestine Action, now proscribed as a terrorist group in the UK
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• One of metal’s greatest cult bands have returned after 30 years –but what are the chances of a new album?
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• Crown Lands announce new record deal with InsideOut Music
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• "I was just lying in bed, and my wife came in and said I was blue": Shuyler Jansen on near-death experience, broken ribs and Elton John's piano
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• Watch Spiritbox bust out one of their heaviest songs as they make American TV debut on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
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• David Crosby was not happy about being followed by Judas Priest at Live Aid: “Some heavy metal garbage”
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• "It's about seeking infinite possibilities and walking a path no one has travelled before." How Babymetal are embracing the future of metal on new album Metal Forth
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• K.K. Downing releases cover of Judas Priest’s track “Never Satisfied” featuring Tim “Ripper” Owens
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• Who needs Prime Day when Marshall's epic summer sale has up big savings on portable speakers, AirPod rivals and more?
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• Dirkschneider & The Old Gang unveil video for ballad “Strangers In Paradise”
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• Stay on target! Recreate the iconic Death Star trench run with 29% off the Lego Star Wars TIE Fighter & X-Wing set
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• Scorpions to release live album ‘Coming Home Live’ on November 14th
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• "I said, what are you talking about? Just step over Keith Richards?!" The cult of Keef: guitar hero, blues scholar, rebel, survivor, self-parody, genius
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• Andi Deris feels the Helloween-ish stuff was eradicated on the album ‘Chameleon’
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• "Sometimes you’ve got to shake up expectations." Idlewild announce first new album in six years: listen to anthemic first single Stay Out Of Place
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• “I’ve gotten in trouble because my background is so varied. ‘Are you a jazz guy? Are you a rock guy?’ I get it – If I buy cornflakes I want cornflakes”: How Chester Thompson and Neal Morse formed Cosmic Cathedral
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• "Women get angry and we are expected to contain our rage but I allowed myself to go there." Irish alt. rockers NewDad share new single Roobosh, announce new album Altar
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• “I had a terrible habit of playing bits of songs by other people”: The Pink Floyd classic that Roger Waters was worried David Gilmour had stolen from someone else
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• Prime Day just knocked 15% off one of rock’s most essential live recordings - get the Pink Floyd At Pompeii double LP for less
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• Snake Bite Whisky drop video for new single “Living To Die”
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• "David Bowie saw something in Trent Reznor." What it was really like on Nine Inch Nails' infamous Self Destruct tour in the 90s
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• “Robert Fripp said he wanted to revolutionise rock’n’roll with us. I wasn’t sure, given what I’d just heard. But they were about to throw us out the squat”: The League Of Gentlemen led to Beat-era King Crimson
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• “Asked if Going For The One was about God, spirituality or the oneness of all people, he said no – it was about putting a tenner on a horse race. You’re almost better off not knowing that!” Steve Hogarth on his hero Jon Anderson
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• Rejoice! King Crimson are currently recording their first album in more than two decades
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• Founding Angel Witch bassist Kevin Riddles dead at 68
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• "The Queen Mother asked us to play something on the Moog. She was really cute": PFM on brushes with royalty, spaghetti with Aerosmith, and how to annoy America
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• Merlin's beard! Save a wand-waving 24% and rebuild Hogwarts with this magical Prime Day Lego Harry Potter deal
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• Ghost’s Tobias Forge originally planned to sing a Black Sabbath deep cut at the Back To The Beginning gig: “I was, like, ‘Can I do this?’ ‘No!’”
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• You shall not pass... up on this Prime Day Lego Lord Of The Rings deal - 15% off the towering Barad-dûr set
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• "He said, ‘If you play it backwards, Satan will haunt you!’" How Volbeat's Michael Poulsen went from occult-loving teenage guitar thief to leader of Denmark’s biggest metal band
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• I’d love to own this insane $499 ultrasonic vinyl record cleaner, but for now these are the sub-$20 vinyl care kits I’m considering in Amazon’s Prime Day sale
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• With Black Sabbath, Ozzy, Ghost and Metallica tees starting from just $7, Hot Topic’s mega metal merch sale is the place to stock up
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• "We raised a ton of money for a great cause": Black Sabbath's Back To The Beginning show expected to raise millions for charity
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• “Some synth timbres sound a little dated; but hymnal qualities and exquisite melancholy are still to die for”: Greg Lake Live returns from 2005
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• Win a Night Demon Curse Of The Damned ultimate box set
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• Paramount+ just crashed the Prime Day party with huge savings on US and UK subscription plans
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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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• Video footage and setlist for Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath’s sets at ‘Back To The Beginning’ event
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• Green Carnation announce trilogy of albums with brand new video for In Your Paradise
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• Members of Slipknot, Lamb Of God and Anthrax set to join the Osbournes at Comic-Con Midlands this weekend
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• 10 classic albums on vinyl you can buy for under $20 this Prime Day
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• 30 rock and metal songs that defined the 1980s
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• Asomvel drop new single “Take You To Hell”
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• Junkyard frontman David Roach very sick and back in a hospital hoping for a miracle
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• "We're in our seventies and late seventies, so you can only do so much": Tony Iommi reveals the songs Black Sabbath rehearsed but didn't play at Back To The Beginning
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• “Bill’s brother used to be in a gang, and he was like the knife man. Bill suggested we write a song about him”: The stories behind the three most obscure Black Sabbath covers played at the Back The Beginning gig
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• Sabbra Cadabra! Celebrate Ozzy and co's triumphant final show with up to 20% off a whole pile of Black Sabbath merch this Prime Day
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• Metal Hammer Italy launches first issue with Iron Maiden on the cover
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• Drivetrain re-release latest album ‘The Party’ with two bonus tracks
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• The hype, buzz and fanfare may be quieter on album two, but Moisturizer is proof that Wet Leg haven't lost their spark, charm or quirkiness, still don't care what you think
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