Rock News 2025-07-12

• Amazon's Prime Day vinyl and CD sale includes classics that should be in every rock and metal fan's collection – save up to 46%
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• "All he asked for was a six-pack of beer. He was awesome!" How Derek Shulman got Jethro Tull playing with Men Without Hats
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• "Carts before horses. Getting excited is somewhat premature." King Crimson manager urges caution over new studio album rumours
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• “Jim would come in too drunk to sing decently. Sometimes it was a phrase at a time”: The tortured story of The Doors’ Waiting For The Sun, the album that set Jim Morrison on the path to destruction
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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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• 10 classic albums on vinyl you can buy for under $20 this Prime Day
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• Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi issues update on long-awaited solo album: “I’m trying to finish off what I started”
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• “They wouldn’t bat an eyelid at Wagner, who believed the church was linked to the downfall of civilisation. But metal is ‘wrong’?”: The metal band who made history by playing one of England’s biggest cathedrals – despite accusations of ‘blasphemy’
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• The Nine Inch Nails lyric that made Zeal & Ardor’s Manuel Gagneux quit his job: “I think Trent Reznor did a lot for the job market that year!”
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• “Solitary confinement marks you. It tortures your soul. You’re living day-by-day in fear and uncertainty”: This is what it’s like to be jailed by a repressive regime for playing in a metal band
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• “If any weird vibes existed between us, it would have been when we were much younger”: These two Swedish hard rock icons sang in the same band at different times – but would they work together?
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• Andi Deris feels the Helloween-ish stuff was eradicated on the album ‘Chameleon’
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• "It's still a hodge-podge... largely redundant": Jethro Tull's expanded Still Living In The Past fails to produce much magic from the vaults
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• “Everything blew up. ‘What do you mean you’re leaving?!’ ‘I’m not!’”: Rob Halford insists he didn’t quit Judas Priest in the 1990s
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• Pre-Black Sabbath recordings to be released as ‘Earth: The Legendary Lost Tapes’ on July 25th
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• Asomvel drop new single “Take You To Hell”
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• Dirkschneider & The Old Gang unveil video for ballad “Strangers In Paradise”
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• Tony Iommi compared Bill Ward to a Lord Of The Rings monster at Black Sabbath’s epic farewell gig: “You look like Gollum!”
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• Eivør signs new deal with Nuclear Blast Records and announces European tour
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• “If I’d done normal, sensible things, I wouldn’t be Ozzy”: Ozzy Osbourne to release new memoir Last Rites, centred around his recent health struggles
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• Snake Bite Whisky drop video for new single “Living To Die”
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• You Can't Always Get What You Want - but if you're quick, you can get 50% off this massive Rolling Stones box set
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• "One of my favourite Lamb songs..." Steve Hackett shares dynamic new live clip of Genesis's Lilywhite Lilith
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• Nikki Sixx reveals why Motley Crue didn’t play Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath’s farewell gig: “We have been having health issues within the band”
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• "This song is written for all the families torn apart by the recent immigrant purges and kidnappings": Tom Morello releases powerful new single in support of immigrant rights across America
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• Ozzy Osbourne is doing retirement the right way – by painting abstract art with chimpanzees
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• “I remember the urge to sing when I was out in nature. Soft, beautiful summers and dark, harsh winters. You find that in my music”: Eivør can’t escape the Faroe Islands’ influence, and doesn’t want to
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• Deftones announce new album Private Music: Listen to the new single My Mind Is A Mountain now
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• Quick! Save up to 25% on the 5-star Sony PS-LX310BT before Amazon pulls down the shutters on Prime Day
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• Ex-Deep Purple legend Glenn Hughes says his new solo album may be his last: “If I’ve got something else to say, then I’ll let you know, but I don’t know if I will have”
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• 30 rock and metal songs that defined the 1980s
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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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• This deal on Permission To Land… Again by The Darkness is really Growing On Me - save up to 31% on this 5LP modern rock classic
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• “She left music behind – but music kept trying to find her”: What Judy Dyble did for Fairport Convention, Robert Fripp, and me
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• Rejoice! King Crimson are currently recording their first album in more than two decades
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• This iconic guitar appeared on the cover of one of the most successful albums ever – but what’s the story behind it?
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• K.K. Downing releases cover of Judas Priest’s track “Never Satisfied” featuring Tim “Ripper” Owens
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• "Honestly, I was almost in tears": Jeff Lynne's ELO forced to cancel second-to-last concert ever, minutes before showtime
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• Salty Dog’s post-Geffen second album released as ‘Lost Treasure + 3 Golden Jewels’ via FnA Records
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• Hot off announcing long-awaited new album Private Music, Deftones confirm 2026 European tour dates with Denzel Curry and Drug Church
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• Judas Priest launch video for their cover of Black Sabbath’s classic track “War Pigs”
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• The 11 new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• The Uriah Heep albums you should listen to... and one to avoid
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• “The album sounds incredible. A masterpiece, even though I say so myself!”: Black Sabbath are over – this is what the four members are doing next
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• Scorpions to release live album ‘Coming Home Live’ on November 14th
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• “I could have ruined metal”: The man who almost sang for Metallica has no regrets
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• "It was a huge honour to be cast in this film:" Rival Sons' Jay Buchanan to appear in upcoming Hollywood movie
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• Generation Landslide to release new album ‘Existence’ via RFK Media
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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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• "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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• My wardrobe is stuffed full of band t-shirts, but with 20% off at Amazon this Prime Day, I can't resist adding more to the collection
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• Paul McCartney is bringing his Got Back tour back to North America
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• Excellent new proggy sounds from Ihlo, Our Oceans, Discipline, and more in this week's Tracks Of The Week
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• Embrace your dark side and take command of the Lego Star Wars Star Destroyer with up to 30% off this Prime Day
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• Babylon A.D. to release new album ‘When The World Stops’ via Kivel Records by the end of 2025
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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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• 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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• 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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• The Lazys share new single “Hot Under The Collar” in advance of Canada and UK/Europe tours
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• “She wanted to go and live in Hackney and be with the common people”: the pub encounter behind Pulp’s timeless classic Common People, the song that changed everything for Jarvis & co.
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• Bring Me The Horizon have just surprise-released a new album
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• "The anxieties that Axl Rose generated were crushing him": Why Izzy Stradlin was the rock'n'roll heart of Guns N' Roses
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• Drivetrain re-release latest album ‘The Party’ with two bonus tracks
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• Stryper guitarist Oz Fox to no longer do “extended or intense touring” based on medical advice
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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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